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A gift for the culture Pretty Lights helped create, geared specifically toward the dedicated minions waiting quasi-patiently for his first collection of original studio music in roughly a decade.
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In between a pair of concerts in the City of Brotherly Love, Grammy-nominated future-funk pioneers Lettuce dropped in on some talented teenage musicians from Franklin Learning Center High School.
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Each year on the weekend after Labor Day, the renowned NorCal cannabis community cultivates a colorful, multi-faceted soiree in the mainland marijuana Mecca of Humboldt County, and they call it CANNIFEST.
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With a century of Grammy-winning records and pioneering performances between them, the stage was set for a magical midday soiree in the wondrous woods of Stern Grove.
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U.K. live hip-hop phenoms OMA are currently barnstorming through America, unleashing a torrent of blazing instrumental re-imaginations of iconic rap anthems from coast to coast.
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To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Phish “retirement” shows, hop in the wayback machine to revisit the historic, chaotic, at-times catastrophic Coventry festival, hosted in northern Vermont way back in August 2004.
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Celebrating its 8th annual edition, the all-funk extravaganza made good on their promise to deliver the funkiest party on the West Coast.
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After several years away from the game, Greyboy blasted back into the zeitgeist with his seventh full-length solo LP Word on the Street in June 2024.
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Twas an honor and privilege to welcome legendary DJ/producer/multi-instrumentalist GREYBOY to Episode 079!
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A trifecta of vibrant, exploratory numbers, Concrete Lullaby represents the subtle ebb and flow between heavier and lighter musical movements and energies.
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