Upful LIFE 2024: Favorite Records & Much More! [curated by B.Getz]

8th annual comprehensive compendium includes 24 LPs reviewed, another 24 records recommended. Plus EPs, singles/B-sides/deep cuts, DJ sets/mixtapes, and official live releases.

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The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.082: REBUILDING APPALACHIA – Hurricane Helene [w/ LEAH SONG of Rising Appalachia, FYFE, JOSH BLAKE of GFE / iamAVL, WREN from The NOHM Co., BRIAN GOOD – Asheville Music Hall]

This program is focused entirely on Asheville NC & surrouding Appalachia in the wake of unimaginable destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene in late September. The Asheville music and arts community is a beacon of light and creativity, full of ambitious artisans, dreamers n’ doers whom I admire.

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Splintered Sunlight On The Suwannee: A Look Back At Hulaween 2024 [B.Getz on L4LM]

With a festival industry reeling on the heels of numerous cancellations, then not one but two massive hurricanes storming the southeastern U.S. inside of one month, Suwannee Hulaween was fortunate to survive these economic and environmental conditions to once again thrive in 2024.

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Asher Fulero Explores Organic & Electronic Territory On Latest Solo Album ‘Worlds’ [B.Getz on L4LM]

Three decades deep into a prolific journey in professional sound art, Portland, Oregon’s Asher Fulero confidently traverses new musical topography on Worlds, his latest LP on Full Arrow Records.

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

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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HIGHER GROUND: A Deeper Look Inside ‘Dual Fusion Unity’, The First Pretty Lights Studio EP In A Decade [B.Getz on L4LM]

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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Lettuce Celebrates The Legacy Of Frankie Beverly With Student Musicians At Philadelphia High School [B.Getz on L4LM]

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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CANNIFEST 2024 – Humboldt County Throws A Proper Party

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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