The Dare's Critic-Baiting EP, The Dubiousness Of Indie Sleaze, and Reunion Rumors For Oasis and Modern Baseball

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode begins with Ian telling Steven about his recent experience seeing The Cure in concert. Turns out they are playing a lot of new songs live, and they sound a lot like Disintegration. Steven reveals that Jason Isbell said something similar about his experience seeing The Cure in New Orleans (5:06).

Next, they address the most hyped release in the indie world of late, The Sex EP by NYC throwback dance-punk act The Dare (15:39). A lot of people are talking about this four-song release, and a lot of that talk is negative. But for Steven, what's interesting is that a collection of dumb tunes about sex and drugs is being treated as a novelty, when "dumb songs about sex and drugs" sum up a lot of popular music from the past 50 years, from rock to rap to country to basically every other genre. Is there a reaction brewing to the Trump/Covid era of music?

From there, Steven and Ian have a wider conversation about indie sleaze and whether it's a real phenomenon or a trumped-up fantasy by shadowy "Brooklyn-based trend forecasters" (32:29). Speaking of fantasies, the guys also addressed reunion rumors surrounding two very different bands: Oasis and Modern Baseball (44:55).

In Recommendation Corner (50:42), Ian talks about two electronic acts, Blawan and Overmono, while Steven brings up the catchy French indie pop En Attendant Ana.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks's Indie Mix tape.
0:12.8	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indiecast.
0:15.2	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:18.3	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:22.4	In this episode, we talk about the heavily hyped NYC Act, The Dare, and whether indie sleaze is actually a thing. My name
0:30.2	is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He regrets announcing his candidacy
0:35.0	on Twitter spaces. Ian Cohen.
0:38.2	Ian, how are you?
0:39.2	I know one of our more delightful bits is treating Twitter like Lydia Soprano.
0:44.9	Like, you know, I just wish the Lord would take me now.
0:47.1	But, I mean, after yesterday, is it, like, ever more clear that, like, Twitter is a completely washed app like i mean granted you know i got
0:56.5	right back on it this morning uh but it this is having ronda santis announced a presidency like with
1:05.1	elan musk i mean let me ask you this like this is what i thought of when i had to gauge just
1:10.0	how pathetic this
1:10.9	seemed do you did you have you ever had a band approach you about premiering a song of theirs
1:17.6	on your personal twitter yes yeah i have a lot of people have and what how does you feel when a
1:25.9	band did that?
1:34.1	I don't know. I understand, like, where they're coming from. And it's usually, you know,
1:37.9	a very complimentary email. Someone will write you and be like, oh, I've read all your books. I've, you know, been reading you since I was in middle school. And, oh, by the way, I'm in a band.
1:44.0	And can you debut this song on your
1:46.8	Twitter page so you know they're buttering you up and I always believe that oh he's probably
1:52.2	this person is probably emailing Ian Cohen immediately after this or I'm immediately after Ian
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