HeyJaredThe Indie 500 Podcast
A discussion and dissection of the top 500 albums according to NME magazine (list from 2013)We offer a history of the album and the time it was recorded, a look into the artists, interviews with musicians, critics and writersWe are quite fond of following the rabbit down the…
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IFP Pit Stop: Talking "Grunge! The Story of the Music That Redefined Rock" with author Gillian Gaar (opens the original)
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This week the Indie 500 spins Screaming Trees' Dust from NME's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. We're joined by music journalist and author Gillian G. Gaar, a longtime writer for The Rocket, Seattle's legendary free music paper, and a contributor to Mojo, Rolling Stone and Goldmine. Her new book, Grunge: The Story of the Music That Redefined Rock (Quarto), is out October 13, 2026. Gillian takes us inside The Rocket's offices in the years before grunge exploded. That was a Seattle of chainsaw-cut
Episode 38 - Wild Beasts - Smother - Falsetto Start, offense #244, 5 yard penalty, repeat 1st down (opens the original)
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#244 Wild Beasts - Smother The Indie 500 Podcast is back from a long summer hiatus, and Season 3 opens with Wild Beasts' 2011 album Smother , sitting at #244 on NME's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . Neither host had heard it before this week — no Limbo Panto , no Two Dancers , no Hayden Thorpe falsetto — which makes this a genuine first-listen deep dive into one of the strangest, most committed art-pop records British indie produced in the 2010s. We start with a Season 3 warm-up: 90s guilty pl
Emergency Pit Stop - Julian Casablancas’ IFP Trifecta (opens the original)
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The IFP boys drop everything they’re doing to address a moment in the recent news that may be the most IFP thing to ever happen.*recorded prior to passing of Dolly Parton r.i.p.*
Episode 37 - Joni Mitchell - Blue - The Last Time I Saw Rick Quinn (opens the original)
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#63 Joni Mitchell - Blue Joni Mitchell's Blue album review and music history deep dive — Episode 37 of our indie music podcast covering NME's Top 500 albums. We take on Blue , Joni Mitchell's 36-minute tour de force of poetry and unconventional guitar tunings, a landmark feminist album and a consensus classic on nearly every "greatest albums of all time" list. This episode continues where our recent interview with music journalist Annie Zaleski left off — with the added bonus of finally avoiding
IFP Pit Stop: Joni Mitchell's Blue with NY Times Bestselling Author Annie Zaleski (opens the original)
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Description: "In preparation for our deep dive into Joni Mitchell's landmark album Blue , we sit down with New York Times bestselling author Annie Zaleski for a wide-ranging conversation on Joni Mitchell's music history and trailblazing impact on pop music. This indie music podcast interview covers Joni Mitchell's influence as a songwriter, her open-tuned guitar innovations, and the long shadow she's cast over generations of artists. Annie Zaleski is an acclaimed music journalist and author — fi
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