The Last Great American Indie Band

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, Steven and Ian make the argument that Deerhunter might be the last great American indie band. It’s an interesting claim, but one that makes more and more sense as the discussion continues. It all starts when the duo is digging deep into the band’s 2010 album Halcyon Digest in celebration of its tenth anniversary, when they reveal that Deerhunter is the last band in the true sense of the word: an entity that exists as a collective, rather than an identity that’s actually driven by one person.

In this week’s Recommendation Corner, we have Lomelda’s impressive new album 'Hannah' and Jeff Tweedy’s forthcoming book 'How To Write One Song.'

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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.
0:17.9	We review albums.
0:19.0	We hash out trends.
0:20.4	In this episode, we'll be revisiting
0:21.7	a classic album turning 10 this month, Halcyon Digest by Deer Hunter, and then pivoting to a larger
0:27.7	conversation about the evolution of the American indie rock band in the past 20 years.
0:33.5	My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host Ian Cohen.
0:38.1	Ian, how are you?
0:39.3	So I just want to preface this episode by saying this is like the first push down a slippery slope of nostalgia for fall 2010, which was easily the darkest period of my life.
0:53.1	I remember a lot of traveling for a job I hated,
0:57.3	like getting drunk at comedy festivals in Des Moines, being in like hotel rooms,
1:04.8	catastrophic breakups, losing that job, and also some of the most impactful music that I've ever heard. It seemed like
1:13.4	a new classic album was coming out like every single week. And I guess it brings up the point
1:18.4	that I think about a lot, particularly in 2020, where it's, is like, you know, my life is much
1:23.5	more stable. It's, do I need to experience these cataclysmic personal events to love music to the same
1:30.4	degree I did, you know, 10 years ago?
1:32.8	Or is it the music's fault?
1:34.6	Like basically what I'm saying, Steve, is that I do this podcast because I'm too cheap
1:39.2	to pay for therapy.
1:40.2	I was going to say that like this show has really taken on like a confessional edge for you.
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