The Explosion Of Chappell Roan + The Worst Song Ever Written
Indiecast
Amazon Music
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Steven and Ian open this week's episode with a quick Politics-cast about Tim Walz, the VP candidate whose life resembles a middle-aged man's version of a Hold Steady song (2:05). From there, they discuss a range of not-quite-indie topics — the retirement of Aerosmith from the road (15:30), the explosion of Chappell Roan (24:33), and whether John Mayer's "Daughters" is the worst song ever written (as suggested by St. Vincent) (34:37).
In the mailbag, a reader asks for advice on which upcoming show he should see, and the guys instead end up talking about the ethics of selling a birthday present bought by your wife (48:25).
In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks about the latest from Parannoul and Steven reps the new album by Oso Oso (54:53).
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape. |
| 0:14.3 | Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast. |
| 0:16.4 | On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week. |
| 0:18.9 | We review albums and we hash out trends. In this episode, we talk about Aeros indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends. |
| 0:21.5 | In this episode, we talk about Aerosmith Retiring, Chaperone exploding in the worst song |
| 0:27.4 | ever written. Not a lot of indie rock there, but that's okay. My name is Stephen Hayden, |
| 0:32.5 | and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He wishes he was a pudgy white guy from the Midwest, |
| 0:37.1 | like me and Tim Walls. |
| 0:39.1 | Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? Yeah, I mean, as excited as I am to get what appears to be a |
| 0:45.6 | Seeger guy, a Springsteen guy, this close to the button. I was just hoping that, you know, |
| 0:51.6 | Josh Shapiro is a 51-year-old Jewish guy who grew up like 20 minutes from me. |
| 0:57.1 | I was hoping we could like dig back through his old tweets and see whether he went through a Wu-Tang or a fish face. |
| 1:02.8 | Because it's one or the other if you're in that demographic. |
| 1:05.5 | Or maybe he's like also just like a like a huge G-love and special special sauce fan like that is like that's definitely within |
| 1:13.3 | a dude like that's wheelhouse which i say that derogatory well you're acting like these are |
| 1:19.2 | exclusive camps i mean isn't it possible or even likely that he is a wutang slash fish slash g love |
| 1:26.8 | person like i feel like those are concentric circles for is a Wu-Tang slash fish slash G-love person. |
| 1:33.9 | Like, I feel like those are concentric circles for a certain kind of guy in the 90s. |
| 1:38.5 | They are now, but back then, like, those were the real dividing lines. |
| 1:43.1 | Like, if you're in Jewish youth group, you have, like, the rap guys who would buy their girlfriends like the french vanilla |
| 1:45.2 | wear t-shirt then you had like the fish guys but eventually they all ended up at like |
| 1:50.2 | syracuse or penn state and joined the same fraternity but in high school they were different |
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