RiYL
Recommended if You Like: longform conversation with musicians, cartoonists, writers and other creative types.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 726
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Episode 725: Spider Stacy (The Pogues)
Celebrating its 40th birthday exactly one month ago, Rum Sodomy & the Lash requires no introduction. As epilogues go, however, one could do far worse than the alternately raucous and sublime tour pie…
00:49:20 |
Sat 06 Sep 2025
Episode 724: Richard Patrick (Filter)
He may have had something to prove early on, leaving the relative comfort of a rocket ship success like Nine Inch Nails, but it didn’t take Richard Patrick long. Filter’s first album went platinum on…
00:57:41 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
Episode 723: David Christian (Comet Gain)
Thirty-three years, 10+ members, and a dozen albums later, Comet Gain hasn’t lost its step. Released in June, Letters to Ordinary Outsiders maintains the magic, once again. The group’s work is perpet…
00:54:11 |
Sat 23 Aug 2025
Episode 722: Jenni Rose and Cory Graves (The Vandoliers)
Jenni Rose announced herself in style, with a Rolling Stone interview, back in April. The article dropped a few months The Vandoliers’ fifth album, Life Behind Bars.
With a record full of deeply perso…
00:49:00 |
Sun 17 Aug 2025
Episode 721: Marissa Nadler
In the end, New Radiations could only be a multimedia affair. Marissa Nadler seems to have her hands in nearly every medium these days, from music, to filmmaking, painting, photography, and even stop…
00:44:52 |
Sat 09 Aug 2025
Episode 720: Ketch Secor (Old Crow Medicine Show)
What began as a poetry cycle quickly evolved into a dozen of Ketch Secor’s most personal songs. Story the Crow Told Me makes little effort to mask its autobiography, with stories of hitch hiking, bus…
00:49:36 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
Episode 719: Vitamin String Quartet
There’s prolific and then there’s the Vitamin String Quartet. In its roughly quarter-century of existence, the outfit has produced more than 400 albums. It helps, of course, that VSQ is more concept …
00:47:44 |
Sat 26 Jul 2025
Episode 718: Ben Nichols (Lucero)
Sixteen years is a long time between solo albums, but Ben Nichols’ role fronting Lucero has kept him plenty busy. In that time, the Memphis-based punk-country band has released a half-dozen albums, t…
00:52:50 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
Episode 717: Katie Fricas
Books, World War I pigeons, queer dating, bygone New York City haunts – Checked Out has a bit of something for everyone. Katie Fricas’ first book is a kind of, sort of memoir about a young cartoonist…
00:52:44 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
Episode 716: Knox Chandler
Siouxie And The Banshees, The Psychedelic Furs, R.E.M., Cyndi Lauper -- Knox Chandler's resume reads like a who's who of late-20th century pop music. These days, however, the Kentucky-born musician i…
00:54:56 |
Thu 03 Jul 2025
Episode 715: Jessica Robbins (Course)
There are two distinct phases during the writing of Hue Mirror: before and after. Course’s third album is a product of pain, uncertainty and eventual diagnosis. The latter arrived in the form of anky…
00:40:38 |
Sat 28 Jun 2025
Episode 714: Michael DeForge
Holy Lacrimony is a book about turning sadness into art. Also aliens, interpretive dancing and – in an unexpected way – the Scream franchise. Each component has a special meaning to Michael DeForge, …
00:41:26 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
Episode 713: Paul Pope
In the bifurcated world of comics, Paul Pope has never pledge allegiance to the superheroes of indies. The New York-based cartoonist’s move between storylines and mediums is every bit as fluid as his…
00:59:23 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
Episode 712: Amy Millan (Stars, Broken Social Scene)
Time has a way of getting away from you. You tour with a couple of legendary indie bands (Stars, Broken Social Scene), start a family, and next thing you know, it’s been 15 years since your last solo…
00:49:42 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
Episode 711: David J Haskins (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)
Well into his fourth decade as a professional musician, David J Haskins refers to The Mother Tree as, "my most personal work yet.” With such an expansive catalog, including the works discographies of…
00:42:58 |
Mon 02 Jun 2025
Episode 710: Monique Powell (Save Ferris)
In 2017, Save Ferris released the Checkered Past EP , the band’s first collection of new music in nearly two decades. Plenty had changed over the years, resulting in frontwoman, Monique Powell, retai…
00:54:08 |
Fri 23 May 2025
Episode 709: Swamp Dogg
The worst thing about discovering Swamp Dogg is kicking yourself for not having done so sooner. The good news is that you’re about to have your mind blown by an 82-year-old soul musician currently ex…
00:40:36 |
Sat 17 May 2025
Episode 708: Samantha Crain
Gumshoe is a record about connections in a world where being alone is increasingly becoming the default. It’s the latest from Oklahoma-based singer songwriter, Samantha Crain. For 15 years, the Choct…
01:00:36 |
Fri 09 May 2025
Episode 707: Craig Thompson
With Ginseng Roots, Craig Thompson returns to his childhood -- subject matter that already proved a rich vein for his beloved 2003 book, Blankets. While his latest once again explores the family dyna…
00:53:22 |
Sat 03 May 2025
Episode 706: Grey Delisle
About 40 minutes into the conversation, Nickelodeon calls. They need her in the studio post haste. It’s a fitting spot to end things for an artist as in demand as Grey Delisle. While she’s known as v…
00:39:56 |
Fri 25 Apr 2025
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