Let's Revisit The Blog Rock Era
Indiecast
Amazon Music
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Steven was on vacation for part of the week, so he was checked out of the discourse. When he returned, he kept seeing the same face in his social media feed — the "Ginger Mumford" himself, Oliver Anthony. The folk-country artist went mega-viral this week with his right-wing, anti-welfare song "Rich Men North Of Richmond." Steven asked Ian if he's heard the song, and about the recent upswing in reactionary hits and whether this is a path forward for new artists looking for a way to break.
After that, the guys talk about Ian's recent list of the greatest blog rock albums of all time. They debate Ian's choices, and compare that mid-aughts era when amateur curators were obsessed with hyping obscure bands with today's safer, superstar-obsessed era. Have things gotten better or worse?
In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks about the indie-pop band dreamTX while Steven recommends the Philadelphia country-rock outfit Florry.
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprocks's Indie Mix tape. |
| 0:12.6 | Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast. |
| 0:14.7 | On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends. |
| 0:19.5 | In this episode, we talk about the history of blog rock and yet another reactionary country music hit. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. I don't want my taxes to pay for his bags of fudge rounds. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? Yeah, first off, fudge rounds come in boxes. I don't know what the hell this dude is talking about. But, you know, for a couple of- What are fudge rounds? Am I ignorant? I've never heard of fudge rounds before this week. So for like a couple days, I was like really pissed off because I thought this dude was like you know sending strays at fudge |
| 0:55.7 | stripes which were one of my favorite kebler cookies of my youth but it turns out fudge |
| 1:00.1 | rounds are a kind of a C tier little debby's snack food you know we all like am I a coastal |
| 1:08.3 | elite for thinking that like Star Crunch is like really the S tier shit, like, Star Crunch is, like, really the S-tier shit, whereas, like, Fudge Rounds is, you know, it's kind of in that, uh, kind of that, like, sea list middle ground of things that I wouldn't touch. Also, like, I don't know. Is this dude country for, is this cute dude country if he's, like you know, licking shots at Little Debbie's? |
| 1:27.8 | Well, okay, you keep saying this dude. |
| 1:29.4 | We need to explain what we're talking about here. |
| 1:31.4 | We're talking about a guy named Oliver Anthony. |
| 1:35.6 | He is a singer-songwriter. |
| 1:38.4 | I believe he's from North Carolina. |
| 1:40.5 | And he exploded this week with a viral hit that is, I believe, currently the number one song on iTunes. |
| 1:49.4 | If it's not currently, it was this week. |
| 1:52.0 | It's a song called Richmond North of Richmond. |
| 1:55.5 | And I have to say, so I was on vacation in the later half of last week |
| 2:01.4 | in the front half of this week |
| 2:03.1 | and I was doing my best to avoid social media |
| 2:07.4 | I was just trying to enjoy myself |
| 2:09.0 | I went swimming a lot |
| 2:10.1 | I went to some water parks |
| 2:11.7 | I thought of you because I heard the hooters |
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