A Rom-Com About An Indie Music Critic? Plus: New Albums By Nine Inch Noize and Friko
Indiecast
Amazon Music
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week's episode opens with the first-ever Sportscast of the Amazon era (01:38) followed by a conversation about the week's new releases, touching on Foo Fighters, Failure, Metric, Noah Kahan and more (05:51). After that, the guys check in on the Fantasy Albums Draft (16:47), and then discuss new albums by the Chicago band Friko (21:38) and the Trent Reznor/Boys Noize collaboration Nine Inch Noize (28:54). Then they talk about the new romantic comedy "Mile End Kicks," a period piece about a young indie music critic living in Montreal in 2011 (35:32). Finally, they wrap with Ian recommending the latest New Pornographers album and Steven talking about the big essay in his newsletter on 2020s alt-country, with special shout-outs to recent albums by Brown Horse and Florry (54:34).
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Amazon Music. |
| 0:13.1 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast. |
| 0:15.4 | On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends. |
| 0:22.1 | In this episode, we talk about new albums by 9-inch Nails and Freco, and we review the new indie music critic rom-com, |
| 0:29.2 | Mile and Kicks. I thought we were the only indie music critic rom-com. My name is Stephen |
| 0:33.9 | Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. I wonder if he thinks it's appropriate to do a sports cast on the Mike Vrabel, Diana Rossini's story. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? Yeah, I mean, you and I have had some difficult conversations about this. But, I mean, you look at Mike Vrable as a guy who got humiliated in the Super Bowl and then had an age appropriate affair. I'm wondering if there's a |
| 0:54.3 | section of the Patriots fan base that sees him as like the bravery to Bill Belichick's The Killers. |
| 1:00.2 | Oh man. You mean in terms of the scandal? Yeah, exactly. It's like man, if you're if you're |
| 1:05.4 | going to if you're going to if you're going to be a Patriots head coach, I mean like there are certain |
| 1:09.3 | things that they expect, which is to be the team that |
| 1:12.2 | wins the miserable to watch Super Bowl. |
| 1:14.8 | And then, I mean, I don't know, like Jordan Hudson came after the fact, but what can I |
| 1:19.2 | tell you? |
| 1:19.7 | Yeah, that's more of, you know, a University of North Carolina era scandal for him than it |
| 1:26.5 | is a Patriot scandal. |
| 1:27.3 | Just like I don't claim anything that Brett Fav did with the New York Jets. |
| 1:33.5 | Anything you did after the Packers, I don't claim. |
| 1:36.9 | It is, I don't feel great that this is the first sports cast of the Amazon era. |
| 1:42.0 | I feel like they're not going to be too pleased that this is what they purchased. |
| 1:46.6 | I only bring this up. |
| 1:48.3 | It's a weird gross story, but the morning that we are recording this, there was a story that |
| 1:54.0 | broke that Mike Brable is going to go to counseling on the third day of the NFL draft, |
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