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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

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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 episodes for both of them. Get to know them!
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

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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/

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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.com/offbrandband/

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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

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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

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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/

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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/

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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_prather
https://www.instagram.com/chris_arden_prather/

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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

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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. You can find her on most social media @flowerboi_94 and her band @bedtimetheband

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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! You can find Stephanie’s stuff below:
Dire Gnome
Color Me In

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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!
Dire Gnome
Color Me In

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Oxford comma! Leotie and Keathley 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 @keathleymusic
They’re really good with SEO, which is tech-business speak for “search engine optimization”, and I am not, because who is really looking up the phrase “Bit Depth”, anyways?

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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

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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

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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

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Tyler Thomas and I get very inside-baseball about music and how complex or simple it can be. You can find Tyler on Instagram @tyler_thomas_ig

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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

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Since I am still bad at organizing things, instead of an interview this week, I decided to show you, loyal listener, some songs that have yet to be released by me. All of these were written as far back as 2017 and I had made demos for a class. Some have been updated or refreshed but they are still essentially demos - proofs of concept rather than full tracks.

00:18 - “We Are One” - This was my strange attempt at making a “world peace”, hippie style song. I think if I were to do a full production of this, I would need “We Are the World” levels of involvement. I tried using science as motivation for unity. This is a song that is not likely to be released on a full album any time soon because I don’t feel like it fits for me as an artist, nor do I think it fits with any album concepts I have percolating in my mind at the moment. I’m somewhat embarrassed of the song, I think, but it is what it is, so here you go.

04:16 - “Trauma (Live)” - Ok, so not exactly unreleased, since I’ve already played it on the podcast, but still has yet to get a proper release. This was played for an Electric Pizza concert and it features Breck McGough on backup vocals, J.R. Edwards on Cello, and Trevor Lindley on drums. I wrote this song from the point of view of a soldier with PTSD and how this person would cope with the things they had to do in the military. This will definitely make its way onto a future album.

07:52 - “The Vicious Cycle” - This one is from the point of view of a drug addict who has gotten to the point where he no longer wants to harm his family with his addiction, but he still has a long way to go to make up for his mistakes. For whatever reason, I felt the song’s character had an accent. I think it has more to go with the production, but I think the demo shows what the song is capable of, and it’s one of my favorite songs that I’ve written.

12:16 - “Star Destroyer” - Sometimes, I give myself tasks or inspirations for future songs, like “Write a song with a mantra” or “Make a track with no sustain”. For this one, the inspiration was “Make a song like an anime opening”. There’s a story in this song, which is like an anime in itself, and it’s sci-fi inspired and pretty cheesy. It was a lot of fun to sing in this style. I know this will make it onto a future album.