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Welcome Florida-bred, Denver-based electronic producer duo MZG to Episode 078! Zach and Charles Weinert are wildly talented yet humble and hilarious, studio wizards who can cook up with best in the game.
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The star of the show here is clearly Talia Keys, who delivers vibrant updates to certified classics dreamt in her own image.
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Across the road from famed Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and in the shadows of City Hall, these two mavericks hatched and executed a master plan to turn the once-zombified Civic Center Plaza into a delightfully-debauched dance party.
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For 20 years since the turn of the millennium, I’ve been fortunate to immerse myself in the most historic—and vibrant—musical mecca in the country, an amateur musicologist embedded in her bountiful bosom.
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Peter has collaborated with legends like the late, great Gregg Allman, cultural institutions such as the Allman Brothers Band and Blind Boys of Alabama, rising stars i.e. Amanda Shires, and appears on the award-winning album The Highwomen.
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Emerging from the ashes of this traumatic, dehumanizing spell: a phoenix of deeply personal compositions that would eventually comprise Amnesty, Anna Moss’s solo debut LP released in March 2024 via Empire Records.
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Agent 23 aka Cactus aka Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, welcome to The Upful Life Podcast! A founding member of pioneering Asheville-based live hip-hop collective Granola Funk Express (GFE). A progenitor of “family hip-hop” with his Secret Agent 23 Skidoo project, which took home a Grammy in 2019 for Best Children’s Album. Cactus is a published author of several books, and a prolific educator around the country for kids of all ages and backgrounds.
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For a certain brand of festival-goer, springtime at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park is pretty close to heaven on earth.
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On this rainy NorCal Saturday night, the sage wordsmith would take the Bay Area fans on a deeply personal journey through trials, tribulations, spiritual reckonings, fallen family, and voices in his head—all dictated through the voluminous Scarface songbook.
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Live n’ direct from their studio in Vienna, Austria, iconic electronic producer/DJ duo KRUDER AND DORFMEISTER tap into The Upful LIFE Podcast for Episode 075. Colorful, humorous, poignant, a career-spanning joyride in the wayback machine with a pair of global pioneers.
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