Band Of Horses, Plus: Mitski, Charli XCX, And Bandcamp Sells Out

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

What do Band Of Horses have in common with The Strokes and Interpol? Their first album was mostly considered to be an instant classic, though their second album was arguably better. Band Of Horses may have dominated much of indie music discourse in the mid-aughts, but they're now making a triumphant return with their first album in six years, Things Are Great. Hosts Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen share their thoughts about the band's comeback (37:49) on this week's Indiecast episode.

Along with reviewing new music, Steven and Ian talk about this biggest news in music this week: Bandcamp was purchased by Epic Games, a tech game company which owns popular video games like Fortnite (:27). Twitter, of course, lit up with jokes about the acquisition. Others wondered if it will fundamentally change how Bandcamp compensates artists, which they do more than many other music services. On top of the Bandcamp news, this week saw some artists beefing with their stans. Mitski denounced concertgoers who film her entire performance (15:55) while Charli XCX came at a fan who accused her of going through a "midlife crisis" (10:01).

In this week’s Recommendation Corner (55:05), Ian gives a shout out to Boston hardcore punk band Vein.fm, whose new album This World Is Going To Ruin You drops this week. Meanwhile, Steven reminds Indiecast listeners that Sonic Youth's In/Out/In compilation comes out in just two weeks, featuring a mix of low-key and noisy tracks.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks' Indie Mix tape.
0:12.9	Hello everyone and welcome to IndieCast.
0:15.0	On this show, we talked about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.4	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:19.7	In this episode, we review the new album
0:21.7	by Band of Horses. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He was just
0:27.7	purchased by a video game company, Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? I cannot believe you're just
0:33.5	putting my business out there. Like, I've not actually been bought yet. I'm trying to, like, foster a bidding war.
0:39.3	Right now, like, my main competitors are the guy who created leisure suit Larry
0:43.1	and made a drug war for the TI 83.
0:45.9	I mean, if there's, look, I just want to be upfront with the...
0:50.3	The people are upset, Ian, because you are abandoning your indie roots.
0:55.8	Your altruistic support of the DIY scene has been compromised by this lapse.
1:02.8	I know you're rolling in the money.
1:05.5	Now, you're going to, you know, there's going to be ads for Fortnite just popping up on this show.
1:10.4	We are all going to do the floss Fortnite just popping up on this show.
1:13.8	We are all going to do the floss dance with Spider-Man.
1:14.9	Oh, man.
1:25.9	So, okay, so we should say what we're referring to is Bandcamp, the beloved platform for indie artists that they can sell their music directly to fans.
1:33.4	Artists make more money per record on Bandcamp than they do really on any other streaming platform.
1:41.0	They were bought this week by Epic Games, which is the company that makes Fortnite in a statement.
1:45.2	They said that Bandcamp will play an important role in Epic's vision to build out a creator marketplace ecosystem for content, technology, games, art, music, and more.
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