The Non, October 1

It was a regular old groovefest a couple of weeks ago when The Non came into the studio. We played several tracks off of their new record, Tadaima, which will be released in January 2010. We talked about many things, including Tadaima, the city of Non, Oklahoma, the stories behind some of their songs, pigeon fights, and local music.

We also talked about their big Resound show that is TODAY, October 15, at the Dean Motor Company building on the corner of Dean A. McGee and Shartel in OKC. The Non will be performing with an orchestra conducted by Carl Rath, a teacher at the OU school of music, and a player for the OKC Philharmonic.

This show's gonna be legit. I hope you got your tickets in advance, 'cause word on the official Resound website is that it's sooooold out.

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The Uglysuit -- September 24, 2009

My fourth guests of the semester were The Uglysuit. Here's what you should know about The Uglysuit:

1. They make beautifully happy music. It's like drinking a mango smoothie with your sunglasses on in a parking lot on a perfect day.

2. If you like resting on another level in your meantimes, take their music with you, and it will take you to a place where there is neither gravity nor evil.

3. You wanna know where the wild things are? Probably hiding in this band's hair.

Left to right: Israel Hindman, Kyle Mayfield, Colin Bray and Jonathan Martin of The Uglysuit. Photo by Erich Kirwin.

Here's the first part of the interview, featuring a live performance of their song Pen and Self.

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From front to back: Kyle Mayfield, Colin Bray, and Jonathan Martin of The Uglysuit. Photo by Erich Kirwin.

Here's the rest of the interview, which includes the guys talking about playing CMJ last year, and being invited again this year. They'll play the festival in NYC next week in the midst of touring.

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The next Uglysuit show in Oklahoma will be Halloween at the 51st Street Speakeasy in OKC.

ArtBeat September 17, 2009

On September 17 for the third show, I had my good friends Jeff Bayne and Nathaniel Atterberry from ArtBeat magazine on the show. ArtBeat is a regional magazine that is distributed for free around Oklahoma. They feature local artists, musicians and poets. They are really involved in the community and encourage anyone to submit their work or articles on local events and artists for publication. Check out their website, www.artbeatok.com! The show got started about an hour late due to some systems failures in the studio, but once the station manager came in to fix the problems, we got the ball rolling on what the magazine is about, upcoming events, and why art matters.

Caveman Hair Jeff, and Nathaniel, talkin' art. Photo by Erich Kirwin.

Nathaniel checking out the latest issue of ArtBeat. Photo by Erich Kirwin.

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Theatre Breaks Loose Sept 10, 2009

Casey Heald and your headless host. Photo by Erich Kirwin.


For the second show of the Fall season, Theatre Breaks Loose returned with new member (and former Lokl Hour host!) Adam Croom. Zach couldn't make it to the show due to strep throat, and Brandon and Matt were a little late in arriving, but we had a good time. They talked about their West Coast tour adventures, answered fan questions and did an on-the-spot rockapella version of Jessica.



Brandon Lovelace (seated) and Matt Toney. Photo by Erich Kirwin.


The guys also just filmed for our TV program, The Set, this past weekend also. That should air on Cox channel 124 later this month. I'll keep you updated! Til then, check out the interview below!

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September 3, 2009 -- Unmarked Cars

Unmarked Cars met up with me in the booth last Thursday for the first show of the Fall. I have to say, we had a lot of fun. I was having some technical problems (of course the first show can't go smoothly, it's a given), so I didn't have time to really prepare questions. Luckily the band was great with taking off on topics. Justin, I might add is a master of many accents, which had us all cracking up. We played seven songs off of A Guide to the Common Era, which I edited from the podcast because well, you should buy the CD! It will be available on iTunes and CD Baby soon. And we had so much to talk about that there's almost an hour of interview alone. They were supposed to have a show at The Deli that night with The Gunship, but The Gunship broke up and the show ended up being cancelled. Unmarked Cars will instead play The Deli October 17, so check 'em out!

This is a quick & sloppy edit of the show, and for that I apologize. I'll probably go back and re-edit the kinks at some point, but until then.....

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The Lokl Hour Returns!

Hey guys, this is Tommie, your new host for The Lokl Hour! The show starts up again this Thursday, September 3rd. We have a new time! 8-10pm. The first guest will be Unmarked Cars, who'll be stopping by to chat & play some new recordings from A Guide to the Common Era before their show at The Deli that night.

Did you know you can now listen to all of our programming on The Wire via your iPhone? Here are the instructions from my esteemed Broadcast professor, Lynn Franklin:

Add the F-stream app found via the iTunes App Store and at http://www.sourcemac.com/?page=fstream .

Once the application is loaded you can follow these instructions to add The Wire and listen anywhere, anytime!

Once the app loads you will see Play, Favorites, Record, & More

Go to Favorites

Select Edit

Select Add New Webradio

Under Name enter The Wire

Under URL enter http://mfile.akamai.com/9873/live/reflector:59452.asx

Under Format enter WMA

Under Bitrate enter 128

Select Save

Select Play

Select The Wire

ENJOY!

You can also listen to the live stream at wire.ou.edu, or tune in to 1710 AM in Norman. Plus, I'll be posting podcasts of the show here on the blog following the original air date.

I've got a lot of great guests this semester, so I hope you'll stop by & listen!

Much love,

Tommie

The Last Show

I had Kevin Dawson (formerly Winter Circle) on to talk to me about The Dawson Project and his new music with Jesse Davis (formerly The Nixons and Huver). It's a great story about what he's gone through and how he's coming out of it. Be sure to purchase his new acoustic CD on the Dawson Project website. 

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I also had Benji from Love is a Story talking about his success on Myspace and recent song on Real World.  You can check out his music on his myspace as well as download the debut album, The Science of Sound, on iTunes.

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And then there's me. Thanks so much for listening every week and checking out the podcast. It's been an honor to participate in the Oklahoma music scene and meet everyone I did. There wasn't a person that I came across whether they were just sending me their music or doing an interview that wasn't just fantastic to work with.

So here's the last words of the show.