The End Of Pitchfork Fest + The Rise Of Mk.gee

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week, the guys recorded Indiecast a few days early, so they apologize in advance for missing any potential indie news. Steven was off to NYC for the film festival premiere of Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary — which he worked on as story producer — ahead of streaming on HBO/Max on November 29 (2:24). After a brief conversation about yacht rock, the guys talk about the exodus on social media to Bluesky and how the new-ish app feels like a Christian rock alternative to X/Twitter (10:09).

Then they hash out an unfortunate trend: The end of Pitchfork Fest. They share memories of the festival and discuss how it was like a convention for music writers (17:57). From there, they review the recent Grammy nominations, some truly weird picks for Best New Artist, and some surprisingly good picks for Best Alternative Album (30:40). Finally, they discuss the meteoric rise of the indie-adjacent singer-songwriter Mk.gee and whether it annoys Alex G (43:00).

In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks about the Chicago emo band Bottom Bracket and Steven recommends the LA post-punk quartet Bondo (53:52).

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indie Mix tape.
0:13.5	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast on the show we talk about the biggest indie news of the week,
0:18.3	we view albums, and we hash out trends.
0:20.9	In this episode, we talked about the end of the pitchfork festival, maybe.
0:25.8	We make fun of the Grammys, and we yay or nay, McGee.
0:30.2	My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host.
0:33.3	I wonder if he's Team Twitter or team blue sky.
0:38.1	Ian Cohen.
0:38.7	Ian,
0:39.2	how are you?
0:39.9	I mean,
0:41.1	I'm straight up threads.
0:41.4	You know,
0:44.2	I'm not ready to give up on threads just yet.
0:44.5	You know,
0:45.6	if I'm going to,
0:48.2	are you on threats?
0:49.7	Have you posted some threads?
0:52.1	I don't think I have.
0:53.1	Isn't it the deal?
0:53.9	Again,
0:55.6	like this is not me.
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