'Almost Famous' Turns 20

Indiecast

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Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On the new episode of 'Indiecast,' Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen reflect on twenty years of Cameron Crowe's 'Almost Famous,' using their background as real-life music critics to examine the accuracy of the central plot (there is literally no way that a publicist would let you spend several weeks on the road with a band for a profile), the depiction of Lester Bangs, and whether Stillwater is actually even a good band at all. Check out Hyden's full essay about the film here.

In this week's Recommendation Corner, Steven is spreading the good word about William Tyler's new album 'New Vanitas,' while Ian is pointing toward 'I'll Figure This Out,' the latest from Milwaukee's Barely Civil.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks's Indie Mix tape.
0:12.7	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.1	On this show, we talked about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.9	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:20.8	In this episode, we're going to be
0:21.7	looking at an iconic movie about music writers, probably the only iconic movie about music writers,
0:27.1	at least that I can remember, which is almost famous. The movie turns 20 this weekend.
0:33.5	And we're going to talk about the movie, and we're also going to talk about where music criticism
0:37.0	is at in 2020.
0:39.4	I am joined as always by my friend and co-host, Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you?
0:43.8	You know, after what was probably like our most combative and divisive episode, like, I'm really happy that we're coming back with a subject we can both agree upon.
0:56.8	I thought it was going to be like a part one of three of us clowning on the new Bruce Springsteen album cover.
1:03.7	But, you know, almost famous will do as well.
1:06.1	I mean, look, man, you got, I got to admire Bruce, like, not using the symbolism of, like, actually announcing a new album on 9-11.
1:16.0	Because, like, the whole, this whole COVID thing, I'm wondering, like, when is you two or when is, like, Bruce Springsteen going to write their COVID album that gets, like, the five and a half star review from Rolling Stone?
1:27.6	For our younger listeners, Bruce Springsteen released an album called The Rising, which helped
1:32.7	our nation heal after 9-11.
1:35.8	And I just want to point out, like, this guy I follow called Keith Harris.
1:41.7	He writes, and he's based out of Minneapolis now. But he wrote this review for Village Voice in 2002 about The Rising, where the last line is, if 9-11 didn't happen, Bruce Springsteen would have to invent it. Now, I bring that up because one of like the- That is over the line, man. Yeah, like one of the most-
2:01.6	That's like too harsh.
2:02.6	One of the most raw kickers I've ever heard, but also indicative of like the kind of stuff you could do at the Village Voice in 2002, which I, which-
2:11.6	Which leaves me to segue like into this movie because like a lot of it, it comes down to like,
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