Is 2005 The Best Year For Indie Rock This Century? Plus: A Weird Viral Moment For Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeroes

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We open this week in a very unexpected place: "Home," the 2010 hit by Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros, which had a viral moment this week that went on for days. What is it about this song that people hate so much, and what are some of the actual worst songs of all time? (0:58)

The guys also talk about the recent Billy Joel documentary, which Ian recently watched, and pick the modern-day equivalent to the Piano Man (16:47). After a brief check-in on the Fantasy Album Draft (27:45), Steven and Ian run down a list of classic albums turning 20 in the next month or so, including landmark releases from My Morning Jacket, the New Pornographers, Wolf Parade, and more (30:42). They also do a "yay or nay" segment on Death Cab For Cutie (41:24).

In Recommendation Corner, Ian recommends Anamanaguchi and Steven stumps for Tyler Childers (49:07).

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:13.2	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast on this show we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends.
0:19.8	In this episode, it's a slow week. So we're
0:22.2	talking about some notable albums from 2005. Wow, 20 years ago. My name is Stephen Hayden,
0:29.2	and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He is the last remaining fan of Edward Sharp and the
0:33.4	magnetic zeros. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you?
0:37.7	I mean,
0:40.1	we could just take an entire hour for me to,
0:40.6	you know,
0:43.3	talk about the wild shirtless lyrics of Alex Ebert,
0:46.1	the bong rattling mandolin of Christian Letts,
0:49.8	the competent Chirongo work of Mark Knowsworthy and such and such.
0:52.1	Who's the woman with the short hair?
0:53.2	What's her name?
0:54.5	Um, you know, any Edward Sharpheads out there that remember her?
0:58.3	We're talking about Edward Sharp because if you're on the app formerly known as Twitter, the Everything app, there was a very bizarre thing that happened this week where a video of the 2010s era
1:14.7	indie rock band, I guess they're technically an indie rock band, Edward Sharp in the Magnetic
1:19.6	Zeros, you might remember them, LA band dressing like the Manson family, they have a song
1:24.8	called Home, which I looked up over a billion streams on Spotify.
1:29.3	So this band is eaten off that song to this day.
1:33.3	Not eating a lot, it's Spotify streams, but they're going to the value meal at McDonald's
1:39.3	offer this song.
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