The Armed + Greta Van Fleet

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode of Indiecast kicks off with a discussion of the new collaborative track from Mick Jagger and Dave Grohl, a very goofy moment in rock history. The conversation then segues into the mailbag segment, which raises the question of which indie artists should follow in Taylor Swift’s footsteps to take another stab at their earlier material.

The main crux of this week’s episode revolves around new albums from The Armed and Greta Van Fleet, the former of which gets their name from being the most jacked band since Manowar. The latter? Not so much.

Both bands are indicative of a strange moment in the modern mainstream rock landscape, in ways that are almost diametrically opposed. The Armed evocative of the heyday of mainstream hard rock, one of the most commercially successful genres ever. Greta Van Fleet, on the other hand, are a band so preposterous that they become almost endearing and endlessly fun to engage with.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks's Indie Mix tape.
0:13.2	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.4	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:18.1	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:20.4	In this episode, we're going
0:21.2	to be talking about new albums by The Armed and Greta Van Fleet. My name is Stephen Hayden,
0:27.4	and I'm joined by my friend and co-host Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? So, Steve, like, when the
0:33.1	time comes for the indie cast behind the music or behind the podcast or whatever and that time will come
0:40.1	you know there's going to be there's going to be this point in the story where it gets into the
0:46.5	rivalries and jealousies like all those things that end up breaking up iconic duos such as ourselves
0:52.3	and you know it's not Can I just say to them,
0:55.1	I'm doing cocaine right now as we're recording this episode. So we're in the drug period of our show
1:00.7	already. Yeah, it's like that scene, walk hard. I'm in a dark period. Um, and... But it's not going to be
1:08.6	the drugs. It's not going to be the book deals or the, you know, the musicians with whom you're on a text message basis.
1:14.7	That's not going to be it.
1:16.2	I'm going to look back on April 12, 2021 as the day where somebody found it.
1:23.8	You know, they made their lives work to hack the uh twitter and instagram accounts of
1:28.9	uh prominent music writers uh steve was one of them i was not i was just not seen as important
1:37.3	enough to have my social media hacked on now i i was just i I'm sorry that happened. I would have freaked out if that
1:46.1	happened to me. But the fact that it was like majority music writers, is this like a preemptive
1:51.2	strike by Greta Van Fleet Stan Army? I don't know. I mean, I don't think it was intentionally
1:58.7	directed at music critics.
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