Arctic Monkeys, Robot Rappers, and The End Of Starred Reviews

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

If a band has been around for over a decade, they're bound to have at least one polarizing album in their discography. Arctic Monkeys' last album Tranquility Base Hotel And Casino fell into that category, though many fans and critics revered it. On this week's Indiecast episode, hosts Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen revisit Arctic Monkeys' legacy after the band announced their return and upcoming album, The Car (17:54).

Of course, there was plenty of controversy in music news this week for Indiecast to unpack. The first came in the form of a Harry Styles cover story in which he was lauded the "new king of pop," a title that instantly outraged Michael Jackson's fans and family (:28). The main headline-making story this week was about the intersection of AI and music. Capitol Records dropped the recently signed AI artist FN Meka, a virtual "robot rapper" with racist overtones that ignited a greater conversation about ethics in the AI world (25:09).

In this week's Recommendation Corner (54:01), Ian gives props to Maryland band Pianos Become The Teeth, whose recent album leans into moody Radiohead influences. Meanwhile, Steven talks about his recent profile of Bartees Strange.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks' Indie Mix tape.
0:12.8	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.2	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends.
0:20.7	In this episode, we talked about
0:21.9	the Arctic monkeys, problematic robot rappers, and Rolling Stone ditching its star rating for
0:27.5	reviews. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He's as excited
0:32.5	to make fun of Harry Styles as I am. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you?
0:38.0	Yeah, shifting from the 1975 to Harry Styles.
0:41.0	We are doing the most indie of the indie cast.
0:43.8	But making fun of Harry Styles, I think, is pretty indie rock.
0:47.6	Oh, absolutely.
0:48.8	That's very indie rock.
0:50.0	Yeah.
0:50.5	Which we're going to do this week.
0:52.9	Because there was a story that came out about him.
0:55.5	It was a Rolling Stone cover story.
0:57.0	It was a global cover story because they have additions all over the world.
1:02.8	And, uh,
1:04.2	I want to talk about this story just because I feel like there's a backlash brewing
1:07.9	against this guy and I'm excited because I feel like it's overdue.
1:13.0	Yeah, I think that, I guess like in some ways, like the music Twitter backlash is really the only,
1:20.6	like, it's really the only response we can get to like these just intractable pop stars.
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