Open Mike Radio

Open Mike Radio

Open Mike Radio is hosted by Mike Hagan and features interviews with Missouri's finest musicians and bands, live in studio performances and a weekly run-down of music events. OMR airs every Saturday from 4PM-6PM CST/USA on KOPN Columbia, 89.5 FM and is streamed live at: www.kopn.org Previous shows can be accessed in the archives at: https://www.mikehagan.com/OMR.htm

Episodes

May 3, 2025 118 mins

Centralia's Off Grid performed in the big room along with a couple songs from Doc Floyd, Zawata and Kind Kurt. Also a visit from the Dicksmen, a local philanthropic group doing good work for Columbia's less fortunate. The wonderful Aina Cook also dropped by for a quick hello.

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Rockin' performance from Kirksville based Secular Era. Sherry Wyatt came by and talked with us about the Goldstar Memorial Day Parade. Plus a visit from Dave Angle and a couple songs from him.

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April 19, 2025 121 mins

Awesome live remote broadcast from Gumbo Bottoms Ale House in Jefferson City. Amazing performances from Lucky, Rayce Kendrick, Andy Samson, Sarah Parker, Cowboy Church and Zawata.

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April 5, 2025 116 mins

Outstanding live performance from Tulsa, Oklahoma based Justin Bloss. Plus a phone interview with St. Louis artist, Michael Blakey and a couple songs from Dylan McCord and our own Kind Kurt. Thanks to Andrew Ryan for making the connections.

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March 22, 2025 114 mins

Chill show with just me, Kind Kurt and C-Lark. A few phone calls and a visit from Jeff Stack for reality check.

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March 15, 2025 116 mins

Extremely fun show featuring members of the band, Monsterya, along with a Mike and Steel from Cost of Desire and a phone visit with Concannon manager, Bobby Vestal. Great music from all three bands.

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March 5, 2025 24 mins

A few highlights from our first Open Mic at B-Side Records in Columbia, Missouri - Tuesday March 4, 2025. 
Featuring Billy Haring, Justin Hickerson, Nathan James, Dave Angle and Drew Baxter.

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March 1, 2025 117 mins

Members of the band Lifeline visit with us in the studio and play a few songs for us. Chris Canada also stopped by to talk about Roux Pop-Ups - A cool new Cajun Food project of his. Finally Nathan James Bratten, AKA Hardy But Hardly, stopped by and shared a couple of his lovely songs with us. Plus some fun phone calls.

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February 22, 2025 113 mins

We turn the show over to Jesse Slade and King Theodore Records to talk about Reel Fest, a new film festival debuting in Columbia on March 1st. We featured an amazing live performance from Degrave and a few songs from Tanner Jones of The Comancheros. Plus a few film producers, Carney J and a search for Sasquatch.

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February 15, 2025 118 mins

A cool phone interview with the talented Brian J (Formerly Bummy) and debuted a few of his new songs. Plus a couple from Kind Kurt and Dylan McCord.

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February 1, 2025 114 mins

Live remote from LVX Lounge. An outstanding live performance from The Lemon Settlement along with a few songs from Dylan McCord, Drew Baxter, The Daves and Kind Kurt.

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January 25, 2025 114 mins

The Ex-Gentlemen joined us for some live surf rock and wild stories...then a very interesting phone conversation with Tunestr founder, Open Mike (yes, you read that correctly)...then we closed the show out with a couple from Dylan McCord.

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January 18, 2025 115 mins

A few of the guys from Foxteeth came by to start the show and we played a couple of tracks from the band. Then we visited with Bailey Johns of Pink Street Management and hear a few tracks from bands she represents: The Odyssey, Modeling and Stepmom. Rocket Kirchner came by and we played a few tracks from his latest and we finished the show off with a short set from Dylan and Danielle of Zawata. Everyone joined in for a fun...

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January 4, 2025 113 mins

Really fun show with my good friend, Andrew Ryan. Andrew was joined by his friend Nicholas Piscitello, AKA, Level and the Square, and they both played some fantastic acoustic songs for us. Then we heard a couple from Dylan McCord and rocked out with C-Lark on a metal guitar set. Fun and funny show.

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December 28, 2024 116 mins

Our annual New Year's Special featuring a wonderful live performance from the Aina Cook Band. Plus more live music from Zawata, Billy Haring, Adam Wilson and Bud McDonald of Provoke the Colossus.

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December 21, 2024 114 mins

Really fun show with Outermind performing live in the big room. Plus a visit from Crooked Fix, a couple of guys from the Banastre Tarleton Band dropped by to say hi. Dylan and Forrest from Zawata also played a few nice ones for us.

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December 7, 2024 117 mins

Super fun show with live performances from our own Kind Kurt, Justin Hickerson and Dylan McCord. Plus phone interviews with Hallam George and Dylan Lewis and a couple songs from both of them. Also a call from our good friend Tavair Dominque.

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November 23, 2024 120 mins

Outstanding performances in the studio from Tavair Dominque, The January Lanterns, Hardy But Hardly, Adam Wilson and Dylan McCord. Plus a phone visit with Lawrence, KS psychedelic advocate, Ian Cook and a visit with Tony Lotven. Justin came by to hang with us too. Super fun show.

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Live remote from LVX Lounge with music from Elephant Foot, Kind Kurt and Zawata. Awesome.

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November 2, 2024 115 mins

Supercool show with live music form the Diddy Wah Daddys. Plus a visit and new music from Billy Herring and a couple nice ones from Zawata.

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