Will Hermes

Will Hermes is author of the biography Lou Reed: The King of New York (2023) and Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever (2011). He writes the Substack newsletter New Music + Old Music, is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and National Public Radio, and is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. His work also appears in Pitchfork, Uncut, and The Guardian.

Will Hermes

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