LoCLE Grown

Today's episode is coming to you a little different but for great reasons. We have upped our podcasting game big time with some more visual elements (check out our YouTube) and an amazing technician working  behind the scenes, Danna O'Connor of Post Saga. To kick it off in this new realm, we were joined in the LG Studios by Marcus Smith and The Rapscallions and we also spill our drinks t...

This week we welcomed Rico Blu into the studio, as we were able to catch him over the weekend while he was in CLE! We kicked off his first podcast interview with the most important sports topic of conversation (The Superbowl) that we in fact did not watch. On a more serious note, we got to chat about starting in the Cleveland music scene and how it compares to Pittsburgh, where he resides now.  We...

Today we said Howdy Doody to Mighty Misc - originally hailing from Portland, he made a stop in Boston and is now living that Cleveland life. In this episode, we chat about the music scenes in these cities and how they compare to Cleveland, the nostalgia of old cartoons and what our ideal superpowers would be. We also created a new segment called, "Jurbz shows us something weird on YouTube&quo...

In this episode, we sat down with Mike Brown, Prince Tucker, and George Chong AKA Miguel Cafe! We discussed only the most important topics including the correct spelling to the word TASTEY, and learned that cafe is Spanish for brown. Miguel Cafe will also be heading to The Big Apple (NYC) to work with Least of All Sound Recordings where they will be recording direct to 7" vinyls. Something su...

We welcomed Abstract Sounds to the studio at the end of the year, closing it off with one of the largest bands we've had on to date AND a genre we haven't touched yet - Jazz! Well, with Abstract Sounds, it's a bit of Jazz, R&B, Gospel, and Jam. In this interview, we hear about what its like to be such a versatile group, composing jazz versus writing songs, and Surviving Loveland...

After we took a nice 2 week break over the holidays, we broke the studio back in with the incredibly talented Jinari Kemet  (Jinanar to us and US ONLY)  with his first interview ever. Listen in to hear the inside scoop on how he came up with his stage name and brand presence, his musical background, how we became friends, successes from 2023 and what we are ~manifesting~ for 2024. Jinari's up...

Our first musical artist episode of the year is with Grace Sullivan aka Wish Queen, who just dropped her debut album 'Saturnalia' at the end of October and is now traveling out of state to further promote the album! The story behind what Saturnalia is and how she has strategically planned her actions to get the most out of her life based on her birth chart is something truly amazing. As...

Welcome to Season 4 of LG! We kick things off by chatting with our friend Joe Burdon, host of the Guiltless Podcast. No live music (but possibly interpretive dance?) in this episode, but tons of great stories from the podcasters' perspectives including live shows, challenges we've faced, ideas we've toyed with, and a tangent about chicken. From his many interviews with tons of creat...

Friends, its been such a wonderful year. Since April, we moved into our studio, recorded 30 episodes with local artists, attended our first festivals, secured our first sponsor, and hosted our first live show event! But, this is all just the groundwork needed to make next year an even bigger and better year! In true end of the year fashion, we decided to sit down together and reflect over this pas...

We're only half kidding about that title, please don't sue us T Swift! This delightful conversation with Megan Bouman a.k.a. Wreck Like Me took some interesting turns, so we do apologize for the multiple rabbit holes but in our defense they were just NECESSARY. We last chatted with Megan back in 2022 via a LoCLE Grown from Home IG Live, when she was promoting her full-length album "...

WE MADE IT TO 50 EPISODES, Y'ALL! Thank you for your continued support, now let's get into this week's episode: After their first year debuting in Cleveland, you're probably asking yourself, hWhat is hWhiffler? Well, we've got the answers for you. We sat down with the guys from Whiffler, a hot n fresh band in the Cleveland Scene with some rock/indie/pop tunes! In this epis...

The men, the myth, and the company. From our interview at the 2021 Marathon on 88.3 The Sting to Rock and Roll City Studios, we have been following Myth and Company for quite some time and have seen their progression as the years have gone on. But one thing we have to get out of the way, in the Spirit of Thanksgiving, is allllll the talks about food (shoutout leftovers). The guys also give us the...

House, pop, acoustic artist KDIN joins us in this episode, just 2 days after dropping his full-length album "Naked in Nature" which was released under his label Flip a Billion Records. We get to hear the stories behind the process of making the album this year and collaborating with the talented and eccentric Gary Martinis for song writing and shooting the album artwork. Shifting into a...

We crack open our first bottle of Cleveland Whiskey in this episode, and it was bussin' so we were buzzin'. Crib Collective is a group so near to our hearts and this chat was a LONG time coming let us tell ya. First we get to the nitty gritty and settle the dispute that Apple Music is to Spotify as Androids are to iPhones - change our minds. Next, we unpack their iconic 2:30am performanc...

Our ADHD taps in with Hunter Rose in this episode. The passion, the energy, the CRYING. It’s all here and more. From Huron and studying in Akron, Hunter Rose (formerly Huntie G) is a solo female artist who re-emerged this year into the Nu Metal / Dark Contemporary music scene. We go Deep in the Discog to have her comment on her journey that has ultimately landed her on this unique sound that not a...

If you’ve been to a local show in Cleveland, odds are you’ve bumped into Y.A.Y.A. Today, we sit with him and 3 very close friends and musical collaborators Jake Conder, Kyle Thompson, Max Schlenk, and Sal Corrao.  FULL DISCLAIMER - we had to delay recording this episode by an hour, so we pre-gamed pretty hard for this episode to fill the time, so take a shot with us before listening but PLEASE DON...

It’s been a year and a half since we caught up with Tall Grass via IG Live and since then, this group of four have spent the last year gigging around the city, cooking up an album, and are sculpting what started as Midwest Emo vibes into the highly-sought-after-but-difficult-to-pull-off Lawnmowercore. With an Instagram refresh and debut full-length album "Monarch Butterfly" dropping this...

If you were at our first ever LoCLE Grown Marathon Live last night, you may have seen Liam Brock hit the stage early on in the day. If you missed it, don't worry! This episode is for you. Liam Brock is a fellow Medina kid that we interview TOTALLY IN THE DARK! Jk (or are we??). In this episode, we talk about his come up in tandum with Riley Furey, founder of the Kind of Consistent music blog...

As Cleveland legends Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony once said, it's the 1st of tha Month, BUT it's also Sunday which means we got a hot new episode for you, this time featuring female pop artist Cat Calabrese! Over the last 3 years, Cat has gone through a lot of pain, but with that pain has come some powerful music sung by a confident woman. From Zoom Calling Kelly Clarkson to being put through th...

Brandon's birthday has passed, so it's officially Spooky SZN. In this episode, we chat Ouija Boards and Astrology with Twan, Jake/Josh/Zeus and Brandon of TwanMnzl, and give them an idea or two for a new band name now that they have assembled and have a few shows under their belt as a trio. Content warning: if you're a Gemini, Libra, Cancer, Pisces, or Scorpio, you may or may not be...

Welcome to the LoCLE Grown podcast, with your hosts JLaird and Keith Jurban. From Patsy Cline covers to Viking Metal Bands, Chayla Hope has done it all to get right where she wants to be now - embracing her music as "SophistiPop" with a touch of electronic and whatever else she sees fit for the vibe. When you look at Chayla Hope we know what you're thinking: her grandma definitely p...

***PSA: HAVE YOU HEARD? WE ARE DOING OUR FIRST EVER LIVE SHOW ON 10/7/23 AT CROBAR IN CLEVELAND! More info on our website, and get your tickets here ! Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming... It's fall y'all, and we have the vibes starting RIGHT with Sedona from Youngstown, OH today. We provide the fellas of Sedona with one hell of a beverage selection and talk about the Musi...

In this episode we sat down with Camel Butter, a jam rock and jazz fusion band hailing from The LAND. Our first jam band in the studio, we had a lot of questions for the guys, and lots of bases to cover. We chatted about verbal and non-verbal communication, when do we improv and how much, and learning the rules before you break them. Camel Butter was also fresh off playing Nelson's Ledges for...

Re-emerging from a 6 year hiatus, alternative R&B artist ZuP joins us in the studio for a look back at the empire he built in the 2010s and how it felt to return to the stage just earlier this year. We were able to catch this performance and then again at his sold out show at The Foundry, where he announced the release of his full-length album "For Me". ZuP also brings DJ Dick on the...

In this episode, we sat down with Cleveland hard rock, alt metal band TRUSS! Rewind -  we had Hannah in the studio for our 2021 LoCLE Grown Marathon but this time we had the pleasure of chatting with the entire band. TRUSS gave us the inside scoop on all the SICK shows they've been playing, (a ton out of state, so cool) in which they all ride in the latest edition to the band, the TRUSS bus....