New Albums by The Armed + Ratboys, Plus: Our Favorite Soundtrack Albums
Indiecast
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4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This week it was reported that Ed Droste of the fine art-rock band Grizzly Bear is now working as a therapist (:25). That this was news at all speaks to the weird navieté that we as indie-rock fans have about the financial realities of the musicians we love. Steven and Ian begin the episode by talking about the "Joe jobs" of indie-rock lifers, and the potential "indie star to therapist" pipe line.
From there, the guys talk about Steven's recent column on the best soundtrack albums of all-time, and why the golden age for soundtracks is from the mid-'80s to the early '00s. While it's true that a big film like Barbie can still spin off a successful soundtrack, the golden age of B and C-tier soundtracks — when an otherwise forgotten film like 1993's Judgment Night can be paired with a famous soundtrack — seems to be over (11:08).
After that, Steven and Ian review new albums by hardcore collective The Armed and the Chicago guitar-pop band Ratboys (27:39). In Recommendation Corner (56:01), Ian praises the bloghouse throwback DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ and Steven gives the nod to the new solo album from Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek.
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprocks' Indie Mix tape. |
| 0:12.8 | Hello everyone and welcome to Indiecast. |
| 0:14.8 | On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week. |
| 0:17.0 | We review albums and we hash out trends. |
| 0:19.6 | In this episode, we talk about new albums by |
| 0:21.5 | the Armed and Rat Boys and our favorite soundtrack albums. My name is Stephen Hayden, |
| 0:27.0 | and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He's not hiding his dietitian double life. Ian Cohen, |
| 0:32.4 | Ian, how are you? You're sounding like push a T right now. It's like you are hiding a mental |
| 0:36.9 | health credential. |
| 0:38.5 | I think we've got to get into it and explain what we're talking about just in case. |
| 0:42.7 | I think it was making the rounds, but I think that we got to let our listeners who might not be totally online know what we're actually referring to right here. |
| 0:53.9 | You want to handle that one? |
| 0:55.2 | Yeah, so there was a story this week about Ed Drosty, who was a singer in the band |
| 1:01.2 | Grizzly Bear. |
| 1:03.0 | He posted on his Instagram that he is now a therapist working in Los Angeles. |
| 1:09.6 | And this became a story online. |
| 1:12.7 | It was actually reported in various places like Pitchfork ran a news item about Ed Drosty |
| 1:18.1 | being a therapist. |
| 1:19.5 | And people were digging into LinkedIn pages of different indie rockers of the late |
| 1:24.6 | aughts in early 2010s. |
| 1:26.3 | And it was discovered that Lockett Punt of the band Deer Hunter |
| 1:30.3 | is now working as like a software developer, |
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