Let's Dig Into The Mailbag: Gen Z's Music Stats Obsession, Demos In Box Sets
Indiecast
Amazon Music
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
It's the calm before the storm on the show this week — Steven and Ian are working on their year-end albums lists ahead of the big reveal in early December (1:57), so in the meantime they decided to answer to some listener questions. But before that, Ian shared the shocking news that he watched The Last Waltz for the first time over the Thanksgiving break. What did Ian think of this foundational film in Steven's life? Naturally, he gravitated to Van Morrison's purple suit. The guys also commenced a brief Bookcast segment to talk about the hellacious new book about southern fraternities (and how they coincide with southern rap), Among The Bros by Max Marshall.
In the mailbag (29:38), Steven and Ian address topics as diverse as Gen Z's obsession with personal listening statistics (30:20), whether an artist sounding a lot like another artist is a distraction (36:50), and the value (or not) of demos being added to reissues and box sets. (44:57)
In Recommendation Corner (51:07), Ian talks up the latest from Quannic and Steven recommends the extremely long in the works new album by Peter Gabriel.
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape. |
| 0:12.7 | Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast. |
| 0:14.9 | On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week. |
| 0:17.6 | We review albums and we hash out trends. |
| 0:20.1 | In this episode, we respond to letters |
| 0:21.8 | from you, the Indycast listener. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. |
| 0:27.9 | He drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after 2 a.m. and talked a little while about the year. |
| 0:33.3 | Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? So I guess there's a little spoiler alert. I watched the last waltz for the first time, but I guess I didn't watch it hard enough because I assume you were like offering me like a show of solidarity by quoting like up on Cripple Creek or something like that. No, I'm quoting a long December. Yeah, I did not know that. Oh my God, because we're posting this episode |
| 0:56.1 | on December 1st, so it is a long December season. Yes. I thought for sure you would recognize |
| 1:02.1 | a long December quote. What's going on here? You thought that was a band quote? I drove off to, |
| 1:08.2 | I'm not going to like try to sing like Levin Helm. Look at me talking like a fucking band expert. But that's like, I think that's like one of the lesser lyrics, right? I mean, it's one of the best lyrics, I think, in the song. It's toward the end. Oh, there you go. But I mean, come on. I feel like a Long December, that is, that's canon. |
| 1:28.8 | I feel like you would know that. |
| 1:31.2 | I'm a little disappointed here. |
| 1:33.4 | I'm beside myself, quite honestly. |
| 1:36.5 | I fucked that up big time. |
| 1:38.9 | Like, I mean, I've heard Long December. |
| 1:40.8 | I like that song, but I guess I'm just not paying. |
| 1:43.6 | Adam Durrett, if you're listening to |
| 1:45.4 | this podcast, and I think there's a non-zero chance of that. I mean, if you quoted like Angels of the |
| 1:51.8 | Silence is, I definitely would have got that. Oh my God. Well, anyway, we're in December. It's a long |
| 1:58.9 | December where in the lull of, like before year-endless season. |
| 2:05.7 | I mean, we've had some year-endless come out this week, but I feel like next week is going to be when things really start to happen. |
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