Broken Social Scene Returns, Greta Van Fleet Breaks Up (Almost), Ween vs. Tenacious D, and The Greatest Guitar Solos Of All Time

Indiecast

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Music Commentary, Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock

4.6 • 621 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The guys open with Greta Van Fleet, who is not an indie band, possibly teasing their own breakup or possible new music this week (1:20). Then they offer an update on the Fantasy Albums Draft, discussing recent albums by Aldous Harding and Kneecap (8:15). This leads to a wider conversation about the week's new releases, including Broken Social Scene, Basement, Cola, Social Distortion, The Lemon Twigs, and more (19:24). After that they consider a recent list of the greatest guitar solos of all time, and offer up their picks (33:44). In the first mailbag of the Amazon era, they revisit Ian's negative album reviews for Pitchfork (43:23) and rule on whether Tenacious D ripped off Ween (48:32). In Recommendation Corner, Ian with indie EDM artist Ninajirachi and Steven goes with a recent book on heartland rock by Erin Osmon (56:44).

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Amazon Music.
0:13.5	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.7	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week,
0:18.2	review albums, and we hash out trends.
0:21.7	In this episode, we talk about new albums by Broken Social Scene, Aldous Harding, and Cola, as well as the greatest
0:27.5	guitar solos of all time. Also, I think we're going to finally answer some listener emails,
0:33.1	the first mailbag of the Amazon era. My name is Stephen Hayden and I'm joined by my friend and co-host.
0:39.3	He has his Greno Van Fleet think piece ready to go if they break up tomorrow. Ian Cohen. Ian,
0:45.3	how are you? I mean, the funniest first move would be to make their version of page and plant,
0:50.1	which I guess would be called Kiska and Kiska. I was so committed to that joke. I actually had to look up their names. But yeah, Steve Albini passed away. So I don't know who would be the producer on that one, you know, walking into Hillsdale. I guess it would be called since they're from Michigan. I don't know. Yeah. Who's the modern Albini? Would it be like John Congleton? would that be the guy to go to? I think so, yeah. Or, yeah, that or me.
1:11.7	I mean, we'll Yeah, who's the modern Albany? Would it be like John Congleton? Would that be the guy to go to?
1:19.3	I think so. Yeah, that or me, I mean, William has like the exact opposite approach, but some along those lines.
1:31.3	So this week there was a story online. People were a buzz because Greta van Fleet is teasing perhaps that they broke up or maybe that they just have new music coming up. One of those is a disaster scenario depending on your point of view. Let me read a little bit
1:37.1	from Kerrang here. A cryptic teaser from Greta van Fleet has sent their fan base into a frenzy
1:43.5	with some worrying that the band is splitting up. Things have been quiet on the Greta Van Fleet has sent their fan base into a frenzy with some worrying
1:44.4	that the band is splitting up. Things have been quiet on the Greta Van Fleet front in the last
1:49.2	couple years and the Michigan Rockers haven't played a show together since summer of 2024.
1:54.0	In the meantime, guitarist Jake Kiska co-finded a new band, Mirador. Do you know any Mirador songs uh no i think that mirador isn't that like the name
2:05.5	of an interpol album or something like that sounds like it sounds like it um now the band have shared a
2:10.7	montage of their videos and live shows from across their lifespan so far their first social media
2:15.2	posts in almost a year it It concludes with the message,
2:18.2	thanks for the wild ride.
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