Blue Plate Special: Bloc Party
Bloc Party emerged from the restless creative energy of London’s late-1990s music scene, blending the sharp edges of post-punk with...
Category: Personal
Blue Plate Special: Handsome Furs
Handsome Furs was a Montreal-based indie rock duo formed in the mid 2000s by husband and wife collaborators Dan Boeckner...
Destructive Interference in Leadership and Life
Earlier today, I was sitting in a pew listening to a Sunday talk when the speaker shared a simple story...
Blue Plate Special: Metric
Metric are a Toronto-born Canadian indie rock band formed in 1998, built around the songwriting partnership of Emily Haines and...
Blue Plate Special: The Killers
The Killers emerged from Las Vegas in 2001, a city better known for spectacle than guitar bands, and turned that...
Blue Plate Special: This Picture
This Picture emerged from England’s Bath–Cheltenham corridor at the very end of the ’80s, a moment when alternative rock was...
Blue Plate Special: Robert Palmer
Robert Palmer cultivated a persona that felt as meticulously tailored as his suits: cool, cosmopolitan, and effortlessly genre-fluid. His voice,...
Blue Plate Special: Brian Eno (Part 2)
As mentioned in Part 1, Brian Eno is an English musician, producer, and artistic provocateur whose work since the early...
Blue Plate Special: Brian Eno (Part 1)
Brian Eno emerged in the early 1970s as a provocateur of sound, intent on dismantling traditional ideas of what rock...
Blue Plate Special: The Strokes
The Strokes emerged from late-1990s New York City as a band that made restraint feel radical. Formed by Julian Casablancas,...
