The Next Track

Music is a product. We discuss how music is sold and promoted. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/on-the-state-of-the-book-world-with-lauren/id1040121937?i=1000670718785) MUBI (https://mubi.com/t/web/global/8cTPc-E6) BFI Player (https://player.bfi.org.uk/home) Nightsleeper - iPlayer (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002265y/nightsleeper) Our next tracks: Philip Glass, String Quartet No. 1 - Tana Quartet (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/philip-glass-string-quartet-no-1-single/1573304631) Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers: L.A.M.F. (The Lost '77 Mixes) (https://amzn.to/3BE8AjB) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Kirk attended a unique concert recently, and Doug and Kirk discuss how concerts could be more interesting. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Episode #178 - Lieder and Opera Singer Ian Bostridge (https://www.thenexttrack.com/181) Winterreise review - agony and ecstasy as Bostridge and Drake bring Schubert’s song cycle to dramatic life (https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jun/12/winterreise-review-schubert-bostridge-drake-warner-ustinov-studio-bath) Palladium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_(New_York_City)) Lone Star Cafe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Star_Cafe) The Bottom Line (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottom_Line_(venue)) Our next tracks: La Folia 1490-1701: Jordi Savall (https://amzn.to/3XUW1ZE) X: Smoke & Fiction (https://amzn.to/47Hl0mv) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

People are more likely to have good audio for their TV, to watch movies and films, than for music these days. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Panasonic Streaming 4K Blu Ray Player DP-UB820-K (https://amzn.to/3zn0ydV) Our next tracks: 2001: A Space Odyssey (4K Ultra HD) (https://amzn.to/3Xj0Iet) Kiss: Alive (https://amzn.to/3MEQzUj) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Don't buy hi-fi audio equipment that needs firmware updates. (This means you, Sonos.) Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Cambridge Audio EVO ONE (https://www.richersounds.com/cambridge-audio-evo-one-walnut/) Sonos, still trying to fix its broken app, lays off 100 employees (https://www.engadget.com/audio/sonos-still-trying-to-fix-its-broken-app-reportedly-lays-off-100-employees-203224705.html) Episode #168 - L'Affaire Sonos and Obsolescence in Audio Equipment (https://www.thenexttrack.com/171) KEF LSX II (https://uk.kef.com/products/lsx-2) Episode #281: Kirk's New Audio Gear (https://www.thenexttrack.com/286) Our next tracks: Radio On (https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-radio-on-1979-online) Oasis - Definitely Maybe (https://amzn.to/3MplYtQ) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

It's tough to make money in the music business. So artists sell merch. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Shakedown Street (Grateful Dead parking lot market) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakedown_Street_(vending_area)) Live Nation announces it will drop merch cuts and pay $1,500 stipend to all club acts (https://www.cbc.ca/music/live-nation-drops-merch-cuts-gives-stipend-to-club-acts-1.6978767) Taylor Swift Sells a Rainbow of Vinyl Albums. Fans Keep Buying Them. (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/arts/music/taylor-swift-albums-versions-vinyl.html) Adele in Munich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_in_Munich) Robert Fripp: The Guitar Circle (https://amzn.to/3SLFVyw) Robert Fripp merch (https://robertfripp.mymerch.studio) Handmade by Toyah & Robert (https://toyahshop.ccsproducts.co.uk) Cameo - Robert Fripp videos (https://www.cameo.com/robertfripp) I thought Bob Dylan had fallen in love with me – then he asked me for $5,000 (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/bob-dylan-facebook-scam-jakob-dylan/) Episode #74 – Jeffrey Norman on Restoring, Mixing, and Mastering the Grateful Dead (https://www.thenexttrack.com/77) Our next tracks: Grateful Dead: Friend Of The Devils: April 1978 (https://store.dead.net/en/grateful-dead/special-collections/friend-of-the-devils/friend-of-the-devils-april-1978-dead.net-exclusive-%5B19-cd%5D/081227816759.html) Elastica: Elastica (https://amzn.to/3yCFyzD) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

It's the summer of Apple beta software. We chat a bit about the Music app, new operating systems, and how Apple's AI could affect Apple Music. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: macOS Sequoia Preview (https://www.apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia-preview/) Moom (https://manytricks.com/moom/) Soulver (https://soulver.app) How to Install Apple Beta Software for macOS Sequoia, iOS 18, iPadOS 18, watchOS 11, and tvOS 11 (https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/how-to-install-apple-beta-software/) Install macOS Sequoia Beta in a Virtual Machine on an M1, M2, or M3 Mac with UTM (https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/install-macos-ventura-beta-in-a-virtual-machine-on-an-m1-or-m2-mac-with-utm/) "By saying, “Hey Siri, I like this song,” HomePod and Apple Music become the perfect musicologist..." (https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2017/06/homepod-reinvents-music-in-the-home/#:~:text=By%20saying%2C%20“Hey%20Siri%2C,tastes%20are%20shared%20across%20devices) The Music Genome Project (https://www.pandora.com/about/mgp) Our next tracks: Reformation: Mishka Rushdie Momen (https://amzn.to/3Szv6j5) Leon Russel: Carney (https://amzn.to/3SxhnJz) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

"Don’t confuse consumption with reach." Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Reach, Bob Lefsetz (https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2024/07/07/reach/) Glastonbury on the BBC iPlayer (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b007r6vx/glastonbury) Glastonbury 2024 line-up (https://glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/line-up/line-up-2024/) Our next tracks: Robert Fripp: Washington Square Church CD (https://amzn.to/4bP2fhF), download (https://www.dgmlive.com/albums/washington-square-church-new-york-united-states-2) Rory Gallagher: Calling Card (https://amzn.to/4d50pKE) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

No one gets up in the morning and says, “I want to be in a classic rock band.” Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: The most popular, obscure, Democratic, Republican and hated music in America (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/03/favorite-music-demographics/) Queen Catalog to Be Acquired by Sony Music for £1 Billion (https://variety.com/2024/music/news/queen-catalog-acquired-by-sony-music-1-billion-1236042619/) Music on The Sopranos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_on_The_Sopranos) Our next tracks: Daniel Barenboim: Complete Wagner Operas (https://amzn.to/3zibI3u) The Three O'Clock: Sixteen Tambourines (https://amzn.to/3VPzoUv) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Something always goes wrong. "The grass may look great, but it's not real grass." Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Episode #278: Gear Acquisition Syndrome (https://www.thenexttrack.com/283) Our next tracks: Charles Ives: Concord Sonata, by Donna Coleman) (https://amzn.to/4cqmjHU) Dog Party: Dangerous (https://amzn.to/3xmqkya) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Doug and Kirk discuss one of Brian Eno's best early albums, Another Green World. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Another Green World (https://amzn.to/3XdkMAr) Another Green World (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Green_World) Oblique Strategies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies) Episode #164 - Sid Smith on the Life and Times of King Crimson (https://www.thenexttrack.com/167) Brian Eno — Everything Merges With The Night — Timo Andres (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0YJIvyrrRA) Another Day on Earth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Day_on_Earth) David Byrne: Catherine Wheel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catherine_Wheel_(album)) Our next tracks: King Crimson - Full Show (The Noise - Live At Fréjus 1982) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTDgmt9A2I0) Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking (https://amzn.to/3Vr1WVk) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Continuing with our multi-episode arc, we discuss the joys of listening to CDs. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: My New Vitsœ Shelves Have Freed Up Space in My Office (https://kirkville.com/my-new-vitsoe-shelves-have-freed-up-space-in-my-office/) Another Timbre (http://www.anothertimbre.com) Episode #155 - Running a Small Record Label: Another Timbre (https://www.thenexttrack.com/158) Dave's Picks Vol. 50: Palladium, New York City, NY 5/3/77 (https://store.dead.net/en/grateful-dead/special-collections/daves-picks/daves-picks-vol.-50-palladium-new-york-city-ny-5377/081227817466.html) Barenboim: Complete Wagner Operas (https://amzn.to/3Ka9xAW) Our next tracks: Emerson String Quartet: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon (https://amzn.to/4avYInL) Simple Minds: Empires and Dance (https://amzn.to/3Kh3Gd6) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Kirk buys new audio gear for the first time in several years. Tech doesn't always work. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: NAD C 3050 amplifier (https://nadelectronics.com/product/c-3050-stereophonic-amplifier/) NAD BluOS module (https://nadelectronics.com/product/mdc-bluos-2i/) Cambridge Audio CXA61 amplifier (https://www.cambridgeaudio.com/gbr/en/products/hi-fi/cx-series-2/cxa61) Belkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Adapter (https://amzn.to/3woNgfG) CalDigit TS4 Thunderbolt 4 Dock (https://amzn.to/4aaspKM) Our next tracks: Durutti Column: Vini Reilly 35th Anniversary Edition (https://amzn.to/3wqkHOP) The Sex Pistols: The Original Recordings (https://amzn.to/3QYAJqv) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Tech is full of surprises. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: NAD C 538 CD Player (https://amzn.to/3UzD2T6) Episode #177 - Author Michael Connelly on Music in the Harry Bosch Novels and TV Series (https://www.thenexttrack.com/180) Our next tracks: Original Cast Recording: Girl from the North Country (https://amzn.to/4d7RMzz) Thurston Moore: By the Fire (https://amzn.to/3xPPJjD) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We discuss lyrics in popular music. Have they become simpler and angrier over the years? Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Billie Eilish Clarifies Comments About ‘Wasteful’ Vinyl Variants: ‘I Wasn’t Singling Anyone Out’ (https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/billie-eilish-vinyl-sustainability-comments-1235646177/) Song lyrics have become simpler and more repetitive over the last five decades (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-55742-x) Genius (https://genius.com) Our next tracks: Timo Andres: The Blind Banister (https://amzn.to/3JbdncT) The Hanging Stars: On a Golden Shore (https://amzn.to/3UaJL5r) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Gear Acquisition Syndrome, or GAS, affects people with many interests: musicians, photographers, and audiophiles. We discuss how this syndrome can affect people, and why people just want to keep buying more gear. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Cambridge Audio: EVO 150 DELOREAN EDITION All-in-One Player (https://www.cambridgeaudio.com/eur/en/product/evo-150-delorean-edition) The 7 key stages of Gear Acquisition Syndrome (https://www.musicradar.com/news/7-stages-of-gear-acquisition-syndrome) Kyusu (https://www.tencha.co.uk/collections/teapots-kyusu) Our next tracks: Max Richter: Sleep (Piano Edition) (https://music.apple.com/us/album/1732604941) Little Village: Little Village (https://amzn.to/3Tu57t4) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

This time, Kirk chose three rock stars to discuss from David Hepworth's book Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994 (https://amzn.to/3IpfKsd) Our next tracks: Vega Trails: Tremors in the Static (https://vegatrails.bandcamp.com/album/tremors-in-the-static) Pan•American: The Patience Fader (https://panamerican.bandcamp.com/album/the-patience-fader) Gustaf: Package, Pt. 2) (https://gustaf-nyc.bandcamp.com/album/package-pt-2) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We didn't all do our homework, but Doug discusses three chapters from David Hepworth's book Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994 (https://amzn.to/3IpfKsd) Black Sabbath: The Ballet review (https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/sep/28/black-sabbath-the-ballet-review-heavy-metal-birmingham-royal-ballet) Introducing the Violoncello Da Spalla (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD4kNY34AoE) Our next tracks: Sigiswald Kuijken: Solo (https://amzn.to/3TeIdXC) New Order: Substance 1987 (2023 Expanded Reissue) (https://amzn.to/49w3zp4) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We have a “two guys in a pub” episode, in which we talk about the next musical artist to perform at The Sphere: Dead & Company. We also discuss Apple’s new Vision Pro, the Grammys, Taylor Swift, the Superb Owl, and more. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Dead & Company, Dead Forever, at The Sphere (https://www.thespherevegas.com/shows/dead-and-company) Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not (The Verge) (https://www.theverge.com/24054862/apple-vision-pro-review-vr-ar-headset-features-price) Taylor Swift, QAnon, and the Political Weaponization of Fandom (https://www.wired.com/story/taylor-swift-psyop-conspiracy-theory-person-of-the-year/) Monte-Carlo Summer Festival (https://www.montecarlosbm.com/en/shows/monte-carlo-summer-festival) Our next tracks: The Passions: Thirty-Thousand Feet over China (https://amzn.to/42FNN8H) The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang (https://amzn.to/3SwleWA) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We discuss the first album by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, aka OMD, called Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. This was a foundational album in the synth-pop movement that started in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the UK. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestral_Manoeuvres_in_the_Dark_(album)) Synth Britannia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lVljmH0yUw) Our next tracks: Brian Eno: 77 Million Paintings (https://music.apple.com/us/album/77-million-paintings/1691826679) Dr. Feelgood: Down by the Jetty (https://amzn.to/3OoReuG) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Doug has long been a fan of Frank Zappa’s music, yet we’ve never spent an episode discussing it. In our irregular series looking at individual albums, we look at Zappa’s best-selling record, the 1979 Sheik Yerbouti. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti (https://www.zappa.com/releases-archive/sheik-yerbouti/#/) Episode #268: Miles Davis, Bitches Brew (https://www.thenexttrack.com/273) Robert Christgau on Sheik Yerbouti (https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=8200) Zappa (https://www.thezappamovie.com) (documentary) Our next tracks: Genesis: Wind and Wuthering (https://amzn.to/3tX6IyQ) Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti (https://amzn.to/3HnsMFS) "> If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.