The Next Track

Doug and Kirk were teenagers when disco hit. They didn’t care for it then, but has their opinion change after 40 years? Is it time to reevaluate disco music? Show notes: Chic: Good Times (12″ version) The Joy of Disco – BBC Documentary Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On Saturday Night Fever New York City blackout, July 13, 1977 Son of Sam Jumping the shark Why ‘Disco sucks!’ sucked Disco Demolition Night Saturday Night Fever soundtrack Readers’ Poll: The Best Disco Songs of All Time Apple Music: Essential Disco Hits Our next tracks: Kirk: Lounge Lizards: The Lounge Lizards Doug: Frank Zappa: Halloween 77 If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

Doug and Kirk discuss their favorite music documentaries. Show notes: Synth Britannia (YouTube) Synth Britannia (BBC) Rock Family Trees (BBC) Episode #58 – David Weigel on the History of Progressive Rock Rock Family Trees (book) Sinatra: All or Nothing at All Long Strange Trip History of the Eagles No Direction Home: Bob Dylan Bob Dylan: No Direction Home, The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 The Wrecking Crew Gimme Shelter Sam Cutler: You Can’t Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates Bach: A Passionate Life Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years BBC Four How the Brits Rocked America: Go West Our next tracks: Kirk: Bruce Springsteen: March 19, 1996 – Belfast, UK Doug: Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

We welcome Jeffrey Norman, who has been mixing, mastering, and restoring Grateful Dead recordings for more than 35 years. This week’s guest: Jeffrey Norman: Mockingbird Mastering Jeffrey Norman’s project list Show notes: Mid-side (MS) recording technique Owsley Stanley (Bear) What’s Become of the Bettys? The Fate of the Long-Lost Grateful Dead Soundboards Episode #67 – The Grateful Dead’s Legendary 5/8/77 Cornell Concert, with Author Peter Conners Plangent Process The Grateful Dead’s Europe ’72 box set Long Strange Trip Kirk’s Next Track pick of the Doc & Merle Watson release – Episode #70 – Movies about Music, Part 1: Fiction Owsley Stanley Foundation Grateful Dead – Cornell 5/8/77 Grateful Dead – Sunshine Daydream Veneta, OR, 8/27/72 Grateful Dead – Closing of Winterland, 12/31/78 Correction to Kirk’s next track selection. The New Riders of the Purple Sage came on after the Grateful Dead’s first acoustic set. Our next tracks: Kirk: Dick’s Picks Vol. 8 – Harpur College, Binghamton, NY, May 2, 1970 Doug: Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Jeffrey Norman.Support The Next Track

Andy Doe helps Kirk and Doug understand “make louder boxes.” This week’s guest: Andy Doe Proper Discord “You are experiencing audio ennui.” Show notes: Yamaha R-N301 network receiver Recommended Components: Fall 2017 Edition Integrated Amps & Receivers Richer Sounds Grado headphones Episode #71 – Hi-Fi Separates, Part 1: Network Streamers Bentley Continental One note about the musical Girl From the North Country. Between the recording and release of this podcast, the show will transfer to the Noel Coward Theatre in London for 12 weeks, from December 29. See it if you can. Our next tracks: Kirk: Girl from the North Country, Original Cast Recording Doug: Dr. John: The ATCO Albums Collection If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Andy Doe.Support The Next Track

Doug and Kirk take a close look at changes Apple has made to iTunes in its latest version, 12.7. Sponsor: Rogue Ameoba’s Audio Hijack. If you can hear it on your Mac, you can record it with Audio Hijack. Download the free trial from Rogue Amoeba, then save 20% with coupon code NEXTTRACK. Check out Audio Hijack now. Show notes: This Is Where iTunes Is Bloated What’s New in iTunes 12.7 Here’s Why Removing Apps from iTunes Is Stupid How to Copy Apps, Ringtones, and Files to Your iOS Devices with iTunes 12.7 Script to Add or Edit a Playlist Description How to Share Your Listening History in Apple Music Doug Adams’ Apple Music profile Kirk McElhearn’s Apple Music profile Krystian Zimerman: Schubert Piano Sonatas John Foxx & The Maths: The Machine Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Ghost Star How to Use Apple Music’s Personal DJ Feature to Create You Own Personal Radio Station Super Remove Dead Tracks Track Down Purchases Music Folder Files Not Added Find Empty iTunes Media Folders Apps By Apple ID Our next tracks: Kirk: James Blood Ulmer: Odyssey Doug: Sticky Fingers: Like a Rolling Stone If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

Chris Connaker joins us to talk about hi-fi separates. Today, we discuss the network streamer. How does it work? Do you need one? This week’s guest: Chris Connaker, of the Computer Audiophile website Show notes: Yamaha R-N301 network receiver Episode #32 – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about DACs (Digital-Analog Converters) Auralic Aries Mini Chris’s review of the Auralic Aries Mini Bosch, on Amazon Prime Video Manchester Rock (Apple Music playlist) Our next tracks: Kirk: Art Pepper: The Complete Maiden Voyage Concerts (Apple Music) Doug: Electronic: Electronic If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Chris Connaker.Support The Next Track

Doug and Kirk chat about their favorite movies about music, and some that they don’t like. This is the first of three parts; the other parts will be released in the next couple of months. Show notes: Almost Famous (The Bootleg Cut) The Almost Famous Stairway to Heaven scene Almost Famous: the Tiny Dancer scene 24 Hour Party People Control High Fidelity Still Crazy Amadeus (I said I saw the play Monday; that was a mistake, I saw it last January.) A Late Quartet Episode #20 – You Think You Know about the Blues? Eliah Wald on the History of the Blues Inside Llewyn Davis Bird Round Midnight Mo’ Better Blues Miles Ahead Lady Sings the Blues A Hard Day’ Night Our next tracks: Kirk: Bear’s Sonic Journals: Never the Same Way Once (Apple Music), CDs from the Owsley Stanley Foundation Doug: David Johansen: Live It Up 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 with Brian Brandt of Mode Records about releasing recordings of avant garde music, and the difficulties of the music business. Apologies for the audio quality of this episode. We had endless Skype issues for this interview. This week’s guest: Mode Records Show notes: John Cage Edition Morton Feldman Edition Morton Feldman: String Quartet No. 2 Episode #66 – Minimalist Pianist R. Andrew Lee Episode #48 – Musician Dave Harrington of DARKSIDE and the Dave Harrington Group on Music Between Genres Our next tracks: Kirk: LCD Soundsystem: American Dream Doug: The Knack: Get The Knack If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Brian Brandt.Support The Next Track

Andy Doe joins us to discuss hi-fi snake oil. In part one of a two-part series, we look at cables. This week’s guest: Andy Doe Proper Discord Show notes: A Gift for Music Lovers Who Have It All: A Personal Utility Pole UL Listed Hospital Grade Receptacles How Hi-Fi Magazines Write about Cables, Part 14: Ethernet Cables Ethernet Our next tracks: Kirk: Iron & Wine: Beast Epic Doug: Big Audio Dynamite: No. 10, Upping Street If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Andy Doe.Support The Next Track

Author Peter Conners tells us the story of the legendary 5/8/77 Grateful Dead concert at Barton Hall, Cornell University, and its legacy. A technical note: you may have noticed that your podcast app re-downloaded a bunch of old episodes last week. We moved the server that hosts The Next Track to HTTPS, and this seems to have treated all existing episodes as new. So we’re very sorry for any extra bandwidth you may have used. Note that iTunes also seems to have redownloaded them, so you may have duplicate audio files for some episodes; check your media folder to make sure. This week’s guest: Peter Conners Show notes: Cornell ’77: The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead’s Concert at Barton Hall Grateful Dead: Cornell 5/8/77 Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead JAMerica: The History of the Jam Band and Festival Scene Grateful Dead: May 1977: Get Shown the Light (All Music Edition) Dark Star Orchestra Rocking The Cradle, Egypt 1978 Legion of Mary: Dec 14-15 1974 Our next tracks: Kirk: Tobias Hume: Musicall Humours Doug: Van Morrison: What’s Wrong With This Picture? If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Peter Conners.Support The Next Track