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/
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/
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, which should tell you just how much of a genius Dustin is. I also have a show that evening at The Patr...
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/
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/
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/
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/
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. Listen to all the bands that Scott manages and check out ACM@UCO.
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.
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
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 halves in the interview episode, but they’re brilliant folks so we had to make two separate interview ep...
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. Anyways, you should check out Off Brand and their new single: https://instagram.com/offbrandband/
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 social media stuff, but I think their best stuff is probably through Instagram: https://www.instagram....
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 The Praisedown. Follow him on Twitter @SeriousSanchez https://twitter.com/SeriousSanchez
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
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 stream or buy music or find all their stuff on their website: http://donttelldena.com/
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/
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/
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
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.
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
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!
Oxford comma! Leotie and Keathley (Bit Depth #124) join me for a fun conversation about music, trolleys, immigration, and more music! You can find Leotie’s music on Spotify, Apple Music, and all the places that you may stream and download music. You can find Keathley’s music on those places, too! Support your local artists! You can also find Leotie on Instagram @leotiemusic and Keathley @keathleymusicThey’re really good with SEO, which is tech-business speak for “search engine optimization”, and...
Leotie is Caleb Starr. Caleb Starr is Leotie. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, Caleb and I talked about music, politics, spirituality, and Death Cab for Cutie. You can find Leotie’s song, “Karaoke”, on Spotify, Apple Music, and all the usual places you would stream/download music. You can also follow Caleb on Instagram @leotiemusic
Adam Marquez is back and we talked about music, memes, how the further fragmentation of niche subgroups creates ridiculous ideas, and how inherent traits in systems create emergent properties as a system progresses. Those are certainly all words. He doesn’t really have his own stuff to promote quite yet, but you can support some of the bands he’s played with (or you can be a creep and find him on Facebook, I guess) : Rozlyn Zora The So Help Me’s Pluto Rest in Peace
Adam Marquez is a guitarist and musician, and of course, we talked about music - how he got started, major influences, and ideas in music that keep it enjoyable. He doesn’t really have his own stuff to promote quite yet, but you can support some of the bands he’s played with (or you can be a creep and find him on Facebook, I guess) : Rozlyn Zora The So Help Me’s Pluto Rest in Peace
Tyler Thomas is a trombonist and all around great musician. It was great to reconnect with him and have deep conversations about music and its importance. You can find him on Instagram @tyler_thomas_ig
Tyler Thomas is a trombonist and all around great musician. It was great to reconnect with him and have deep conversations about music and its importance. You can find him on Instagram @tyler_thomas_ig
Patrick Conlon is a wellspring of knowledge, be it academic, or general life advice. I happened to express some random frustrations I had in mind, and he offered a lot of insights on how to navigate situations regarding shame and music.You can find Patrick’s stuff on his website and his Instagram:https://www.patrickconlonmusic.com/https://www.instagram.com/patrick_conlon_music/
Patrick Conlon is a composer, violinist, artist, writer, teacher, and administrator. He is the Assistant Director for ACM@UCO and teaches there, as well as plays violin professionally for a variety of gigs. We talked about learning music, composing, what makes art important, spirituality, and his guiding philosophy. Although I already state in the podcast, Patrick has been a mentor to me in my time at ACM, and I am extremely grateful for all of his time and advice. With that, you should definite...
