The Next Track

Some musicians fight to get control of their old music, and others sell off their back catalog. Songs are just another commodity in the capitalist system. 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 ‘I tried to be nice. Sometimes I would explode’: John Fogerty on Creedence, contracts and control (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/aug/15/john-fogerty-creedence-clearwater-revival-contracts-controlling-catalogue) Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years (https://amzn.to/4oSwKe6) Elvis Presley - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley) Colonel Tom Parker - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Tom_Parker) Berne Convention - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention) Bowie Bonds - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_bond#Bowie_Bonds) The Technium: 1,000 True Fans (https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/) DGM Live: 1000 Club (https://www.dgmlive.com/1000-club) Our next tracks: Jerry Garcia Band: Live at the Warfield (https://amzn.to/4lKhzRu) Ron Wood: Fearless (https://amzn.to/4n3MOrY) If you like the show, please subscribe in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Lots of artists record and perform covers, songs written and recorded by other songwriters. We discuss covers, and Doug explains the origin of the term. 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 Bobby "Blue" Bland: Turn On Your Love Light (https://www.youtube.com/watch) Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series: Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (https://amzn.to/3UtPdzT) Lou Reed: Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed at Pickwick Records 1964 -1965 (https://amzn.to/40ZiINK) Our next tracks: Road Trips Volume 3 Number 3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_Trips_Volume_3_Number_3) The Rolling Stones: 12 X 5 (https://amzn.to/4mJrYxV)

We discuss AI music, and how most musicians don't make money. Then we have some thoughts about podcast listening. 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 An AI-generated band got 1m plays on Spotify. Now music insiders say listeners should be warned (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/an-ai-generated-band-got-1m-plays-on-spotify-now-music-insiders-say-listeners-should-be-warned) Who Is Watching All These Podcasts? (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/style/podcast-video-audience.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.Gn6c.ntx1TEwH8G1T&smid=url-share) The Next Track on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@thenexttrack4986) Our next tracks: Franz Schubert: Complete Songs, Graham Johnson (https://amzn.to/4oapidY) Deep Sea Diver: Billboard Heart (https://amzn.to/45s4vLC) If you like the show, please subscribe in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

It was 50 years ago, and as years for popular music go, 1975 was a doozy. 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 Sight and Sound: 1975 (https://www.mmslondon.co.uk/shop/p/sightandsoundmagazinesummer2025) 1975 in music - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_in_music) Our next tracks: Al Pacino: Sonny Boy (https://amzn.to/46ixSBb) Dusty Rose Gang: A-One From Day One (https://amzn.to/46HmZJa) If you like the show, please subscribe in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

After our previous episode discussing double albums, we wondered where to go next. We decided to turn the podcast up a notch, and discuss triple albums; much rarer than double albums, but many of them are landmarks in the history of rock 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 The Next Track: Episode #310: Double Albums (https://www.thenexttrack.com/315) List of triple albums - Wikipedia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_triple_albums) Our next tracks: Duo Ruut: Ilmateade (https://www.duoruut.ee/en/music) Fleetwood Mac: Live in Boston Vols 1-3 (https://amzn.to/44tVZtQ) If you like the show, please subscribe in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We talk about double albums, which used to be a thing back in the LP day. They were special, because having an album with twice the music was (almost always) great. But they disappeared starting with the CD era and, now with digital, they don't exist any more. We talk about great double albums. 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 Rolling Stone Readers' Poll: The 10 Greatest Double Albums of All Time (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/readers-poll-the-10-greatest-double-albums-of-all-time-19606/) The Next Track: Episode #191 - Exile on Monday (https://www.thenexttrack.com/194) Blinded by the Light (2019 film) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_by_the_Light_(2019_film)) Our next tracks: Blinded By the Light (https://amzn.to/45uOq8u) Echo & The Bunnymen: Porcupine (https://amzn.to/4n73Oyf) 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 some of the things they like and dislike about the current state of audio equipment and the music industry. 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 RIAA equalization - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization) Cable sheathing (https://amzn.to/4mM9f5k) Our next tracks: Traffic: The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys (https://amzn.to/43EUI2Q) Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped (https://amzn.to/43VAFhT) 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.

Video games are one of the most popular forms of entertainment. Doug has been a gamer for a long time, but Kirk only recently converted. We talk about how gaming is part of our leisure activity. 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 Batman: Arkham Asylum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Arkham_Asylum) Assassin’s Creed Shadows (https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/assassins-creed/shadows) Escape from Tarkov (https://www.escapefromtarkov.com) The Long Dark (https://www.thelongdark.com) Stardew Valley (https://www.stardewvalley.net/) Stray (https://annapurnainteractive.com/en/games/stray?ref=website-popularity) Our next tracks: Pink Floyd At Pompeii - MCMLXXII (https://amzn.to/4mIb8QT) Guided by Voices: Universe Room (https://amzn.to/3H3yAYa) 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.

AI is everywhere. It hasn't really affected music yet, or has it? 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: Perplexity (https://www.perplexity.ai) Microsoft made an ad with generative AI and nobody noticed (https://www.theverge.com/news/656104/microsoft-surface-ad-generative-ai-copilot-intel) How Daydreaming Can Enhance Creativity for Fiction Writers (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/how-daydreaming-can-enhance-creativity-for-fiction-writers) The Next Track: Episode #305: Timo Andres on Steve Reich's Collected Works (https://www.thenexttrack.com/310) Sonatas and Interludes - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonatas_and_Interludes) Our next tracks: John Cage, Sonatas and Interludes, James Tenney (https://amzn.to/4jK2uPm) Corey Harris: Greens From the Garden (https://amzn.to/44XhYeA) 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.

Wired editor Chris Anderson came up with the idea of "the long tail" in 2004, suggesting that older books, music, and other creative works would continue to sell in small amounts, making enough money over time for these creators to survive. He was wrong. Very wrong. 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: Chris Anderson, The Long Tail (https://www.wired.com/2004/10/tail/) (Wired) Darkside at Coachella (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkktgOxDPJo) (unfortunately, the full video is no longer available; here's one song that's on YouTube) Very Seldom Casual, on uncertain.fm (https://www.uncertainfm.com/shows/vsc) Our next tracks: Yasunori Imamura: J.S. Bach: Cello Suites, Vol. 2 (https://amzn.to/4jK2uPm) Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years (https://amzn.to/4itNiVt) 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.

Composer and pianist Timo Andres wrote extensive listening notes for the new box set of Steve Reich's Collected Works. We talk with him about this composer whose work over the past five decades has been incredibly influential. "I went everyone to listen to music in a more abstract way." 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: Timo Andres (https://www.andres.com) Timo Andres on The Next Track (https://www.thenexttrack.com/guests/timo-andres) Steve Reich: Collected Works (https://amzn.to/3FZSZgd) Will Hermes (https://substack.com/@willhermes) Our next tracks: Grateful Dead: Reckoning (https://amzn.to/42p7oKq) Ron Wood: I've Got My Own Album To Do (https://amzn.to/43FKz7H) 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. Special Guest: Timo Andres.

The Grateful Dead released a big box set that Kirk will not buy, leading Doug and Kirk to discuss box sets of 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: Enjoying The Ride, Grateful Dead (https://store.dead.net/en/grateful-dead/special-collections/60th-anniversary/enjoying-the-ride-dead.net-exclusive-%5B60-cd%5D/081227813048.html) Grateful Dead Complete Europe ’72 Box Set (https://kirkville.com/coming-soon-grateful-dead-complete-europe-72-box-set/) New Live Release from Yes: Progeny, Seven Concerts from 1972 (https://kirkville.com/coming-soon-new-live-release-from-yes-progeny-seven-concerts-from-1972/) Why Box Sets Are Stuck in the Past (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/where-are-new-music-box-sets-1235229328/) Vinyl and packaging manufacturer, Key Production Group, reveals its predictions for vinyl and physical music releases in 2025 (https://www.recordoftheday.com/news-and-press/vinyl-and-packaging-manufacturer-key-production-group-reveals-its-predictions-for-vinyl-and-physical-music-releases-in-2025) Steve Reich: Collected Works (https://amzn.to/424qaGO) Our next tracks: J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue — Phantasm Viol Consort (https://www.phantasm-consort.com/recordings/js-bach-the-art-of-fugue) Mose Allison: The Best of Mose Allison (https://amzn.to/3FHxHnx) 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 muse on our dream home audio setups, the enshittification of streaming TV, and Doug explains how he has music in his bathroom. 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: Ruark 100 series (https://www.ruarkaudio.com/products/100-series) Towards Zero (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0028c7p/towards-zero) Episode #48 – Musician Dave Harrington of DARKSIDE and the Dave Harrington Group on Music Between Genres (https://www.thenexttrack.com/49) Our next tracks: Darkside: Nothing (https://amzn.to/3R1ybHv) David Johansen: David Johansen (https://amzn.to/3FnuBVG) 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 rant about compilations in Apple's music app, and some other annoyances. 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: Doug's AppleScripts (https://dougscripts.com/itunes/index.php) Take Control of Apple Media Apps (https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/apple-media-apps/) Very Seldom Casual: UncertainFM (https://www.uncertainfm.com/shows/vsc) Apple Music Classical (Mostly) Plays the Right Chords - TidBITS (https://tidbits.com/2023/03/29/apple-music-classical-mostly-plays-the-right-chords/) Our next tracks: Bears Sonic Journals: Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, Before We Were Them (https://amzn.to/4k8GT42) Spirit: Clear (https://amzn.to/4kdjJcV) 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.

The recent movie about Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown, has led many people to "discover" Bob Dylan's 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: Don’t look back: after decades of apathy, A Complete Unknown has turned me into a Dylan nut (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/30/dont-look-back-after-decades-of-apathy-a-complete-unknown-has-turned-me-into-a-dylan-nut) Elijah Wald: Dylan Goes Electric (https://amzn.to/3CKnDZW) Episode #20 – You Think You Know about the Blues? Eliah Wald on the History of the Blues (https://www.thenexttrack.com/21) Our next tracks: Allman Brothers: Live at the Fillmore East (https://amzn.to/42Mg53s) Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisted (https://amzn.to/3WWAhMq) 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 look at Spotify's Billions Club, and discuss how some people are trying to discover the must unplayed 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: No Dylan but loads of Coldplay! What the songs with a billion streams on Spotify tell us about music taste today (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/17/no-dylan-but-loads-of-coldplay-what-the-songs-with-a-billion-streams-on-spotify-tell-us-about-music-taste-today) Vintage Obscura (https://vintageobscura.net) Lefsetz Letter: Apple Music’s Per Stream Payment (https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2025/01/16/21609/) Our next tracks: Morton Feldman: Two Pianos and other pieces, 1953-1969 (https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/two-pianos-and-other-pieces-1953-1969) Steel Pulse: Tribute to the Martyrs (https://amzn.to/4hyApJL) 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.

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. 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: Take Control of Apple Media Apps (https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/apple-media-apps) Obsidian (https://obsidian.md) Casino (https://amzn.to/4gXMsAy) Megalopolis (https://amzn.to/40zw1Vk) Oppenheimer (https://amzn.to/3DTNr6d) Wonder Boys (https://amzn.to/4gWdIPC) Our next tracks: Dance Craze (https://amzn.to/3DSasGm) Andy Pratt: Andy Pratt (https://amzn.to/4hbmd9g) 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.

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?" 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: Take Control of Apple Media Apps (https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/apple-media-apps/) The Ghosts in the Machine (https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/), Liz Pelly Max Richter: Sleep (https://embed.music.apple.com/gb/album/sleep/1452629309) Our next tracks: Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band: Almost Acoustic (https://amzn.to/41Za6rx) Pixies: The Night the Zombies Came (https://amzn.to/3DBMhfn) 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.

1984 wasn't like 1984. 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 #235 - 1973 (https://www.thenexttrack.com/239) Episode #79 – 1977 (https://www.thenexttrack.com/82) Episode #98 - 1981 (https://www.thenexttrack.com/101) 1984: The Year Pop Stardom Got Supersized (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/arts/music/1984-pop-songs-mtv.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fk4.1djE.Ls_P2na16REQ&smid=url-share) Synth Britannia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lVljmH0yUw) Our next tracks: Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach (https://amzn.to/4gwVrIo) Guadalcanal Diary: Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man (https://amzn.to/3BDpXBl) 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.

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. 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: No More Nostalgia Concerts, Please (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/magazine/nostalgia-concerts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cE4.JMFU.biwDVJnQOvxc&smid=url-share) The Cure: live stream of Songs of a Lost World (https://www.thecure.com/news/2024/11/global-live-stream/) The 74 Best Albums of 1974 (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-1974-1235138526/) Intersteller (https://amzn.to/3D0fzEb) Hans Zimmer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer) Our next tracks: Kraftwerk: Autobahn (https://amzn.to/4fhE39v) David Byrne: The Catherine Wheel (https://amzn.to/3Ba7Gvi) 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.