Blue Plate Special: Anything Box
Born from the neon-soaked clubs of New Jersey in 1986 and eventually finding a home in the sun-drenched landscapes of Long Beach, Anything Box...
Category: Personal
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 the shimmering urgency of...
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 and Alexei Perry. Emerging...
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 about noise-cancelling headphones. It...
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 James Shaw before expanding...
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 contrast into part of...
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 still wide-open and hungry...
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, silky yet commanding, moved...
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 1970s has continually pushed...
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 music could be. Trained...
