Ten Years Of 'Random Access Memories,' The End Of MTV News, and American Football Buys The American Football House

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In Indiecast's latest episode, Steven declares that Ian is a surgeon, Dr. Han. (Is this meme old yet? Will anyone know what we're talking about next week?) Actually, their first order of business is talking about In Times New Roman, the just-announced new album by Queens Of The Stone Age due June 16, their first in six years (6:16). They try to sort out their current feelings about this band, and the murky personal life of Josh Homme. (They also struggle, of course, to correctly pronounce "Homme.")

Next they talk about the end of two institutions that they sort of thought ended in the aughts, but actually shut down this week: The pop-punk band Sum 41, and the legacy media outlet MTV News. Ian actually goes to bat for Sum 41 by giving them a "yay," while Steven is an indifferent "nay"(12:09). But MTV News was a formative outlet for both '90s kids, especially the gravitas-rich lead anchor Kurt Loder (22:11).

From there they piggyback on Steven's recent column about the 10th anniversary of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories and talk about whether the album is a classic, overrated or both. (Steven and Ian both landed on "both") (30:18). What's not overrated is American Football buying the American Football house, which is another thing that happened this week, though the story made Ian sad about that a beloved combination A&W/Long John Silver's that is gone from his college town (46:35).

In Recommendation Corner (54:10), Ian hypes the hyperpop/pop-punk hybrid Hot Mulligan, while Steven talks up a reissue from the Cleveland guitarist/composer Mark McGuire.

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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.
0:15.3	On the show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, we review albums, and we hash out trends.
0:20.7	In this episode, we talk about the 10th anniversary of Random Access Memories and the
0:25.2	end of MTV News, among other topics.
0:27.9	My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host.
0:31.0	He is a surgeon, Dr. Hahn.
0:34.0	Ian Cohen.
0:35.1	Ian, how are you?
0:35.9	You know, I've come to believe that having the good doctor trend during a writer's strike is about as much of a union-busting tactic as having imagined dragons do that picket line concert.
0:46.6	You know, there's put, you know, writers did this.
0:49.0	You realize that, right?
0:50.4	Are you sure we really need that?
0:52.9	Also, let's just make sure that we ease our listeners in who, like, are not completely
0:57.7	online poison by explaining this entire joke.
1:01.8	Yeah, so there was a meme this week of a video taken from the ABC drama, The Good
1:08.9	Doctor, which is that still on the air?
1:12.1	You know, I looked at it.
1:13.5	It was inconclusive.
1:15.3	Maybe I just like lost interest in finding out.
1:17.4	But I want to, I want to say it is.
1:20.4	It is, yeah, it's still going.
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