The Next Track

♫ Episode #9 – Will Hermes on Discovering New Music

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In the latest episode of The Next Track, Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn welcome NPR and Rolling Stone music critic Will Hermes. We take a brief stroll down memory lane, then discuss music discovery: how does a music critic, overwhelmed with choice, discover new music.

“For me to just become a nostalgia merchant; as a writer, and as a music fan, not interested.”

Show notes:

Discovering new music:

  • Will Hermes’ website; his writing on Rolling Stone; his reviews on WNYC; All Things Considered
  • Love Goes to Buildings on Fire, by Will Hermes
  • NPR Music
  • Uncut Magazine
  • The Wire
  • Pitchfork
  • Rate Your Music
  • Other People
  • Listen to all ten albums from Brian Eno’s Obscure Records label
  • Day of the Dead
  • Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs Of Bob Dylan
  • Rock Family Trees

    • Our next tracks:

    • Kirk: Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians
    • Doug: Johnny Thunders, So Alone

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