The Brat Summer/Kamala Harris Convergence + New Albums By Jack White And Childish Gambino
Indiecast
Amazon Music
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode begins with an extended rant from Steven about a big pet peeve: The conflation of music taste with personal morality and/or ideology. This came up multiple times this week, first with Charli XCX's apparent endorsement of Kamala Harris and the deep investigation into JD Vance's Spotify playlists (2:17). After Steven's rant, Ian shares his review of EA Sports College Football 25 and how it might impact his music writing career (17:40).
The guys then talk about new albums from Jack White and Childish Gambino, and the diverging paths both artists are taking in 2024 (22:20). They also discuss two records that turned 10 this week, Joyce Manor's Never Hungover Again and Alvvays' Alvvays, and the value of song power over short-term cultural relevancy (35:45). In the mailbag, a listener asks Steven and Ian to recount their biggest musical disagreements (45:40).
In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks up the latest from Ben Seratan and Sinai Vessel while Steven stumps for Wand and American Aquarium (54:45).
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprocks' Indie Mix tape. |
| 0:12.6 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indiecast. |
| 0:14.9 | On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, we review albums, and we hash out trends. |
| 0:20.2 | In this episode, we talked about the |
| 0:21.5 | intersection of politics and Brat Summer, or Brought Summer, as we call it on this show, as well as |
| 0:27.7 | new albums by Jack White and Childish Gambino. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my |
| 0:33.2 | friend and co-host. He's definitely voting for Kamala Harris now after that Charlie XX tweet. |
| 0:39.0 | Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? Yeah, it's not real until I hear Tim Walls talk about the |
| 0:45.0 | Cindy Lee album. You know, like, where, we're, has Tim, has Andy Bashir gotten to the end of that |
| 0:52.0 | record? Uh, what does, you know, Roy Cooper think of mannequin pussy? Like, I need to know, |
| 0:58.2 | like, I need to get, like, recommendation corner from all of my favorite politicians. I mean, |
| 1:03.5 | I mean, I got a Spotify playlist here. We're going to, like, do some investigative reporting on, like, |
| 1:09.4 | who's streaming what? Like, you uh listening to uh you know |
| 1:13.8 | if you listen to cowboy carter a sufficient number of times for me to vote for you we need to know this |
| 1:21.3 | we need to know like what what right wing politicians are listening to so we know what not to |
| 1:26.3 | listen to you know this is very important |
| 1:28.4 | stuff yeah i mean i did see today that we actually did talk on this you know our mid-year |
| 1:37.3 | about how there's no everything now or daddy's home type album rollout cycle where we just get like new awesome material |
| 1:47.6 | every single day and it's just impossible to keep up and I think that we are like slowly shifting |
| 1:53.1 | to politics cast because you know we did have the Kamala tweet and then we had J.D. Vance like his |
| 1:59.7 | Spotify playlist leak and now like in the time in |
| 2:03.2 | between us doing the outline recording there's a whole bunch of did J.D. Vance fuck a couch. Uh, it's really |
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