The Returns Of Alex G, Grizzly Bear, And Fiery Furnaces, Plus: More Sleep Token Talk?

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Steven and Ian begin this week's episode by noting the returns of two indie-rock favorites from the 2000s — Grizzly Bear and Fiery Furnaces are both returning to the road later this year (0:42). (Given that Grizzly Bear's Shields was recently inducted in the Indiecast Hall Of Fame, could this be evidence of the vaunted Indiecast bump?)

The guys also talk about an upcoming fall tour from Modest Mouse and Built To Spill, and weigh the catalogs of these iconic bands against each other (7:32). Then they discuss the latest song by Alex G, a teaser for his upcoming RCA Records debut LP (19:05). In the mailbag, a listener asks whether being a music critic makes it harder to be a music fan (28:19). The guys also answer an email about Sleep Token, which makes this the second consecutive episode with Sleep Token discourse.

In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks about the latest from the UK band Caroline and Steven goes for the Chicago guitarist Eli Winter (53:35).

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks' Indie Mix tape.
0:14.1	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:16.1	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends.
0:20.9	In this episode, we talk about indie rock comebacks, the return of Alex G, and more sleep token? Really? Wow, we can't get enough of that band. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He'll be in the pit with the other 45-year-olds at the Grizzly Bear show. Ian Cohen.
0:38.1	Ian, how are you?
0:39.2	Yeah, look at my therapist, dog.
0:40.8	I'm going to Brooklyn Steel.
0:42.5	Love it.
0:43.3	Love it.
0:44.8	Yes, as I hinted at the introduction there, we have some indie rock comebacks that were
0:50.4	announced this week.
0:51.7	Grizzly Bear has come back together for their first shows, I believe, since 2019.
0:57.2	Yeah, and I think I went to that.
0:58.6	Like, this was, if I'm not mistaken, it might have been at the Just Like Heaven Festival, like the first of them.
1:04.4	That was like the, you know, quote unquote, blog, rock nostalgia tour.
1:09.1	They were good.
1:10.1	That base was so loud they sounded like death from above
1:12.5	1979 well they're coming back here they've got a handful of shows they're going to be playing
1:18.0	Brooklyn Chicago LA San Francisco and Oakland presumably if these shows do well they'll expand
1:24.6	to other places possibly we're not sure I want to give us credit for this.
1:30.4	I recently inducted the album Shields from 2012 by Grizzly Bear into the Indycast Hall of Fame.
1:37.9	I believe that was like a month or so ago. Now all of a sudden we get these reunion dates
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