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Mike Bankhead

Feb 5 2022

Restaurant Review - Mofongos in North Hollywood, California

If your restaurant is called Mofongos, it would be reasonable to expect a Puerto Rican restaurant with mofongo prominently featured among the culinary offerings. This spot in North Hollywood fulfilled and surpassed both of those expectations on my recent…

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Jan 29 2022

Music streaming platforms - let's talk about Audiomack

 

To begin, I'd like to make it clear right up front that Audiomack is not sponsoring me in any way, and I am not being paid to talk about them. All of the experiences I am going to relay to…

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Jan 13 2022

Rebirth of five singles

What's your favorite music streaming service?  There are many to choose from.  The most popular ones are Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Napster, Pandora, Spotify, Tidal, and YouTube Music, depending on where you might be from.  There are dozens of…

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Jan 3 2022

I am working on a new EP. I'd like to tell you about it.

I think today is a good day to tell you about my in-progress EP.  Let's pretend I'm a journalist and use the 5 W questions, shall we?

 

Photo by Joshua Chan

 

WHY?

I wrote a great deal of songs during…

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Jan 1 2022

Restaurant Review - Hamburger Wagon in Miamisburg, Ohio

The name of this restaurant describes exactly what they do and exactly what they are.  This is a cart with wheels, also known as a wagon.  They make and sell hamburgers.  That's it, that's the description.

Here is their website…

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Dec 27 2021

I have a brand new podcast

If you are on Twitter, you know that, like all social media tools, it can sometimes be useful and sometimes be awful.  If you are not on Twitter, you'll have to take my word on that. My new podcast is…

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Dec 26 2021

Favorite albums of 2021

I found this to be an interesting year for music.  A few artists I listened to in my youth back in the 1990s put out new music this year.  This includes Candlebox, Matthew Sweet, Teenage Fanclub, Garbage, Sleater-Kinney, Liz Phair…

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Dec 20 2021

Summary of Amplified Interviews for 2021

I enjoyed getting to learn more about some talented folks this year via these written interviews.  I hope you enjoyed them as well, and I hope you found some new music to enjoy.  Below the picture is a review of…

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Dec 15 2021

DAOTM8: Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome

Dad's Album of the Week Month is back. This is the series where I briefly review my late father's vinyl.

Yes, it's been a few months since I ran one of these.  Clearly, I'm not cut out to review an…

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Dec 9 2021

My favorite music experience of 2021

We have a neighborhood event in Dayton called Porchfest. This event has a simple premise. Many homeowners in a pedestrian-friendly neighborhood offer their front porch (or their back yard) as a venue where an artist can perform. The performances…

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Dec 6 2021

Ohio Spotlight - Lakeside

It's been awhile since I've done one of the Ohio Spotlight entries.  I attempted to draw a logo for it using my tablet and the drawing pen that came with it.  As you can see clearly here, this is not…

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Nov 25 2021

Songwriting Story - A Morning Like Yours 

There are several "first" experiences in my life that happened on the beautiful island of Sri Lanka.  Most of these things are educational and positive experiences. It was the first place that I saw the sun set over the Indian…

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