Beyoncé vs. Harry Styles Grammys Furor, Plus: Steve Albini + Yo La Tengo

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

It's early February, which means that the annual post-Grammys furor arrived on schedule this week. At issue was Harry Styles beating out Beyonce for Album Of The Year, a turn of events that might end up being the worst thing to ever happen to Styles. Has the hunky British pop star just been Timberlake-ized? What does it mean to be Timberlake-ized anyway? Let's hash it out (:25).

Here's something Indiecast did not expect this week: Steve Albini talking about how much he hates Steely Dan! But that's exactly what the irascible indie legend did on Twitter, which sparked a lot of conversation both for and against the '70s jazz-rock institution (15:17).

Finally, Steve and Ian talked about a band that we can all agree is great: Yo La Tengo (39:28). The trio is back with another album this week, This Stupid World, and it's one of their best efforts in years. They discussed what makes the new album good and offered suggestions for newbies on where to start with the band's big and impressive discography.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks' Indie Mix tape.
0:12.8	Hello everyone and welcome to IndieCast.
0:15.6	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:18.1	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:22.2	In this episode, we review the new album by Yola Tango. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host.
0:28.2	I can't believe he beat Beyonce for Album of the Year. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you?
0:34.2	I can't believe it either. You know, this sort of thing doesn't happen to people like me very often.
0:39.6	So, you know, I'm hoping that the Indycast listener, you know, if you're a Jewish, if you're
0:45.3	a Jewish guy from the East Coast, you know, I hope you see my achievements and think, you know,
0:50.0	maybe I can also make it in this crazy music industry, You know, our people have been shut out for too long.
0:57.1	You know, I know what Harry Stiles meant when he said that in his accepted speech.
1:02.5	You know, this doesn't happen to people like me.
1:04.3	I think he was talking about working class people from England.
1:08.8	Because we all know that there is, there's no history of working class people from England because we all know that there is, there's no history of working
1:14.1	class people from England going on to become big music stars.
1:17.6	There's no history of that at all.
1:21.0	A weird self-inflicted, or I should say unforced error by Harry Harry Styles I feel like he has marketed himself
1:29.9	or his people have marketed him so well
1:33.6	and for him to not know
1:36.6	how that would play in the room
1:37.9	is kind of amazing to me
1:41.0	I guess you win the Grammy
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