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2 weeks ago |
newmusicoldmusic.substack.com | Will Hermes
Spiral Stairs flips off the mud-slinging crowd at Lollapalooza in West Virginia, 1995, after Pavement’s aborted set. After 20 numbingly portentous seasons of Behind the Music, the idea of a conventional band documentary seems exhausted if not dead.
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3 weeks ago |
newmusicoldmusic.substack.com | Will Hermes
Back in my more active clubbing days — those wacky fin de siécle years when Fatboy Slim (see below) was landing radio singles — there were few DJ acts I loved as much as Basement Jaxx. Their great jam “Romeo” followed a string of bangers, and it dropped in the summer of 2001, months before the World Trade Towers came down and everything in New York City, and the world it seemed, changed.
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4 weeks ago |
newmusicoldmusic.substack.com | Will Hermes
I’ve been a bit slow on New Song of the Day posts lately, but I need to ramp back up. There’s no shortage of worthy tracks, as my latest new music playlist documents. Among those tracks was Fiona Apple’s hauntingly world-weary cover of Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold.” She’s been slowly emerging from years of relative silence since her 2020 pandemic cri de cœur Fetch The Bolt Cutters.
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1 month ago |
newmusicoldmusic.substack.com | Will Hermes
New music worth hearing. Old music worth remembering. Deep-dive playlists. Record reviews. Books. Concerts. New York City. Lou Reed. Genre-fluid.
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1 month ago |
newmusicoldmusic.substack.com | Will Hermes
I just finished teaching a 7-week class on Lou Reed & Laurie Anderson at New York University last week. It was really great fun. And now I’m stoked to be able to offer my first-ever virtual writing class. Click here to register. My thanks to the good folks at Five Things I’ve Learned— they’re fans of my Substack and books who reached out and offered to host this class.
Will Hermes: New Music + Old Music journalists
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