As an Artist

Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and thank you for joining us. On this episode we have my longtime friend and bandmate Garrett Bond. Garrett and I have known each other for over 20 years and have played in multiple projects together. I’m excited to finally get him on and...

Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and thank you for joining us. On this episode we have Say When. The song you just heard is called Birds and Adam Penland, myself, and the band recorded it here in The LFR Workshop in Portales, NM. Say When is also from Portales and is com...

Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and thank you for joining us. On this episode we have Michael Garcia. Mike and I have known each other for about 20 years playing shows with each other’s bands and we started Local Famous Records together back in 2020. In this interview I...

Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and thank you for joining us. On this episode we have Adam Penland. Adam is a prominent musician and multi-instrumentalist from Clovis, NM and Music Graduate from Eastern New Mexico University. He has been a part of acts No Refund, Mitch...

Episode 22: Brandon Bond Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and thank you for joining us. On this episode we have Brandon Bond. One of my best friends over the years, Brandon and I played in Solace Prime and then The Raven Charter from 2004-2016. We’ve been through a lot a...

Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and thank you for joining us. On this episode we have my father, Michael Sosa. Michael was a stand-up comedian in the 1980’s and 90’s and he goes into great detail about the comedy scene in Texas at that time as well as life on the road a...

Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and thank you for joining us. On this episode we have Joseph Fisher-Schramm, bassist, guitarist, composer, and all around creative person. Joseph was featured on Episode 14 with Court Hoang and it was really nice to get to know him more a...

Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and thank you for joining us. On this episode we have Eric Lara, Moose Mora and Johnny Hill from the epic, local, heavy progressive band Wolves Reign. I’ve actually had the pleasure of playing with Wolves Reign back in the day with The Ra...

This episode recorded on 1-14-24 Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and thank you for joining us. On this episode we have Vic Toruno, AKA King Booty Disco, AKA Mr. T. Vic is a really awesome guy and I’m really glad that we got to have this conversation. Vic is the talented...

Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and thank you for joining us. On this episode we have David Sowden. David is a talented local film-maker, screen-writer and playwright. I have known David, and his parents Colleen and Topper and his sister Kim, have since I can remember....

Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and thank you for joining us. On this episode we have my long-time friend, comrade, compatriot, collaborator and often times mentor, Erik Stolpe. Erik and I met in 2003 before I joined his band Silverlode and before we founded The Raven C...

Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and thank you for joining us. On this episode we have Scott Prather. Scott is a fantastic local tattoo artist and painter and he takes his craft very seriously. In this episode, we cover a variety of topics including becoming a successful...

Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and thank you for joining us. On this episode we have Court Hoang and his most of his band: Joseph, Mo and Lee Ann minus Felipe. We had fun and we got deep. We discussed art, love, trust, vulnerability and what it is to be a human– and mu...

Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and thank you for joining us. On this episode we have rapper, vocalist and producer, J-TWON. We had a lovely conversation and I really appreciate how candid and passionate J-TWON was about his feelings in regards to his art, the general s...

Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and thank you for joining us on this episode we have Jack Bellomy of Black Market Garden. Jack and I had a lot of fun and we got pretty deep into some topics. We discuss some of the issues regarding the creative spaces here in our Fort Wo...

Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and on this episode we have the band Chancy. This is a first for As an Artist, we have a full band on our episode today and boy howdy was it fun. These guys were a blast to talk to and their music is a blast to listen to. Chancy is: Alex...

Hi, welcome to “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. My name is Anthony Sosa and on this episode we have Ray Liberio. Ray has been a staple in the FW Music and Art scene for decades. He has been a part of such acts as The Me-Thinks, Vorvon, FTW– with whom he is still actively playing– as well as Epic Ruins, Stooge...

Hi, my name is Anthony Sosa and this is “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. On this episode we have Matt Bardwell . To me, Matt is an artist’s artist. He is a painter, musician, multi-media artist, multi-instrumentalist and founding member of our Local Famous collective. He has been involved in many projects ove...

Hi, my name is Anthony Sosa and this is “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. On this episode we have Joe Guzman . Joe is the frontman and keyboardist of Flow State and a passionate artist who also organized the upcoming Psychedelic Panther Festival at MASS on April 15th.    At the end of the podcast is the brand...

Hi, my name is Anthony Sosa and this is “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. On this episode we have music man, polymath and all around cool guy Ben Napier. We get into growing up in Arlington, becoming a producer and engineer at 16, the interpersonal dynamics of being in bands, the Fort Worth scene from the late...

Hi, my name is Anthony Sosa and this is “ As an Artist .” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. On this episode we have Dustin Schneider . Dustin is one half of the award winning podcast The Jerry Jonestown Massacre and a long-time DFW musician and photographer, currently playing in The Spectacle and Uncle Toasty . We had a great t...

Hi, my name is Anthony Sosa and this is “As an Artist.” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. On this episode we have Glenn Wallace. Glenn and I have known each other since 2004 via The Raven Charter and we even briefly played together in a band, Housefire, in 2009. Glenn is a very skilled multi instrumentalist and we about the pro...

This is “As an Artist.” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. On this episode we have Dale Brunson, a well known face around the DFW Music scene Dale has been running live sound around town for over a decade, playing guitar in Sweetmeat- a top 40 cover band he and I co founded since 2012, and recently has opened his own studio, Sou...

This is “As an Artist.” A Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. On this episode we have Jeremy Nelson, drummer from Huffer and longtime friend, music lover and musician.  At the end of the podcast is “Starting Over,” the unreleased, unmastered single off the never-released second Huffer record-- without the vocals because we never re...

Welcome everyone to another episode of As an Artist, a Local Famous Records podcast about local artists, their art, the creative process and the local scene. I am Anthony Sosa and on this episode we have Chole Walden, writer, journalist, musician and all-around really awesome person. At the end of the Podcast is a piece performed by Chloe titled “Prima.” http://chloefwalden.com/ ------------------...