"Music geeks will find plenty of this familiar, and being music geeks, will fake knowing what they don’t about how, say, in the early ’70s, Latin dance music was being hotly reimagined by Willie Colón and others, or how Nicky Siano, at his proto-rave disco, the Gallery, was mastering, as Hermes writes, 'the art of dropping out certain frequencies in a cut (usually the bass) at dramatic moments, then crashing them back in on the beat, à la dub reggae, detonating dance-floor pleasure bombs.' Hermes’s is a popular history, but if the success of Patti Smith’s autobiographical 'Just Kids' is any indication, the music life of ’70s New York is saying something to a lot of people who weren’t around or listening back then."
Gerald Marzorati in The New York Times reviews Will Hermes's Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever.
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