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 brought Rugrat Chuckiee on the podcast. To add his flavor profile for your pallet to sample.  We talk all things writing process to live shows. It's a blast of an episode. Tell everyone you know!  Check out his Intagram Here You're welcome in advnce.  Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and and The Mothership for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 a new Mansfield-ish band called MARROWEATER in the house! They play Deathcore music. The genre is coming back and it's an awesome thing. It makes me feel old. Gotta go check out their first single entitled infestation!  Check it out here MARROWEATER   Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and and The Mothership for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!  

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 DEVY KAY in this bish, and he's got a new album for us! So you know we had to talk about it of course.  Devy has been sculpting his sound nd really trying to seperate himself as a stand out artist these last few years. I think you'll hear a lot of growth on this project.  We check in with where he's been living and overall life updates.  A few tech snafoos but we landed the plane and you're going to love how it came out!  DEVY KAY   Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and and The Mothership and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!    

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 a huge Rest In Beats episode cooked up for ya!  Man oh man is it a tasty one.  DJ Dro Jack is in the building making this whole listening experiance possible. We brought back Devy kay, as well as A.P The Kidd and 5'10 Jackboy. Plus a bonus Sempel in the building ya'll!  We only bring you bangers. No fluff, Just all of the good stuff!  So hit play and listen to some fire tickle'n your eardrums.  DJ DRO JACK DEVY KAY A.P THE KIDD 5'10JACKBOY SEMPEL Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 boys in AimPoint to come through and give us the scoop on their new E.P that just dropped!  You like heavy music? If not, then definitely check out AimPoint.... you're gonna love it! They play sexy-core, what's not to love?  Of course we talk the release, how writing and recording it went. Orgin stories, and member aditions. But we also talk sports! so theres that too.  Check it out, you're going to love it, there's a lot of laughs. Live, Laugh, Love.  CHECK OUT AIMPOINT'S MUSIC RIGHT HERE< RIGHT NOW! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 back on XHEIFXRATED to sit down with a more traditional styled episode.  This episode took place on July 26, but as you'll hear when you listen to this, Xheif's laptop had just recently broke. So unfortunately he wasn't able to get me the tracks for this episode until he got a new one. But ladies and gentleman we are here with it for all of your istening pleasure!  There is a ton in this episode! Xheif loves to get onto deeper topics and so we talked a lot about where he gets the inspiration for his music. As well as family life and the fabric of human existence in the universe. He gives an interesting response on the classic genre question.  It's definately a good one, so make sure to show your cousins and office acquantinces!  CHECK OUT XHEIFXRATED'S IG PAGE HERE! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!    

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 Nathan from the band Big Bend! This dude is an absolute legend. His improve approach to writing music and pulling cohesive musical themes from that starting point is incredible!  He is putting out a new album called, last circle in a slowdown, and we discuss that at length. Its a beautiful work of music and It is very deserving of taking a listen!  We get into a lot of good conversations about everything from the writing process to life in general. Writing music is fascinating in the way it allows for everyone to approach it in a personal fashion. To me what makes music truly great is when you're able to take your personal approach and relate it to as many people as possible. I think Nathan is on the path to doing just that with this album.  Check Out BIG BEND HEREEEE! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!    

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 with Raven Starr on the podcast!  She makes industrial, techno, EBM, songs that make you feel like its the early 2000's again!  I had a blast talking to Raven on this episode. ITs a great era for that style of music that is very nostalgic for me.  We nerd out about gaming and talk about how awesome playing shows is. You're going to love it.  Check out Raven Starr Here!  Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 episode. If you like cheeseburgers you'll most certainly love this one. Check out what everyone is up to down in those links! DJ DRO JACK DEVY KAY XhEIFXRATED Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 was not sure what to expect from the line up but it was a smashing year! Mike Dasher's cover is still stuck in my head. Definately need to check out this album, it's a great showcase for how creatively expressive this city collab has gotten.  Click HERE for 419 Renditions Vol. VI   Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!    

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 hang out for another episode of good vibes, great beats and lots of word play.  It's some freestyle, some local beats and some live Dj'ing. All mixed with a lot of good conversation.  Click here for: DJ DRO JACK DEVY KAY DEIMOS HENRY RICH Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 to hop on the mic and do they're thing.  Another episode of good vibes, great beats and lots of word play.  It's some freestyle, some local beats and some live Dj'ing. All mixed with some good conversation.  Click here for: DJ DRO JACK DEVY KAY 510JACKBOY KENCH A.P. THE KIDD Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!    

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 perspective of this being his brain child and releasing it from his production company.  He is having the premeire live viewing party at Relax It's Just Coffee next friday the 9th.  You definatly need to be there for this one. I talk it up in this episode and I genuinley believe that I am not over selling it.  So give this episode a spin and get pumped for next weekend!  CHECK OUT THE TRAILER ON POTENT STUDIOS IG HERE   Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 lot of thought and craft behind this show series they have been doing for the last year now.  All four of us go way back, so it's mostly a massive nostalgia fest with lots of stories from when we were in highschool running shows in downtown Mansfield.  Check out AK HAIR COLLECTIVE here Check out HENRY SCREEN PRINTING here Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 It's going to be a recurring segment from now on!  All three of these dudes are very talented and I think it shows through the effortless chemestry that occured in the studio. We talk about artistry, life, pizza and Kid Kulture's self produced album that he has in the works.  It was a blast, so let me know what you think and if you' be interested on being on Volume two! Also any producers out there that would be interested in providing the beats for volume two to get some extra promotion for their beats.  Thank you to Kid Kulture and Dj Dro Jack for being down to through an idea at the wall with me and see what sticks. As well to Devy Kay for cookin up some tasty beats for Kid Kulture to "sight unseen" rap to live.  It's some freestyle, some pre-written, some local beats and some live Dj'ing. All mixed with some good conversation.  Click here for: DJ DRO JACK DEVY KAY KID KULTURE Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 think of them and go check out his music! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 undertaking for him.  For his young age he has a ton of musical experiance already under his belt. He's ambitious and very musically active. Check out all of his music HERE! Follow his instagram HERE!   Shoutout to Devy Kay  for generiously offering to make some intro's and outro's for the podcast! Let me know what you think of them and go check out his music! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 box and flows with his sound craft depending on his mood.  There's a lot of collabing going on locally, especially in the hip hop community, and A.P. is in the middle of it.  Check out his music HERE!   Shoutout to Devy Kay  for generiously offering to make some intro's and outro's for the podcast! Let me know what you think of them and go check out his music! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!    

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 found himself embarked upon.  With a catalogue of deeply thought out, heart felt tracks under his belt, he's got his eyes set towards his sophmore release.  Check out Jordan's Music in his bio HERE!   Shoutout to Devy Kay  for generiously offering to make some intro's and outro's for the podcast! Let me know what you think of them and go check out his music! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 it.  Cam's been grinding out his abilities as a writer and producer for quite some time now, and that's going to come accross with this new release. So check this one out and go to his instagram and click the link to pre-save his EP immediatly after!  NeweraCam's instagram!   Shoutout to Devy Kay  for generiously offering to make some intro's and outro's for the podcast! Let me know what you think of them and go check out his music! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!    

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 think there is really much more that you need to know to peak your interest in listening to this episode.  So click on the episode and find out if Noah's music sounds as nice as you'd think a person that records their music in a treehouse, would sound like. Noah's Instagram   Shoutout to Devy Kay  for generiously offering to make some intro's and outro's for the podcast! Let me know what you think of them and go check out his music! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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.  With a recent music video release and a game plan set on releasing sinlges, they have been hitting the social media world pretty hard. If you haven't seen them in your feed, i'd be surprised!  So quit sleeping on them, listen to the episode and follow them online to find more of what they have been up to. CRUZE CAMPO   Shoutout to Devy Kay  for generiously offering to make some intro's and outro's for the podcast! Let me know what you think of them and go check out his music! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 called LIberty DIY. They came together with The Committee to get a space to replace their previous DIY Skate spot, that had to be demolished with the removol of the westinghouse buildings this past year.  This is a really important episode in my opinion, due to it highlighting the way Government works best to help it's citezens. Facilitate an opportunity and then get out of the way to watch it grow!  It was a blast as usual chatting with them, so please share this one with everyone you know and lets continue making Mansfield an awesome place to live!  Check out Lberty DIY HERE!   Shoutout to Devy Kay  for generiously offering to make some intro's and outro's for the podcast! Let me know what you think of them and go check out his music! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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, definately keep your eyes on Devy. He's been putting a lot of time and effort into his music and I see him reaping the benefits already.  The hip hop community is flourishing in Mansfield currently and Devy Kay has been right in the middle working to network and collab within it.  To support Devy Kay's music check him out HERE! Also shoutout to Devy Kay  for generiously offering to make some intro's and outro's for the podcast! Let me know what you think of them! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 and the fall has been beautiful and quite the eventful few months. So we are going to get this winter season started off right and give you something to enjoy the warm indoors with going into 2024! Thanks to everyone who listens to the podcast and continues to support it over this long hiatus! We got a lot of great shows for you coming up, so stray tuned! Shoutout to Devy Kay  for generiously offering to make some intro's and outro's for the podcast! Let me know what you think of them and go check out his music! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 with out the letters M M F. That means its almost time for another Mansfield Music Fest Ladies and Gentelman, and this year has a killer line up!  Not only are the bands great, but this fest just had to loosen a notch on its belt, becasue its getting fatter! Moving into a more all encompassing arena with the arts and food truck expansions, Austin is starting to refine his bigger picture goals this year for MMF 23.  This is going to be a really good year for Mansfield Music Fest, so listen to us talk all about it on this episode of.... The Open Mic Podcast Check everything you need to keep up with MMF23 FB page (HERE) The Instagram here! BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE!!! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 awesome lineup and what all he has planned for this season.  This year there is a bigger bang for your buck mentality, With the focus being on less shows with more bands on each bill. The shows are still free with free food and free Beer, But more of an emphasis on putting on well rounded genre specific shows to deliver the best experiance for everyone involved and attending the show!  We also discuss the history of Newsroom After Hours for those unfamiliar and Zac's vision of what the future holds for it!  I had a lot of fun talking to Zac and I think you will enjoy listening!  Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 record, The curse of man, which drops March 17th.  We dig deep into VaunDoom's back story, from not really liking hip hop at a younger age, to cannonballing in and making waves. His writing/recording process, and the skill building journey of the business/promoting side of being an artist.  I genuinly enjoyed this one, we have a lot of similar interests and I know you're all going to appreciate this episode! He has a listening party for his album coming up March 16th, 7pm-10pm, 88 N Diamond st, studio one Mansfield Ohio.. Above Hursh Drugs. Stop on out and check his new alnum out!    VaunDoom's bandcamp VaunDoom's FB       Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!  

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, hostlle and website! Among other things... I've known cody since we were 18 years old, and haven't been as close as we once were, over the past few years. Life changes a lot as you get older, and draws your attention down various different paths. Even if your hopes and aspirations are still in similar areas. When those paths get to cross again over ocasions like this, it can bring great joy to the heart. I'd like to believe that this episode really reflects that.  We talk about a lot of things and share plenty of laughs. Including a shared immigrants love of the amazing city of Mansfield. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had the pleasure of having with an old friend.  BONFIRENATIONLTD.com     Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. and Bonfire NAtion LTD and The Electric Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!  

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!  Something Rotten! Opened on broadway in 2015 and was nominated for 10 Tony-awards. It's been described as if "Mel Brooks wrote Hamilton" The Story: Something Rotten takes place in 1595 London, England. The Bottom brothers, Nick and Nigel are trying to find success by writing plays, but are outshined by the rock-star playwright of the Renaissance, William Shakespeare. Desperate to find success Nick gets help from a soothsayer for the next big hit when he prophesies a musical. The Bottom brothers get to work creating the first musical, complete with song and dance. I had a blast chatting with Ryan and Leah! They have both had quite the fascinating life in theatre, with lots of incredibly colorful experiences along the way! This episode was a real treat for me because I know nothing about the musical play/theatre world. I got the chance to ask a lot of questions that I've always wanted to inquire about that world. There are a lot of interesting similarities between the theatre world and the traditional band world that I exist in normally. As well as a lot of things that I had never considered that they have to think about on a regular basis while preparing for the roles that they will be preforming as.  It sounds to me that this musical will be right up my alley, heavy comedic emphasis with some tugging on your heart strings, down on their luck, under-dog character moments. I'm excited to go see it and I hope you all will too!  Musicals are cool, I don't care what you think. If you disagree you're wrong.  Something Rotten! Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 8:00 PM Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 2:30 PM Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 8:00 PM Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 2:30 PM Check out all platforms for the Ren, as well as ticket purchase options for this performance here!!!  Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!  

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 recently and have seen great results coming out of the work they have been putting in!  We dive in on their up and coming new record they are finishing up in the studio currently. As well as some current events and conspiracies. You don't want to miss it or sleep on this band at all because this next album is sounding like its going to be colossal!  check out Ill Will  IG Here FB Here Spotify Here   Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!  

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 has this very distinct nostalgic early 2000's alternative rock/pop feel, with some country overtones. With lots of re-playability from the catchy melodies that bore their way into my brain after just one listen.  This is a very important album for Ricky, as it marks the begining of a new direction in life for him. Will this be a period in the sentance of his life leading up to this moment, or mearly a comma? Moving him on to the next stage of his musical career. There is a ton of depth to this album, with enough introspection that will make even the most self unaware person pause and reflect on their own life. Ricky is a joy to talk to and even more of a joy to listen to. Please be on the look out for when this album drops and for the album release show that we are planning for to be held at Relax It's Just Coffee Keep a look out for Ricky's album here! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee and Two Cousins Pizza Co. for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 friends doing good friend things, having fun together making music. This quite possibly could be our most thought provoking, moving episode yet! Check out The Gerds Instagram here! Check out their music here! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that I'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!    

  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! HAPPY NEW YEARS! Everyone give up on your new years resolutions already? Type a 1 in the chat if you have resolutions or a 2 if you don't. We are talking about skateboarding today!! It's a music adjascent and very important topic, so i thought would be good to spread the word about it on this podcast! I had "The Committee," on today to talk about the work they are doing to get the city to help get them a permanant spot to start a skatepark in Mansfield. It would be such a massive addition to the betterment of our amazing city. A very positive sport that promotes good values such as perseverance and hard work. As well as lots of outside exercise and critical thinking skills. To me this is a no brainer option for the city to use and prtner with to promote positive activities in the community for the youth and adults alike! We talk the loss of "The Slab," (RIP) their previous DIY skatepark they themselves had established on an un used, tore down section of the westinghouse sight. All of the positive things that came out of its existance and the pheonix like rise that will come from its ashes in the form of the new Liberty DIY skatepark that is in the works! Love these dudes and the hard work and endless hours they have poured their heart into for this to begin to come to fruition. Keep updated with the progress and learn ways to get involved over on their instagram @mansfield_liberty_diy Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

  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 from Thanksgiving break with a BANG! We have the one and only Star 77 in the building! A rock and roll power trio that will blow your mind and rock your world! We discuss their new three song e.p coming out tonight at midnight! We discuss what it would take for their generation to start getting more involved in the mansfield music scene. As well as starting a band and pursuing music at younger ages. Check out the full interview and then put a reminder in your phone to go check out the E.P at midnight tonight on all streaming platforms!                Get your reminder here! Star 77 Instagram Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership and Relax It's Just Coffee for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 was a special one for me. I had the pleasure of interviewing Octavio Más-Arocas, the music director for the Mansfield symphony Orchestra! He was such a delightful person to interview. His immense passion for what he does draws you in and grips you. It compells you to want to understand what it is about his job that fuels the passion he displays. There is so, so much that goes on behind the scenes for every single performance the mansfield symphony puts on that we really just begin to scratch beneath the surface with the time we had.  We talk everything from his process of picking the music they play to the work that goes into tieing the theme and music into the performances that you see when they play. This was probably my favorite interview so far and i know you'll enjoy it! Especially the tomato fight conversation... Check out their up and coming performance schedule here, The Renaissance Theatre and the Mansfield Symphony, as well as some interesting background information on the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to another episode of The Open Mic Podcast! With your host Kid Kulture, brought to you by Richland Source and Newsroom After Hours! This week we have Kid Kulture from Kulture Kast guest hosting for me so I could be interviewed with my band Divebomb! We are the greatest band in the world, and we are putting out a new album! Nov. 4th!  click here to pre-save, then go tell everyone you know! As well as follow them on facebook! Divebomb's Facebook page Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 lovely Jai Merina on the podcast! I really enjoy seeing the progression Jai has made as an artist. The first time I saw her perform was at a bar where she played a set of cover songs on her acoustic. Cover artists are fun for the simple fact that everyone likes to sing along to nostalgic songs from their past or current radio hits. So no shade being thrown here, but for me originals are what i get excited about. We talk all about that transition from cover artist to writing originals and preparing to put out those originals in this episode! If you like classic 70's acoustic rock dripping with raw, transparent, honest emotion, coupled with a powerhouse of a beautiful voice... Then this episode is totally for you! Jai also gives us a very special performance of three unreleased originals that she has been recently working on. It's an awesome epsiode and I had so much fun sitting down and talking everything music with her. Please check out her Fabcebook page to keep current on where she is perfoming next and stay tuned for all the great material to come from this incredibly talented young Lady! click here for Jai Merina's Facebook page!! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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! I'm back baby! I know how much everyone has missed me, so I wanted to come back with a big episode explosion featuring a metal power trio straight to your face! That's right I interviewed Mansfield's own UnderStubstance! These three dudes are way more dedicated to the progression and success of this band than I intially thought! We dive deep into what makes this band tick. From funding every piece of gear, to the chemistry built over years and years of playing/writing together. We discuss it all! As well as their love for shock value, satirical, raunchy humor. Which if you aren't a fan of, this episiode is probably not for you. With the amount of natural talent and drive these guys have, it's only a matter of time until they are getting to the places they want to go musically. It's hard to find the type of musical chemistry these three have together, so much so that it's exciting to me when I get the chance to whitness it and watch it grow. Please check out their music and stay tuned for all the great material to come from these dudes! Click here for UnderSubstance's Linktree! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 Ausin Moore in the building to talk about this years Mansfield Music Fest line up! As well as a little history on the fest and the cool new changes that this year will bring! We talk about the massive Fest upgrades coming your way to the second stage, which i personally am very excited about! As well as lighting upgrades from my favorite sponsor of the show, Potent Studios! Lee is going to be running his lighting rig on the inside stage. To say that i am excited about that would be an understatement! Mansfield Music Fest definately has a special place in my heart. It's just such a fun time every year and its completely Mansfield minded, which if you listen to the show at all, you know that I am all about! So please come check out both Friday september the 16th and saturday september the 17th dates of the fest, because there's something musically for everyone this year! its such a fun time and Snow Trails is beautiful that time of year! Snow Trails has really been great hosts and have helped Austin start to skyrocket this Fest into the next few levels it deserves! Check out the Facebook page here! Buy your tickets in advance here, or on the FB page and keep up to date with all the latest happenings with MMF! I hope to see you all out there this year! It's going to be one of the best, if not best year yet! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 have a young, up and coming rapper born and raised right here in the great city of Mansfield Ohio! He goes by the name Clutch.3D and the dude has been really putting in the work lately! With a 21 song mixtape dropped recently and multiple music videos out and on the way. Clutch.3D is definatly someone to take notice of! We talk everything from lyricism to producing. Having the drive and love for the art to pick up every aspect of making music because there wasn't availble studio time around you. As well as personal goals and what he is striving for on his journey to becoming financially independent. It's refreshing to see younger people with the dedication and work ethic to strive towards their goals, as well as just an overall kindness and love for life. I hope you enjoy this episode, and then head over here for Clutch.3D's music! Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Also Check out The Mothership for local shows! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 have the one and only Mr. Ohio Lampoon himself. Raoul Dude! Do you like style? Do you like melodies dripping with feels and a classic rock vibe that your Dad would nostalgically remenisce over? Well then the dude's got your back and this episode is for you! We talk about his latest release in the epic unfolding saga that is Raoul Dude, entitled solipsistic Singalong. We discuss what went into it's creation and his tactics when fitting a Pre-thought out theme into a collection of songs. Who exactly is Raoul Dude? Why does he create and where is this journey called life taking him? All of those questions will be answered and more on this episode of The Open Mic Podcast! Check out links to all of his music here! Raoul Dude Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Mansfield Ohio, is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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! On this episode I had the pleasure of chatting with a relatively newer Mansfield local by the name of MIDDLING. A three piece midwest skrams band that will take you by surprise with the mashup of pretty tapping styled guitars juxtapose harsh yelling vocals and heavy drivin drums. A genre I wasn't personally aware of until I listened to their debut EP titled, "Successful Midwest Lifestyle," that came out May 31st. I am now a huge fan of this genre thanks to these three! We had a wonderful time talking writing concepts and approaches, origins of the band, and how fun it is to travel with your friends to play music in other places that aren't your hometown! Definitely not everyones cup of tea, but they are well worth checking out. Very Introspective and beautiful with a mix up to break that musical lull we all tend to find ourselves in when you've been listening to the same things over and over again. Check out all the links to all of their things here! MIDDLING Please make sure to like, share, and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out: @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield, Ohio! Mansfield, Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 pleasure of chatting with Lee of Potent Studios! This dude is doing some incredible stuff as of late for the Mansfield Music scene! We talk at length about the lighting rig that he has sunk money and an exorbant amount of time into just for the love and interest of! As I say many times in the episode, you really don't realize what you need in your life until it's there! We also get into the concept of creating an imersive experiance that moves an audience in a direction emotionally through song set structure and live performance. As well as what he has been doing as of late in the area that truly tugs at his heart, Film and directing! Lee has been a good friend of mine for a long time now and I greatly admire him for the work he does and his constant willingness to be vulnerable with every aspect of his art that he puts out. This was such a fun and fascinating conversation! I hope it will inspire anyone who creates, to try to push yourself to the next level of thoughtful creation. Please make sure to check out everything lee is doing herer at Potent Studios ! Not only lighting, but film and music as well! Come out June 17th to the next Newsroom after hours to see his incredible light rig in action! Please make sure to like, share and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield Ohio! Mansfield Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 Marshall and Aurelio on to listen to 6 of the tracks from volume 5 of the 419 Renditions! We talk about all the hard work they put in to make this special and, dear to my heart, project come together. With some live reactions and great commentary, this is one episode you do not want to miss! The 419 Renditions is a musical project that aims to give bands/artists the opportunity to cover (randomly picked out of a hat) other bands/artists locally in the Mansfield area. It's super fun and a very unique way to build and grow the local Mansfield music scene. If you are a band or solo artist and would like to be involved on the next one, message Marshall or Aurelio using these links and ask how to get involved! Check out Volume 5 of the 419 Renditions here! Also go back to listen to the previous volumes through links in bandcamp after listening to the new edition! Please make sure to like, share and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield Ohio! Mansfield Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 magnificient Madison Lang! With the voice to cure your sadness, while simultaniously delivering a trance like calmness through lofi guitar melodies, it's easy to get lost in Madison's musical catalogue. Madison and her two adorable kids stopped by to talk about her recent renewal of passion for musical creativity and what its like coming back from such an extensive hiatus from writing. We discuss what her writing process looks like, how she got her start in music. As well as where her inspiration came from before the hiatus and where it comes from now as a mother of two. As well as her first show back in years, tonight for the newsroom after hours of Friday May 13th! I so much enjoyed this conversation. It never ceases to amaze me where musicians inspiration comes from and how similar we all end up being once you get down deep onto a certain level. The conectability through music is incredible! Please make sure to like, share and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield Ohio! Mansfield Ohio is the greatest city in the continental U.S!

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 one of the most (in my opinion) underated bands in Mansfield Ohio! Hurricane Ditka! A pop punk, emo powerhouse trio, with catchy well written songs for a days. Or at least an albums worth anyways haha!  Marshall(guitar/vocals) and matt(drums) stopped by to talk writing process, playing a show for the first time since the covid, new music on the way, and origin stories, among other things. There's also a special live acoustic performance of their song streetlight from their self titled album of 2018!! Just a jam packed episode with two wonderful people that write beautifully catchy music! Please make sure to like, share and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source and The Newsroom After Hours for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield Ohio!

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 three rappers who will be performing the first newsroom after hours show this season, Friday April 15th! Deimos, Henry Rich, and Yung 23 !  They collectively operate under the moniker Deaf Note, as well they release music as solo artists. You can find all of their music by clicking on the links attached to their names!  With 15 plus years of writing/ producing and rapping experience under their belts, these behemoths of artists delve deep into what sets them apart in such a vast industry. We talk influence, lyricism and hip hop show culture. What it looks like to be putting in the work and where they are looking to take their music in the future. It was a blast meeting these dudes and getting to talk all things hip hop! Three genuine hard working dudes with a lot of great music to come! Catch them live tomorrow at this years first Newsroom After Hours show back! Please make sure to like, share and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have Instagram, check us out @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield Ohio!

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 quite the legend on the show, and we talk music, the death of La Luna's shows and politics all in one episode! Aurelio Diaz, AKA Chico's Brother, AKA Mansfield's 5th ward councilman! Aurelio writes his music under the moniker Chico's Brother. His poetically vibrant, lyrically driven songs, over top of autoharp rhythmic strums is definitely not your typical sound. But its stripped back simplicity and passionate transparency is powerfully beautiful. He puts so much care into everything he does, and I think it shines through in all of his music! Im very excited to hear the new music he is in the process of writing!  Aurelio has such a huge heart for Mansfield, and he is constantly pouring himself out for the betterment of the community itself. I' am very proud that I live in the 5th ward where he resides over as councilman. Follow Chico's Brother on Facebook here : Chico's Brother FB Click here to listen to his music on bandcamp : Chico's Brother bandcamp Please make sure to like, share and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have instagram, check us out @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield Ohio!

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 weeks episode we get an in depth look into the rapidly growing music scene/culture of EDM/DUB step music. Our guest Tesreflect, not only produces his own songs, but also performs them out live as a DJ. It was a massive pleasure having him on the show, not only for his vibrant song writing ability, but his extensive understanding of where this genre of music has stemmed from historically.  This episode was immensely refreshing to me. Talking to people about music can bring out an excitement from within that you don't usually see on the surface level in typical interactions. Tesreflect to me, genuinely is passionate about this genre of music, and I really feel it translates in this interview. The rich history and culture in this realm of music is one of welcoming hearts and open mindedness towards anyone that wants to just enjoy the euphoria of body thumping bass and upbeat head bobbing positivity. The culture is exploding and I look forward to hopefully seeing more of these kinds of shows in the future! Tereflect also gave us our first live performance since I have taken over as host. He plays a couple of tracks off of his latest release and teases a new one in the works! Im very excited to see where his music takes him and for whats to come in the future! Check out his music and all of his platforms to follow here! TESREFLECT Please make sure to like, share and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have instagram, check us out @openmicpdcast Check out The Richland Source for all things happening in the great and beautiful Mansfield Ohio!

Two of the members, Kid Kulture (vocalist) Aaron(Drums), from Mansfield local super group, The Afrxnts drop in to talk about their latest release! They give us a look at what producing this record looked like and where their mindset was at throughout the entire process. We talk future plans, goals and upcoming releases they have already in the works! They put on an incredible live show, so keep a look out for their upcoming show dates, as well as links to all streaming platforms here https://linktr.ee/theafrxnts?fbclid=IwAR2b4PcoDZMsnCMVGx4lLz8uVBLpagOnXyv2VC5pvD9l1bgMDOR35_2hfKo Please make sure to like, share and give us that much appreciated 5 star rating, that i'm sure you will agree, is well deserved! Also if you have instagram, check us out @openmicpdcast