//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//
//Music Friends//
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28 episodes
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//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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May 15, 2026
//28//
<p>//00:00//The Beatles’ <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3PRoXYsngSwjEQWR5PsHWR?si=kPMLYcb9R9itH7igB4vr1Q" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Revolver (1966)</a>//On RIP The Bunker and my Mic sounding good//On The Beatles v. Jesus Christ//On secular scripture//On The Sonic Moon Landing//On Tomorrow Never Knows the flag in Lunar Soil//On ‘If Rock n’ Roll disappeared we could recreate all of it with Revolver’//On revolutionary implementation of technology//On Avant-Garde R&B//On Bizarro Rubber Soul//On Eleanor Rigby resonating somehow//On Tomorrow Never Knows eternally blowing Don Draper’s mind//On George’s Indian interest congruent with his compositional ambition//On where it all starts//</p><p><br></p><p>//(52:53)//The Beatles’ <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6QaVfG1pHYl1z15ZxkvVDW?si=BTfxJ38eQKya_YuRoHtiuA" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)</a>//On concept album scripture//On devoid of peer//On kaleidoscopic parlor pop//On studio inheriting stagecraft//On studio familiarity breeding dynamic contempt//On being too great not to break//On A Day In The Life in our lives//On creative rock patient zero//On Lovely Rita’s loveliness//On Day In The Life through the years//On where it all changed//</p><p><br></p><p>//(1:38:54)//Preview of episode//29//</p>
April 26, 2026
//27//
<p>//00:00//Neil Young’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3w5Hok05AFjCLy269xXM7e?si=99ed19f1317e4ef7">On The Beach (1974)</a>//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 chat//On American Hero Neil//On cautiously optimistic depression rock//On perfectly imperfect Neil//On Wurlitzer slap slap slap//On No Country For Honey Slides//On Sautéed Marijuana Depression Rock//On going to the radio interview and ending up alone//On 10 million dune buggies coming down the mountain//On Charlie Manson—secret genius??//On hating and secretly loving 80s Neil//On sneaky influential album//On artists left-turning//</p><p><br></p><p>//(55:07)//Rosalía’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3SUEJULSGgBDG1j4GQhfYY?si=dRLSIQHwQr-jlcBaABFCPw">Lux (2025)</a>//On life between your rosary and your cigarette case//On masterpiece obligation//On grappling with the grandeur and totality of this record//On shared shamelessness around Barcelona//On a sneaky breakup record//On the worst part of this album is Rosalía’s hotness//On let’s talk about Yves Tumor on Berghain//On celestially hypnotic Rosalía//On God Bless vinyl goodies//On the 3% being 84 separate entities//On being Mahomes in her pocket//</p><p><br></p><p>//(2:05:14)//Preview of episode//28//</p><p><br></p><p>Lux is Latin for light. Only 18 words of the album’s 3,622 present in Western Civilization’s ancestral mother tongue, but don’t take the bait. Lux is pursuant of it however it manifests for you. Don’t take the bait or get distracted and eventually you’ll bask in it.</p><p> </p><p>Maybe the contours of the movements will move you. A holy and earthly thematic arc tracing the record that could make your favorite Prog band shudder. Earthly existence juxtaposed with heaven. Sacred and profane not separate poles to judge from but of a piece in humanhood at large.</p><p> </p><p>Maybe. Maybe not. Beneath Spanish spoken or Ukrainian sung or Italian obliterated. Below God and womanhood and what happens after. Above the density, brilliance and grandeur is Rosalía’s voice. </p><p> </p><p>With authority absolute and ambition approaching apex, across an album dripping with what is and isn’t divine, it’s her voice that is assuredly celestially hypnotic.</p>
December 20, 2025
//26//
<p>//00:00//Coheed and Cambria's <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7vHWOemZcXHOgBud2vsOEc?si=3BIZHHWkQpaD1MaoniZdow">Vaxis - Act III: The Father of Make Believe [New Entities Edition] (2025)</a>//On Koi Boyz assemble//On straight into THE LORE//On intimate Claudio//On Space Opera//On thumbs medium//On Dillon SMASHING the Nick Fell question//On King James Claudio//On Zakk Dickinson and Gold-Plated diapers//On more Andre flute//On best of Coheed??//ON MORE LORE//On earthed emotions sans lore//On "are we sure we're starting cryptic string motif then an accoustic song?"//On Good Apollo's accesible violence//On lore-master Dil//On the Amen Break//On the Keith Lapid question genesis//On heliocentric Keith-ball//</p><p><br></p><p>//(1:16:56)//Jack's Mannequin's <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2tiKjIoifWlFXTlJJSB6kv?si=J0jceNVFT4qMnJLnOuyswA">Everything In Transit (2005)</a>//On concept//On before and after albums//On electric newness//On hook-downs//On roller skates being silly walking--legendary Dillon take//On I'm Ready laugh track//On legendary Andrew McMahon social commentary//On legendary dirty laundry commentary//On thank you Andrew McMahon for the best laugh of my decade//On least likely Tommy Lee cameo ever//On SoCo v. J'sM//On Andrew McMahon's voice sucking//On gimme any other singer//On everybody still being a mess//On doing things no one is asking for//</p><p><br></p><p>//(2:22:42)//Preview of episode//26//</p>
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