The 2022 Mid-Year Indiecasties

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The Recording Academy has the Grammys, MTV has the VMAs, and Indiecast has the Indiecasties: a special, highly sought-after distinction honoring the best and worse of indie music. In this week's episode, hosts Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen nominate artists for several mid-year Indiecastie awards and discuss the most memorable indie music discourse thus far in 2022 (19:07).

As for Indiecasties categories, Steven and Ian choose seven groupings: Most Valuable Album Cycle (in terms of Indiecast banter content 22:42), Music Writer Twitter Story Of The Year (which also provided a fair amount of banter 28:36), Memory Holed Album Of 2022 (albums released this year they've already forgotten about 35:57), Them? Album Of The Year (the biggest discrepancy between critical acclaim and what they've heard/felt/seen 42:26), Most Fun Narrative Of 2022 (some trends they saw among indie artists 50:46), and 2021 'Rediscovered' Albums (projects they would rank higher from last year 58:04). Among artists recognized in these categories are Arcade Fire, Harry Styles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Father John Misty, Big Thief, Wednesday, and more.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks's Indie Mix tape.
0:12.7	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.4	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week,
0:18.3	review albums, and we hash out trends.
0:22.0	In this episode, we are giving away our mid-year award for indie rock semi-excellance, the Indycastes. My name is Stephen
0:28.4	Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He's a diehard fan of Machina, the Machines of God.
0:34.0	Ian Cohen, Ian, how are you? I honestly can't believe we haven't subtitled this episode, The Friends and Enemies of Modern
0:40.7	Music. That is a Machina 2 reference. I think all of our intrepid indie cast Smashing Pumpkins
0:47.4	fans will recognize that one. The 93-minute album that Billy Corgan released in September of 2000 because the label wouldn't
0:57.7	put out one of his records for free.
1:00.4	And right before they broke up for the first time.
1:03.6	Not the last.
1:04.3	Is it sacrilege to say that Machina 2 a little bit better than Machina?
1:09.4	I don't know if that's sacrilege.
1:11.3	I think that Machina, particularly at the time, got so much shit from both the public and
1:17.4	Smashing Pumpkins fans.
1:19.1	I think every single critic except Jim Deerogadis hated it.
1:22.9	That you couldn't help but love Machina 2 more almost by default.
1:28.0	Even though, like, God, that record was so, that, like, Billy Corrug was ahead of his time in so many ways.
1:34.1	And this one was, he just gave that album to like really influential people in the Chicago music scene who then distributed it and online.
1:43.9	And, you know, the problem with that record is that it sounds exactly like, who then distributed it and online.
1:51.2	And, you know, the problem with that record is that it sounds exactly like a 128, like, KBP RIP from 2000.
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