New Albums By Kurt Vile and Guided By Voices, the Return of Wild Pink, and "Indie Rock" Electronic Albums

About this episode

The episode discusses new music releases, including albums by Wild Pink and Guided By Voices, along with commentary on the NBA playoffs and music recommendations.

The guys open with a Sportscast about the NBA playoffs, including talk about SGA flopping and the New York Knicks dominating (1:56). They then talk about a new album announcement by one of the show's "mascot" bands, Wild Pink (13:57). They also discuss the new Guided By Voices album, and Steven's recent ranking of all the band's many members (21:20). Then they delve deeper into the week's new releases, including albums by Iceage, Paul McCartney, and Turnover. (28:49). They also touch on the new Boards of Canada release, and subsequently discuss indie-adjacent electronic music (47:23). In Recommendation Corner, Ian recommends Crash Of Rhinos and Steven recommends a new archival John Prine live album (52:16). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Hosts: Steven, Ian

Topics covered

• NBA playoffs
• new album announcements
• indie rock
• electronic music
• music recommendations

Keywords

• NBA playoffs
• Wild Pink
• Guided By Voices
• new music releases
• indie rock
• electronic music
• music recommendations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Knicks, Wild Pink, Guided By Voices, Iceage, Paul McCartney, Turnover, Boards of Canada

Books & works: Crash Of Rhinos, John Prine live album

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