10 Years Of Japandroids' 'Celebration Rock,' Plus: Wilco And Sky Ferreira

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

When Japandroids released their sophomore album Celebration Rock in 2012, fans and critics alike weren't expecting such a strong follow-up to their revered debut album, Post-Nothing. Now revisiting Celebration Rock ten years later, Indiecast hosts Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen reflect on the album's legacy and how Japandroids successfully embraced old school rock clichés (29:51).

Speaking of veteran indie musicians, Wilco released their new album Cruel Country this week (1:08). It's an album the band essentially recorded live and has quickly become one of Hyden's favorite Wilco projects in the last 10 years. Perhaps the most talked-about song this week was Sky Ferriera's "Don't Forget," (10:15) which marked her second single in nine years. Elsewhere in the episode, Indiecast talk standout movie soundtracks (20:39) and yet another Conor Oberst mishap (15:10).

In this week's Recommendation Corner (54:38), Ian spotlights Sweet Pill's new album Where The Heart Is. Steven gives a shout out to Dehd's fourth album Blue Skies, which shows the band's progression to polished songwriting.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:12.7	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:14.9	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.6	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:20.2	In this episode, we discussed the
0:21.9	10th anniversary of Japan Droid's Celebration Rock. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my
0:28.4	friend and co-host, the host that Heaven built, Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? Yeah, the streets
0:34.5	need to know who's the Brian King and who's the David Prouse of Indycast.
0:38.6	Oh, man, that's hard to say.
0:40.2	I'm assuming that, like, the average Indycast listener knows that those two people I just
0:44.4	mentioned are the two guys in Japan droids.
0:47.7	Can we...
0:48.3	I would think so.
0:48.9	Okay, cool.
0:49.5	I mean, I feel like our show has been building to this episode.
0:54.1	Yeah. Because I think it's fair to say that this album is the foundation. I feel like our show has been building to this episode.
0:59.9	Because I think it's fair to say that this album is the foundation of our relationship.
1:03.0	I don't feel like that's a stretch.
1:08.2	So it'll be fun to get into talking about this record. But before we get to that, we should mention that there's a new Wilco record out today.
1:13.5	It's called Cruel Country.
1:15.7	And I wrote a review of it.
1:18.0	It ran on Thursday on Up Rocks.
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