Will Hermes is a senior critic for Rolling Stone and a longtime contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered. His work also appears in the New York Times, the Village Voice, and elsewhere. He was coeditor of SPIN: 20 Years of Alternative Music (2005).
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Punk rock and hip-hop, disco and salsa, the loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists—in the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented, all at once, from one block to t... SEE MORE