The Next Track

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, whose 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.

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. 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: Burning Shed (https://burningshed.com/) Our next tracks: The Durutti Column - A Life of Reilly, by James Nice (https://burningshed.com/the-durutti-column_a-life-of-reilly_book) Sponge: 1994 (https://amzn.to/3YYGI1v) 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 passing of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, we talk about the bass players we would take to a desert island. 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: Phil Lesh obituary (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/phil-lesh-grateful-dead-dead-1234809976/) Our next tracks: Grateful Dead: Fallout from the Phil Zone (https://amzn.to/48ndaPi) Stanley Clarke: School Days (https://amzn.to/4ek07zN) 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 desert island discs as a thought experiment, though we didn't agree on the ground rules. 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 #130 - Desert Island Discs, Part 1 (https://www.thenexttrack.com/133) Episode #133 - Desert Island Discs, Part 2 (https://www.thenexttrack.com/136) Schubert: Winterreise, Ian Bostridge & Thomas Adès (https://amzn.to/3Absge9) Bach: Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould 1981 (https://amzn.to/4fbzvlh) Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet, Kronos Quartet and Aki Takahashi (https://amzn.to/4h8CX1T) Hume: Musicall Humours, Jordi Savall (https://amzn.to/4eUNgoE) Elastica: Elastica (https://amzn.to/4eSpZ6O) The Who: Quadrophenia (https://amzn.to/4f4whjs) Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros: Streetcore (https://amzn.to/3A98bFh) Gustaf: Package, Pt.2 (https://amzn.to/3NAXwGE) The Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Yas Out (https://amzn.to/3NzLRYB) The Clash: London Calling (https://amzn.to/3Yy72Re) Brian Eno: Music for Airports (https://amzn.to/3YAhkAl) Bang on a Can: Music for Airports (https://amzn.to/3UgVeAd) Grateful Dead: American Beauty (https://amzn.to/3Yz61bi) Bill Evans: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 (https://amzn.to/3YxVRYE) Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde (https://amzn.to/4eP8bJN) King Crimson: Red (https://amzn.to/3A9taI2) Castaway (https://amzn.to/3NzMMZ3) 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.

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.