Upstate Music Mine Upstate Music Mine (Ryan Stearns & Dr. Luvbeatz)

Welcome back UMMPod Nation! We have a fantastic show ahead for you all today, as we are featuring an amazingly talented musician by the name of Justin Johnson.

Justin has played trumpet (amongst other instruments) with some excellent bands including The Shady Recruits and quickly-rising Charleston-based band, Little Stranger!

This interview was one like we've never had before.  We had some great content as far as material discussed, but not only do we feature a track from Justin Johnson and The Shady Recruits, we have a live IN STUDIO performance from Justin Johnson himself! Get ready for goosebumps..

As usual, we do 'This Day in Music' (with the assistance of Justin) and wrap up today's show!

Thank you UMMPod Nation, we love you and we'll see you next week!
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Happy Tuesday UMMPod Nation! Today's episode features an exciting new 1700+ capacity venue coming to the area, Trueline Greenville!  We had the pleasure of talking to Trueline's Chief of Staff, Sam Blumin about all the amazing things the new establishment will offer the Upstate.  Check out more information at truelinegvl.com.

Construction is underway, and Trueline has planned to open in 2025. 

After our interview with Sam, we go into our weekly segment, 'This Day in Music' and wrap up today's show!

Thank you UMMPod Nation, we'll see you next week with a special, in-studio guest, Justin Johnson! 
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Welcome back UMMPod Nation! Today's episode features a local hip-hop artist and promoter by the name of Sympl!  Ernesto "Sympl" Gutierrez has been in the music business for over 2 decades and has accomplished a lot along the way.

Enjoy our interview with Sympl, as we discuss his recent happenings and play one of his songs, "Take me to your leader".  After the song, we dive into some events upcoming for himself and his company, Dropp Science.

As usual, we conclude with 'This Day in Music' and wrap up this week's show!

We love you UMMPOD Nation! See you next week!
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***Sponsor Spolight Special***

Happy Monday UMMPod Nation! Today's episode is a special edition, as we welcome another brand new sponsor to the show, Hawk Plumbing!

In today's show, we wanted to dedicate the entire episode to highlight our mission: to help grow, not only our local arts and artists, but the businesses that support them. And we'd like to officially welcome aboard Hawk Plumbing as the newest member of our sponsorship team!

We had a great time chatting with owner Ryan Puhl (our 3rd RC brother), as we discuss the local Upstate scene, the mission behind his business, and touch on some musical tastes of course.

As always, we wrap up with a quick 'This Day in Music', and close out today's show!

Thank you for tuning into our Sponsor Spotlight Special! We'll be back with some fresh new music for you next week!
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Happy Monday UMMPod Nation! Today's episode is one of our personal favorites to date!

Not only is it our second edition of the video format of the show (courtesy of Bill Kerrigan of Plethora Films), but we had the pleasure of interviewing Robbie Boggs of Flowlife Entertainment who represents many amazing artists including the recent, GRAMMY-WINNING, Kabaka Pyramid!

Robbie is an old friend and veteran of the Upstate music scene, and we had a blast catching up with him and shared some stories along the way.
Thanks to Robbie for being such a huge supporter and more importantly, being a great human.

To wrap up our interview (which includes a track from Robbie's old band, Burning Nova), we're absolutely thrilled to share with you: Kabaka's Pyramid's "Red Gold and Green"!!

As always, we wind down with a little "This Day in Music" and close out today's show! Thank you UMMPod Nation! See you next week!
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Welcome back UMMPod Nation!! Today's show features another fresh original artist from the area, The Chris Vandalay Project! Enjoy their new tune, "Better than before".

Speaking of better than before... Also on today's show, is the exciting debut of our very first edition of our video format!  Mr. Bill Kerrigan of CatatoNICK Plethora Films drops by the Beatz Lair Studio to help film our first ever video form of the podcast! Bear with us in this trial run, but it will certainly be a fun ride and we can't wait to take it with you in the near future!

This show will still be released as audio as usual, but we will be releasing the video version this week as well. Stay tuned for updates and we can't wait to bring you some exciting new video content!

As always, we wrap up with 'This Day in Music' (w/ our new drop, courtesy of Matt Crisp) and close out today's show!

Next week is going to be epic.. we are featuring an old friend, Robbie Boggs, who's incredible journey led to a Grammy nomination and WIN from one of his artist's this year! We love you UMMPod Nation, see you next week!
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