Let's Talk About FKA Twigs, The Weeknd + Brand New

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Steven and Ian open with a discussion of a recent article about the shutdown of the Pitchfork Music Festival that gives new behind-the-scenes details on the situation and sheds light on the festival industry overall (0:35). Then they pivot to a quick Sportscast about Ian's team the Philadelphia Eagles making the Super Bowl and Steven's heel turn as a Kansas City Chiefs supporter (12:20). They also talk about two records in the Fantasy Albums Draft by FKA Twigs and Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and give their takes on the respective artists' careers (19:11). They also review the career of The Weeknd ahead of his new album out today, Hurry Up Tomorrow (29:07).

In the mailbag, they address a follow-up question on the comeback potential of disgraced emo band Brand New (46:33). Finally, in Recommendation Corner, Ian speaks up for Benjamin Booker and Steven goes for Rose City Band (59:46).

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indie Mix tape.
0:13.8	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indiecast.
0:15.9	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends.
0:38.3	In this episode, we talk about the new album from FCA Twigs, The Weekend, and brand new. Now, that was the new album from FKA Twigs. It's not that they're all collaborating just to clarify there. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He once demanded that Pitchfork Fest book, Demi Lovato,
0:44.3	Ian Cohen, Ian, how are you? Yeah, I don't know who you got fact-checking this, but I was not the Demi Lovato guy. I was the Baby Rexa guy. I was the Jesse J guy. I was the Rita Orra guy. Like I want
0:51.7	all the B team of the pop girlies,
0:54.5	particularly ones who haven't been in movies yet.
0:56.7	So,
0:57.3	you know,
0:57.8	maybe they're a little bit more in the price range.
1:00.5	Yeah.
1:01.4	I'm referring to a story that ran this week on the website of WBEZ,
1:07.5	which is the public radio station in Chicago.
1:10.7	They ran, what I thought was a really interesting story about the Pitchfork Festival and why that went away.
1:18.5	If you'll recall, it was announced last November that this long-running festival wasn't going to be happening anymore.
1:25.4	And we didn't really know a lot of the background.
1:28.2	And this story fills in the blanks.
1:30.2	And it feeds into the conversation we've been having on this show this year, an ongoing
1:35.3	conversation about the implosion of music festivals and how it really feels like this
1:41.5	is a bloated market, and we're going to be seeing a lot of festivals go away.
1:44.8	And this story certainly adds credence to that prediction of mine.
1:51.6	And it also just, again, reiterates something that I think was made clear a year ago when
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