Our Predictions For 2024
Indiecast
Amazon Music
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Steven and Ian have not recorded an episode in three weeks. Can you believe it? So there was a lot to talk about in the latest installment of Indiecast, starting with what the guys did over the holiday break. Ian won a ton of money playing fantasy football and Steven watched Paul Giamatti go full-Giamatti in The Holdovers (5:13). Once they were caught up with holiday talk, the guys paid tribute to Best Buy no longer selling CDs, finally, starting this year. They also did a "Bad Discourse Lightning Round" for all the bad discourse they missed online during the break. Topics include shoegaze music, The Smiths, and the possible wokeness of Green Day. Trust us — the discourse is very, very bad! (13:03)
After that, they get into the business of soothsaying as they lay out their predictions for 2024 (34:08). While the guys kept their prognostications secret from each other, there ended up being some crossover as they talked about potential new albums from Haim and Vampire Weekend dominating the year, the possibility that [CANCELED BAND X] might make a comeback, and whether that long-delayed Sky Ferreira record will finally see the light of day this year. (Spoiler alert: Don't get your hopes up.)
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape. |
| 0:12.8 | Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast. |
| 0:15.1 | On the show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, |
| 0:17.5 | we review albums, and we hash out trends. |
| 0:20.1 | In this episode, we offer our predictions for 2024. |
| 0:24.9 | My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. |
| 0:28.2 | He spent the holiday break, keeping track of all the bad discourse online. |
| 0:33.2 | Ian Cohen, Ian, how are you? |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, there was a real NFL Week 18, non-college football playoff bowl energy |
| 0:41.6 | to the last couple of weeks between Christmas and New Year's. |
| 0:44.6 | Like, all the major players are sitting out. |
| 0:46.9 | Discourse at this time of year is just for like the sickos only. |
| 0:50.1 | It's for the people who are like actually going to watch the Ravens when Lamar Jackson |
| 0:53.6 | sits. |
| 0:55.8 | I think you're underselling just how bad the discourse really was over the past couple of weeks. |
| 1:01.1 | And I'm almost excited to hash that stuff out rather than like, I don't know, be hopeful about the year ahead. |
| 1:10.7 | Well, yeah, we're going to do a lightning round here in a minute of topics that came up while we were gone in the online world. |
| 1:21.2 | Yeah, a lot of anger happening. |
| 1:23.9 | And you really realize that, you know, people, they're trapped with their families, and they're using social media as like a pressure valve, you know, and it's like, I can't deal with the dysfunction of my family life. |
| 1:38.3 | You know, there are unspoken things with my dad that I don't want to address or my mother. She's criticizing me. |
| 1:45.0 | I don't know what to say. |
| 1:46.2 | So I'm going to go online and I'm going to unload about the Smiths or shoegaze music or whatever. |
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