Mac DeMarco Returns and The 10 Best (Actually Worst) Rock Songs Of The Last 25 Years

Indiecast

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Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Steven and Ian open with a quick Sportscast about the new Dallas Cowboys documentary on Netflix, which Steven loves (1:05). They also discuss a viral tweet about the supposed best rock songs of the last 25 years, which includes a lot of "not best" songs (8:09). Then they check in on the Fantasy Album Draft, discussing new releases by Water From Your Eyes, Nourished By Time, and Wolf Alice (17:48). After that, they review the new Mac DeMarco album, Guitar, his first "vocal" release in six years (29:39). After that, they do a "yay or nay" on Belle And Sebastian (42:59).

In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks about the new Pool Kids record and Steven goes for Greg Freeman (48:31).

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:13.5	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.9	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends. In this episode,
0:21.8	we talk about Mac DeMarco, Water From Your Eyes, Bell and Sebastian, and Hinders, Lips of an Angel.
0:29.5	Wow, can't wait for that. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host.
0:34.1	Like Troy Aikman, he doesn't remember the 1993 NFC championship game. Ian Cohen,
0:39.7	Ian, how are you? I may not remember that, but in the time of making this outline, I've just
0:45.1	looked at the 1993 Dallas Cowboys roster and just started making like dozens upon dozens of
0:51.5	fake clips lyrics, like, you know, like pitching that Jay Novichick on the
0:55.3	block or, you know, I got, you know, I got, I'm off that Mark Stepnoski right now. I am so stoked
1:02.9	that we're going to talk about the Cowboys. Yeah, so there's a new documentary on Netflix that
1:08.6	premiered this week. It's a multi-part extravaganza on the 1990s
1:14.3	Dows Cowboys. I guess it's about not just the 90s Cowboys. I think it's about the Jerry Jones
1:20.0	era because they talk about what's happened in the 30 years since the Cowboys won all those
1:25.8	Super Bowls. But this is like my obsession this week, Ian.
1:29.6	I don't know if you've watched this yet.
1:30.9	I'm about halfway through.
1:33.1	And I just realize, you know, they talk about like middle-aged guys being into like World War II,
1:38.0	like just watching the History Channel.
1:39.7	I'm not really into that kind of thing, but any sports documentary where you're going to be feeding me
1:46.2	like vintage ESPN clips, you know, sports center clips, you're going to be feeding me like
1:52.1	John Madden, Pat Summerall, you know, broadcasting, you know, sound bites. That is porn to me. I am on board with that. Whatever the subject matter is.
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