The Next Track

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. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Enjoying The Ride, Grateful Dead Grateful Dead Complete Europe ’72 Box Set New Live Release from Yes: Progeny, Seven Concerts from 1972 Why Box Sets Are Stuck in the Past Vinyl and packaging manufacturer, Key Production Group, reveals its predictions for vinyl and physical music releases in 2025 Steve Reich: Collected Works Our next tracks: J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue — Phantasm Viol Consort Mose Allison: The Best of Mose Allison If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

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. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Ruark 100 series Towards Zero Episode #48 – Musician Dave Harrington of DARKSIDE and the Dave Harrington Group on Music Between Genres Our next tracks: Darkside: Nothing David Johansen: David Johansen If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

We rant about compilations in Apple's music app, and some other annoyances. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Doug's AppleScripts Take Control of Apple Media Apps Very Seldom Casual: UncertainFM Apple Music Classical (Mostly) Plays the Right Chords - TidBITS Our next tracks: Bears Sonic Journals: Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, Before We Were Them Spirit: Clear If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

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. 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 Elijah Wald: Dylan Goes Electric Episode #20 – You Think You Know about the Blues? Eliah Wald on the History of the Blues Our next tracks: Allman Brothers: Live at the Fillmore East Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisted If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

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. 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 Vintage Obscura Lefsetz Letter: Apple Music’s Per Stream Payment Our next tracks: Morton Feldman: Two Pianos and other pieces, 1953-1969 Steel Pulse: Tribute to the Martyrs If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

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. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Take Control of Apple Media Apps Obsidian Casino Megalopolis Oppenheimer Wonder Boys Our next tracks: Dance Craze Andy Pratt: Andy Pratt If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

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. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Take Control of Apple Media Apps The Ghosts in the Machine, Liz Pelly Max Richter: Sleep Our next tracks: Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band: Almost Acoustic Pixies: The Night the Zombies Came If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

1984 wasn't like 1984. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Episode #235 - 1973 Episode #79 – 1977 Episode #98 - 1981 1984: The Year Pop Stardom Got Supersized Synth Britannia Our next tracks: Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach Guadalcanal Diary: Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

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. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: No More Nostalgia Concerts, Please The Cure: live stream of Songs of a Lost World The 74 Best Albums of 1974 Intersteller Hans Zimmer Our next tracks: Kraftwerk: Autobahn David Byrne: The Catherine Wheel If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

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. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Burning Shed Our next tracks: The Durutti Column - A Life of Reilly, by James Nice Sponge: 1994 If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track