New Orleans - The Upful Life

Introducing Atom Cat: New Orleans’ Psychedelic Garage-Rock In Neon Hues [B.Getz on L4LM]]

In the vibrant, horn-heavy heart of New Orleans, an enigmatic new squad is bubbling up from the underground club scene. Introducing ATOM CAT.

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NOLA Legend CYRIL NEVILLE Brings the ‘SOUL JUNCTION’ Tour To The East Bay On Fat Tuesday

February 22, 2026February 26, 2026 B.Getz Cyril Neville, King Youngblood, mardi gras, New Orleans, NOLA, nola funk, Omari Neville and the Fuel, The Meters, the neville brothers

Cyril Neville’s “Soul Junction Tour” brought a potent blend of New Orleans traditions, soul, funk and rock to Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage on February 17, 2026.

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The Upful LIFE Podcast 095 : OTIS McDONALD, DERRICK ‘Smoker’ FREEMAN [SOUL Brass Band, Shadow People Pod], PIET DALMOLEN

January 19, 2026January 19, 2026 B.Getz aloe blacc, atta kid, bassist, Bay Area, bob weir, derrick freeman, derrick smoker, drummer, eric krasno, eric krasno always, eric krasno and the assembly, eric krasno otis mcdonald, Hyde Street Studio, jazz mafia, joe cohen, king canyon, mickey hart band, music podcast, musician interview, New Orleans, nicholas payton, otis mcdonald, Piet Dalmolen, producer, san francisco, soul brass band, wil blades

Prolific San Francisco composer, producer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist OTIS McDONALD is finally here. BG also checks back in with Derrick ‘Smoker’ Freeman [SOUL Brass Band, Shadow People Podcast]; and introduces rising NorCal guitarist/solo artist Piet Dalmolen.

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The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.093 : POLYRHYTHMICS vol.2 [Ben Bloom – gtr, Grant Schroff aka Champagne Bubblebath – drums]

October 4, 2025October 4, 2025 B.Getz afrobeat, ben bloom, champagne bubblebath, D.C. Go-Go, drummer interview, funk, funk band, grant schroff, guitarist interview, jamband, music podcast, musician interview, New Orleans, polyrhythmics, polyrhythmics life from below, seattle, Second Line, soul

Episode 093 welcomes back POLYRHYTHMICS, the fantastically-funky septet primarily based in Seattle, but these days steadily spreading their net further and wider than ever before.

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The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.087: TARRIONA “TANK” BALL [Tank And The Bangas] + TYPE RIDER [multi-media poetry project]

April 22, 2025 B.Getz B.Helix, BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM GRAMMY, GRAMMY, jam cruise, jam cruise 21, Jorge Pena, music podcast, musician interview, New Orleans, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, NOLA, poetry, slam poetry, spoken word, Tank And The Bangas, Tarriona "Tank" Ball, Type Rider

TARRIONA “TANK” BALL, founder/frontperson/visionary of NOLA-based, GRAMMY-winning TANK AND THE BANGAS joins B.Getz for a special broadcast aboard Jam Cruise 21! Plus: TYPE RIDER

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The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.081 : The Return of ANNA MOSS [solo project, debut LP, + Handmade Moments]

October 20, 2024 B.Getz Anna Moss, anna moss amnesty, anna moss and the nightshades, anna moss debut LP, anna moss solo debut, asheville, handmade moments, HIgh SIerra Music Festival, hurricane helene relief, iamavl, miles lyons, New Orleans, NOLA, sari jordan

Welcome back the lovely and talented singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Ms. ANNA MOSS. One-half of beloved political folk-hop duo Handmade Moments, the NOLA-based chaunteuse has launched an absolutely sensational solo project under her own name

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WE’RE GONNA GROOVE TONIGHT: NOLA Jazz Fest Remains The Spice of Life [B.Getz on L4LM]

May 24, 2024May 24, 2024 B.Getz adam deitch, alex wasily, blue nile, Eric Benny Bloom, eric krasno, george porter jr., ian neville, Ivan Neville, jazz fest after dark, Jazz Fest Fairgrounds, lettuce, Maple Leaf Bar, Midnight Preserves, Music Box Village, Nels Cline, New Orleans, Nick Daniels III, Nikki Glaspie, NOLA, NOLA Jazz Fest, papa mali, preservation hall, Queen Latifah, raja kassis, skerik, soul brass band, stanton moore, The Headhunters, the iceman special, The Nth Power, Tipitina's, tony hall, Toubab Krewe, weedie braimah and the hands of time, wil blades

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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Songstress ANNA MOSS Manifests ‘Amnesty’ On Stunning Solo Debut LP [B.Getz on L4LM]

May 12, 2024May 20, 2025 B.Getz amnesty, Anna Moss, anna moss amnesty, anna moss and the nightshades, anna moss debut LP, anna moss solo debut, handmade moments, HIgh SIerra Music Festival, New Orleans, NOLA

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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The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.074: ROGERS STEVENS [guitarist/co-founder BLIND MELON]

January 12, 2024January 15, 2024 B.Getz blind melon, blind melon band, blind melon soup, New Orleans, rogers stevens, shannon hoon, soup, Towne and Stevens

Welcome ROGERS STEVENS, guitarist/co-founder of Blind Melon – as well as Towne & Stevens – to Episode 073! A dream come true for your host, an unabashed lifelong Blind Melon fanatic. Rogers joins the pod from his cozy home studio just outside Philadelphia for a 90-min conversation about his career – past, present, and future.

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CHIEF GOT A NEW SUIT: The Rumble Eyes Grammy Glory With Debut LP, ‘Live At The Maple Leaf’ [B.Getz on L4LM]

December 19, 2023December 22, 2023 B.Getz ari teitel, aurielien barnes, best regional roots album grammy, black masking, carnival, crescent city, funk, GRAMMY, Grammy 2024, Grammy Awards, live at the maple leaf, Maple Leaf Bar, mardi gras, mardi gras indians, New Orleans, NOLA, Recording Academy, the rumble, the rumble featuring chief joseph boudreaux jr., uptown new orleans, yano

Fusing Mardi Gras Indian culture with swaggering Bayou funk in a defiant, delicious gumbo, The Rumble featuring Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr. is among the more exhilarating bands to bubble up from New Orleans onto the national landscape in some time.

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