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Hello everyone and welcome to Indiecast on the show we talk about the biggest indie news of the week,

we review albums, and we hash out trends.

In this episode, we talk about Lily Allen's Love Life, The Utility of Halloween Music,

and the 20th anniversary of the best Animal Collective album, or maybe not.

My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host.

He wishes you a spookacular holiday.

Ian Cohen, Ian, how are you? Well, since it is October 30th when we're recording, I must say I am being haunted by the 10-year anniversary of the first Beach Slang album, which... Oh, man. Yeah, that haunts me to this day, like quite literally. Well, it's their first full length, I think. Yes. Because they put out the EP before that. Yeah, I was joking about Beach Lang this week because, you know, there was a new Isaac Chotner. I think that's how he pronounced his name. The guy from the New Yorker. Yeah. Who does the really tough interviews and he interviewed Corinne St. Pierre, the former Biden spokesperson, just humiliated her in print. I mean,

she was humiliating herself on this book tour, but he just destroyed her. And then I wrote a pretend scenario, like if Isaac Chotner were to interview me for the New Yorker, he would

press me on how I said the Beach Slang album was the best album of

2015 back in 2015. That would be the take, I think, that I would be grilled for in the

New Yorker. It's funny because the feature I wrote about Beach Slang was the last article I wrote for Grantland.

Grantland was shut down, I think, like three or four days after my BeachLang story was published.

I don't know if that's related.

I don't know if Disney was finally like, okay, we're pulling the plug on this thing.

But someone reminded me this morning that Grantland, this website I used to work for,

that I think has still a reputation online.

I think people still remember that place finally.

We were shut down 10 years ago this week on October 30th was the day that we were shut down.

And I was just thinking about this because that was my one experience really working

at a place where people online were speculating about when we were going to be shut down.

And I remember the news that we were being shut down, leaked right before this conference call that we all had, that we knew was going to be the death sentence call.

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