Earlier this week, I participated in the Greater Manchester Chamber - NH’s Business Unboxed: Riding the Wave of AI. Sitting in a room full of local professionals, a very clear realization hit me. We’re all essentially living out the same story right now. We’re trying to…
The most famous album in history has no cover art. When The Beatles, better known as The White Album, was released in 1968, it was unlike anything the band had done before. No psychedelic swirls. No unified aesthetic. No concept. Just 30 songs sprawling across two…
Depeche Mode's Violator was released in 1990 and, 36 years later, it still sounds like something being built, not something simply remembered. I've been listening to this record again this week, and what keeps striking me isn't the songs, it's the architecture (although "Personal Jesus," "Policy…
It was a gloomy Monday night in the spring of 2007, and I was opening up The Red Door, getting the room ready for another evening in our weekly live music series, Hush Hush Sweet Harlot. I had just put on Sky Blue Sky, the brand…