The 'Meet Me In The Bathroom' Documentary + Phoenix's 'Alpha Zulu'

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

New York City in the early aughts became a hotbed for indie artists when bands like The Strokes, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and more suddenly ignited a new era of indie rock. On this week's Indiecast episode, hosts Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen revisit that nostalgia-inducing era by sharing their thoughts on the new Meet Me In The Bathroom documentary, which uncovers footage from the '00s NYC music scene (26:18). Plus, they review a new album by another early aughts band, Phoenix, who just dropped their first LP in five years, Alpha Zulu (49:23).

When it comes to music news this week, the biggest story comes from... Taco Bell? The fast food chain tapped Turnstile to use one of their songs in a commercial, prompting Steven and Ian to wonder if Taco Bell handing out cash to indie bands can mend the touring industry (8:52). Plus, Indiecast talks Elon Musk's Twitter takeover and whether or not they'll decide to shell out $8 a month to keep their verification (:25).

In this week's Recommendation Corner (59:51), Ian shouts out the Canadian band Arm’s Length and their new album Never Before Seen, Never Again Found, which hearkens back to peak 2013-era Tumblr. Meanwhile, Steven recommends Bob Dylan’s Philosophy Of Modern Song, which is the musician's first book of new writing since 2004.

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 113 here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks's Indie Mix tape.
0:12.9	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indiecast.
0:14.9	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.3	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:19.6	In this episode, we review the new
0:21.2	Meet Me in the Bathroom documentary and a new album by Phoenix. My name is Stephen Hayden and I'm
0:27.0	joined by my friend and co-host. I wonder if he's going to pay $8 to keep his blue check.
0:31.8	Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? The haters and losers have said that you could not put a price tag
0:37.3	on the Ian Cohen
0:38.1	Twitter experience, but, you know, as it turns out, it's eight bucks, which is down from 20.
0:45.2	I mean, like, I think that was the kind of bait and switch that, like, makes $8 seem reasonable,
0:50.1	because the first thing that I heard was that it was going to cost like 20 bucks a month to keep your blue check.
0:56.1	And I'm like, yeah, fuck no.
0:57.3	I'm not like paying 20 bucks for anything.
0:59.5	But now like eight bucks, I mean, it sounds kind of reasonable if only because I want to like Airbnb my account to like, you know, pay 10 bucks.
1:09.1	You can rank proto-martre albums.
1:11.6	You know, have a blast. So you are, you're, pay 10 bucks. You can rank proto-martre albums. You know, have a blast.
1:17.1	So you are, you're giving Elon credit here for being a mastermind of business,
1:22.0	setting up an expectation that you're going to have to pay $20 instead of,
1:27.3	and then he presents $8 is going to be the fee, and that's going to make people forget that it currently costs $0 to be verified.
1:31.1	For those who don't know, I feel like we need to fill in the background here, because not
1:35.4	everyone is as Twitter poisoned as you and I are.
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