Mailbag: How To Talk About Music, Best Album Closers, And The Top 3 Worst Songs

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Spring is already around the corner and the music industry is gearing up for a new season of releases. Indiecast hosts Steven and Ian have spent the first few months of 2022 sharing their music takes, but it's now time to hear what listeners have to say.

This week, Indiecast takes some time off of reviewing albums to read some listener mail and answer burning questions (17:39). Steven and Ian kick things off by giving advice on how music nerds can respectfully discuss albums without becoming overbearing (18:21). Then, they discuss their opinions on the best album closing tracks (25:31) and share their picks for the top three worst songs of all-time (spoiler alert: Smash Mouth gets an honorable mention) (45:29).

In this week's Recommendation Corner (1:03:20), Ian talks up Karate, a band who is booked for this year's Pitchfork Music Festival and seem like the perfect fit for an Indiecast Venn diagram. Steven gives a shout-out to Goose, who he just called the "next great American jam band" in a recent feature.

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 80 on Spotify below, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steven and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks's Indie Mix tape.
0:13.2	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.2	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.5	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:19.6	In this episode, we respond to
0:21.0	mail sent by you, the indie cast listener. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend
0:26.2	and co-host. He really wants to give you a PS5 for real this time. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you?
0:33.2	Yeah, at the risk of alienating a nation of like 1.4 billion people.
0:38.4	I just got to say at this current moment in Jaipur, India, not an Indicast town.
0:44.2	We know it.
0:44.9	We very rarely say what isn't an Indicast town.
0:48.1	But if you're trying to hack, not one but both co-hosts of Indic Yeah, you're a bit on the shit list.
0:56.0	Yeah, so, Ian, your Twitter account was hacked.
0:59.7	Yeah, on a day we were supposed to promote Indycast.
1:02.6	Like, Dan, they really hit us where we live.
1:05.5	Exactly.
1:06.1	The terrorist won in the short term, but they will not win in the long term. You were hacked.
1:13.4	Someone tried to hack me. I got an email from Twitter saying that we have a password change
1:20.2	request, and you actually told me that you were hacked right before that. So I was able to, you know, ignore that email. But there were a couple
1:31.9	music writers hacked last week. Yeah, our pals Chris Payne and Chris DeVille got hacked. So I was
1:39.6	it was cool because like, you know, I was able to email them and like to ask like, hey, what have you guys done?
1:46.4	And like I got routed to it, like an actual person at Twitter who helped me expedite this, you know?
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