The Thrill Of American Football and The Agony Of "Michael"
Indiecast
Amazon Music
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Steven and Ian start with a Moviecast about the new Michael Jackson biopic, a huge blockbuster that Steven saw and Ian probably won't (3:16). From there they talk about the pros and cons of concert tourism (17:55) and Ian's recent experience seeing the cult emo band Everyone Asked About You (23:26). Then they talk about some of the week's new releases, including albums by Hiss Golden Messenger, Lip Critic, The Black Keys, and Tori Amos (32:15) before landing on an extended conversation about the band American Football and their new self-titled LP (41:58). Finally, in Recommendation Corner Ian discusses the band You're An Angel and Steven stumps for Mildred (56:26).
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast. |
| 0:15.0 | On this show we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends. |
| 0:20.0 | In this episode we talk about the new |
| 0:22.2 | album by American Football, among other subjects. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my |
| 0:27.9 | friend and co-host. He's upset that the Michael Jackson movie didn't focus enough on the free |
| 0:32.5 | Willie soundtrack. Ian Cohen, Ian, how are you? I mean, first off, the SWV remix of right here that |
| 0:39.8 | interpolates human nature, which is my favorite Michael Jackson song. Yeah, that's a banger right |
| 0:44.2 | there, but I am not, I am not nostalgic for the Free Willy soundtrack because that was on |
| 0:48.9 | constant rotation during the darkest period of my life, which was a Jewish overnight summer camp in 1993. |
| 0:56.2 | It was that. |
| 0:56.7 | It was the Lion King soundtrack. |
| 0:58.1 | It was Billy Joel River of Dreams. |
| 1:00.0 | Wow. |
| 1:00.4 | I don't need to hear that stuff ever, ever again. |
| 1:03.1 | You were a real outcast. |
| 1:04.6 | If you liked smashing pumpkins, that made you a real outlier back then. |
| 1:10.2 | What else is on the freewhelly |
| 1:11.7 | soundtrack other than the michael jackson song uh will you be there i mean that's like the big |
| 1:16.7 | one yeah that i know that but like what else is on there that's a that's a great question i like |
| 1:22.1 | i is uh swv something by uh there's a new kids on the block song. |
| 1:28.9 | Something called the funky poets. |
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