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 506: Naomi Yang (of Damon & Naomi and Galaxie 500)
When she hops on the call, Naomi Yang is still in the middle of an editing project. It’s one she’s not quite ready to talk about. At it for a little over a decade, filmmaking is a relatively recent p…
00:42:40 |
Fri 04 Feb 2022
Episode 505: Buffalo Nichols
Fresh off a rescheduled tour opening for Drive-By Truckers, I manage to catch Carl Nichols at home. In the not so distant future, he’ll be back on the road, with a headlining stint bookended by tours…
00:48:28 |
Sun 30 Jan 2022
Episode 504: Lester Chambers (of the Chambers Brothers)
In July 2013, Lester Chambers was attacked. Performing at a Bay Area blues festival, the singer had just launched into the Impressions’ classic, “People Get Ready,” as a woman charged through the cro…
00:38:55 |
Tue 25 Jan 2022
Episode 503: Mark Oliver Everett (of Eels)
Two years, Mark Oliver Everett interjects, isn’t really that long away from the road. In March, the Eels return to the road for the perfectly titled, “Lockdown Hurricane” tour. Even as the rest of …
00:31:31 |
Thu 20 Jan 2022
Episode 502: Kurt Heasley (of Lilys)
2021 saw reissues of some of the most beloved albums in the Lilys’ 30+ year history. After many years out-of-print, A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns, Better Can't Make Your Life Better and The 3-W…
01:00:18 |
Thu 13 Jan 2022
Episode 501: Oliver Ackermann (of A Place to Bury Strangers)
In February of last year, Oliver Ackermann launched a new label. For some, such a project could easily have been written off as a pandemic project or platform for launching a few pet projects. But fr…
00:46:05 |
Sun 09 Jan 2022
Episode 500: Nick Lowe
There may be no singular figure in rock who has aged more gracefully than Nick Lowe. This year marks the 20th anniversary of The Convincer – perhaps the quintessential example of the singer-songwrite…
00:46:03 |
Fri 31 Dec 2021
Episode 499: Josh and Sam Kiszka (of Greta Van Fleet)
In 2017, Greta Van Fleet did the seemingly impossible: broke through the pop music world as a new rock band. And while the Michigan-born quartet was chided in some critic circles as a throwback to th…
00:40:13 |
Thu 30 Dec 2021
Episode 498: Julie Doiron
Nine years after her last solo album, Julie Doiron returns with I Thought of You. Written and recorded prior to the pandemic, the album was shelved for a spell, in hopes of finding a more welcoming r…
00:43:28 |
Sun 26 Dec 2021
Episode 497: Tahlena Chikami (of Bite Me Bambi)
A self-proclaimed theater kid, Tahlena Chikami spent much of the past decade landing roles on film and television, including a number of beloved series like Parks and Recreation and Gilmore Girls. In…
00:42:17 |
Fri 24 Dec 2021
Episode 496: Kevin Whelan (of Aeon Station and The Wrens)
In September, The New York Times published a feature on Kevin Whelan bearing the headline, “The 18-Year Wait for New Wrens Music Is Over. Sort Of.” The piece was exactly as bittersweet as the title …
00:46:09 |
Wed 15 Dec 2021
Episode 495: Matt Madden
More than anything, Ex Libris is a love letter to a medium. Framed as a meta-fiction mystery of sorts, the book is an exercise in flexible styles and genre, as the story leaps from book to book.It’s …
00:53:00 |
Fri 10 Dec 2021
Episode 494: Anika
Her music career wasn’t an accident, exactly. But it’s safe to say that Anika didn’t see it coming. A music journalist by trade, the singer assumed she was signing up for a guest vocalist gig on what…
00:55:08 |
Wed 01 Dec 2021
Episode 493: Lou Mathews and Jim Gavin
“If a book is good,” Lou Mathews explains, “it will find an audience.” Finding a publisher, on the other hand, is often a different question altogether. “A writer writes” is perhaps a more appropriat…
00:54:01 |
Wed 24 Nov 2021
Episode 492: Bonnie Bloomgarden (of Death Valley Girls)
There’s no lingering doubt after an hour-long conversation that Bonnie Bloomgarden believes in the power of music. And not in any abstract sense, mind. This stuff is transformative manifestations, fi…
00:54:21 |
Thu 18 Nov 2021
Episode 491: Taylor Hanson (of Hanson)
In 2022, Hanson will celebrate 30 years as a band. It’s a remarkable accomplishment for any group, let alone one whose members ranged from age six to 11. The group was propelled to success in its ear…
00:44:59 |
Thu 11 Nov 2021
Episode 490: Merry Clayton
In 2021, Merry Clayton returned with a vengeance. In her solo first album in 27, years the singer once again poured her heart out on record. Beautiful Scars bears the mark of a musician who has suffe…
00:44:49 |
Mon 08 Nov 2021
Episode 489: Tillie Walden
Released over the summer, Alone in Space offers brilliant glimpses in the process and work of a powerhouse cartoonist. The collection offers works from her teenage years and the classroom prompts tha…
00:49:35 |
Fri 05 Nov 2021
Episode 488: (Bonus) Dickson Despommier
I spent a lot of hours and a lot of words exploring the world of vertical farming over at TechCrunch. The research, which resulted in this feature, was bookended by conversations with Dickson Despomm…
00:30:21 |
Thu 04 Nov 2021
Episode 487: John Flansburgh (of They Might Be Giants)
Seems hard to believe that 40 years into a career of pushing boundaries and taking risks that They Might Be Giants still have anything left up their sleeve. But amidst a global pandemic, when the wor…
00:46:59 |
Wed 27 Oct 2021
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