The Spogga Experience
Spogga — Entertainment Curator
There is a moment in every great room — a shift in the air, a collective exhale, when an audience stops watching a performance and starts living inside one. M. Spogga Hashway has been engineering those moments for over forty years. The music industry has no clean category for what he does. He has never needed one.
Known to audiences everywhere as simply Spogga, he was born in Providence, Rhode Island and forged in the fire of one of America's most vital underground arts scenes. He came up at AS220 — Providence's legendary independent arts collective — where artists didn't perform for audiences so much as they pulled them into entirely new worlds. That instinct never left him. It just found a bigger stage.
That stage is Key West, Florida — and Spogga owns it.
He currently fronts three active bands on Key West's legendary Duval Street circuit, commanding stages five nights a week at venues including Capt. Tony's Saloon and Durty Harry's. Each band is its own universe. Each night is its own event. He doesn't repeat himself. He doesn't recycle a setlist. He reads a room the way a sailor reads weather — instinctively, completely, with the whole body — and builds something that has never existed before and will never exist again.
Among his projects, Matty Hash Mashups is the purest distillation of the Spogga experience: an upbeat, raw beatbox guitar and vocals songstress blend that defies every category at once. Part hip-hop, part rock, part live remix culture — it is Spogga stripped to his most essential self. Voice, guitar, and pure rhythmic instinct colliding in real time. Visceral. Unpredictable. Entirely his own.
But his canvas has never been limited to one island. Spogga has toured globally alongside House music DJs, bringing live instrumentation and raw vocal energy into electronic environments most guitarists wouldn't survive. He understands the architecture of a groove — the patience of a build, the precise violence of a drop. That cross-cultural fluency, the ability to move without hesitation between a Bourbon Street blues marathon and a European dance floor, is the signature of a true curator. Not a performer who adapts. An artist who belongs everywhere.
His road to Key West ran through New Orleans, where he spent multiple Mardi Gras seasons playing four-hour sets four nights a week on Bourbon Street — the kind of performance school that either breaks an artist or makes them unbreakable. He came out unbreakable. It ran through Providence's underground, through festivals, through years of building a musical language so wide it answers to no single genre. Metal, Reggae, Hip Hop, Blues, Prog Rock, Gypsy Jazz, Afro Cuban, House — Spogga draws from all of it and answers to none of it.
He opened for Steve Vai in the early 2000s. He was named Best Avant Act in 2004. He has released nine studio projects across three decades — from Universitility (~1998) through Goodbye Radio (2024) — with four additional albums still in the vault, waiting for their moment.
None of these facts, taken alone, explains what Spogga does. What Spogga does is hold space — for the unexpected, for the spontaneous, for the precise moment when music stops being background and becomes the reason everyone in the room remembers the night.
That is the work of an Entertainment Curator. That is the work of Spogga.
Short Bio
Spogga (M. Spogga Hashway) is an Entertainment Curator, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter, and producer based in Key West, Florida — forty years in the making and still at full velocity. He currently fronts three active bands on Key West's legendary Duval Street circuit, including Matty Hash Mashups — his upbeat, raw beatbox guitar and vocals songstress blend — performing five nights a week across some of the island's most iconic stages. A global touring artist with a history alongside House music DJs, Spogga moves without allegiance between Metal, Reggae, Hip Hop, Blues, Prog Rock, Gypsy Jazz, Afro Cuban, and electronic idioms, equally at home on Bourbon Street and a European dance floor. He opened for Steve Vai in the early 2000s, earned Best Avant Act honors in 2004, and has released nine studio projects over three decades. Spogga doesn't just perform — he curates the room.
Contact: spogga@gmail.com