Broken Social Scene Returns, Greta Van Fleet Breaks Up (Almost), Ween vs. Tenacious D, and The Greatest Guitar Solos Of All Time
5/8/20261 hr 2 min
The guys open with Greta Van Fleet, who is not an indie band, possibly teasing their own breakup or possible new music this week (1:20). Then they offer an update on the Fantasy Albums Draft, discussing recent albums by Aldous Harding and Kneecap (8:15). This leads to a wider conversation about the week's new releases, including Broken Social Scene, Basement, Cola, Social Distortion, The Lemon Twigs, and more (19:24). After that they consider a recent list of the greatest guitar solos of all time, and offer up their picks (33:44). In the first mailbag of the Amazon era, they revisit Ian's negative album reviews for Pitchfork (43:23) and rule on whether Tenacious D ripped off Ween (48:32). In Recommendation Corner, Ian with indie EDM artist Ninajirachi and Steven goes with a recent book on heartland rock by Erin Osmon (56:44).
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First 90 secondsSteven Hyden· Host0:00
Indiecast is presented by Amazon Music. [upbeat 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 Broken Social Scene, Aldous Harding, and Cola, as well as the greatest guitar solos of all time. Also, I think we're gonna finally answer some listener emails, I think the first mailbag of the Amazon era. My name is Steven Hyden, and I'm joined by my friend and cohost. He has his Greta Van Fleet think piece ready to go if they break up tomorrow. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you?
Ian Cohen· Host0:45
I mean, the funniest first move would be to make their version of Page and Plant, which I guess would be called Kiska and Kiska.
Steven Hyden· Host0:52
Right.
Ian Cohen· Host0:53
Um, I was so committed to that joke, I actually had to look up their names, so... Uh, but yeah, Steve Albini passed away, so I don't know who would be, uh, the producer on that one. You know, Walking into Hillsdale, I guess it would be called, since they're from Michigan.
Steven Hyden· Host1:05
I don't know. Yeah. Who's, who's the, uh, modern Albini? Would it be, like, John Congleton? Would that be the guy to go to?
Ian Cohen· Host1:11
I think so.
Steven Hyden· Host1:12
Like- Yeah, or m- uh, yeah, that or m- I mean, Will Yip has, like, the exact opposite, uh, approach, but some- something along those lines. So this week, there was a story online. People were abuzz because Greta Van Fleet is teasing perhaps that they broke up, or maybe