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 ..read more

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 ho ..read more

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.  Clic ..read more

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 wi ..read more

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 d ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 Ins ..read more

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 instagra ..read more

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 h ..read more