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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February 26, 2020Episode #170 - Miles Davis's Landmark Album Kind of Blue
Ashley Kahn wrote the book on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, the jazz album everyone owns if they one at least one jazz album. We talk with Ashley about the recording of Kind of Blue, and about its legacy. (Apologies for the audio issues.)
Guest:
Ashley Kahn
Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
Show notes:
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Glenn Gould's 1955 and 1981 recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations
Episode #1 – Songs to Albums to Songs
Miles Davis: Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud: Original Soundtrack
Richard Williams: The Blue Moment
Ashley Kahn: A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (documentary)
Our next tracks:
Miles Davis: Circle in the Round
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
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Special Guest: Ashley Kahn.
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February 12, 2020Episode #169 - The Environmental Impact of Vinyl Records, CDs, and Data
We talk with Kyle Devine, author of a new book about the environmental impact of music recordings, which raises a number of issues that we had never previously considered.
Guest:
Kyle Devine
Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music
Show notes:
Nightmares on wax: the environmental impact of the vinyl revival
Shellac (Wikipedia)
Vinyl Record Production in Peril After Fire at California Plant
What the Vinyl Records Comeback Really Looks Like…
Phtalate (Wikipedia)
William T. Vollmann: Carbon Ideologies
Our next tracks:
Sir András Schiff plays The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (Visual Album)
Cream: Goodbye Tour - Live 1968
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January 29, 2020Episode #168 - L'Affaire Sonos and Obsolescence in Audio Equipment
Andy Doe joins us again to discuss the perils of having software-controlled audio equipment. After the Affaire Sonos, when the company announced that a lot of its older products would become "obsolete," perhaps it's time to think more carefully about how long hardware we buy will last, when it depends on software.
Guest:
Andy Doe
Show notes:
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
LSO Live
Starting in May 2020, some of our oldest products will no longer receive software updates or new features. We want to explain why and your options.
Sonos Recycling Program Just Creates Waste
Playing Multi-Room Audio After Sonos
Sonos, Squeezed by the Tech Giants, Sues Google – The New York Times
HomePod vs. Sonos One Stereo Pair Comparison
AirPlay (Wikipedia)
Sonos, Squeezed by the Tech Giants, Sues Google – The New York Times
Episode #147 - Kirk's New Sonos Amp
Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
The Cost of Avast's Free Antivirus: Companies Can Spy on Your Clicks
Internet of Shit
Our next tracks:
Yesterday
The Rezillos: Can't Stand The Rezillos
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Special Guest: Andy Doe.
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January 15, 2020Episode #167 - Tuning the Perfect Music Listening Room
Chris Connaker of Audiophile Style renovated the attic of his house and turned it into the ultimate listening room. He then tuned it using amazing speakers, acoustic treatment, and DSP (digital signal processing). He explains how he went about this, and how the room itself is perhaps the most important element in an audio system.
Guest:
Chris Connaker
Show notes:
A New Listening Room Part One
A New Listening Room Part Two: Acoustics, Speakers, DSP
REW (Room EQ Wizard)
DSP - Digital Signal Processing (Wikipedia)
Our next tracks:
Yes: Close to the Edge
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
David Bowie: Heroes
The Clash: London Calling
Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street
Brian Eno: Another Green World
The Who: Live at Leeds
Grateful Dead: Live/Dead
Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks
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Special Guest: Chris Connaker.
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January 02, 2020Episode #166 - Our Year in Music
For the first episode of the new decade - the last one recorded in the previous decade - Doug and Kirk look back on their year in music.
Show notes:
Honkyoku (Kirk's shakuhachi website)
The Zen of Everything (Kirk's podcast)
Rode Procaster microphone
Yamaha AG03 mixer
Episode #147 - Kirk's New Sonos Amp
KEF Q350 speakers
Q Acoustics 3020I speakers
Amazon Echo Dot
Tivoli Audio model One
Episode #162 - Apple's New Improved macOS Media Apps
Doug's AppleScripts
Time Out: We Don’t Give Music Enough Time to Grow on Us Anymore
John Cale: Music for a New Society
Our next tracks:
Chick Corea Trio: Trilogy
Harry Nilsson: Pussy Cats
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December 18, 2019Episode #165 - Christmas Is in the Air
There’s got to be a German word for this. It’s that feeling, that first second, when you heard Jingle Bells in the middle of summer.
Show notes:
Episode #58 – David Weigel on the History of Progressive Rock
Trio Mediaeval: Folk Songs
Bruce Springsteen: Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Do They Know It’s Christmas
We Are the World
Bob Dylan: Christmas in the Heart
Bob Dylan: Must Be Santa (video)
The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
Apple Music Christmas Playlist
Die Hard
It’s a Wonderful Life
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas
I Wish it Could Be Christmas (article)
The Kinks: Father Christmas
Nat King Cole: The Christmas Song
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: I Believe in Father Christmas
Mannheim Steamroller: Christmas
Ghosts of Christmas Past
Roomful of Blues: Roomful of Christmas
Our next tracks:
Harold Budd: Bandits of Stature
Frank Zappa: The Hot Rats Sessions
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December 04, 2019Episode #164 - Sid Smith on the Life and Times of King Crimson
Sid Smith is the official biographer of King Crimson. He recently updated his book, In The Court Of King Crimson - An Observation Over 50 Years, that tells the tale of this seminal band. We talk with Sid about everything Crimson.
Guest:
In The Court Of King Crimson - An Observation Over 50 Years
Show notes:
DGM Live
Episode #161 - Philip Thomas on Morton Feldman's Piano Music
Episode #97 - Jerry Ewing on Progressive Rock
Our next tracks:
CBGB (movie)
Jeff Beck: Blow By Blow
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Special Guest: Sid Smith.
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November 20, 2019Episode #163 - Lewis Shiner on His Novel Outside the Gates of Eden
Lewis Shiner's latest novel Outside the Gates of Eden is a saga that begins at a Dylan concert in 1965, then follows a musician and his friends as they age, up to the present. This novel has a huge scope, with moving scenes about music, and about a generation growing up. (Apologies for the sketchy Skype audio quality.)
Guest:
Lewis Shiner
Show notes:
Outside the Gates of Eden
Episode #28 – Music and Mystery: Author Peter Robinson on Music in His Novels
Why Bob Dylan Matters
Episode #67 – The Grateful Dead’s Legendary 5/8/77 Cornell Concert, with Author Peter Conners
Our next tracks:
Fontaines D.C.: Dogrel
Mother's Finest: Another Mother Further
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November 06, 2019Episode #162 - Apple's New Improved macOS Media Apps
Doug and Kirk spend a half hour or so discussing Apple's new apps that replace iTunes on the Mac. They rant, they praise, they shrug, they laugh, and they reminisce on what was, while imaging what could have been. It was a very good year.
Show notes:
The iTunes Guy column on Macworld
CarPlay Crashes Constantly in My Car
The iTunes and Everything Apple forum on Audiophile Style
Kirk's new book, Take Control of macOS Media Apps
Poll: What Do You Think of the New macOS Media Apps that Replace iTunes?
In Praise of the iTunes Column Browser
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Search Results to Playlist AppleScript
Join Together
Most Recent AppleScript Updates
Our next tracks:
Dietmar Berger: The Manchester Gamba Book
The Pretty Things: Greatest Hits
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October 23, 2019Episode #161 - Philip Thomas on Morton Feldman's Piano Music
Episode #161 - Philip Thomas on Morton Feldman's Piano Music
Philip Thomas has recorded a 5-CD set of all of Morton Feldman's music for solo piano. We discuss with him one of the most interesting of 20th century composers and the unique nature of sound in Feldman's works.
Guest:
Philip Thomas
Morton Feldman Piano box set on another timbre
Show notes:
Episode #155 - Running a Small Record Label: Another Timbre
Morton Feldman (Wikipedia)
David Tudor (Wikipedia)
American Sublime - Morton Feldman’s mysterious musical landscapes (Alex Ross in the New Yorker on Morton Feldman)
Our next tracks:
Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble: Officium
XTC: Black Sea
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35min

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