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 685: John Davis (Superdrag)
Few who have walked the Earth can write a pop song like John Davis. That prowess catapulted his group, Superdrag to massive success on the back of its 1996 single, "Sucked Out." The group's trajector…
00:51:03 |
Fri 29 Nov 2024
Episode 684: Samuel Herring (Future Islands, Hemlock Ernst)
Plenty of musicians talk about 'leaving it all on the stage,' but few have offered as demonstrable an example as Samuel Herring. His live performance is a conduit for unbridled emotion, capturing mai…
00:55:48 |
Wed 20 Nov 2024
Episode 683: Michael Des Barres
Released in October, It's Only Rock n Roll is a celebration that has formed the backbone of Michael Des Barres' life. The album's one dozen tracks find the singer paying homage to the biggest names o…
00:51:37 |
Thu 14 Nov 2024
Episode 682: Mike Campbell (Dirty Knobs, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
Tom Petty's unexpected death in October 2017 effectively marked the end of the Heartbreakers. The band reunited a handful of times to pay tribute to the late singer, but its members have otherwise us…
00:40:22 |
Mon 11 Nov 2024
Episode 681: Kishi Bashi
Released at the end of August, Kantos is a “party album about the possible end of humanity as we know it.” A few months later, that possibility seems ever more probable. A one-time resident of both N…
00:44:38 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
Episode 680: Breymer
When I Get Through follows Breymer's (Sarah Walk) journey up to the day of their top surgery. It's a candid account of the conversations and emotions that precede such a life alternating moment. The …
00:51:17 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
Episode 679: Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones
Halloween comes early this year, as Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones join us to discuss the final days of their Kickstarter campaign for Dracula Book II: The Brides. The comics veterans talk about their …
00:44:05 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
Episode 678: Shannon Wheeler
New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler returns to the show. The artist recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to release a new book collecting minicomics and other appearances by his best-known crea…
00:55:31 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Episode 677: Franz Nicolay (The World/Inferno Friendship Society, The Hold Steady)
Band People is part music writing and part business book, rounded out by academic research and a host of footnotes. It's a pragmatic look at the life of road warriors in an increasingly untenable ind…
00:41:08 |
Thu 10 Oct 2024
Episode 676: Steve Cropper
He's quick to laugh with a twang that betrays his Southern Missouri origin. Steve Cropper discusses his accomplishments with modesty, rarely offering a glimpse into a career that profoundly impacted …
00:30:52 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
Episode 675: Graham Wright (Tokyo Police Club)
In November, Tokyo Police Club will play its final show. Saying goodbye is never easy, but the Ontario-based band's members seem surprisingly okay with the whole thing. At the end of the day, very fe…
00:55:34 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
Episode 674: Dash Shaw
Comics and animation can both be grueling -- especially drawing a 400 page comic or animated a hand-drawn, feature length film. As such, one must be discriminating in choosing such projects. For Dash…
00:56:52 |
Sun 22 Sep 2024
Episode 673: Eduardo Arenas (Chicano Batman)
While their music owes debts to the towering giants of rock, soul and the Mexican and Brazilian music before them, no one sounds like Chicano Batman. Formed in Los Angeles in 2008, the group released…
00:48:25 |
Sat 21 Sep 2024
Episode 672: Joe Gatto
In 2020, Joe Gatto struck out on his own. It was surprising turn, as the Impractical Joker left a beloved and lucrative TV series that found him performing alongside a trio of lifelong friends. The m…
00:42:23 |
Wed 18 Sep 2024
Episode 671: Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak (Mercury Rev)
Jet lag is a drag, leaving Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak at a decided disadvantage during our conversation. Mercury Rev just got back from Australia, but the veteran guitarist happily powers through. …
00:37:15 |
Tue 10 Sep 2024
Episode 670: Maria Bamford and Scott Marvel Cassidy
Her coauthor and husband, Scott Marvel Cassidy, is at the dentist for an emergency root canal, so Maria Bamford and I push ahead. Decades after establishing herself as one of standup's sharpest -- an…
00:41:30 |
Wed 04 Sep 2024
Episode 669: Jack Grisham (TSOL)
A-Side Graffiti includes, among other things, a surprisingly faithful cover of Dr. Frank N. Furter's "Sweet Transvestite." The song finds Jack Grisham dueting with fellow So. Cal. punk legend, Keith …
00:55:48 |
Sat 31 Aug 2024
Episode 668: Buddy Bradley Returns (with Peter Bagge)
[Apologies for poor audio quality on my end. Technical difficulties suck]
Hate returns. So, too, does Peter Bagge. The cartoonist has joined us several times over the years. This time he's back to tal…
00:42:30 |
Fri 30 Aug 2024
Episode 667: Yoni Wolf (of Why)
A new album on a new label, The Well I Fell Into is a chance to consider and process the old and – hopefully – move on. A breakup album of sorts, Why’s eighth finds frontman Yoni Wolf processing the …
00:39:34 |
Sun 25 Aug 2024
Episode 666: Richard Metzger
Magick Show bills itself as a “masterclass in modern occultism.” It’s hard to argue with the tagline. Richard Metzger is in his element interviewing dozens of experts on different aspects of the occu…
00:50:47 |
Sun 11 Aug 2024
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