R.I.P. Brian Wilson And Sly Stone

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week's Indiecast opens with a tribute to two fallen icons, Brian Wilson and Sly Stone, who both passed away at the age of 82 within a few days of one another (0:00). The guys discuss their respective legacies and the influence they have on modern music. They also discuss a recent article on dad rock and how the term now is used to describe any form of rock music (13:07). Then they check in on the Fantasy Albums Draft, which Ian is suddenly dominating (21:34). In the mailbag, they answer several emails -- topics include the utility of Metacritic, a yay-or-nay verdict on Title Fight, and "tennis-core" bands (28:07).

In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks about the SoCal emo band First Day Back and Steven recommends the Chicago indie group Beauty Saloon (51:17).

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indie Mix tape.
0:13.5	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.5	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:18.3	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:21.6	In this episode, we respond to emails from you, the indie cast listener. My name is Stephen Hayden and I'm joined by
0:27.0	my friend and co-host. God only knows what I'd be without him. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you?
0:33.2	Yeah, I didn't expect you to be such a sentimentalist about it. I thought you were going to hit me with
0:37.4	a student demonstration time joke or something like that, like one of the deep cuts.
0:42.0	No, man, I'm feeling soft right now.
0:44.1	This has been a hard week, Ian.
0:46.0	Hard week.
0:47.8	If you love rock icons, like, look, the word icon, I, is so, it's been so degraded at this point.
0:57.2	You know, people will say, oh, the shorts that Sabrina Carpenter wore in our latest music video
1:02.9	are iconic. You know, we call everything iconic now. But when you're talking about Brian
1:07.7	Wilson and Sly Stone, two just absolute legends, both passed
1:13.6	away this week. I mean, now we're talking about icons. This is what, these are the kind of people
1:18.6	that the word icon is reserved for. And it's, it's really strange. I mean, both guys are 82 years old. Both guys flourished in the 60s,
1:31.3	and then they had this, they had these extended wilderness periods marked by mental health
1:37.7	and substance abuse problems. And then, you know, they sort of came back, Slice Stone, less so, although he had that documentary recently that Questlove made, which it's great that that came out while he was alive because hopefully he got to see all this appreciation being expressed about him.
1:55.9	Brian Wilson, you know, he's been on the road a lot in the last, you know, 20-some years.
2:00.5	And I feel like any room that he
2:03.2	walked into, he got a standing ovation. I mean, people just love Brian Wilson. But I mean,
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