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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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