Summary
For weeks, we’ve been quietly hoping that Steve and Ian would dedicate an episode of Indiecast to the evolution and purported impending comeback of ska. Well, that day has finally arrived, as this week’s episode is all about talkin’ ska. For the uninitiated, ska is a genre of music that originally started in Jamaica in the 1960’s but soon moved over to the UK with the 2 Tone revival in the late 70’s, then re-emerged prominently in the 80’s and 90’s with bands like Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, The Aquabats, and more.
With Jeff Rosenstock reimagining his entire 2020 opus No Dream as a ska album and the prevalence of Ska Tune Network on YouTube, could ska be making another comeback in the 2020’s? Perhaps, but the deciding factor will come when a new ska band starts to get critical and commercial attention.
In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Ian has been digging Internet Breath, the new album from Montana band Hey, ILY. Hyden is looking ahead a bit to the forthcoming album from Brooklyn-based quintet Lightning Bug, which is due June 25.
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape. |
| 0:13.7 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast. |
| 0:15.8 | On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week. |
| 0:18.3 | We review albums and we hash out trends. |
| 0:21.4 | In this episode, |
| 0:26.5 | we're going to be talking about our personal experiences with ska. Yes. And whether the genre is due for a comeback. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host, Ian Cohen. |
| 0:34.1 | Ian, how are you? Um, well, let's see. I'm. I'm a 41-year-old man whose brain just formulated the phrase emo discourse |
| 0:43.1 | hangover at 7 o'clock in the morning. So I feel like I'm feeling about as good as I should |
| 0:48.5 | feel with those facts in place. What wave are we on now? What wave are we on now of emo? It's fifth. |
| 0:56.0 | Some would argue fifth. Some would spend days and days and days arguing on Twitter that we're on the fifth wave. And I don't want to like, see, I mean, I want to be vulnerable and bring the things that are happening into my life onto this show, |
| 1:12.8 | but I don't think I really have the energy to get into the micro facets of this thing. |
| 1:21.8 | I mean, I say like emo discourse hangover only because like it's the sort of situation where you like, |
| 1:29.2 | are you with someone on Twitter or you feel like very passionate about this one thing, |
| 1:34.1 | the next day you just feel like complete shit like, wow, this is what, I mean, maybe this |
| 1:39.9 | would be different if I had kids or something like that. |
| 1:41.9 | Maybe this is a signal or something. |
| 1:44.4 | You got to step away. You got to hug the young ones. You got to be like, hey, this is what I'm doing. |
| 1:49.1 | This is why I'm in the music discourse trenches digging for hot take gold is to put food in the |
| 1:58.0 | miles of these children. So it's good to be reminded of why that is. |
| 2:02.3 | Can I make, I have no opinion about Fifth Wave Emo. |
| 2:06.0 | To me, my understanding from, I've dabbled in the discourse about this, |
| 2:11.2 | my understanding is that it was brought up initially as kind of a joke or like a good nature thing, |
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