The Next Track
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
321 episodes of The Next Track since the first episode, which aired on May 21st, 2016.
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Episode #288: Merch
August 14th, 2024 | 26 mins 32 secs
It's tough to make money in the music business. So artists sell merch.
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Episode #287: The Summer Doldrums
July 31st, 2024 | 29 mins 57 secs
It's the summer of Apple beta software. We chat a bit about the Music app, new operating systems, and how Apple's AI could affect Apple Music.
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Episode #285: Is Classic Rock the New Classical Music
July 3rd, 2024 | 27 mins 39 secs
No one gets up in the morning and says, “I want to be in a classic rock band.”
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Episode #284: You Can't Beat the System
June 19th, 2024 | 29 mins 2 secs
Something always goes wrong. "The grass may look great, but it's not real grass."
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Episode #283: Another Green World
June 5th, 2024 | 30 mins 1 sec
Doug and Kirk discuss one of Brian Eno's best early albums, Another Green World.
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Episode #282: Embracing the CD Revival
May 22nd, 2024 | 29 mins 54 secs
Continuing with our multi-episode arc, we discuss the joys of listening to CDs.
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Episode #281: Kirk's New Audio Gear
May 8th, 2024 | 31 mins 36 secs
Kirk buys new audio gear for the first time in several years. Tech doesn't always work.
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Episode #280: When CDs Won’t Play, and Other Tech Tales
April 24th, 2024 | 29 mins 21 secs
Tech is full of surprises.
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Episode #279: Lyrics
April 10th, 2024 | 27 mins 10 secs
We discuss lyrics in popular music. Have they become simpler and angrier over the years?
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Episode #278: Gear Acquisition Syndrome
March 27th, 2024 | 28 mins 51 secs
Gear Acquisition Syndrome, or GAS, affects people with many interests: musicians, photographers, and audiophiles. We discuss how this syndrome can affect people, and why people just want to keep buying more gear.
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Episode #277: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Star, Part 2
March 13th, 2024 | 29 mins 59 secs
This time, Kirk chose three rock stars to discuss from David Hepworth's book Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994.
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Episode #276: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Star
February 28th, 2024 | 32 mins
We didn't all do our homework, but Doug discusses three chapters from David Hepworth's book Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994.
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Episode #275: Dead at the Sphere, Vision Pro, Grammys, Taylor Swift, the Superb Owl, and More
February 14th, 2024 | 31 mins 11 secs
We have a “two guys in a pub” episode, in which we talk about the next musical artist to perform at The Sphere: Dead & Company. We also discuss Apple’s new Vision Pro, the Grammys, Taylor Swift, the Superb Owl, and more.
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Episode #274: OMD
January 31st, 2024 | 28 mins 21 secs
We discuss the first album by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, aka OMD, called Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. This was a foundational album in the synth-pop movement that started in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the UK.
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Episode #273: Sheik Yerbouti
January 17th, 2024 | 29 mins 24 secs
Doug has long been a fan of Frank Zappa’s music, yet we’ve never spent an episode discussing it. In our irregular series looking at individual albums, we look at Zappa’s best-selling record, the 1979 Sheik Yerbouti.