Will Hermes

Will Hermes is a contributing editor and critic for Rolling Stone and a longtime contributor to NPR’s “All Things Considered.” He's the author of Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever, a history of the 1970’s New York City music scene (2011 Editor's Choice in The New York Times Book Review) and the biography Lou Reed: The King of New York (2024 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Association for Recorded Sound Collections), and is co-editor of SPIN: 20 Years of Alternative Music. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Pitchfork, the Village Voice, Slate, Salon, The Believer, City Pages, The Windy City Times, and the Da Capo Best Music Writing series. He publishes the Substack newsletter New Music + Old Music.