Our Mid-Year Indiecasties For 2023

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Before getting to the serious business of handing out their mid-year Indiecasties awards for indie music semi-excellence, Steven and Ian try to make sense of the most nonsensical TikTok trend of 2023: The Pinegrove Shuffle. Apparently, there are young people doing this weird dance to a deep cut by the rootsy indie-Americana band. Why? Who knows? Listen to two guys in their 40s try to explain it.

In non-TikTok news, Steven is planning a trip to Dayton in September for two 40th anniversary Guided By Voices shows that also feature Dinosaur Jr., Built To Spill, Wednesday, and others. It's the middle-aged indie fan Woodstock! The guys also briefly discuss new albums out today by Queens Of The Stone Age, Sigur Ros, and Killer Mike.

Finally, it's time for the Indiecasties! All of your favorite categories are back: Most Valuable Album Cycle, Most Annoying Music Writer Twitter Story, Most Memory-Holed Album, and more. No spoilers, but expect lots of fireworks from the likes of Boygenius and Foo Fighters.

In Recommendation Corner, Ian recommends a new emo oral history from writer Chris Payne, Where Are Your Boys Tonight?, while Steven discusses the new 20th anniversary edition of the classic Drive-By Truckers album, The Dirty South.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks's Indie Mix tape.
0:12.8	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indiecast.
0:15.0	On the show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week,
0:17.5	review albums, and we hash out trends.
0:19.9	In this episode, we hand out our mid-year
0:22.0	Indiecasties. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. Be sure to see
0:27.8	him on TikTok doing the Pine Grove shuffle. Ian Cohen, Ian, how are you? I would just love to go back
0:34.2	to 2018 and say that exact sentence to somebody and have them guess what it
0:40.1	means to be on one TikTok doing two, the Pine Grove shuffle. But this is our first week,
0:46.1	this is our first time doing two consecutive weeks of mentioning TikTok trends, isn't it?
0:50.7	Yeah, I mean, we are trying to lower the median age of our listener from like 35 to like maybe like 34 and a half.
0:59.5	Yeah.
1:00.3	We're gradually moving it down a little bit.
1:04.1	I'm going to let you take the lead on this one because you showed this to me yesterday.
1:08.9	There's this trend on TikTok where you have Zoomer people, young people, doing this, like, weird shuffling dance to a song by the indie rock band Pine Grove, a band beloved in some quarters, beleaguered in others.
1:30.0	I believe that they're currently on hiatus.
1:32.5	That is correct.
1:34.0	But they are getting like a big bump from this TikTok trend.
1:39.7	What is the song that people are dancing to?
1:41.7	So it's a song called Need 2, which is from the, you know, the compilation album they put
1:49.2	out prior to Cardinal in 2015.
1:53.3	And, you know, it's an old song.
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