The Future Of Bandcamp + The Rolling Stones
Indiecast
Amazon Music
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The Fall Albums Fantasy Draft is heating up between Steven and Ian. After Steven jumped out to an early lead, Ian has been slowly creeping up and it's looking like he might seriously contend for the top spot (7:21). After spending way too long hashing that out, the guys move on to a conversation about the recent layoffs at Bandcamp and what this might mean for the future of the beloved online indie retailer. After so many major indie-rock stars have sprung from that platform in the past decade, are we on the verge of a post-Bandcamp future? (16:10)
From there Steven and Ian talk about Rolling Stone's recent list of the best guitarists of all time, and what "best guitarists" lists say about the publications that produce them. Also: Are we now in a post-guitar hero society, where music fans no longer worship displays of instrumental virtuosity? (30:38) After that, they talk about the new Rolling Stones album, Hackney Diamonds, and Steven presents a theory about why the Stones haven't translated to younger generations like other classic-rock acts such as Steely Dan and Fleetwood Mac (46:33).
In Recommendation Corner (58:56), Ian raves about the new Jane Remover album while Steven goes in for rowdy country-rock band Dusk.
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprocks'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, |
| 0:17.4 | review albums, and we hash out trends. |
| 0:19.9 | In this episode, we talk about the |
| 0:21.3 | future of band camp, the best guitarist of all time lists, and the Rolling Stones. What a combination. |
| 0:28.2 | My name is Stephen He Heighton, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He cried when |
| 0:32.4 | M83 played Midnight City. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? Okay, so to clarify, I did sort of kind of cry when |
| 0:41.6 | M83 played Running the Flowers at the show I saw them at last Wednesday. I actually left before |
| 0:48.6 | they played Midnight City because that was going to be the encore. And to start off, I feel like I owe |
| 0:53.8 | an apology to all of our younger, you know, read like, you know, 28-year-old listeners. Because we always talk about, like, how young people don't know how to act at concerts these days, particularly after the pandemic. But I saw M83 at this new venue in Del Mar, which it's on something called Jimmy Durante Boulevard to give you a sense of like what Del Mar is like. |
| 1:15.2 | But yeah, I mean, it's a perfect venue to see M83 because as I mentioned to a very small number of people, like North County, San Diego is just now catching up to Los Angeles hipster culture in 2012. |
| 1:27.5 | I think local natives and fits in the tantrums were playing a week before. |
| 1:31.8 | But from seeing M83, I can tell you that like 40-somethings don't know how to act at shows either. |
| 1:37.6 | Incredible show. |
| 1:39.0 | But when people at this age at 40 and above, the most part talk about like I love going to concerts |
| 1:46.8 | like they don't mean seeing you know a cool new band at the 200 cap venue in town what they mean is |
| 1:53.0 | that like they're going to gather up all their friends and get super wasted on a Wednesday night |
| 1:58.7 | and like talk through the entire show. That was the M83 crowd. |
| 2:03.7 | Like they put, M83 put on a fucking amazing show by the way. I think fantasy is going to be both like a |
| 2:08.5 | memory hold and underrated album by the end of the year. But and also like there were some |
| 2:15.2 | things going on with the Wilco show that I went to. |
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