Fave Albums of 2020...So Far

Fest Friends Episode 13: Bye, 2020! Hello, 2021!

Two best friends podcasting about concerts, music festivals, and so much more! In this episode, your best friends are Shaun Johnson (@shaunsjohnson) and Lydia Johnson (Instagram @lyddz). We're live music veterans who want to share our joy and excitement for concerts and music festivals with the world! We also go on tangents about a bunch of other stuff we love, like movies, TV shows, and video games. Follow the show on social media at @festfriendspod! Send your letters to FestFriendsPod@gmail.com, and we will feature on the show.

Fave Albums of 2020...So Far

In this episode: Intro/Wild world Election is coming up! September flew by! Let’s dive right into the Afterglow Afterglow - Breckinridge, CO & Bridgeman, MI, and Whiterock conservancy for Mitch’s birthday, and celebrating my 1st anniversary with Led Shauntelle’s birthday is Monday. The first debate & thoughts on addiction and the lifelong struggles that go with it, FDT Shoutout to the Indiecast with Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen Check in with our favorite records of the year Shaun’s favorites so far: Bully - Sugaregg Code Orange - Underneath and Under the Skin Hundredth - Somewhere Nowhere Land of Talk - Indistinct Conversations Touche Amore - Lament Whitney - Candid Phantogram - Ceremony Stay Inside - Viewing - No Sleep Records, could this be the start of the next golden age for NSR? Pay for Pain - Pain EP COVET - technicolor Run the Jewels - RTJ4 Juelz - High Octane EP Kardashev - The Baring of Shadows EP - Black metal, incredible weave - The Sound II - Japanese (sung in English), emo alternative Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud Trippie Redd - A Love Letter to You 4 - Pegasus is out 10/30 Need more time with: Bartees Strange - Live Forever Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension Deftones - Ohms beabadoobee - Fake It Flowers Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was CloZee - Neon Jungle Mansions - Big Bad Remo Drive - Portrait of an Ugly Man Ezra Feinberg - Recumbent Speech Terror Reid - Hot Vodka 1 Big Gigantic - Free Your Mind HYPE - Two weeks off from things and then Halloween! Seeing Alex Bush and Kassie! WOOHOO!!

Episode 11: Bully's Sugaregg

Two best friends podcasting about concerts, music festivals, and so much more! Your best friends are Shaun Johnson (@shaunsjohnson) and Nick Gandy (@bazooka_nick). We're live music veterans who want to share our joy and excitement for concerts and music festivals with the world! We also go on tangents about a bunch of other stuff we love, like movies, TV shows, and video games. Follow the show on social media at @festfriendspod! Send your letters to FestFriendsPod@gmail.com, and we will feature on the show. In this episode: - Opening chat: August wins and losses - Sissy’s anniversary, Derecho storm - Back then… (1 year ago) Lyd bachelorette in DSM, prompted my own bachelor party in DSM, Sissy podcast, fave Kosmic Kingdom memories (any year) - Afterglow: Denver trips, my 30th birthday - The Drop: Bully’s Sugaregg, RIP Riley Gale & Chadwick Boseman, VMAs this Sunday (do we actually care?) - Game Time: Now playing - Shaun - Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 5-star island, check in daily, Dragon Quest 11 Definitive on Switch, eye on Spiritfarer on Game Pass (Switch for $30), Nintendo partner and mini directs (where is the Nintendo Direct? Last one almost a year ago) - Game Time: Now playing - Nick - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Hype: Labor Day (grill, enjoy outdoors), Denver for Becca and Peter’s birthday, cabin off of Lake Michigan with Lydia’s mom

Episode 10: Friday Nights In America

In this episode: - Opening chat: Leo Season, babies! Bi-weekly episodes. - Back then... 515 Alive 2016, Osheaga in 2018, and more! - Afterglow: Code Orange’s Mud TV Twitch stream, B&C Final show in PA is on Vimeo, The Last Dance - MJ docuseries is on Netflix, Love on the Spectrum - The Drop: The Neighbourhood announce their next record with two singles, Land of Talk’s Indistinct Conversations, Blaqk Audio’s Beneath the Black Palms EP, Touche Amore announce Lament, Logic’s retirement and No Pressure - Game Time: Now playing - Shaun - Animal Crossing: New Horizons, upcoming: Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town - Game Time: Now playing - Nick - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Game Time: Xbox Games showcase on 7/23 was massive. Halo Infinite (gameplay), Grounded (early access, out now on Game Pass), Obsidian’s Avowed (FO: New Vegas, to take on next Elder Scrolls 6), Psychonauts 2 (Jack Black music video, Fable by Playground Games (Forza Horizon), Remedy’s CrossfireX (Control, Alan Wake), Destiny 2 (Game Pass this fall), State of Decay 3 (trailer) - Hype: Denver!

Episode 9: Wild World

Two best friends podcasting about concerts, music festivals, and so much more! Your best friends are Shaun Johnson (@shaunsjohnson) and Nick Gandy (@bazooka_nick). We're live music veterans who want to share our joy and excitement for concerts and music festivals with the world! We also go on tangents about a bunch of other stuff we love, like movies, TV shows, and video games. Follow the show on social media at @festfriendspod! Send your letters to FestFriendsPod@gmail.com, and we will feature on the show. In this episode: - Opening chat: Wild World: The world without live music and being able to go anywhere…, George Floyd & the Black Lives Matter movement, working from home - Afterglow: Quarantine highlights and updates - backyard, livestreams (Brownies and Lemonade, Live Broadcasts like Flume this past week and Odesza’s Lolla 2018 set, Code Orange at the start of this whole thing), Zoom hangouts, playing video games - The Drop: Music festivals on hold, RIP Bay Faction, Bassnectar issues - Game Time: Almost all of my best friends have a Switch! Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town, and Sony and Xbox’s next generation updates - Hype: Madison and Clem or Denver, new music from Land of Talk out 7/31, my 30th birthday