A Rom-Com About An Indie Music Critic? Plus: New Albums By Nine Inch Noize and Friko
4/24/20261 hr 1 min
This week's episode opens with the first-ever Sportscast of the Amazon era (01:38) followed by a conversation about the week's new releases, touching on Foo Fighters, Failure, Metric, Noah Kahan and more (05:51). After that, the guys check in on the Fantasy Albums Draft (16:47), and then discuss new albums by the Chicago band Friko (21:38) and the Trent Reznor/Boys Noize collaboration Nine Inch Noize (28:54). Then they talk about the new romantic comedy "Mile End Kicks," a period piece about a young indie music critic living in Montreal in 2011 (35:32). Finally, they wrap with Ian recommending the latest New Pornographers album and Steven talking about the big essay in his newsletter on 2020s alt-country, with special shout-outs to recent albums by Brown Horse and Florry (54:34).
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First 90 secondsSteven Hyden· Host0:00
Indiecast is presented by Amazon Music. [rock music] Hello everyone, and welcome to Indiecast. On this show we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends. In this episode, we talk about new albums by Nine Inch Nails and Frico, and we review the new indie music critic rom-com Mile and Kicks. I thought we were the only indie music critic rom-com. [laughs] My name is Steven Hyden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. I wonder if he thinks it's appropriate to do a sportscast on the Mike Vrabel-Diana Russini story, Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you?
Ian Cohen· Host0:43
Yeah, I mean, you and I have had some difficult conversations about this, but I mean, you look at Mike Vrabel as a guy who got humiliated in the Super Bowl and then had an age-appropriate affair. I'm wondering if there's a section of the Patriots fan base that sees him as, like, the Bravery to Bill Belichick's The Killers.
Steven Hyden· Host1:00
Oh, man. You mean in terms of the scandal, uh- Yeah, exactly ... component?
Ian Cohen· Host1:04
It's like, man, if you're, you're, if you're gonna, if you're gonna be a Patriots head coach, I mean, like, there, there are certain things that they expect, which is to be the team that wins the miserable to watch Super Bowl. And then, um, I mean, I don't... Like, Jordan Hudson came after the fact, but what can I tell you?
Steven Hyden· Host1:19
Yeah. That's more of a, a, you know, a University of North Carolina era scandal for him than it is a Patriots scandal. Just like I don't claim anything