Grammy Predictions + Netflix's Very Fun 'We Are The World' Doc
Indiecast
Amazon Music
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Steven and Ian begin this week's episode by discussing the recent story about Talking Heads being offered $80 million to reunite for some festival gigs... and turning it down. Do they really hate each other that much? Or do they accept that you can't perform Stop Making Sense-style magic in your 70s? (2:34) The guys also apologize to the city of San Francisco for some recent sports-related slander and check in on Ian's Fantasy Album team. (9:43)
After that, they look ahead to the Grammys this weekend and make some predictions (21:48). Does Boygenius have a shot as a dark-horse pick? Which fanbase will be the angriest the following morning? Does any of this matter? They also talk about The Greatest Night In Pop, the very entertaining new documentary about the 1985 all-star single "We Are The World" that premiered on Netflix this week. Could such a song ever happen in 2024? (34:38)
In Recommendation Corner (50:53), Ian goes to bat for the Norwegian emo band Flight Mode while Steven talks about the Philly "patio rock" band Memorytown.
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprocks' Indie Mix tape. |
| 0:12.8 | Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast. |
| 0:15.3 | On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week. |
| 0:18.5 | We review albums and we hash out trends. In this episode, |
| 0:22.0 | we talk about the Grammys, yes. And Netflix's new We Are the World Documentary. My name |
| 0:28.7 | is Steven Heiden and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He was offered $80 million to do |
| 0:33.8 | a live reading of his old pitchfork reviews. Ian Cohen. |
| 0:38.5 | Ian, how are you? |
| 0:42.5 | Yeah, you know that's not true because I would do that for like, you know, |
| 0:46.2 | like, like $50 and a couple of drink tickets. |
| 0:48.9 | If we're talking $80, $80. |
| 0:51.9 | I mean, I've read my pitchfork review. |
| 0:53.9 | Like, I think it was about Slipknot. |
| 0:58.0 | Like, I read a pitchfork review piece for free at Pitchfork Festival. So I think you, I, I, I, like, it's obvious that the joke is, but like, you're vastly overestimating, like, you know, my, my, my will, my willingness to turn down money. |
| 1:10.1 | How much would it take for you to do a live reading |
| 1:12.9 | of your childish gambino review of camp in front of donald glover uh that's a great question because |
| 1:21.4 | uh you know he i i can't find this article but i think he did threaten to beat my ass ass in a vice interview because we went to the same gym. Yeah, we've talked about this before, yeah, which is a great scenario. Like $1,000, that'd be more than that, right? You would need at least... What kind of ass beating am I getting here? Like, am I going to the hospital, or is he just going to get me, like, one good sock in the face? I don't think... He wouldn't beat you up now, I don't think. I mean, that's, like, what, 12 years ago that record came out? I think this could be a good... We'll film it. It'll be, like, a performance art piece. I think you could get five figures for that. |
| 2:01.5 | I think at least 10 grand you could get for that, for sure. |
| 2:04.9 | I think that could have been, like, now that I think about it, I'm sort of surprised |
| 2:08.2 | it wasn't like woven into Atlanta as like a plot point. |
| 2:12.1 | It's funny. |
| 2:12.6 | Shout to the Nersie podcast. |
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