//Music Friends//

//Music Friends//

Danny Bennett

Episodes 26
Avg. Duration 2h 7m
Activity Highly Active
Since Jan 2021
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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Schedule
Quarterly
Format
Episodic
Hosting
anchor.fm

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About This Podcast

//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//

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Recent Episodes

//26//

Dec 20, 2025 2h 50m

//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 Claudio//On Space Opera//On…

//25//

May 05, 2025 1h 38m

//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 memory//On a Happy Music Sad…

//24//

Mar 11, 2025 3h

//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 Kobe 2-4 in July 1-0//On a bit…

//23//

Mar 10, 2025 1h 19m

//(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 electroshock//On The Beatles,…

//22//

Oct 08, 2024 3h 25m

//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 Rock//On Gabriel out of the…

//21//

Jun 29, 2024 4h 29m

//00:00//Mariachi El Bronx'sMariachi El Bronx (I) (2009)//On listening changing over time//On pod brain v. music brain//On [Cough-f-theran]//On tasteful cultural appropriation//On better to outro…

//20//

Jan 13, 2024 2h 36m

//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 one//On the lazy MJ comp//On a…

//19//

Oct 13, 2023 1h 11m

//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 vocalists as instruments//On…

//18//

Jun 28, 2023 2h 50m

//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 live experiences//On every…

//17//

Mar 27, 2023 3h 41m

//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, worldly, sophisticated…

//16//

Feb 06, 2023 2h 35m

//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 Smalls opening//On Jay-Z's diamond…

//15//

Oct 24, 2022 2h 28m

//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 thing//On point-counterpoint//On…

//14//

Aug 08, 2022 1h 49m

//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//On not being tied to your…

//13//

Jun 01, 2022 2h 14m

//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-adjacent//On Newport Not-So-Folk…

//12//

May 18, 2022 1h 44m

//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 back-to-back//On the hurt…

//11//

May 18, 2022 2h 13m

//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 lineage//On tasteful heaving…

//10//

Apr 26, 2022 3h 24m

//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, movements//On melodic…

//9//

Mar 08, 2022 1h 58m

//00:00//Steven Wilson's Hand Cannot Erase (2015)//On crushingly depressing songs//On all concept record roads leading to loneliness//On dulcimers and chapman sticks//On Floyd vibz//On vignette…

//8//

Feb 25, 2022 2h 3m

//00:00//Green Day's American Idiot (2004)//On dorm life releases//On relatability//On strip mall depression//On super great records post-greatest hits records//On the paradox of selling out//On…

//7//

Dec 04, 2021 1h 43m

//00:00//Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)//On constituent parts of thematic rock//On one part empathy, two parts essential pop, one part cultural scripture//On having mental issues or…

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//Music Friends// has published 26 episodes since January 2021, covering topics in Music, Music History.

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