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Concerning MP3s

As I have recently started sharing mp3s on the site I wanted to give the artists and publishers a way to tell me to take them down.  All music posted on the Midnight Cafe is thought to be acceptable as a free download.  I have either been sent the music from a publicity contact and […]

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Human Highway - Moody Motorcycle

There are now so many places to get new music, it is hard to keep up.  I am constantly buying CDs, borrowing them from the library, being sent songs in the e-mail or just randomly downloading them from one place or another.  So much so that I often cannot remember where I got one song, […]

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The Weekly Playlist - Beatles, Conor Oberst, the Cure and More

After a week or two off I’m back, to list and discuss the bands who got the most plays on last.fm.  It was a big week for listening and one that got more than a little helped by my wife.  Last.fm  tracks what I listen to on my iPod of course, but it also tracks […]

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Michael Chapman - “Where Does That Leave Me”

I’ve been a blogger for about four years.  I’ve been somewhat serious about it for about three of those.  Serious meaning I’ve thought about writing as a means of expression - as a means of making a living.  Obviously I’m not actually doing that but it is something of a dream - perhaps of the […]

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Isobell Campbell and Mark Lanegen’s Sunday at Devil Dirt

When I was a freshman in college I used to wear this thick flannel shirt as a sort of jacket.  It was perfect for that Fall weather where it is too chilly for t-shirts but too warm for big sweaters or heavy coats.  Plus it fit neatly into the sort-of style I was presenting in […]

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CD Pick of the Week: McCoy Tyner - Guitars

Truth is, I’ve never heard of McCoy Tyner, but I’m quite sure I’ve heard him.  He played keys on a bunch of John Coltrane records, and I sure do own a few of them.  I’ve never been a very good liner note reader, or name remember-er. So while I’ve heard the man play on those […]

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Bruce Springsteen “My City of Ruins”

If this doesn’t make you a Springsteen fan, nothing will.
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The Reading Journal: August - Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

I knew that August would be a slow reading month.  What with the packing, the flying halfway across the world and the settling into a new home there just wasn’t going to be time for reading.  And there wasn’t. I was just too busy.  I did however manage to get a copy of David Simon’s […]

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Music Review: Lake - Oh, the Places We’ll Go

I can’t say that I know what the sound of one hand clapping is, but two hands clapping in the midst of bubbly indie-pop sure sounds like confectioner’s joy. Such is the case of Lake’s “Blue Ocean Blue” off of their new album, Oh, the Places We’ll Go. It has been the perfect song to […]

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CD Pick of the Week - Various Artists - The Imus Ranch Record

I am not by any means a fan of radio personality Don Imus, I’m not not a fan, I just haven’t ever listened to him.  I used to stop on his show a minute while he was on cable TV just to look at the old man in the funny hat, but I always quickly […]

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