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 546: Billy Bragg
There’s a video from last November featuring Billy Bragg speaking to the camera outside the Brighton Dome. He’s nearly drown out by the sounds of chants – antivaxxers come to protest venue mandate. T…
00:57:54 |
Mon 03 Oct 2022
Episode 545: Jordan Crane
Keeping Two isn’t an easy book. It’s a book about loss, trauma and brains wired to project worst case scenarios – things to which many of us can no doubt deeply relate these days. It’s also a gorgeou…
01:02:52 |
Fri 30 Sep 2022
Episode 544: Kate Beaton
The book took around a year to draw, but Ducks was more than a decade in the making. The foundation of the book arrived in 2014, as a five-part webcomic, documenting her time working in the Alberta o…
00:40:14 |
Fri 23 Sep 2022
Episode 543: Rhett Miller (of Old 97s)
The last time I spoke to Rhett Miller, the conversation turned to 9/11, as it sometimes does. The Old 97s singer was living in New York, not far from ground zero and has a fairly harrowing story to t…
00:48:34 |
Fri 16 Sep 2022
Episode 542: Kenny Becker (of Goon)
Paint By Numbers 1 was a pandemic album in just about every sense. Recorded at home with no budget, it was a band release in name only. Life intervened for Goon's members, effectively rendering it a …
00:43:56 |
Tue 06 Sep 2022
Episode 541: Eyedress
In 2019, Idris Vicuña was suddenly everywhere, an overnight success several years in the making on the strength of “Jealous.” The single found the L.A. musician shooting up Spotify charts on the back…
00:42:18 |
Sat 03 Sep 2022
Episode 540: Patterson Hood (of The Drive-By Truckers)
After a pair of albums steeped in the polarizing politics of the era, Welcome 2 Club XIII finds The Drive-By Truckers in a reflective mood. Frontmen Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley find themselves war…
00:40:41 |
Fri 26 Aug 2022
Episode 539: Emily Haines (of Metric)
“Here’s to the next 20 years,” Emily Haines concludes with a laugh. Nearly a quarter-century into Metric’s existence, the band’s frontwoman is looking forward at the lifelong project. As many of thei…
00:50:24 |
Fri 19 Aug 2022
Episode 538: Mary Gauthier
The pandemic hasn’t been easy, of course, but it has provided at a new way for Mary Gauthier to engage with her music. Her story songs have comfortably made the jump to virtual performances, as she’s…
00:35:31 |
Thu 11 Aug 2022
Episode 537: Tom Scharpling
Every so often, he makes a fist and gently punches his hand, trying to stave off a yawn. I don’t take it personally. It’s less than two days after the 24 hour Best Show marathon, and Tom Scharpling i…
00:42:30 |
Thu 04 Aug 2022
Episode 536: Carey Mercer (of Frog Eyes)
Nothing last forever in the music world – breakups least of all. In February of this year, Frog Eyes’ Carey Mercer announced he was getting the band back together after a four year hiatus. Two months…
00:53:50 |
Sat 30 Jul 2022
Episode 535: Rory Phillips (of The Stereo, The Impossibles)
“If anybody has someone in their past that you would still like to maintain some sort of relationship with,” Rory Phillips explains, “but you have some traumatic event that you’ve never talked about,…
00:54:47 |
Sat 23 Jul 2022
Episode 534: Laura Veirs
Twelve albums in, Laura Veirs is ready for a fresh start. Emerging from a breakup album dealing with the detachment from her husband and longtime producer, Found Light arrives this month like a jolt …
00:46:19 |
Sat 16 Jul 2022
Episode 533: Wayne Kramer (of MC5)
For their many downsides, the past few years have offered an opportunity to reflect and reconnect with friends, family, projects. For Wayne Kramer, 2022 represents a full-throated embrace of a specte…
00:43:41 |
Mon 04 Jul 2022
Episode 532: Diane Coffee
There are birds chirping. Shaun Fleming is making the most out of this beautiful spring day in Los Angeles, taking the call from the front porch. We get into a little lore about some parrots that hav…
00:49:44 |
Thu 30 Jun 2022
Episode 531: Joan Osborne
Fresh off the release of a new record and suddenly unable to tour, Joan Osborne got the work. The musician dug through the closets in her Brooklyn home, pulling together live recordings from across h…
00:39:02 |
Mon 20 Jun 2022
Episode 530: Janet Weiss (of Slang, Quasi)
“I’ve always been in more than one band,” Janet Weiss notes. Even during the nearly two-and-a-half decades she spent as one-third of Sleater Kinney, she’s kept busy. Since 1993, she’s been half of Qu…
00:47:58 |
Thu 16 Jun 2022
Episode 529: David Toop
Ambient music helped me survive the darkest moments of the pandemic, and David Toop’s 2001 classic, Ocean of Sound, gave me the context to fully appreciate what I was listening to.
He is a rare bird, …
00:57:54 |
Fri 10 Jun 2022
Episode 528: Emily Carrington
Our Little Secret isn’t an easy book, but it’s an important one. In her first-ever graphic novel, Emily Carrington delves deep into her history and self-conscious, to explore her childhood abuse and …
00:51:22 |
Fri 03 Jun 2022
Episode 527: Graham Nash
Wild Tales begins at an impasse. At the tail end of the 60s, Graham Nash writes, his time in The Hollies had seemingly run its course. A trip to the U.S. to visit his then-girlfriend, Joni Mitchell, …
00:37:56 |
Mon 30 May 2022
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