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 086: Cory Doctorow
There are worse places to conduct an interview with Cory Doctorow than the press center above the New York Comic Con show floor. Granted, it’s still fairly low and a bit hectic that high up, but ther…
00:45:23 |
Tue 30 Dec 2014
Episode 085: Francoise Mouly
The Greenwich Village loft space occupied by Toon Books is one part office space, part living comics museum. There’s a row of iMacs where most of the business is done, from filling orders to taking p…
01:17:20 |
Tue 23 Dec 2014
Episode 084: Tom Scharpling
It must be around 11PM by the time Tom Scharpling arrives at my apartment, and he’s predictably exhausted. We’d scheduled something for earlier in the evening, but he found himself sitting though fou…
01:04:24 |
Tue 16 Dec 2014
Episode 083: Craig Finn and Tad Kubler ( of The Hold Steady)
The Hold Steady are just one of those bands — it takes all my will-power not spend the entire interview drilling down on the specifics of all of those story songs that populate the group’s backcatalo…
00:55:35 |
Wed 10 Dec 2014
Episode 082: Matt Sharp (Mini)
I’ve had questions for Matt Sharp since 1994. Hell, I had the guy’s visage on my wall back in the mid-90s, in the form of a blown of poster of the Blue Album, the first pop record of the era that rea…
00:30:14 |
Wed 03 Dec 2014
Episode 081: Mike Watt
There’s a whole of confusion when I arrive at the Mercury Lounge. By the time I emerge from the front of the club, on being informed that I was supposed to meet Mike Watt at “the boat,” the I spot th…
00:51:09 |
Wed 26 Nov 2014
Episode 080: Tim DeLaughter
In 2013, The Polyphonic Spree released, quite possibly the best album, a decade into their existence — quite the feat for a band many had written off as little more than novelty the first time its 20…
00:47:05 |
Wed 19 Nov 2014
Episode 079: Glenn Tilbrook
I first met Glenn Tilbrook two years back in a hotel bar roughly 40 minutes or so outside of downtown Austin, Texas. I was nursing a whiskey after a long day’s work and overheard the older gentleman …
00:51:26 |
Tue 11 Nov 2014
Episode 078: Greg Cartwright
There are few people around I’d rather sit down and discuss music with for 45 minutes than Greg Cartwright. Beyond the laundry list of excellent bands he’s fronted, from The Oblivians to The Reigning…
00:44:25 |
Wed 05 Nov 2014
Episode 077: Jillian Tamaki
In amongst the throngs of costumed chaos that the Jacob K Javits Center on the Saturday of New York Comic Con weekend, we find a reasonably quiet corner to sit down and discuss life and art with Jill…
00:43:51 |
Wed 29 Oct 2014
Episode 076: Kevin Seconds
Kevin Seconds is seated next to me on a small bench just in front of the Knitting Factory. As I prep the record and unravel the mic cords, fan after fan approach the singer. Some want autographs, som…
00:56:16 |
Wed 22 Oct 2014
Episode 075: John Porcellino
I’d spoken with John Porcellino not all that long ago for Publishers Weekly feature discussing The Hospital Suite, the indie cartoonist longest self-contained work to date. Published by Drawn & Quart…
01:14:39 |
Wed 15 Oct 2014
Episode 074: Jason Nash
The best interview subjects and the best comedians share a common thread: brutal honesty. There’s a sense that nothing is off-limits in pursuit of the perfect joke or honest answer. Jason Nash, to hi…
00:43:13 |
Wed 08 Oct 2014
Episode 073: Art Spiegelman
Two years ago, while on a take a half day off following a photography convention, I ran into Art Spiegelman on the streets of Cologne, Germany. Actually, I spotted his wife first, and it took me a mo…
00:57:30 |
Tue 30 Sep 2014
Episode 072: John Darnielle
“Once a bugle stood in the window of a store that sold brass goods.” That’s the first line of The Magical Bugle, a short story written by a young John Darnielle after acquiring an old Royal typewrite…
00:47:41 |
Wed 24 Sep 2014
Episode 071: Mike Doughty
In retrospect, there’s probably not a heck of a lot that we talk about here that Mike Doughty didn’t touch upon in Book of Drugs. His 2012 memoir is candid and rock — everything a rock and roll autob…
01:13:01 |
Wed 17 Sep 2014
Episode 070: Whitney Matheson
“It’s funny how life can change on a dime.” That’s how Whitney Matheson put it, asking whether I was still planning on running this interview. That’s the downside, I suppose, of stockpiling these int…
01:02:44 |
Wed 10 Sep 2014
Episode 069: Wreckless Eric
1993’s The Donovan of Trash, just might be Eric Goulden as his most unhinged — which is, naturally, saying a lot for a guy who’s borne the “Wreckless” qualifier since the late 70s. It’s rough and fuz…
00:40:25 |
Wed 03 Sep 2014
Episode 068: Sean Nelson
Harvey Danger was one of the last of the Buzz Bin bands, in those waning when major labels were still forces to be reckoned with and MTV rotation was all it took to cement a song’s status as a genera…
01:16:10 |
Wed 27 Aug 2014
Episode 067: Dave Wakeling
There’s always been some degree of confusion over what, precisely, constitutes The Beat. Here in the States, the group has long added the word “English” to its name, so as to avoid confusion with the…
00:46:28 |
Wed 20 Aug 2014
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