Kendrick Lamar, Plus: Harry Styles And Billboard Music Awards ‘Uncanceling The Canceled’

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

As one of the biggest yet most elusive rappers of our time, Kendrick Lamar dominates pop culture whenever he releases new music. But did his latest album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers live up to the hype? On this week's Indiecast, hosts Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen share their thoughts on the undeniably fascinating album (31:26) and wonder if the rapper's name alone will secure him a spot on Album Of The Year lists.

In terms of music news this week, Indiecast discusses the other much-anticipated album this week: Harry Styles' Harry's House (3:58). Steven and Ian also talk about the Billboard Music Awards' attempt to "uncancel the canceled" musicians (17:47) and a contentious article that examined Taylor Hawkins' final days (10:18).

In the Recommendation Corner (46:59), Ian gives a shout-out to Gospel, a hardcore NYC band who just dropped their first album in 17 years. Meanwhile, Steven recommends listeners to check out the South Korean indie rockers Say Sue Me, whose new album The Last Thing Left sounds like a mix of Mazzy Star and Pavement.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks' Indie Mix tape.
0:13.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.6	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:18.4	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:20.6	In this episode, we review the new album by Kendrick Lamar. My name is Stephen Hayden and I'm joined by my friend and co-host, the big stepper to my Mr. Morrell, Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? You know, I like the joke you made a few days ago about prepping in one weekweek anniversary piece for the new Kendrick Lamar album
0:38.3	because, I mean, like it, you know, like most of the things we talk about on this show, it has
0:43.5	come to pass.
0:44.3	I feel like the cycle of hype for this joint has spun, like, twice in the past five days
0:50.3	alone.
0:50.7	Like, I think we, like, actually should re-review Kendrick Lamar's album every single week, you know,
0:55.7	because right now I think it's in that kind of valley of, you know, there, it was, it had like a
1:01.2	perfect score on Metacritic over the weekend after like 10 reviews.
1:05.0	And now people are starting to kind of like fight back against that.
1:09.6	There have been some, uh, lukewarm, the positive positive reviews and now maybe people thinking it's underappreciated. So
1:15.5	who knows where the big dial is going to land by next week? Yeah, you know,
1:20.8	part of the discourse about this album along with just talking about the music itself was
1:25.4	people saying that you can't review this album
1:29.2	after only a day or two of listening to it.
1:32.7	I think Stereogum had a review up the day it came out.
1:36.0	From what I could tell Tom Bryan, like woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning and like
1:40.8	listen to the album for like 10 straight hours and then published.
1:46.6	Like I'm not even kidding.
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