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Indiecast

Has 2026 Been A Good Year For Music? Plus: New Albums by Death Cab For Cutie, Modest Mouse, and Deer Tick

Indiecast

Amazon Music

Music Commentary, Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock

4.6621 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week's conversation begins with Steven telling a story about a very mean email he got from a publicist this week (2:00), followed by Ian talking about his trip to an historic studio down south (9:30). After that, they do an update of the fantasy albums draft (17:56) before assessing the state of music in 2026 so far, ahead of revealing their mid-year lists next week (23:09). Then they run down the week's new releases, including new releases by Modest Mouse, Converge, Deer Tick and Lizzo (31:05). They also discuss the new record by Death Cab for Cutie (41:06). In Recommendation Corner, Ian recommends Greg Mendez and Steven recommends Futurebirds (50:48).

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Indycast is presented by Amazon Music.

0:03.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast on the show we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends.

0:20.0

In this episode we talk about Death Cab for Cutie and new albums from Modest Mouse,

0:24.8

Deer Tick, and Widow Speak.

0:27.1

My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host.

0:30.3

He's going to keep me from offending any publicist this week.

0:34.0

Ian Cohen, Ian, how are you?

0:36.1

So in the world of sober living, sometimes they'll have people

0:40.0

who graduated from those programs become recovery coaches in the house. And that's what I'm feeling

0:45.1

like right now. It's a, you know, it's, I never would have thought, uh, that you're the good cop.

0:51.8

I know. You're the good cop now. I, who would have if you looked at our careers, your background at Pitchfork,

0:58.1

you were known as the Hammer at Pitchfork in the 2010s.

1:02.4

Now you're the good cop.

1:03.7

You're the Danny Glover, and I'm the Mel Gibson.

1:08.2

Yeah, maybe you want a rich.

1:10.4

Well, the Roger Berta and the, I can't remember Mel Gibson or another yeah maybe maybe you want a rich right well the the the the Roger

1:12.6

Mertat and the I can't remember Mel Gibson's character's name and lethal weapon do you know

1:17.1

that rigs rigs riggs Riggs Riggs Martin Riggs that's it yes rigs um another analogy I thought of

1:24.4

was back in the 2010s when Bill Simmons and Jalen Rose were on NBA countdown

1:32.3

on ESPN. Jalen Rose had this recurring bit where he would say, don't get fired, Bill.

1:39.2

Right before Bill would say something maybe controversially say, don't get fired Bill.

1:42.8

Like he would be there to prevent Bill from saying something that would get him fired.

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