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Will Hermes

Will Hermes is the author of Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Faber & Faber, 2011), an acclaimed history of the New York City music scene in the 1970s. A senior critic for Rolling Stone and a longtime contributor to National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” his work appears periodically in The New York Times; he has also written for the Village Voice, Spin, Slate, Salon, The Believer, GQ, Minneapolis City Pages,and other publications. He co-edited SPIN: 20 Years of Alternative Music (Crown/Three Rivers, 2006), and his writing has been included in the Da Capo Best Music Writing series.

Love Goes to Building On Fire

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Caetano Veloso: Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil (Knopf)

Book Review by Will Hermes, Village Voice, September 2002

IT'S TOUGH TO imagine an American pop star penning a memoir like Tropical Truth. That's not just because our musical celebs are rarely imprisoned for ...

Vic Chesnutt: Gravity's Rainbow: Vic Chesnutt

Profile by Will Hermes, Village Voice, November 1998

LIKE PLENTY of other folks in wheelchairs, Vic Chesnutt doesn't want your sympathy. In fact, he can challenge the compassion of even those closest to ...

John Scofield, Medeski, Martin & Wood , John Medeski: Jam On It: Hippies, Jazzbos, and Beat Junkies Build One Nation Under a Mutant Groove

Report and Interview by Will Hermes, Village Voice, April 2002

LET US NOW praise great Americans: Louis Armstrong, Jerry Garcia, and Grandmaster Flash made their history with equal parts pioneer cojones and improvisatory derring-do. They ...

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Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: 1977 New York gets the VH1 treatment and, oh my, wasn't it fun back then!

Retrospective by Will Hermes, Village Voice, July 2007

OH YES, it was wicked cool: getting jacked at machete-point on the subway after a night of clubbing, and at bayonet-point outside of high school. ...

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