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The Next Track
By Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn
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How many episodes does The Next Track have?
The podcast currently has 292 episodes available.
The Next Track episodes:
September 25, 2024Episode #291: Why Can't Concerts Be More Interesting? Kirk attended a unique concert recently, and Doug and Kirk discuss how concerts could be more interesting.
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Show notes:
- Episode #178 - Lieder and Opera Singer Ian Bostridge
- Winterreise review - agony and ecstasy as Bostridge and Drake bring Schubert’s song cycle to dramatic life
- Palladium
- Lone Star Cafe
- The Bottom Line
Our next tracks:
- La Folia 1490-1701: Jordi Savall
- X: Smoke & Fiction
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...more September 11, 2024Episode #290: Why Most People Have Better Audio on Their TV Systems People are more likely to have good audio for their TV, to watch movies and films, than for music these days.
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Show notes:
- Panasonic Streaming 4K Blu Ray Player DP-UB820-K
Our next tracks:
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (4K Ultra HD)
- Kiss: Alive
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...more August 28, 2024Episode #289: Audio Gear and Firmware: Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind Don't buy hi-fi audio equipment that needs firmware updates. (This means you, Sonos.)
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Show notes:
- Cambridge Audio EVO ONE
- Sonos, still trying to fix its broken app, lays off 100 employees
- Episode #168 - L'Affaire Sonos and Obsolescence in Audio Equipment
- KEF LSX II
- Episode #281: Kirk's New Audio Gear
Our next tracks:
- Radio On
- Oasis - Definitely Maybe
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...more August 14, 2024Episode #288: Merch It's tough to make money in the music business. So artists sell merch.
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Show notes:
- Shakedown Street (Grateful Dead parking lot market)
- Live Nation announces it will drop merch cuts and pay $1,500 stipend to all club acts
- Taylor Swift Sells a Rainbow of Vinyl Albums. Fans Keep Buying Them.
- Adele in Munich
- Robert Fripp: The Guitar Circle
- Robert Fripp merch
- Handmade by Toyah & Robert
- Cameo - Robert Fripp videos
- I thought Bob Dylan had fallen in love with me – then he asked me for $5,000
- Episode #74 – Jeffrey Norman on Restoring, Mixing, and Mastering the Grateful Dead
Our next tracks:
- Grateful Dead: Friend Of The Devils: April 1978
- Elastica: Elastica
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...more July 31, 2024Episode #287: The Summer Doldrums It's the summer of Apple beta software. We chat a bit about the Music app, new operating systems, and how Apple's AI could affect Apple Music.
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Show notes:
- macOS Sequoia Preview
- Moom
- Soulver
- How to Install Apple Beta Software for macOS Sequoia, iOS 18, iPadOS 18, watchOS 11, and tvOS 11
- Install macOS Sequoia Beta in a Virtual Machine on an M1, M2, or M3 Mac with UTM
- "By saying, “Hey Siri, I like this song,” HomePod and Apple Music become the perfect musicologist..."
- The Music Genome Project
Our next tracks:
- Reformation: Mishka Rushdie Momen
- Leon Russel: Carney
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...more July 17, 2024Episode #286: Reach "Don’t confuse consumption with reach."
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Show notes:
- Reach, Bob Lefsetz
- Glastonbury on the BBC iPlayer
- Glastonbury 2024 line-up
Our next tracks:
- Robert Fripp: Washington Square Church CD, download
- Rory Gallagher: Calling Card
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...more July 03, 2024Episode #285: Is Classic Rock the New Classical Music No one gets up in the morning and says, “I want to be in a classic rock band.”
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Show notes:
- The most popular, obscure, Democratic, Republican and hated music in America
- Queen Catalog to Be Acquired by Sony Music for £1 Billion
- Music on The Sopranos
Our next tracks:
- Daniel Barenboim: Complete Wagner Operas
- The Three O'Clock: Sixteen Tambourines
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...more June 19, 2024Episode #284: You Can't Beat the System Something always goes wrong. "The grass may look great, but it's not real grass."
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Show notes:
- Episode #278: Gear Acquisition Syndrome
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- Charles Ives: Concord Sonata, by Donna Coleman)
- Dog Party: Dangerous
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...more June 05, 2024Episode #283: Another Green World Doug and Kirk discuss one of Brian Eno's best early albums, Another Green World.
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Show notes:
- Another Green World
- Another Green World (Wikipedia)
- Oblique Strategies
- Episode #164 - Sid Smith on the Life and Times of King Crimson
- Brian Eno — Everything Merges With The Night — Timo Andres
- Another Day on Earth
- David Byrne: Catherine Wheel
Our next tracks:
- King Crimson - Full Show (The Noise - Live At Fréjus 1982)
- Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking
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...more May 22, 2024Episode #282: Embracing the CD Revival Continuing with our multi-episode arc, we discuss the joys of listening to CDs.
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Show notes:
- My New Vitsœ Shelves Have Freed Up Space in My Office
- Another Timbre
- Episode #155 - Running a Small Record Label: Another Timbre
- Dave's Picks Vol. 50: Palladium, New York City, NY 5/3/77
- Barenboim: Complete Wagner Operas
Our next tracks:
- Emerson String Quartet: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon
- Simple Minds: Empires and Dance
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FAQs about The Next Track:
How many episodes does The Next Track have?
The podcast currently has 292 episodes available.
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