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 106: Joe Biel (Microcosm Publishing)
Several years ago, I began to notice a pattern emerging. Practically every book of interest I'd pick up at independent bookstores and zine fest had the same logo on the back: a small bicycle gear wit…
01:28:06 |
Wed 06 May 2015
Episode 105: Jean Grae
The last time I saw Jean Grae in person, she was giving out free hugs in Union Square. The event was a unique attempting to cope with and have a discussion around the events unfolding in Ferguson. Gr…
01:18:26 |
Wed 29 Apr 2015
Episode 104: Brooks Wheelan
I knew Brooks Wheelan was moving. His PR reps had already alerted me to the fact that the comedian only had a few days remaining before moving on to greener entertainment pastures. And, of course, he…
00:59:44 |
Wed 22 Apr 2015
Episode 103: Vivek Tiwary
I shouldn’t have been surprised when, in the email lead up to our interview, Vivek Tiwary told me he was pals with former RiYL guest, Mike Watt. When, after the interview concluded, he asked me who I…
00:58:03 |
Fri 17 Apr 2015
Episode 102: Guy Branum
While the old adage about truth making for great art certainly applies to standup, the equation can be something of a mixed bag. After all, comedy is often as much about deflection as it honesty, a s…
01:36:28 |
Tue 14 Apr 2015
Episode 101: Jesse Malin
I never knew New York before the war. The towers were gone by the first time set foot in the city. But nearly a dozen years after making the place my home, I have a fundamental distrust for anyone re…
00:50:21 |
Wed 08 Apr 2015
Episode 100: They Might Be Giants
Flood is my Beatles on Sullivan, my self-titled Velvet Underground record and Run-DMC on MTV. It was the first time I remember being keenly aware that an ever-expanding musical universe existed beyon…
00:57:19 |
Sat 28 Mar 2015
Episode 099: Dick Gregory, The Black Lips, Annie Koyama and Farel Dalrymple (Bonus)
This one’s going to be a bit different, as you’ve no doubt gathered from the title. It’s a bit of an, as the Who so eloquently put it, odds and sods — interviews that never got their own standalone e…
01:12:32 |
Sat 28 Mar 2015
Episode 098: Sara Benincasa
One of the real dangers of recording interviews is that plenty can change over the course of a few weeks. One interviewee lost her job of 17 years the week before that conversation was posted. Anothe…
01:19:08 |
Tue 24 Mar 2015
Episode 097: Alex Winter
If I’m being totally honest, it takes me a few minutes to shake the fact that I’m sitting across the table from Bill S. Preston as I unspool mic wires in the kitchen of some stranger’s Tribeca apartm…
01:05:52 |
Tue 17 Mar 2015
Episode 096: Guster
“All the bull**** of the music industry dying,” Brian Rosenworcel explains, his passion drowning out the din of the packed Manhattan bar, “all the babies, all the egos, nothing really matters except …
01:01:41 |
Wed 11 Mar 2015
Episode 095: Jeffrey Cranor (of Welcome to Night Vale)
Art Bell will forever hold a special place in my heart. Coast to Coast was a mainstay as I drove late at night to fill in 3AM slots at my college radio station. The show opened up the true potential …
01:15:02 |
Wed 04 Mar 2015
Episode 094: Vijay Iyer
I’d have been content to spend the whole time talking about Thelonious Monk. There’s a picture of the composer wedged in one corner of the home office located in the lower of Vijay Iyer’s Harlem brow…
00:58:07 |
Wed 25 Feb 2015
Episode 093: Roz Chast
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant isn’t as easy book. As the title implies, in deals in topics few are equipped to candidly discuss: family, aging, mortality. But long time New Yorker carto…
00:45:13 |
Wed 18 Feb 2015
Episode 092: Scott McCloud
The phrase “those who can’t, teach” runs through my head pretty consistently when I sit down in front of a blank page in an attempt to flex some creative muscles. It’s the curse of the critic, the cu…
01:02:42 |
Wed 11 Feb 2015
Episode: 091: Legs McNeil
I feel a bit bad entering the hotel room. There was a bit of a miscommunication on timing, and Legs McNeil is clearly quite comfortable lying in bed watching Law and Order. It’s an episode he’s alrea…
00:47:31 |
Wed 04 Feb 2015
Episode 090: Jordan Morris
The list of people I’ve cohosted ska shows with is a short one indeed. It’s like going into battle with someone, really — a battle that trades the gunfire and mortar of trench warfare for song reques…
01:04:18 |
Mon 26 Jan 2015
Episode 089: The Birthday Boys
Practically every episode of RiYL has had the same format — two people having a long form discussion into two microphones. Given my portable setup, things get a bit more complicated when a third is a…
00:52:33 |
Thu 22 Jan 2015
Episode 088: Jim Woodring
I’m not sure where to start with one, but the gallery seems as good a place as any. It was, after all, the reason Jim Woodring was in New York for a particularly cold few days last week. Fine art has…
01:01:12 |
Tue 13 Jan 2015
Episode 087: Mary Timony
“I feel like this band is what I’ve been search for during my entire musical career.” Some pretty strong words from someone who’s been in bands like Helium and Wild Flag — and, of course, there's the…
00:50:50 |
Tue 06 Jan 2015
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