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Will Hermes

New York

Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone

Writer at Freelance

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Articles

  • 5 days ago | newmusicoldmusic.substack.com | Will Hermes

    Lotsa good music writing in recent days:RIP BRIAN WILSON Ted Gioia is a major presence on Substack, and writes on many things here. But I’ve admired his music writing in particular for decades, even when I’ve disagreed with it. This short memorial piece is wonderful — it’s about Gioia’s relationship to the music of his childhood neighbor (!) Brian Wilson. It’s also about how we all relate to music within ourselves, and how it can heal us.

  • 1 week ago | es.rollingstone.com | Jon Dolan |Simon Vozick-Levinson |Will Hermes |Rob Sheffield

    “Estoy orgulloso de la época Beatle”, dijo Paul McCartney a Rolling Stone en 1978. “Fue genial, y puedo estar de acuerdo con toda la gente que te encuentras por la calle que dice que diste mucha felicidad a mucha gente. No creo que eso sea cursi”.

  • 1 week ago | buff.ly | Jon Dolan |Simon Vozick-Levinson |Will Hermes |Rob Sheffield

    “Estoy orgulloso de la época Beatle”, dijo Paul McCartney a Rolling Stone en 1978. “Fue genial, y puedo estar de acuerdo con toda la gente que te encuentras por la calle que dice que diste mucha felicidad a mucha gente. No creo que eso sea cursi”.

  • 1 week ago | msn.com | Will Hermes

  • 1 week ago | rollingstone.com | Will Hermes

    June 18, 2025 Hotline TNT Graham Tolbert* The seemingly-halcyon ‘90s are sounding better than ever in 2025 — Fugazi-fathered hardcore, Liz Phair feminist pop plainspeak, and in the able hands of Hotline TNT, steaming slabs of guitar noise, Dinosaur Jr. via Teenage Fanclub circa “Everything Flows” buoyed by oceanic waves of Cocteau Twins modulations. It’s enough to make you miss the first Bush administration. Will Anderson — born in 1989, the year Bush was sworn in — was but a tiny hoodrat...

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Will Hermes @WilliamHermes
15 May 25

RT @Pontifex: War is never inevitable. Weapons can and must fall silent, for they never solve problems but only intensify them. Those who s…

Will Hermes
Will Hermes @WilliamHermes
7 May 25

RT @WilliamHermes: This evening (Wednesday) 8p ET / 5p PT I'll be teaching a zoom-style writing class online — focus: music. I've taught wr…

Will Hermes
Will Hermes @WilliamHermes
7 May 25

This evening (Wednesday) 8p ET / 5p PT I'll be teaching a zoom-style writing class online — focus: music. I've taught writing for decades, always in person, but decided to take the leap. It'll be fun. Registration link: https://t.co/OR0bHDqB1o