The First Ever Record Label Draft + Our Favorite Performances In Pitchfork Festival History
Indiecast
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4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Let's say you are starting a record label. Money is no object, and every artist and band in the world is a free agent. Who would you pick? That's the premise of this week's episode. (31:21) This wholly original idea involves selecting acts that fall into five categories: prestige (they don't stream big but they get great reviews), popular (they don't get great reviews but they stream big), solo artist under the age of 28 (an up-and-comer you can lock in for a long time), band with three or fewer albums (ditto), and sacred cow (an act you sign because you love them).
Before Steven and Ian get to the draft, they talk about this weekend's Pitchfork Festival — Ian is going and Steven is not — and their favorite performances from previous festivals (4:44). They also address some non-indie rock topics: The terrible new Jason Aldean song (13:40) and the history of reactionary country hits that crossover into the mainstream for culture war reasons, and the forthcoming "Summer Of '99" cruise (23:46) featuring a reunited Creed plus a head-scratching mix of post-grunge and radio-friendly pop rock from the late '90s.
In Recommendation Corner (57:54), Ian talks about the new book by Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly, while Steven chats up the new album by Texas surf-punks Being Dead.
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape. |
| 0:12.8 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast. |
| 0:15.0 | On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends. |
| 0:20.4 | In this episode, we conduct our first ever record label draft. |
| 0:24.9 | My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. |
| 0:28.4 | He insists we didn't steal this idea from the ringer. |
| 0:31.8 | Ian Cohen. |
| 0:32.9 | Ian, how are you? |
| 0:33.6 | I mean, I'm not going to front, like, our audience wouldn't go nuts if we actually did |
| 0:38.8 | a 2005's redraftables, you know, like, is, you know, it's clap your hands say, yeah, the Channing |
| 0:44.5 | Fry of 2005, are they more like Andrew Bynum? I mean, my first, like, my first, like, viral, |
| 0:50.8 | if you want to call it, that moment as a writer happened like when I compared |
| 0:56.0 | every college football program |
| 0:57.9 | to like a rapper on BlockSpot in |
| 0:59.9 | 2005 so I mean we're just |
| 1:02.1 | getting back to our roots you know |
| 1:03.9 | yeah well yeah look |
| 1:05.5 | clearly doing any kind of draft |
| 1:08.4 | a pop culture draft |
| 1:10.1 | you have to tip your cap to my former boss, Bill Simmons. |
| 1:14.4 | He is the, I don't even know what the word would be, the innovator, and bringing draft |
| 1:20.5 | structures into pop culture conversations. I actually had this idea to do a record label draft, and we'll explain what this is |
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