The Open Mic Podcast

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This week we bringing it back with Vol. 4 of Rest In Beats!  With DJ Dro Jack keeping things moving in the building. We brought in Devy Kay and Xheifxrated to hang out for this one. Its a banger for sure and we had a great time on this episo...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours!   It's that time of the year again and we've got another great renditions album for us to check out live! Councilman Chico's Brother and Henrietta from The Foster Kids join us to get the scoop on this years 419 Renditions!  I've gotta say, I...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours!   This week we got the next installment of our segment Rest in Beats Vol. 2! With my co-host, DJ Dro Jack spinning some new beats from Devy Kay, and DeafNote Records! We brought Deimos and Henry Rich from Deafnote, as well as Devy Kay to han...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours!   This week we got the next installment of our new segment Rest in Beats Vol. 2! With my co-host,  DJ Dro Jack spinning some new beats from Devy Kay, Noah and A.P The Kidd. We got Kench, A.P. The Kidd, 510 JackBoy, and KT Spazz in the studio...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours!   This week we have The head of Potent Studios himself on Thee Mr. Lee EMM CEE. His band released a music video called algebra and They are about to release the sequal to that called, Algebra 2. I got Lee on here to talk about it from the pe...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This week we brought on Jake and Jill Henry, as well as Andrew kleiman, owner of AK Hair Collective to talk about the shows they have been putting on in the Salon's basement.  Like the one tonight, 1/26/24! They've been putting together a lo...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This episode we are trying a new segment! A Cypher Segment. We tested out our own version of one, with Kid Kulture while my co-host for this segment, DJ Dro Jack , spins some beats by Devy Kay ! I'm pretty pumped with how it turned out, so I...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This week Im hopping on solo to give some local happenings in downtown. Scheduling conflicts but we'll get em next week. Shoutout to  Devy Kay   for generiously offering to make some intro's and outro's for the podcast! Let me know what you...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This week we brought DOOMSDAYVE onto the show! Another local young gun with whatever musical genre he feels like aiming for that day in his sights.  He has recently released a massive album that has been a labor of love and very personal und...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This week we have on A.P. The Kidd! An alternative artist from North Carolina turned Mansfield local!  We talk all things making music and his very open ended, day to day writing process. He doesn't like to be confined to any sort of genre b...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours!   This week we have Jordon Baker in the studio! An all american folk singer songwriter form the geatest city in the continental US!  He came on to talk about the music he's been working on and his overall songwriting journey that he has foun...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours!   This week we have NeweraCam in the building! A member of the sadhour hiphop duo that is back focusing his attention fully on his solo work.  He has his first solo EP coming out January 5th, so of course I had to have him on to talk about i...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours!   This week we have Mr. Noah Sgambellone in the studio!  Noah has been in a treehouse, turned temporary studio recording his first rlease. Thats a pretty cool place to record an acoustic singer songwriter type album if you ask me. I don't th...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours!   This week we got the party starter himself, Ryan Carver from the band Cruze Campo! They've been making a splace in the Mansfield music scene as of recently, so I had to have him on to tell us all about their new music they're putting out. ...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This week we have the political league of friends dubbed "The Breakfast Club" in the studio! With Mayor Jody, 5th ward City Counselman Aurelio, Mansfield City Board member Jen and Commissioner Tony on to talk about the new DIY Skatepark call...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours!   This week we had Devy Kay in the studio to talk all things music!  We get the behind the scenes on his process, and journey as an artist. As well as his future and current projects.  If you like that modern early 2000s style hip hop, defin...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This week, we are back baby!  I brought myself on to kickstart the new season of the open mic podcast with a Life update and local music and arts summer happenings recap.  It's been a great back half of 2023 so far! This summer was fantastic...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This week we have Mansfield Music Fest 2023 currator, organizer, and the no longer doing everything by himself, guy.... Austin Moore! Another summer has come once again and that means its time to finally have fun! You can't spell summer fun...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This week we have Zac Hiser on the podcast! The man behind the Newsroom after hours curtain, pulling all of the strings!  It's the start of the next season of shows for the Newsroom After Hours crew. I had Zac on to discuss this years awesom...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This week we have Mr. VaunDoom himself in the studio!  This guy is a powerhouse of a rapper with years of experiance under his belt and more albums than he can remeber the names of. As well as curently in the process of releasing a new recor...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This week we brought on the CEO and founding member of Bonfire Nation LTD, Cody Nicholas!  Bonfire Nation LTD is a not label, label, media conglomorate, Merchandise retailer, production studio, former degenerate, degenerate punk house, hostl...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This week we have Ryan Citrino - Nick Bottom and Leah Gesouras - Beatrice Bottom (Nick's Wife), two members from the cast of Something Rotten! The next great production being performed at Mansfield's own legendary Renaissance Theatre!  Somet...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This week we got Ill Will in the building! A Mansfield hardcore/beat down band the dropped their first release last march.  It was a real pleasure getting to talk music with these guys. They have been focusing on sculpting their sound recent...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This week we have the incredibly talented and one of the most hard working musicians in Mansfield, Ricky Mitchell! He has this new album coming out and guess what? We talk about it. And wouldn't you know it, the album is wonderful! To me it...

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Tom Hirst, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This week we got The Gerds! We dive deep into their burning passion for creating music. We really dig into what makes these guys tick. If you like friendship, and you like heartwarming tales of comradery, this is your episode! Just some good...