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Reece Carmen is a sixteen year old musician who plays drums with The Kelleys, but he also writes about and discusses the local music scene. We talked about music, philosophy, and politics. Get to know Reece! You can follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reece.carmen.music/ Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Chase Hampton joins me as we talk about stumbling our way into adulthood, the feeble backbone of society, being plugged into the matrix, and how people don’t appreciate good music. The track at the end is by Chase, which is called “Takumi”. You can find his music on SoundCloud here: https://soundcloud.com/thechampton or follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheChampton Love never fails. It&#3...

The Lunar Laugh is a band consisting of Connor Anderson, Jared Lekites, Campbell Young, and potentially many others that they get to play with them live. I, at least, had those three on the podcast. We talked about their newest release, Goodnight Noises Everywhere. We also talked about music in general, the music industry, and exclusive Lunar Laugh fragrances (that last one was a joke). “Another C...

Johnny Manchild and I discussed the future of music, timeless and “magical” music, how streaming has changed music, and the popular music of today, about which we are very curmudgeonly. You can find Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards on all of the streaming platforms, but you can also give to them directly via their Bandcamp: https://johnnymanchild.bandcamp.com/ Love never fails. It's going...

Johnny Manchild is the keyboardist and lead singer of Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards. We talked about his band, music, and morality. ALSO At the end of this podcast, their new single, “The Message”, which will be fully released on Monday, July 29th. But you can listen to it FIRST here on Bit Depth. https://johnnymanchild.bandcamp.com/ Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be...

This episode is a repost of episode 47 with Dustin Ragland. It was originally posted on December 29th, 2016. Since then, I’m sure he and I have grown as people and musicians. I’d love to have him on again sometime. The reason I’m reposting this episode is because he has a show on Friday, July 19th at Commonplace Books at 6:30pm. He’s doing a live poetry reading and music inspired by Dostoevsky, wh...

This week, I’m joined by Mac, who plays in Off Brand and previously in Pluto Rest in Peace. We talked about music education, academia, music composition, and what we’ve been listening to lately. You can find Mac on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notthatmac/ Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Blu Lirette is a photographer and model and we talked about photography, social media, spirituality, and tattoos. You can find everything Blu does on social media:https://twitter.com/littlelirette_https://www.instagram.com/lilovermyhead/ Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Derek Brown is back and we talked about personality, music, ego, creativity, and authenticity. You can go see The Flaming Lips on tour in various places, and you can listen to their new album, King’s Mouth. http://www.flaminglips.com/ Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Derek Brown is a keyboardist, guitarist, and tour manager for The Flaming Lips, and also runs the Business Development Center at ACM@UCO. It was a pleasure to have him on. We talked about music, spirituality, politics, and more music. You can go see The Flaming Lips on tour in various places, and you can listen to their new album, King’s Mouth. http://www.flaminglips.com/ Love never fails. It'...

I had more questions to ask Scott Booker about spirituality, and then we both talked about spirituality and the future of the music industry in Oklahoma. Scott is such a wonderful and honest person - I think that there’s no one else that could have created ACM@UCO and I’m so glad that the future of the Oklahoma music industry has a person like him to help make it a truly great place to make music....

Scott Booker is a manager of artists and musicians, most notably of The Flaming Lips. He’s also the CEO of ACM@UCO. We talked about music, how he came to be a manager, and how ACM@UCO began. We ended up splitting this episode into two parts, so stay tuned for next week’s episode! Listen to all the bands that Scott manages and check out ACM@UCO. Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might...

Elecktra Stanislava and Evan Jarvicks are back and we talked about spirituality, God, political division, and music. Get to know them even more! You can find Elecktra’s stuff on her website or through Facebook You can find Evan’s Oklahoma music coverage at makeoklahomaweirder.com or his own stuff on jarvix.net Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Elecktra Stanislava is a “polymath musician composer artist handywoman ordained minister witch amateur ornithologist enfj and working mom” according to her Instagram, and Evan Jarvicks, also known as Jarvix, is a ukulooptist and covers Oklahoma music with “Make Oklahoma Weirder”. We talked about music in Oklahoma, how they got started in music, and their opinions on music. I normally have two halv...

Jack Martin and Mac Siegel from Off Brand are back and we’re here to complain about the Oklahoma City music scene and perhaps even hypothesize about what would make it better, even going so far as to suggest the logistics of a music union. This is all based on Mac’s hot take, and I certainly trust Mac and Jack’s expertise on this because I probably don’t know what the hell I’m talking about. Anywa...

Off Brand is a rock band in OKC, often describing themselves as the #worstbandinOKC, and I was happy to have Jack Martin and Mac Siegel from the band doing a double interview. This one gets dense, deep, and it’s pretty long. This conversation is notably different from their usual demeanor which is usually never serious, so I was glad to get a different side of them. You can find them on all the so...

Alex Sanchez is back and we talked a lot about video games, memes, the Internet, the future, and such. We start with some spoilers to Attack on Titan, so if you don’t want that, skip to 00:01:55 and we’ll be beyond the quick Attack on Titan conversation. Alex Sanchez is a comedian and hosts Public Access, an Open Mic night at Paseo Plunge in OKC. He also co-hosts a Christian music podcast called T...

Alex Sanchez is a comedian and hosts Public Access, an Open Mic night at Paseo Plunge in OKC. He also co-hosts a Christian music podcast called The Praisedown. We talk about comedy, religion, politics, you know, the usual. Follow him on Twitter @SeriousSanchez https://twitter.com/SeriousSanchez Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Don’t Tell Dena is a psychedelic rock band based in Oklahoma City. They’ve been hard at work on a new album/EP, and you can catch them all over the place playing awesome shows all over the state of Oklahoma. It was a super fun time and I’m happy to have caught up with them again. I used to play bass for them but now they’re even better without me! You can listen to their music anywhere you can str...

Chris Prather (@chris_arden_prather) joins me again and we talk about making music, the different considerations when writing for different mediums and genres, and my own insecurities when making music. You can find Chris’ stuff on Instagram; he’ll have an album out soon! https://www.instagram.com/chris_arden_prather/ Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Chris Prather is a composer and percussionist in Grad School studying Music Composition at OCU. We talked about music, the process, and politics. You can find him on Instagram @chris_arden_pratherhttps://www.instagram.com/chris_arden_prather/ Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Eli Tostado and I started on talking about relationships but we inevitably started talking about music business, the local music scene, and being a professional in this industry. You can find her on most social media @flowerboi_94 and her band @bedtimetheband Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Eli Tostado is a singer, songwriter, and artist. She and I go way back… like elementary school. Anyways, we talked about music, of course, performing, spirituality, and politics, as usual. Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Stephanie Peñate is back and we talk about growing up brown in America, politics, religion, and many other things. As usual, things get a bit deep! She plays keys for Dire Gnome and has a podcast called Color Me In Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.

Stephanie Peñate is a keyboardist and music production student at ACM@UCO. She plays keys for Dire Gnome and has a podcast called Color Me In. We talked about music and being brown and religion and such. Get to know Stephanie! The song at the end of the podcast is "Skinshifter" by Dire Gnome! Love never fails. It's going to be okay. I might be wrong.