![The Upful LIFE Podcast 098: MIKE RIVARD [bass/sintir: Club d’Elf] + LONNIE MARSHALL [bass/vox: Weapon of Choice, daKAH, Joe Strummer]](https://www.upfullife.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Mike-Rivard-CLUB-dELF-Twitter-Post-800x445.png "The Upful LIFE Podcast 098: MIKE RIVARD [bass/sintir: Club d’Elf] + LONNIE MARSHALL [bass/vox: Weapon of Choice, daKAH, Joe Strummer]")
GFE’s Josh Blake drives the lane with the just-released Unemployment Benefits, a 13-track studio album that’s a piping platter of heatrocks, brimming with banger after banger of boom-bap rap songs.
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Episode 038 welcomes the esteemed DEREK BERES to *The Upful LIFE Podcast* for a fascinating, informative and inspiring conversation unlike anything you’ve ever heard on this program! Author/journalist/yoga & movement instructor/DJ-Producer, and co-host of CONSPIRITUALITY PODCAST.
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Adam “Shmeeans” Smirnoff is the guitarist/co-founder of Grammy-nominated future-funk cosmonauts Lettuce, and also a longtime proponent of cannabis as medicine, dating back to well before the legal-weed era. He’s the host of the online talk show “Dabs with Shmeeans”, lives in ganja metropolis Denver, CO, and has been a vocal advocate for the responsible, medicinal use of cannabis flower and concentrate.
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Welcome the iconic KARL DENSON to Episode 037! What an honor and a privilege to host this legendary musician to the show. Co-founder of The Greyboy Allstars, bossman/bandleader of Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, touring member of the Rolling Stones, and longtime (former) sideman/personal pal to the coolest motherfucker on the planet, Lenny Kravitz.
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Rracing the roots and connection between cannabis & music cultures, reflecting at the development over the past century.
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Get familiar with one of the music scenes most active and knowledgeable journalists, our friend, B. Getz. B. started working in the music industry dating back to the 90’s. Throughout his career he has been to countless historic concerts/festivals, transcribing them in his incredibly captivating style of writing. Today he is still as active as ever as a journalist as well as the host for his own podcast, “The Upful Life Podcast”.
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With the palpable excitement behind the recent Greyboy Allstars record releases, we reached out to Karl to get the scoop on how the GBA journey first began.
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In the wake of the passing of reggae pioneer Frederick “Toots” Hibbert on Friday night, Live For Live Music’s B. Getz offers up his memories of a formative live music experience seeing Toots & the Maytals in Burlington, VT in 1996.
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During the hot, dark, angry Covid-summer of 2020, Royal was hard at work on the stirring new single “I Can’t Breathe”, a collaboration that is rooted in the realities of the Black American experience.
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Welcome BLACK BURNER PROJECT founder ERIN DOUGLAS, and DJ WILLIAMS of Shots Fired & Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe to Episode 036 of The Upful LIFE Podcast! T’was an honor & a privilege to host
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