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Mike’s Music Mix 3

It’s been roughly a week since I posted the second of Mike’s Music Mix posts, and I’ve got a hankering to post part 3, once again raiding my Last.fm artists lists for a few more of my favs, in the hopes a visitor or two to this site will give some or all of the... Continue Reading →

Mike’s Music Mix 2

I’m once again raiding my Last.fm artists list to glean a bunch of my favorites and share them with you. These are a sampling of artists I listen to as I write fiction or code. Here’s Mike’s Music Mix, Part 2. Heart – Dreamboat Annie Heart is my all-time favorite group. My favorite Heart song... Continue Reading →

Mike’s Music Mix 1

Since 2007, when I started tracking my song plays via Last.fm, I’ve listened to over 11,000 different artists. My musical tastes run across several genres and decades. In this post and the Mike’s Music Mix posts to follow, I’m posting a few YouTube videos from some of those 11,000 artists. I’ll include a few different... Continue Reading →

My Favorite Music of 2022

Another year has come and gone, and another reason for me to write a post for this blog. I mentioned my plans for 2023 with regards to creative projects over on my publisher web site, eposic.com. I also wrote about my battle with vertigo this past year on my author web site, mkeidson.com. I’ll link... Continue Reading →

Fifteen Years and Four-Hundred-Thousand Scrobbles Later

Music plays a huge role in my life. If I’m on the computer, my headphones are on, typically with music coursing through the lines up to my ears. I keep the volume setting low—I’m not fully appreciating the music on a conscious level, but I am absorbing it. If a song comes on I don’t... Continue Reading →

Applesauce Yogurt Snack Recipe

I wanted a snack—but something different. So I started with something familiar to me and added a little something new. What I ended up with really hit the spot for me, so I thought I’d share. I generally don’t like using ingredients with added sugar, preferring to sweeten my snacks with liquid Stevia instead. The... Continue Reading →

My Top 10 Most Memorable Music Moments

Over the years, some songs have stuck in my head and my heart for specific occurrences of musicality—aside from the lyrics—that effect me so viscerally, I typically find myself anticipating them from the second I start listening to the track. When the special moment comes while I’m listening, I’ll often clap my hands over my... Continue Reading →

My Favorite Music of 2021

My music listening habits have changed over the past couple of years. For one, I dropped Amazon Music as a streaming service, because they kept taking away features I was using. So, goodbye! I tried Spotify for a while, but they didn’t integrate well with Last.fm, never getting the album title correct, using the playlist... Continue Reading →

My Top 5 Albums for 2019

Numerous artists released tracks in 2019, as evidenced by my list of 100 favorite tracks for 2019 in an earlier post. Relatively few artists in that list, however, released EPs or full albums, settling for releasing one or more singles instead. In creating my list of top albums for 2019, I’m considering compilations of five... Continue Reading

My Favorite Songs of 2019

I went on such a musical journey of discovery in 2019, and found so many artists I hadn’t listened to before. As the year progressed, I captured all my favorite new songs in a playlist, and by the end of the year, I had over 160 songs in the playlist. Below are 100 of those... Continue Reading