The Weeknd, James Blake, And Indie R&B

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

After a week of banter about Phoebe Bridgers smashing her guitar on 'SNL' and the discourse that inevitably surrounds the annual announcement of nominees for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ian and Steven are spending this week’s episode of Indiecast reflecting on a simpler moment in indie history. The so-called indie R&B scene of the early 2010’s spawned some of the biggest artists of today, including The Weeknd, Frank Ocean, and James Blake.

At the same time, Beyonce and Jay-Z were going to see both Coldplay and Grizzly Bear live, and Kanye was collaborating with Bon Iver. With James Blake’s debut album turning ten and The Weeknd playing the Super Bowl halftime show, now is as fitting a time as ever to reminisce on an era ripe with musical collaboration and exciting releases that remain part of the conversation nearly a decade later.

In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Cohen has been enjoying For Your Health's debut album 'In Spite Of,' while Hyden can’t get enough of the Ryley Walker and Kikagaku Moyo collabroative album, 'Deep Fried Grandeur.'

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indie Mix tape.
0:13.8	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.7	On this show, we talked about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:18.2	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:20.4	In this episode, we're going to be talking about the so-called indie R&B news of the week. We review albums and we hash out trends. In this episode,
0:21.0	we're going to be talking about the so-called indie R&B scene of the early 2010s that spawned
0:26.3	the weekend and James Blake. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host, Ian Cohen.
0:32.4	Ian, how are you? You know, as long as I've been writing about music, like on a semi-professional level, I mean, you can take this back to me, you know, writing about, you know, the president of the United States of America and 311 in high school newspaper, college newspaper.
0:48.8	Oh, wow.
0:49.7	I mean, as long as I've been putting my byline on music writing, I've always had, I don't know, I've
0:57.2	always had these thoughts about like, what did it be like if I had really, you know, put my all
1:01.6	into it? What if I had at 22, you know, taking the Stephen Hayden route and gone the, at the
1:07.4	alter, all weekly and the local newspaper and, and you know just really made this my life's
1:13.2	work and you know i do have a lot of regrets about um you know it like would i have written books
1:20.7	by now would i have alienated everyone in my family um yes know, all of it mostly positive.
1:27.9	And then I, and then every February without fail, I wake up and realize that I would
1:33.9	be professionally obligated to once again have an opinion about the Super Bowl halftime show,
1:41.4	the Grammys, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame every year without fail.
1:47.0	And I don't know, with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, when that stuff started popping up the other day, I was this close to wishing for like Groundhog's Day, like six more weeks of guitar smashing etiquette discourse.
1:59.8	If I did not have to hear people pretend to care about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame anymore,
2:04.6	you know?
2:05.8	You know, I mean, I was joking with you before we started recording, but I actually think
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