New Music From The Strokes and WU LYF, plus: The 2026 Q2 Fantasy Albums Draft
Indiecast
Amazon Music
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Our first episode since December of 2025 opens with a quick conversation about "Mad Men" star Christina Hendricks' viral indie-music DJ set in San Diego (1:09). The guys then talk about the return of the show (5:00) and muse on topics they missed while they were away (12:13). After that, they discuss the announcement of the first new Strokes album in six years (24:31) and review the first WU LYF record in 15 years (33:42). From there, they conduct a Fantasy Albums Draft for the year's Q2 (44:46). Finally, in Recommendation Corner they discuss new music from Underscores and Wendy Eisenberg (1:09:20).
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Amazon Music. |
| 0:12.7 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast. |
| 0:14.9 | On the show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends. |
| 0:20.4 | In this episode, we talk about new |
| 0:21.9 | music from The Strokes and Woo Life. Who would have thought it? We also discuss what we |
| 0:28.6 | missed in the first quarter of 2026, and we do our fantasy album draft for the second quarter |
| 0:34.0 | of the year. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. |
| 0:39.0 | He was the one who programmed Christina Hendricks indie DJ set. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? |
| 0:45.7 | I mean, I had some downtime during the Indycast hiatus, and yes, that was me getting my fingers dusty |
| 0:51.8 | digging in the crates for those broken bells and war paint |
| 0:54.5 | rarities. |
| 0:55.5 | I do apologize for her going rogue. |
| 0:57.7 | We have at least 10 confirmed casualties in San Diego, all bearded males, age 42 to 48, |
| 1:03.3 | who suffered immediate cardiac arrest when Joan from Mad Men spun bright eyes lover I don't |
| 1:08.0 | have to love on vinyl. |
| 1:09.7 | Yeah, so for those who don't know, there was a viral story this week about Christina Hendricks, |
| 1:15.9 | the beautiful and glamorous star of Mad Men, starred as Joan on that show. |
| 1:21.8 | She was photographed at a bar in San Diego, Ian's Neck of the Woods, a bar called Part Time Lover. |
| 1:30.7 | I want to ask about this here in a minute because this is your neck of the woods. |
| 1:34.3 | But anyway, she was photographed and videoed at this bar doing a DJ set that I think went on for four hours. |
| 1:41.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:42.4 | And it was a mix of shoegays songs, Dream Pop, as well as some more middle of the road indie |
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