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//Music Friends//

by Danny Bennett

//Danny Bennett is a writer and when he’s writing and when he’s not he’s anxious//curious//restless//stoked on what he doesn’t know about music//Music Friends chips away at what Danny doesn’t know//Every episode covers two albums//One selected by Danny//One selected by one of his Music Friends//The selection is always recorded live and posted as a teaser for the next episode//Additional segments are posted with additional Music Friends here and there//

Latest episodes

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//29//

//00:00//The Melvins’ A Senile Animal (2006)//On generational pop-cultural hand-me-downing//On Balty Hardcore Turnstile v. Blood Orange Turnstile//The passage of time as

Nov 6
2 h 25 min

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//00:00//The Beatles' Revolver (1966)//On R.I.P. The Bunker*//On Cultural Scripture//On Church v. John Lennon by the numbers//On anthemic cultural shifts//On re-shaping c

Aug 26
1 h 53 min

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//00:00//Neil Young’s On The Beach (1974)//On Music Friends via Geese//On the perils and glory of vinyl addiction//On Neil enters the chat//On Neil as we know enters the

Apr 26
2 h 53 min

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//00:00//Coheed and Cambria's Vaxis - Act III: The Father of Make Believe [New Entities Edition] (2025)//On Koi Boyz assemble//On straight into THE LORE//On intimate Clau

Dec 20 2025
2 h 50 min

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//00:00//Tom Petty's Wildflowers (1994)//On love at first listen//On a true Music Friends record//On coming to it through The Heartland//On subconscious Wildflowers memor

May 5 2025
1 h 38 min

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//00:00//Kendrick Lamar's GNX (2024)//Recorded 2-18-2025//On commission assembled//On Peakaboo, Coach!//On an immidiate pantheon Los Angeles Album for episode//24//On Kob

Mar 11 2025
3 h 00 min

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//00:00//Lou Reed's Transformer (1972)//On going solo!//On being hard to pin down//On all roads leading to Little Richard//On being smart, sensitive and intense//On elect

Mar 10 2025
1 h 19 min

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//00:00//Peter Gabriel's So (1986)//THE DAD POD//On Daddest-Mommest albums//On Albums as social phenomenon//On Generational Sgt. Pepper's importance//On Art Pop World Roc

Oct 8 2024
3 h 25 min

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//00:00//Mariachi El Bronx's Mariachi El Bronx (I) (2009)//On listening changing over time//On pod brain v. music brain//On [Cough-f-theran]//On tasteful cultural appropr

Jun 29 2024
4 h 29 min

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//00:00//Taylor Swift's 1989 (2014)//On the most special guest//On grandiose albums//On the first MF double album//On a shining light in the darkness of residency year on

Jan 13 2024
2 h 36 min

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//00:00//Disclosure's Settle (2013)//On here with (in person!)//On albums as friends//On where they buried Al Capone and house music was born//On what isn't House?//On vo

Oct 13 2023
1 h 11 min

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//00:00//Daft Punk's Alive 2007 (2007)//On JF three-peat (weezy voice)//On pre-hyper internet information transfer//On close encounters with the EDM gods//On religious li

Jun 28 2023
2 h 50 min

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//00:00//Billy Woods' Hiding Places (2019)//On this mysterious guy with so much to say//On Billy's haunted house//On the density of an intensely well-read, inquisitive, w

Mar 27 2023
3 h 41 min

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//00:00//JAY-Z's The Blueprint (2001)//On salute to a fallen Music Friend//On loss//On boss music//On re-purposing the Jay-Z picture//On stepping through the Biggie Small

Feb 6 2023
2 h 35 min

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//00:00//Brand New's The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me (2006)//On the essence//On beauty in the exploration of darkness//On the crossfade intersecting loop chant thi

Oct 24 2022
2 h 28 min

//14//

//00:00//The Clash's London Calling (1979)//On historic sonic diversity//On longer, better, broader//On being more than punk//On the punk orthodoxy always being pissed//O

Aug 8 2022
1 h 49 min

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//00:00//Middle Brother's Middle Brother (2011)//On odes to things that aren't had//On peak rock-bottom Isbell//On mood and/or audience//On Orbison karaoke//On Wilco-adja

Jun 1 2022
2 h 14 min

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//00:00//Kendrick Lamar's Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (2022)//Recorded 5-17-2022//On grown Kendrick//On shepherd Kendrick//On therapy//On Eckhart Tolle and Kodak Black

May 18 2022
1 h 44 min

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//00:00//New Found Glory's Sticks And Stones (2002)//On summer lovin'//On the genesis of sweating girls//On albums with memory//On riffs as hooks//On deep drumming lineag

May 18 2022
2 h 13 min

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//00:00//Gustav Holst's The Planets (1918)//On JFII//On the solar system of emotions//On war vibz//On the Lusitania//On Mars, Jupiter and Neptune//On suites, compositions

Apr 26 2022
3 h 24 min

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