Big Thief + Spoon, Plus: Steve Albini Loves Juggalos

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Is it fair to say 2022 is already a better music year than 2021? After all, 2021 might have been a year without an all-time classic album. But so far, The Weeknd has dropped an Album Of The Year contender with Dawn FM and now, Big Thief has delivered the masterpiece of an album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You. This week on Indiecast, Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen talk new LPs by Big Thief (24:12) and Black Country New Road, rank Spoon's discography (40:09), and discuss some indie music discourse (which includes Steve Albini defending... Juggalos?).

With the biggest sports event of the year coming up this Sunday, Hyden and Cohen touch on this year's Super Bowl (5:42). Though the stacked halftime performance with Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, and Mary J. Blige is sure to be a showstopper, the NFL also signed The Chainsmokers onto a very weird, virtual TikTok tailgate event. This begs the question: "Does anyone lean into doing the most unlikeable thing more than The Chainsmokers?"

The NFL's bizarre tailgate aside, Indiecast wouldn't be the same without Cohen and Hyden suggesting some great reads. In this week's recommendation corner, Cohen spotlights the books Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery and Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla (49:58).

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:12.9	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.1	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.3	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:19.4	In this episode, we review new albums
0:21.2	by Big Thief and Spoon. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host.
0:26.3	He's headlining the NFL TikTok tailgate at Super Bowl 56. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you?
0:32.3	Yeah, I just want to make it very clear that if Tumblr ever wants to do a Super Bowl halftime show
0:37.2	or live journal or
0:38.6	blog spot or any of the other old head social media platforms that I was actually on in the 2000s,
0:46.0	I'm like totally up for that as well. But I just like the fact that like there is such a thing as a
0:51.1	TikTok tailgate. Yes. Is this the first year of the TikTok tailgate at Super Bowl?
0:57.3	Did they have this last year?
0:58.5	I don't remember if they did.
0:59.8	You know, if they did, I guarantee the chain smokers also played it.
1:04.3	Like I think they should just be like a permanent fixture in this thing.
1:08.1	Well, yeah, so the chain smokers, I joke that Ian was headlining the TikTok tailgate.
1:13.5	Actually, the chain smokers are doing it.
1:15.6	I feel like the chain smokers should do this every year.
1:19.2	I can't think of another act that is more suited for this job than the chain smoke.
1:25.5	Do you think the chain smokers are super self-aware or not self-aware at all?
1:31.8	Like, are they so self-aware that they're like, oh, yeah, if we headline the TikTok
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