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 705: Amy Irving
When Willie Nelson suggests you record an album of his songs, you do it. Amy Irving and the country legend met on the set of 1980’s Honeysuckle Rose and remained close ever since. Irving features on …
00:39:34 |
Sat 19 Apr 2025
Episode 704: Anika
Abyss is a dark, heavy album for a dark, heavy time. A journalist in a former life, Anika never shies away from the bleakness. The Berlin-based singer made a point of recording her third solo record …
00:45:08 |
Sat 12 Apr 2025
Episode 703: Benmont Tench
At age 11, his fate was sealed when Benmont Tench met Tom Petty at a Gainesville music store. Fueled by the recent British invasion, the pair made music together for the first time at The Sundowners.…
00:43:06 |
Sun 06 Apr 2025
Episode 702: Luke Lalonde (Born Ruffians)
Vladimir Nabokov's 1951 memoir, Speak, Memory, opens with a quote describing life as the content between two dark eternities -- the before and the after. Though teaming with potential existential dre…
00:48:59 |
Sat 29 Mar 2025
Episode 701: Gabríel Ólafs
Polar is as much an exercise in world building as it is a classical album. Icelandic pianist Gabríel Ólafs describes a lifelong desire to score films. In the meantime, he’s making his own. The new re…
00:44:24 |
Sat 22 Mar 2025
Episode 700: Chester Brown
Since its debut at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Paying For It has garnered rave reviews from critics, drawing comparisons to fellow comic adaptation, Ghost World. Based on Chester…
00:47:46 |
Sat 15 Mar 2025
Episode 699: Lloyd Kaufman
One thing you should know about Lloyd Kaufman is that he isn’t dead. The introduction to Mathew Klickstein’s new interview collection is very adamant about this. The Troma founder was certainly well …
00:51:41 |
Thu 06 Mar 2025
Episode 698: Duke Amayo
At 17, Duke Amayo moved from Nigeria to U.S. for a football scholarship at Howard University. Despite his study, a career in medical illustration wasn’t in the cards. After making his way to Brooklyn…
00:56:44 |
Sun 02 Mar 2025
Episode 697: Denison Witmer
Recorded over the course of two years, Anything At All is, fittingly, about slowing down. Denison Witmer finds beauty in domesticity. It’s a meditation on mindfulness, fatherhood and even banal. Witm…
00:47:42 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
Episode 696: Charles 'Wigg' Walker
Seventy years since kicking off his music career in his hometown of Nashville, Charles “Wigg” Walker is still madly in love with music. This Love is Gonna Last is the soul singer’s first album in mor…
00:44:56 |
Sat 15 Feb 2025
Episode 695: Jenny Toomey and Kristin Thomson (Tsunami)
After 35 years, Tsunami returned with a bang. The Virginia-based band capped off 2024 by reuniting to deliver a massive, career-spanning boxset, Loud As. During their time away from the band, however…
00:40:44 |
Sun 09 Feb 2025
Episode 694: Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music)
“I am edging away from apathy,” Chuck Ragan bellows, “I am drifting away from the dark. The rain has got my mind in motion.” The stanzas that open Love & Lore, the latest from the Hot Water Music fro…
00:50:04 |
Sun 02 Feb 2025
Episode 693: Chuck Prophet
Music is, at once, a vector for connection and escape. Chuck Prophet found both, as at a bar in San Francisco’s Mission District. Cumbia, a popular dance genre born in Columbia, pulsates through Wake…
00:41:44 |
Sat 25 Jan 2025
Episode 692: Tarriona “Tank” Ball
Following the release of Tank and the Bangas' Grammy nominated The Heart, The Mind, The Soul, singer Tarriona “Tank” Ball returns to the show. The three-part collection presents a new side of Ball fo…
00:32:02 |
Sun 19 Jan 2025
Episode 691: Rafael Cohen (Las Palabras, !!!)
Fe finds Rafael Cohen returning to his roots on multiple fronts. The latest from the !!! multi-instrumentalist's Las Palabras finds the musician returning to his native Spanish, while pulling the thr…
00:49:23 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
Episode 690: Grant Mullen (Naked Giants)
What does “maturity” mean for a rock band? The answer is, perhaps, a bit easier to answer when you’ve been together since age 18. For Naked Giants, it means grown up things – getting jobs, starting f…
00:44:00 |
Sun 05 Jan 2025
Episode 689: Ruthie Foster
Last month, Mileage scored Sun Records’ first-ever Grammy nomination. It’s hard to believe for a 72-year-old label that was once home to Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash. The album, Ruthie …
00:58:50 |
Sat 28 Dec 2024
Episode 688: Anna Butterss
Mighty Vertebrate hits different. In a world of sound a likes and slow burns, Anna Butterss' latest solo record makes itself known from immediately out of the gate. The album is as eclectic as it is …
00:45:12 |
Thu 19 Dec 2024
Episode 687: Zac Carper (Fidlar)
During our conversation, FIDLAR frontman Zac Carper reminds me of band’s acronym, Fuck It Dawg, Life's a Risk. Spontaneity has been a driving force throughout the band’s 15-year existence, but time c…
00:44:38 |
Thu 12 Dec 2024
Episode 686: Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Released in September, Dirt On My Diamonds Vol.2 finds Kenny Wayne Shepherd doing what he was put on Earth to do. With eight tracks spanning a collective hour, it's a tight set that packs a punch, wh…
00:28:30 |
Thu 05 Dec 2024
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