Music Festivals Are Back!

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

After a very long year without live music, it seems like there could finally be a light at the end of the tunnel. Bonnaroo is on the books for September, and Outside Lands is scheduled for late October. On this week’s episode of Indiecast, Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen are feeling cautiously optimistic about what the return of these festivals could mean for the live music landscape, as a whole.

With festivals scheduled for the fall, many artist teams are also feeling confident in the touring landscape for the latter months of 2021. Julien Baker and Japanese Breakfast have both shared routings for the fall, and Pavement is also rumored to be announcing a 2022 tour sometime in the near future. However, the question still remains: will there be any reluctance from fans to get back together in large groups, or will people just be rearing to go?

In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Hyden is shouting out Chicago band Floatie, who dropped their debut album Voyage Out last month. Cohen is excited about Dream Weapon, the new album from New York experimental metal band Genghis Tron, and the quartet’s first release in 13 years.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:13.2	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.5	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.9	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:20.2	In this episode, we look at the
0:21.4	upcoming music festival season for 2021, which is actually going to be a thing, it seems.
0:27.6	My name is Stephen Haydn, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host Ian Cohen, Ian. How are you?
0:34.3	You know, this past week, I've been reflecting on the importance of our name, IndyCast,
0:40.8	like how strong of a brand it is.
0:43.5	It's like, in my mind, it's like Metallica or like Deftones or like any of those ska bands
0:50.4	that have the word ska in their name.
0:52.0	It's like no matter, like we could do, we could tackle any number of subjects, you know,
0:57.0	in our banter section or what have you.
0:59.1	But like at the end of the day, we always know what our true north is.
1:02.9	And I think that's become extremely important, as I've seen in the past week, whenever
1:09.8	one of, I guess our colleagues who would otherwise
1:12.7	consider themselves maybe more of an indie writer starts to cover pop music.
1:19.1	Yeah.
1:20.5	It's dangerous.
1:21.6	It's dangerous out there for critics.
1:23.0	I'm not even sure if we should even like we should even like begin to cover this kind of topic.
1:27.6	Just kind of, you know, what's been on our minds like of lay, which I think you and I have both seen one of our friends and colleagues, Keith Harris.
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