What Do Year-End Lists Say About The Music Trends Of 2025?
Indiecast
Amazon Music
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Steven and Ian begin with a quick tangent about the intersection of conservative newspaper columnists and music podcasts, and whether it will ever happen on Indiecast (1:52). They also do a Sportscast on the failing Philadelphia Eagles and Steven's revived hatred of the Chicago Bears (7:53). Then they pivot to a conversation about year-end albums lists, and what they say about the prevailing trends of 2025 (16:48). After that, they check out the just-announced Bonnaroo lineup (39:40) and do a "yay or nay" on Nick Cave (50:00)
In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks about LA indie-sleazers The Hellp and Steven stumps for the Australian improv trio The Necks (53:51).
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indie Mix tape. |
| 0:13.5 | Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast. |
| 0:15.8 | In this show we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends. |
| 0:21.3 | In this episode, we check in on year-end list from around the globe. |
| 0:25.9 | And we also perused the just-announced lineup for Bonnaroo, 2026, and we yay or nay, Nick Cave. |
| 0:32.8 | My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. |
| 0:36.1 | He's happy to welcome our very special guest, Tucker Carlson, for a discussion about |
| 0:40.7 | Lo Stukunaka. |
| 0:42.6 | Ian Cohen. |
| 0:43.5 | Ian, how are you? |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah, when I saw that New York Times podcast was welcoming a conservative op-ed guy to talk |
| 0:52.1 | about Taylor Swift, I did not do what a normal person might, |
| 0:56.3 | which is consider doing the Marge Simpson music is none of my business thing for the rest of my life. |
| 1:01.3 | No. A normal person would not make a Simpsons reference. That's something you would do immediately. |
| 1:06.0 | That's not something a normal person would do, but go on. Yeah. But, you know, because I'm a sicko, I actually had to look to see if there was a YouTube |
| 1:15.2 | of it because I did want to see the exact moment that the soul leaves their body when |
| 1:21.7 | Ross Duthot, of all people, starts talking about NBA young boy. |
| 1:25.9 | But instead, the first thing you see in this video |
| 1:29.0 | is John Caramanica eating very loudly from a bag of potato chips like he's Cameron and paid in full. |
| 1:35.7 | You know, people do a conservative popcast every day, but you'd be all right. And that scene is such a |
| 1:41.1 | 40 to 50 something rap nerd thing that I have to assume it's like a coded cry for help and a hostage video. |
| 1:47.7 | It is grim, it's grim, man. |
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