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Get familiar once again with Greg “The Lazershark” Ellis, a highly revered, industry-respected, ruthlessly sarcastic lighting designer who has been responsible for nearly 15 years of breathtaking and dazzling visual displays as innovative as the music it backs. Best known for his work with Pretty Lights, Greg is no stranger to the spotlight, having worked with global names like Banks,  30 Seconds to Mars, Mr. Beast, and even a few major music award shows to boot. Through and through, Greg Ellis remains an artist. Having added a new medium into his arsenal, we talk about his artistic journey and how his works influence one another.

The Gents are back on the podwaves to ring in the first episode of 2024. EstoBro flexes a new microphone courtesy of iamRavedad (1:00) while busting TV's chops about his seasonal technical difficulties. After giving their regards to their listening audience for hanging tight for the holiday season, they also announce how they will condense the podcast format for the new year, with the first episode having focus on multimedia and entertainment. EstoBro kicks it off by roasting the DCCU's final installment of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom before the James Gunn era takes off (16:30). TV holding the same opinion expresses the exhaustion of the comic book movie trend altogether; will Warner Bros. Studio ever match the same level of Disney's MCU? They will still be playing catchup, especially with Disney+ releasing the second season of What If...? over the holiday season (29:45), and how it was well-received and threw the MCU a lifeline. Disney however did take a massive loss with their signature cartoon "Steamboat Willie" entering the public domain at the start of 2024 (52:00), which unleashed the dark side of the cartoon all over the internet. Music was a huge part of the EstoBro TV Podcast last year, which is why it is the final segment of the episode (60:30). EstoBro announces the latest music festival news with Electric Forrest revealing their lineup, but the average attendee had a lukewarm response to this summer festival. The Gents are happy to be back, and cannot wait to share new episode of the EstoBro TV Podcast!

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Hi Friends!
Have you ever felt like you wasted your 20s because you didn't do what your friends were doing? Peer pressured into attending an event because of the hype? Felt like you could have been at a particular stage in your career or love life if you simply did x, y, and z?

The fear of missing out (FOMO) is a real phenomenon that people of all ages have felt at one time or another. I can proudly say that I have overcome it through my most recent experience this past summer.

Tune in to hear my story and what I've done to put FOMO at bay.

Enjoy!
Jules

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On this week's episode the boys are back from Electric Forest! We're talking swollen ankles, festival food, seeing Shaq DJ, running into Zeds Dead, fighting with reality, fighting with the weather, and a life changing surprise. Please join us as we recap the highs and the lows of the trip with The Bread Aisle's very own Cameron Kelly. Welcome to The Bread Aisle!!   

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The boys are back in town right after they survived their very first Bonnaroo to celebrate EstoBro's bachelor party. Izzy Takamono joins the host with the most in place of TV who is still recovering from the madness. Our nerdy gents reminisce for the excellent bulk of the show about how special this music festival meant to each other, especially highlighting their experience. It would not be a podcast episode without discussing some major nerd talk points, which includes the aftermath of the latest Nintendo Direct that occurred last week. Izzy being on the show means there has to be some focus on anime, and EstoBro is worried about the live-action adaptation of One Piece that released the first trailer of the beloved pirate adventure. Other features of the show include the introduction of iamravedad and a small teaser of GRiZ's Chasing the Golden Hour set from Bonnaroo which was one of the best sets of the weekend.

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internet bully tommy tucker replied to e194: forest fam, unite! with some vitriol. kirk talks through his emotion. check out what tommy hated so much on youtube now!

THIS EPISODE IS A CARTOON: WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE!

...this is the audio version of an animated tale about the magical Electric Forest music festival in Rothbury, MI. The episode follows a group of 8 relative strangers-turned Forest Family, who embark on a mythical quest to save the vibes of Sherwood Forest. Part 1 of 2.

Illustrated, written, performed, edited, and music by host Kirk Ross. Additional music by Christopher Tallon, and HILTON.

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Get Familiar with Midicinal (Scott Rhatigan), an Arizona-born producer currently residing in Denver whose music is imbued with themes of travel- pulling from his own experiences of moving frequently. As his name suggests, Scott fully understands music’s healing properties and shares his experiences of both performing and internalizing “midicinal” music. Scott shares the epic story behind his memorable Sonic Bloom set where he brought out the dancing lobsters, resulting in an unforgettable synchronicity the following weekend at Electric Forest.

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Instagram: @midicinalmusic

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Heard in this Episode: 

Almost Familiar by Pretty Lights

Tumbleweed by Midicinal

Total Fascination by Pretty Lights

Get familiar with Jesska Cvijanovic whose pins, photography (214), and merch are foundational to the Pretty Lights Family that she helped create. Jesska shares how her photography passion changed her experience and perspective of shows, the history of the Illuminator and Vibe Adjuster programs, and the significance of some of the early Pretty Lights Family gatherings at festivals. She tells an unforgettable birthday story where her longtime friend Michal Menert gave her the ultimate VIP treatment at Electric Forest 2013. Jesska unapologetically advocates for Michal Menert’s underrepresented place in the scene, and shares her take on the controversial history of Taking Up Your Precious Time. 

The PLF Series is a collection of casual conversations that Wes and Elizabeth have with members of the Pretty Lights Family in an effort to understand our collective experiences despite our different backgrounds. We hear how people got turned on, what Pretty Lights means to them, and how these experiences have shaped their lives on our version of this long strange trip.

Check out Jesska's Art: 

Photography

PLF 214 Merch

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Heard on this episode: 

Almost Familiar by Pretty Lights

Lost Pieces (Deluge + If You Knew)

How We Do by Pretty Lights

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.

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 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

Get familiar with your co-hosts! Elizabeth Dreeson and Wes Johnson crossed paths for years across the festival scene without actually connecting until they discovered their mutual interest in Pretty Lights at a String Cheese Incident show in Syracuse. When did music festivals become more than just a party for you? When did you “get it?” In the pilot episode of Almost Familiar, Wes and Elizabeth reflect on these questions and more as they discuss how they got into “the scene” and the evolution of their music tastes. They have a feeling their stories might feel almost familiar. They try not to talk about Pretty Lights too much, but sometimes they can’t contain it. 

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Intro & Outro music: Almost Familiar - Pretty Lights

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 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

Welcome to Episode 55! Topics include Coachella's 20 years in the desert, Electric Forest in danger of cancelation, Jauz prepping multiple EPs in different genres and much more. We also discuss releases from Diplo, Rezz, Lane 8, Subtronics, Dirty Fun, Rohaan, Kitone, and others.

A major shoutout to this week's Artists We're Watching - Buunshin (Dnb); Charles D (techno).

If you want to see the full show notes - complete with links and playlists - head on over to www.beyondthebeats.co/episode-55

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 FestFriendsPod@gmail.com, 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 FestFriendsPod@gmail.com, 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!