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 206: Reverend Jen
Reverend Jen Miller was a Lower East Side fixture when I moved to New York more than a decade ago, an elf-eared, chihuahua-toting being who seemed to show up everywhere in those first few years, from…
00:45:58 |
Sun 19 Feb 2017
Episode 205: Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson confesses with a laugh that he feels at least partially responsible for the rise of Alex Jones, the once-fringe Texas-based radio show host who since has become a central figure in Donald …
00:47:22 |
Mon 13 Feb 2017
Episode 204: Kid Congo Powers
Punk rock resumes don’t get much better than Kid Congo Powers’. The Southern California-born musician has been playing music professional for nearly 40 years, since the then-president of the Ramones …
00:59:41 |
Mon 06 Feb 2017
Episode 203: Adele Bertei
“I think about music as joy” sounds like one of those things that musicians just say. But then you go see Adele Bertei live, and there’s really no other way to describe. She ought to be rusty, out of…
01:08:39 |
Tue 31 Jan 2017
Episode 202: Ted Stearn
The latest Fuzz and Pluck (last year’s The Moolah Tree) begins with a rough visual — one I’m admittedly a bit hung up on during my conversation with Ted Stearn a few months ago. In it, Fuzz, the hapl…
00:59:32 |
Mon 23 Jan 2017
Episode 201: Slow Club
When I arrive backstage at Le Poisson Rouge green room, Charles Watson is digging into a pre-set dinner, with Rebecca Taylor seated in the back on the phone with another interview. He’s asking her a…
00:41:32 |
Mon 16 Jan 2017
Episode 200: Al Jaffee
It was important to me that we have a special guest for episode 100. They Might Be Giants fitted the job perfectly, a band that played an incredibly important role in the early development of my musi…
01:35:48 |
Wed 11 Jan 2017
Episode 199: MariNaomi
Mari Naomi sat down for an interview a matter of days follow the election, a fact that unavoidably colored the conversation. It’s pretty clear listening back almost two months later that we were only…
00:52:29 |
Mon 02 Jan 2017
Episode 198: Dame Darcy
Dame Darcy’s got a great comics show gimmick. While cartoonists look on sad-eyed as show goers flip through their work and move on, the artist offers up tarot readings through her own custom deck, gi…
01:08:50 |
Tue 27 Dec 2016
Episode 197: Cecil Baldwin
There’s no real podcasting precedent for Welcome to Night Vale. In the decade or so since I started podcasting, I’ve never seen a phenomenon like it. The show seemingly came out of nowhere and shot t…
01:18:00 |
Tue 20 Dec 2016
Episode 196: Kyle Baker
We struggle to find a decent spot to set up shop on the New York Comic Con show floor — finally opting to do the whole thing standing, leaned up against the reception desk at the Dark Horse booth. Ba…
00:49:38 |
Wed 14 Dec 2016
Episode 195: Julian Koster
Neutral Milk Hotel two albums surely cast a long shadow on all involved. Multi-instrumentalist Julian Koster has never shied away from his role in the band — both reuniting with the group and support…
01:07:57 |
Wed 23 Nov 2016
Episode 194: Bobby Rush
Bobby Rush is a storyteller. At 83, he’s no doubt told many of his best ones hundreds if not thousands of times, but as the consummate perform, he spins each one as it were the first time – even some…
00:49:01 |
Wed 16 Nov 2016
Episode 193: Vivien Goldman (with Eve Blouin)
Vivien Goldman’s New York City apartment is a shrine to decades of music journalism, bookshelves overflowing with seemingly every title ever published on the subject. This particular evening, former …
01:17:34 |
Thu 10 Nov 2016
Episode 192: Jon Ginoli
I must have been 12 or so when I first saw the Pansy Division. The band was opening for Green Day at a benefit show in Oakland, a return to the Bay Area following the triumphant Dookie tour. I had no…
00:55:39 |
Wed 02 Nov 2016
Episode 191: Tom Tomorrow
Of all of the bizarre sights at this year’s New York Comic Con, you’d be hard pressed to find one more serendipitous than the droves of show goers milling around IDW booth in bright orange cardboard …
00:46:08 |
Tue 25 Oct 2016
Episode 190: El Perro Del Mar
Sometimes you finish an interview not quite sure how things went. Other times you just know. With Sarah Assbring, it was pretty clear from the first seconds, when she belted out a song when asked to …
00:56:52 |
Tue 18 Oct 2016
Episode 189: Dash Shaw
In 2008, Dash Shaw arrived seemingly out of nowhere and the indie comics community feel in love almost immediately. His Fantagraphics debut, the 720 page opus Bottomless Belly Belly Button, was a wid…
01:12:36 |
Wed 12 Oct 2016
Episode 188: Alex Segura
I’d known Alex Segura for a few years, before I found out about his not so secret passion. We’d work together in the comics world, we as a journalist and him as a PR rep, first for DC and then for Ar…
01:00:45 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
Episode 187: Matt Furie (Bonus)
I was excited when I first saw Pepe popping up on strange corners of the internet. After years of spotting Matt Furie’s work at indie comics shows like SPX and MoCCA, the online community was startin…
00:28:57 |
Fri 30 Sep 2016
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