Phoebe Bridgers Returns! Tame Impala Has A Real Pop Hit! This Is Lorelei Signs Big!

Indiecast

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Music Commentary, Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock

4.6 • 621 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week's conversation begins with some recent discourse about whether rock is dead and whether it was killed by the CIA or liberal poptimists (2:34). The guys also briefly discuss the backlash against a "New York Times" video where the pop critics defended their recent greatest living American songwriters list (17:27). Then they look at a relatively light week for new releases, including albums by Kevin Morby, Rostam and Spencer Krug (22:41). After they pivot to news hinting at an apparent new Phoebe Bridgers album and her prospects for a comeback (29:03). They also discuss the recent Top 10 hit by Tame Impala from their critically panned 2025 album (39:27), and Nate Amos of This Is Lorelei signing to Matador (44:22). In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks about the electronic act Jump Scare and Steve talks about the L.A. band Gun Outfit (50:59).

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Amazon Music.
0:13.2	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.4	On this show, we talk about the biggest news of the week.
0:17.6	We review albums, and we hash out trends.
0:20.1	On this episode, we talk about the
0:22.1	return of Phoebe Bridgers, Tame and Paula having a big pop hit. And this is Lorelei's
0:28.3	signing to Matador Records. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host.
0:33.7	He's about to tell us who actually killed rock music. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? So my first instinct is to
0:41.6	bring up the Nas song who killed it. Like, are you familiar with Nas? Hip Hop is dead, which
0:47.0	turns 20 this year? Oh yeah. Oh, you are? Okay, that's good. Why are you surprised that I would know
0:52.7	Nas? Naz is like the most basic. That is the rapper that rock fans would know. Absolutely. But I'm talking about his 2006 album, Hip Hop is Dead, where he does this song called, who does, he has this song called Who Killed It, where he wraps in this like Edward G. Robinson, like, Chief Wiggum voice about, like, who killed hip hop as a murder mystery.
1:13.1	It's one of the, it's one of the craziest songs that has ever made a major label hip hop album.
1:17.1	I'm trying to think who would make this song in the modern day.
1:21.0	Like Billy Corgan?
1:22.5	In a rock content?
1:23.6	Yeah, in a rock context.
1:25.1	It's like the who killed it of rock music. Well, you know, there needs to be a modern day American pie, I think, you know, where you write like a metaphor rich history of music in the past, you know, whatever, you know, because like in that song, you know, he's talking about the day that music died. So that's Buddy Holly and Richie Valens, the big bopper. But then he's talking about the day that music died.
1:44.8	So that's Buddy Holly and Richie Valens, the big bopper.
1:47.5	But then he's talking about the jester, who I think is Mick Jagger, or it might be Bob Dylan.
1:54.2	And like the four guys in the orchestra, which are the Beatles, it's like all this metaphor in that song.
1:59.9	I remember in sixth grade, my teacher would play American Pie and he would try to break down
2:04.9	all of the metaphors and explain to us what it meant.
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