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 podcast currently has 314 episodes available.

The Next Track episodes:

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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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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January 15, 2025Episode #299: The Normalization of Apple's Media App; Songs in Movies
With the release of Kirk's new book, Take Control of Apple Media Apps, we discuss how Apple has normalized their media apps and, perhaps, finally made them easier to use. We also discus the use of songs in movies.
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‌Show notes:
Take Control of Apple Media Apps
Obsidian
Casino
Megalopolis
Oppenheimer
Wonder Boys
Our next tracks:
Dance Craze
Andy Pratt: Andy Pratt
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December 31, 2024Episode #298: Fake Music
Streaming services - mostly, but not only, Spotify - are filling their playlists with fake music.
"If everyone is a content creator, who's left to be the audience?"
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‌Show notes:
Take Control of Apple Media Apps
The Ghosts in the Machine, Liz Pelly
Max Richter: Sleep
Our next tracks:
Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band: Almost Acoustic
Pixies: The Night the Zombies Came
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December 18, 2024Episode #297: 1984
1984 wasn't like 1984.
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‌Show notes:
Episode #235 - 1973
Episode #79 – 1977
Episode #98 - 1981
1984: The Year Pop Stardom Got Supersized
Synth Britannia
Our next tracks:
Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach
Guadalcanal Diary: Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man
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December 04, 2024Episode #296: Nostalgia Concerts, 74 Albums from 1974, Interstellar Soundtrack
Apparently "nostalgia concerts," where bands play full albums, have become common; not everyone likes this idea. Rolling Stone made a list of the "best" 74 albums of 1974. And we discuss movie soundtracks, with specific reference to Hans Zimmer's music for Interstellar.
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‌Show notes:
No More Nostalgia Concerts, Please
The Cure: live stream of Songs of a Lost World
The 74 Best Albums of 1974
Intersteller
Hans Zimmer
Our next tracks:
Kraftwerk: Autobahn
David Byrne: The Catherine Wheel
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November 20, 2024Episode #295: Selling Records with Pete Morgan of Burning Shed
We talk about selling records with the unique Burning Shed, the British online record store that offers a curated selected of progressive rock, new wave, ambient, and electronic music.
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‌Show notes:
Burning Shed
Our next tracks:
The Durutti Column - A Life of Reilly, by James Nice
Sponge: 1994
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November 06, 2024Episode #294: Desert Island Bass Players
With the passing of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, we talk about the bass players we would take to a desert island.
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‌Show notes:
Phil Lesh obituary
Our next tracks:
Grateful Dead: Fallout from the Phil Zone
Stanley Clarke: School Days
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