Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone. Music now.

Recording right in the middle of a thunderstorm here in New York, so if you hear that,

consider it atmospheric sound effects. But again we have an incredibly packed episode.

First we're going to talk to Simon Vosik Levinson about some of the best indie albums of

2022 so far.

And then we have Brittany Spanos to talk to us about the state of Justin Bieber.

Justin Bieber's tour is back on, so we're going to use that as an excuse to take a look

at the state of his career.

And while we're at it, we're also going to touch on what's going on with

Kanye West who just canceled get another festival appearance at the last minute.

And then finally, we have some excerpts from my newsmaking interview with Wolfgang Van Halen where he talks about his next album as Mammoth W. V. H and also what happened with that supposed Eddie Van Halen tribute that was in the works.

Wolf talked to me on the year anniversary

of his debut album, Mammoth W. V.H.

But let's start at the year in

Indy and to do so I have with me Simon Vosick Levenson an album that I think is

really excellent as Mitsky's Laurel Hell and as she told her own

Angie Martosio she almost quit making music this album is sort of what came out

when she decided not to quit music.

For me, it's her best album in some time.

I think someone jokingly called it a pop sellout move

because it has these real Georgio Marauder rhythms to it.

And she even mentioned Hall and Oates as a secret influence.

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