The Next Track

By Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn

Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn discuss music and musicians, and how we listen to music, whether it be analog or digital, downloaded or streamed, audio, or video.... more

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The Next Track episodes:

June 04, 2025Episode #309: Shouting at Clouds
Doug and Kirk discuss some of the things they like and dislike about the current state of audio equipment and the music industry.
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‌Show notes
RIAA equalization - Wikipedia
Cable sheathing
Our next tracks:
Traffic: The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped
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May 21, 2025Episode #308: Playing Games
Video games are one of the most popular forms of entertainment. Doug has been a gamer for a long time, but Kirk only recently converted. We talk about how gaming is part of our leisure activity.
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Batman: Arkham Asylum
Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Escape from Tarkov
The Long Dark
Stardew Valley
Stray
Our next tracks:
Pink Floyd At Pompeii - MCMLXXII
Guided by Voices: Universe Room
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May 07, 2025Episode #307: AI Is Everywhere
AI is everywhere. It hasn't really affected music yet, or has it?
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‌Show notes:
Perplexity
Microsoft made an ad with generative AI and nobody noticed
How Daydreaming Can Enhance Creativity for Fiction Writers
The Next Track: Episode #305: Timo Andres on Steve Reich's Collected Works
Sonatas and Interludes - Wikipedia
Our next tracks:
John Cage, Sonatas and Interludes, James Tenney
Corey Harris: Greens From the Garden
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April 23, 2025Episode #306: Displacement and the Long Tail
Wired editor Chris Anderson came up with the idea of "the long tail" in 2004, suggesting that older books, music, and other creative works would continue to sell in small amounts, making enough money over time for these creators to survive. He was wrong. Very wrong.
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‌Show notes:
Chris Anderson, The Long Tail (Wired)
Darkside at Coachella (unfortunately, the full video is no longer available; here's one song that's on YouTube)
Very Seldom Casual, on uncertain.fm
Our next tracks:
Yasunori Imamura: J.S. Bach: Cello Suites, Vol. 2
Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years
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April 09, 2025Episode #305: Timo Andres on Steve Reich's Collected Works
Composer and pianist Timo Andres wrote extensive listening notes for the new box set of Steve Reich's Collected Works. We talk with him about this composer whose work over the past five decades has been incredibly influential.
"I went everyone to listen to music in a more abstract way."
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‌Show notes:
Timo Andres
Timo Andres on The Next Track
Steve Reich: Collected Works
Will Hermes
Our next tracks:
Grateful Dead: Reckoning
Ron Wood: I've Got My Own Album To Do
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Special Guest: Timo Andres.
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March 26, 2025Episode #304: Box Sets
The Grateful Dead released a big box set that Kirk will not buy, leading Doug and Kirk to discuss box sets of CDs.
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‌Show notes:
Enjoying The Ride, Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead Complete Europe ’72 Box Set
New Live Release from Yes: Progeny, Seven Concerts from 1972
Why Box Sets Are Stuck in the Past
Vinyl and packaging manufacturer, Key Production Group, reveals its predictions for vinyl and physical music releases in 2025
Steve Reich: Collected Works
Our next tracks:
J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue — Phantasm Viol Consort
Mose Allison: The Best of Mose Allison
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March 12, 2025Episode #303: What Is Our Dream Home Audio Setup?
We muse on our dream home audio setups, the enshittification of streaming TV, and Doug explains how he has music in his bathroom.
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‌Show notes:
Ruark 100 series
Towards Zero
Episode #48 – Musician Dave Harrington of DARKSIDE and the Dave Harrington Group on Music Between Genres
Our next tracks:
Darkside: Nothing
David Johansen: David Johansen
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February 26, 2025Episode #302: Rant about Apple's Music App
We rant about compilations in Apple's music app, and some other annoyances.
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‌Show notes:
Doug's AppleScripts
Take Control of Apple Media Apps
Very Seldom Casual: UncertainFM
Apple Music Classical (Mostly) Plays the Right Chords - TidBITS
Our next tracks:
Bears Sonic Journals: Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, Before We Were Them
Spirit: Clear
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30min
February 12, 2025Episode #301: The Freddy Mercurization of Dylan
The recent movie about Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown, has led many people to "discover" Bob Dylan's music.
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‌Show notes:
Don’t look back: after decades of apathy, A Complete Unknown has turned me into a Dylan nut
Elijah Wald: Dylan Goes Electric
Episode #20 – You Think You Know about the Blues? Eliah Wald on the History of the Blues
Our next tracks:
Allman Brothers: Live at the Fillmore East
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisted
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January 29, 2025Episode #300: Billions and Obscura
We look at Spotify's Billions Club, and discuss how some people are trying to discover the must unplayed music.
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‌Show notes:
No Dylan but loads of Coldplay! What the songs with a billion streams on Spotify tell us about music taste today
Vintage Obscura
Lefsetz Letter: Apple Music’s Per Stream Payment
Our next tracks:
Morton Feldman: Two Pianos and other pieces, 1953-1969
Steel Pulse: Tribute to the Martyrs
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