Will Hermes
Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone
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Writer at Will Hermes: New Music + Old Music
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1 week ago |
michaelbarclay.substack.com | Michael Barclay |Will Hermes
Holy Thursday!This week: two old dudes with parallel careers in the same genre, both born in 1955 on either side of the border by a Great Lake; one just turned 70, the other will later this year. (Thirty Tigers)Gary Louris has led the Jayhawks for the past 40 years (or rather, he joined the band in 1985, which Mark Olson started the year before; Olson left in 1995). So… why a solo album? His two other solo records featured full-band arrangements.
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2 weeks ago |
newmusicoldmusic.substack.com | Will Hermes
I’m currently teaching acourse at NYU on the artistry of Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, so I’ve been thinking quite a bit about how words can be combined with music — sung words, but also spoken words, and those that split the difference. The latter approach is sometimes tagged with the German terms sprechgesang or sprechstimme.
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newmusicoldmusic.substack.com | Will Hermes
Michael Hurley: old, weird America at its finest. Just last month I was speaking about Michael Hurley — among the most delightfully eccentric, wise and naughty voices in modern American folk music — who passed this week at the age of 83. His name came up in the course of my conversation with Liz Mitchell and Dan Littleton of Ida, kindred musicians who knew him well and recorded a wonderful LP with him in 2009, Ida Con Snock.
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3 weeks ago |
newmusicoldmusic.substack.com | Will Hermes
Welcome to New Music + Old Music. If you like the posts & playlist streams and want to get ‘em all, consider a subscription. Thanks! - WillHere in North America, it’s spring. So here’s a soundtrack for seasonal rebirth, a 70+ song playlist (links below for Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Spotify) with New Song of the Day highlights from the past month, plus lots more gems. Among them: — The Accra-born Kwashibu Area Band.
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3 weeks ago |
newmusicoldmusic.substack.com | Will Hermes
Welcome to New Music + Old Music. If you like the posts & playlist streams and want to get ‘em all, consider a subscription. Thanks! - WillI’m working on a longer review-essay of last night’s People Have the Power: A Celebration of Patti Smith, an all-star tribute show at Carnegie Hall. For now, here’s some scattered thoughts on a handful of the performances, a data dump from my notes w/ phone footage + photos, and a reflection.
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RIP David Johansen. I once interviewed him for the NYTimes; very funny, smart, spiritual (“a Catholic Taoist,” he said w/a phlegmy chuckle). A carved-in-stone New Yorker. Shameful the Dolls never made it into the Rock Hall of Fame. More thoughts below. https://t.co/iC1i9xPpFl
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