Faulty Lorde CDs, Popular AI Rock Bands, And Why Glastonbury Looked Amazing This Year, Plus: The Q3 Fantasy Albums Draft

Indiecast

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Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Steven and Ian open with a quick conversation about fireworks and fireworks-adjacent emo music. Then they dive into the outcry from Lorde fans about the faulty "transparent" CD edition of her latest album, Virgin (3:36). Steven is excited to see CD discourse go mainstream, though he worries that this bad publicity might turn people off to the format.

After that, they discuss the AI band The Velvet Sundown, which has already racked up 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify in just a few weeks (11:02). They also talk about the recent Glastonbury Festival and speculate on why European music festivals look so much more fun than American ones (22:11). Finally, they do the Q3 Fantasy Albums Draft, and talk about some of the most anticipated releases of the next three months (33:50).

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:13.5	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.8	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, we review albums albums and we hash out trends. In this episode,
0:22.0	we talk about faulty Lord CDs, AI folk rock bands in the latest Glastonbury Festival. And we're
0:28.5	also going to do our Q3 fantasy album draft. My name is Stephen Hayden and I'm joined by my friend
0:33.7	and co-host. He's planning to shoot off fireworks tonight in an emo-like fashion.
0:38.8	Ian Cohen, Ian, how are you?
0:40.7	Yeah, this is not a bit because there is a long, illustrious history of fireworks in emo music.
0:48.7	We could talk about Jimmy World's classic seven-minute power ballad, just watched the fireworks, or Hey Mercedes,
0:56.2	the post-braid band doing every night fireworks, the band fireworks.
1:01.0	I mean, you know, Japan droids aren't an emo band, but Fang Island, maybe, with the fireworks
1:06.6	at the beginning of that, Drake, Emo, first album because of the song called Fireworks. So,
1:12.1	yeah, like, again, not a bit. Yeah, we, uh, I took my kids last weekend to this store
1:19.2	across the border in Wisconsin. It's a year-round store that just sells fireworks. And it was an amazing store.
1:28.7	And it's the place that you want to go if you want to get the fireworks that actually
1:32.0	like explode in the air.
1:34.0	Because as far as I know, you can't really buy those in Minnesota.
1:38.0	And I don't know if they're illegal to shoot off.
1:40.0	I guess I'll find out once we launch these on Fourth of July weekend.
1:44.0	But an amazing store, very good deals. Uh, I guess I'll find out once we launch these on 4th of July weekend.
1:47.3	But an amazing store, very good deals.
1:55.0	I'm amazed that there are stores that can be open all year round selling fireworks.
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