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 [email protected], and we will feature on the show.

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!!

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 [email protected], 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

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!

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 [email protected], 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

In this episode:
Opening remarks: RIP Grandma Barb… made it even tougher to want to be back home in Iowa…
- Afterglow: NYE, getting sick, and falling in love with Bloodborne – will discuss during Game Time
- Afterglow: Maui for Lyd and I’s honeymoon

- The Drop: Festival line-up drops – Tomorrowland, Backwoods, and many more!
- The Drop: GRAMMYs results
 
- Playlist: What is on your January playlist or what did you listen to primarily this month?
 
- Game Time: Bloodborne, Luigi’s Mansion 3, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Game Time: Nick’s gaming since NYE
- Hype: I won tickets to Backwoods through The Festive Owl’s Owl Parliament! The weekend after KK
- Hype: Denver trip to see Becca and Peter, get lunch with my mom and her BF, and see Zhu at Red Rocks
- Hype: Excited to getting back to the gym regularly

Thanks, as always!
 

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 [email protected], and we will feature on the show.

In this episode:
- We cover all of our favorite things of 2019 and the 2010-2019 decade! It was a great time discussing our top 10 albums of the year and more. 

Shaun's top 10 albums of 2019:

1. La Dispute – Panorama

2. Trippie Redd - !

3. Local Natives - Violet Street

4. Angel Du$t - Pretty Buff

5. Turnover - Altogether

6. Sam Gellaitry - Viewfinder Vol. 1 PHOSPHENE

7. Whitney - Forever Turned Around

8. Glitterer - Looking Through the Shades

9. 93Punx & Vic Mensa - 93Punx

10. Chon – Chon

Favorite TV shows – I Think You Should Leave, Silicon Valley, The Mandalorian, Game of Thrones, and Succession

Favorite Movies – 
1. Avengers Endgame
2. Joker
3. Midsommar

Favorite Games – Slay the Spire, The Outer Worlds, Apex Legends

Favorite Music Festivals – 515 Alive, EF 2019, Soundset, Kosmic Kingdom

Favorite Concerts –
Favorite show of the year: La Dispute / Gouge Away (OH: The Waiting Room - Thursday)
Other amazing concerts - 

1. Hanson / Paul McDonald / Joshua & the Holy Rollers (12/6/19 in Omaha at Sokol Auditorium)

2. Alison Wonderland and Dillon Francis (in MSP at The Armory)

3. Every Time I Die / Coheed & Cambria / Mastodon (6/15/19 in MSP at The Armory) 

4. Knocked Loose / The Acacia Strain / Sanction (DSM: Wooly’s - DSM)

5. San Holo / (DSM: Wooly’s - Wednesday)

Artist of the year: Trippie Redd

Nick's top 10 albums of 2019:

1. Gangstarr - One of the Best Yet

2. Bassnectar - Reflective Part 4

3. Whitney - Forever Turned Around

4. G Jones - Tangential EP

5. Turnover - Altogether

6. Flume - Hi This Is Flume mixtape

7. Liquid Stranger - Infinity

8. Tyler, the Creator - Igor

9. Chon - Chon

10. 93Punx & Vic Mensa - 93Punx

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 [email protected], and we will feature on the show.

In this episode:

- Afterglow: Hanson in Omaha at Sokol Auditorium
 - Afterglow: Shayna’s birthday

- The Drop: The Game Awards
 - The Drop: EF 2020 sold-out and released lineup, BUKU 2020 lineup, Hangout Festival lineup, and Juice WRLD dead at 21

- Game Time: Pokemon Shield, Unravel Two, and The Outer Worlds
 - Sad to have missed: Wicca Phase Springs Eternal and Glitterer

- Hype: WWE Raw, volunteering at Furry Friends, work and Moore’s Xmas party, AA Xmas party, NYE party, and Maui

- Hype: Xmas memories, what is on our list, and traditions

- Hype: End of the Year episode, which will include our favorite things from the 2010 decade!

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 [email protected], and we will feature on the show.

In this episode:
- Afterglow: Freak Out in Des Moines featuring Ganja White Night, Nick’s art show at The Fremont, Shaun’s mini-honeymoon in Chicago with Lydia seeing Ari Shaffir and Gesaffelstein, Emo Nite, and more!
- Games we've been playing: The Outer Worlds, Fallout: New Vegas, and Pokemon Shield.
- The Drop: Datsik thinks he can come back, Sonic redesign, and more!
 

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 [email protected], and we will feature on the show.

ENJOY!

In this episode:

-          Shaun’s sister died. We touch on that difficult subject for a bit and give gratitude to you all for the support.

-          We chat about the video games we have been playing

-          Hype Mode

o   Freak Out! In Des Moines with Ganja White Night

o   Gandy Halloween party

o   Nick’s next art show at the Fremont

Shaun's Social Media:

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/shaunsjohnson

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shaunsjohnson

Twitter: https://twitter.com/shaunsjohnson

Nick's Social Media:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickgandyart/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bazooka_nick/?hl=en

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/nick-gandy-1

Fest Friends Podcast's Social Media: 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/festfriendspod/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/FestFriendsPod?lang=en