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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Special Guest: Will Hermes.

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