The Best Music Documentaries + The Elephant 6's Legacy

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The holidays are here, meaning it's not only time to tune out holiday music in every store but it's also time to chill out, lay on your couch, and binge watch movies. This week on Indiecast, hosts Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen share their recommendations for the best music documentaries to check out (or to put on in the background while decorating your Christmas tree). Plus, they look back on iconic record label The Elephant 6, which was a home for bands like Neutral Milk Hotel and The Olivia Tremor Control.

In terms of banter this week, Indiecast talks Twitter's still-uncertain future and how difficult it would be to hash out trends if the platform shut down completely. They also imagine kind of music they'd play if they had a college radio show (hint: it'd be pretty similar to Indiecast).

The Recommendation Corner this week has Ian shouting out Drowse's Wane Into It, which is a mix of slowcore-country combined with Mount Eerie. Steven shouts out Weyes Blood's latest album And In The Darkness Hearts Aglow.

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 116 here or below and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:13.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.0	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week,
0:17.2	review albums, and we hash out trends.
0:19.5	In this episode, we discuss the legacy
0:21.2	of Elephant Six and give some holiday music documentary recommendations. My name is Stephen
0:27.3	Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He only eats emo turkey on Thanksgiving.
0:32.9	Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? Just a note, if we're like making jokes next year that merge my musical
0:39.6	taste with Thanksgiving food, there is a popular turkey alternative out there in the market
0:46.1	called corn. It's spelled with a cue. The fact that they haven't used to be ready for like our
0:52.6	meat alternative turkey loaf seems like a real missed opportunity.
0:57.5	So if you are part of the corn, I guess it's corn, Q-U-O-R-N, this is the first time we've ever had like quasi advertising on this web on this podcast.
1:08.9	But yeah, reach out.
1:10.0	Yeah, I know.
1:10.5	We should have we should have booked ahead on
1:13.2	that you know because we're recording this episode a week ahead of time uh it's november 18th
1:19.4	we're getting out ahead of the holiday uh for the episode that's posting the day after thanksgiving
1:24.7	and we were talking about this that, you know, we've
1:28.1	banked episodes before, but this might be a unique situation. It could be like recording
1:33.7	an episode before the Kennedy assassination or before 9-11. And of course, I'm talking about
1:42.3	the fact that Twitter might not exist by the time this episode posts.
1:47.7	This episode could be a time capsule of a simpler and more innocent time before the collapse of a social media platform that probably most of our listeners don't even use.
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