Arcade Fire's Failed Comeback + Andre 3000 vs. The Jazz Guys

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Steven and Ian begin with a Sportscast segment on recent NBA news, including conspiracy talk about the draft lottery and whether it's wrong to send an "lol" after a devastating sports injury (1:27). From there, they touch briefly on the Fantasy Albums Draft, which is looking very close (12:01), and recent mainstream rock releases by Sleep Token and Counting Crows (16:35). Then there's a discussion of the recent Arcade Fire record, which both Steven and Ian reviewed, and the band's future prospects (20:38). In the mailbag, they discuss criticism of the new André 3000 piano album from the jazz community (39:23).

In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks about the new album by punk veterans Mclusky and Steven recommends the latest from Philly country-rockers Friendship (52:01).

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:14.1	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:16.2	On the show we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends.
0:21.0	In this episode, we talk about Arcade Fires Failed Comeback and Andre 3000 getting yelled at by Jazz
0:27.6	Guys. This is going to be a good episode. I'm very excited. My name is Stephen Hayden and I'm
0:32.5	joined by my friend and co-host. He rigged the NBA lottery for Nico Harrison. Ian Cohen, Ian, how are you?
0:40.4	So by doing that gag, I would take it you're unfamiliar with my favorite Dallas Mavericks
0:46.6	conspiracy, which is that the Adelson family, who now owns them, traded Luca as part of this
0:54.1	like Zionist plot to move
0:57.1	the Mavericks to Las Vegas, just like basically to recreate, basically to recreate the plot
1:01.9	of Major League because the NBA is too woke. Uh, so that is, you're stepping on a shaky
1:09.0	ground by implicating me in that, but not.
1:11.4	What I'm really doing is just like, what I'm really doing is rigging the fantasy drafts. I'm like trying to get, I'm trying to find out who's reviewing Lana Del Rey and getting there here. Oh my God. I look, yeah, I did not want to get into some sort of like anti-Semitic thing. That's what you're implying.
1:31.7	Yes, we're going to do a quick sports cast here because there was a lot of news this week with the NBA.
1:33.7	And I alluded to one of the stories that's been going on.
1:37.9	I just have to say, like the NBA is such a funny league to me because I can't think of
1:42.1	another major sports league that is the subject of
1:46.8	like so much talk about how it's corrupt.
1:50.4	You know, like I like you don't hear that as much in the other leagues, but I feel with
1:54.7	the NBA, it's like it's just ingrained.
1:56.3	It's not something you see on Twitter.
1:58.0	You see it from like major pundits on podcast talking about it.
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