Features 14 - The Upful Life

Australia’s TEMPLE STEP PROJECT Explores Global Devotional Beats on ‘TRIBE’ [Review/Stream]

April 19, 2021December 23, 2023 B.Getz Bali, Benjamin Last, Ecstatic Dance, Melbourne, Temple Step Project, Temple Step Project Tribe, Tribe

Guided by an unwavering maverick spirit, Melbourne, Australia-based musical enigma Temple Step Project remains one of the best kept secrets in the game.

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Ryan Herr & Jesse Hendricks’ ‘Cusp (The Remixes)’ Features Random Rab, Moontricks, Scott Nice, More [B.Getz on L4LM]

April 11, 2021April 22, 2021 B.Getz cusp, EDM, electronic music, folktronica, jesse hendricks, moontricks, organic electronic, random rab, ryan herr, scott nice, slow house

an elegant quilt of organic musicality, a medicinal archetype that blends inspired instrumentation and poignant songcraft into a space of serenity.

The Upful LIFE Podcast- Episode 043: NIGEL HALL (keys/vox: Lettuce, Jon Cleary, ex-The Nth Power) + ‘The Joe Clark Mixtape’

March 30, 2021April 17, 2021 B.Getz

Episode 043 welcomes DC-born, NOLA-based NIGEL HALL (Lettuce, Jon Cleary, ex-The Nth Power) to the show for an hour-plus Vulcan Mind Probe. Nige has been a friend for about a dozen years, and I’ve written extensively about his musical exploits, so this convergence was a very long time in the making. The extremely gifted, Grammy-nominated keyboardist/vocalist – singer/songwriter keeps a lot of artistic irons in the fire. Nigel’s dropping sophomore solo LP Spiritual on May 14, 2021

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Max Ribner Taps An All-Star Global Krewe For Multi-Hued LP, ‘1st Language’ [B.Getz on L4LM]

March 19, 2021July 9, 2021 B.Getz 1st language, acid jazz, bobby sparks II, elijah ray, free jazz, garrett sayers, jans ingber, jarrod lawson, jazz, max ribner, rising appalachia, trumpet

Trumpet maestro Max Ribner boldly connects with masterful musicians from cultures around the world to reveal a spiritual sum greater than its star-studded parts.

The Upful LIFE Podcast – Episode 042 : JACKSON WHALAN (emcee/producer) + Welcome Back Lettuce & D’Angelo

March 8, 2021March 10, 2021 B.Getz DJ, from the woods, hip hop, independent artist, jackson whalan, rap, rap music, underground hip hop

Episode 042 welcomes JACKSON WHALAN, emcee/producer based in the Berkshire mountains of Mass. We met in NorCal about 5 years ago, and he released his latest full-length LP From the Woods in Jan 2021

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RETURN OF THE LETT: Inside The First Lettuce Shows In A Year [B.Getz on L4LM]

February 23, 2021February 24, 2021 B.Getz adam deitch, adam shmeeans smirnoff, cervantes masterpiece ballroom, Eric Benny Bloom, jesus coomes, lettuce, lettucefunk, Nigel hall, Ryan Zoidis

Up until last weekend’s engagement at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom in Denver CO, Lettuce had not played together live as a complete unit ever since their truncated Europe run in March 2020.

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SOSMP ‘Funky Mardi Gras Maskerade’ Revisited: Oteil Burbridge, Dumpstaphunk & Paul Levine

February 19, 2021March 3, 2021 B.Getz Dumpstaphunk, Ivan Neville, live oak, mardi gras, New Orleans, Oteil Burbridge, sosmp, spirit of suwannee, spirit of suwannee music park, tony hall

Recent Suwannee LIVE Drive-In events, such as the Funky Mardi Gras “Mask”erade, are successful first steps toward the return to days of thousands coming together in close proximity and high jubilation.

YANCEY TAUGHT ME: Examining the Life, Legacy, & Genius of J. DILLA [B.Getz on L4LM]

February 10, 2021February 7, 2024 B.Getz a tribe called quest, common, de la soul, dilla, donuts, Erykah Badu, hip hop, hip-hop producer, j dilla, jay dee, mos def, MPC, q-tip, Questlove, rap, slum village, soulquarians, the pharcyde, the roots, the soulquarians

When discussing the life and times of the late J Dilla, it’s difficult to avoid dipping into hagiography. But the producer born James Dewett Yancey was truly a king among men.

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The Upful LIFE Podcast- Ep.041: ALFRED HOWARD (spoken word-lyricist-vocalist) / TALIA KEYS (guitarist-singer-songwriter)

February 2, 2021February 2, 2021 B.Getz alfred howard, alfred howard writes, I love America, Karl Denson, Karl Denson's TIny Universe, LGBTQ, poet, poetry, Rock Camp SLC, salt lake city, san diego, slam poetry, spoken word, talia keys, Talia Keys & the Love, The Heavy Guilt, The Midnight Pines, the redwoods collective

Welcome San Diego’s prodigal poet/songwriter/vocalist ALFRED HOWARD and SLC’s badass firebrand TALIA KEYS to Episode 041 of The Upful LIFE Podcast! Placing the spotlight on a pair of phenomenal underground artists, each carving out their own path with purpose, ingenuity, and verve.

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Madlib Taps Four Tet To Unlock The Secrets Of ‘Sound Ancestors’ [B.Getz on L4LM]

January 29, 2021February 7, 2021 B.Getz breakbeats, electronic music, four tet, hip hop, madlib, madlib invazion, sampling, sound ancestors, stones throw

For roughly two years beginning in 2018, Four Tet quietly collected hundreds of Madlib’s beats and snippets, creative sparks of themes and ideas that Jackson had privately shared with him.