Let's talk about Nirvana's 'Nevermind' at 30

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Today, September 24th, marks 30 years since Nirvana released Nevermind. In the last three decades, people have already said pretty much everything there is to say about the Washington grunge outfit, but that isn’t going to stop Steve and Ian from reminiscing about one of the biggest rock albums of all time on this week’s episode of Indiecast.

Nevermind is an album that still holds up after thirty years, despite its oversaturation on rock radio and elsewhere. But it’s the rare breakthrough album that might have almost become underrated, overshadowed — at least in the critical sphere — by what came next for Nirvana. The band’s third album In Utero is now understood as a response to fame, while their Unplugged performance has evolved into a poignant, dramatic artistic statement that holds a whole new weight in the wake of Cobain’s death.

In this week's Recommendation Corner, Ian is plugging the latest from One Step Closer, a new signing to esteemed indie label Run For Cover Records. Steve wants everyone to check out Wilds, the new LP from Andy Shauf out today.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:13.7	Hello, everyone, and welcome to IndyCast.
0:15.8	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:18.3	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:20.6	In this episode, we discussed the 30th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind.
0:25.9	My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host.
0:29.1	Here he is now.
0:30.1	Entertain us.
0:31.4	Ian Cohen.
0:32.9	Ian, how are you?
0:33.8	Well, you know, above all else, what I'm thinking about is how to enhance the indie cast listener
0:41.9	experience. I mean, that's really always number one with a bullet on my mind. And, you know, I
0:46.7	hope so. I mean, what else are we here for? I mean, that and also to figure out what to do with
0:51.7	our intern who exists and is very real. So I think the next
0:56.3	logical step beyond the Twitter account and having the email addresses to really get like an
1:02.0	emergency hotline for Indycast listeners for things like, for example, the Wrens more or less
1:08.1	announcing their breakup in a New York Times article that kind of came out
1:11.3	in it.
1:11.6	Yeah.
1:11.8	I mean, if that's not a reason to have like people on call 24-7 to deal, to have like our
1:19.6	40-year-old fans process this news, then what else are we really here for?
1:25.8	Indie, aging indie fan Twitter reeling this week over this news.
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