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 665: Duglas Stewart (BMX Bandits)
Dreamers On The Run marks BMX Bandits' 12th LP since the group was founded in the mid-80s. The record finds Duglas Stewart expanding his musical ambitions a 10 years after he began work on the projec…
00:48:16 |
Sat 10 Aug 2024
Episode 664: Brendan Canty (Messthetics, Fugazi)
During our conversation, Brendan Canty makes it clear that he has no interest in revisiting the past. It's not bad blood. If anything, it's his continued relationship with his former Fugazi bandmates…
00:52:23 |
Sat 03 Aug 2024
Episode 663: Brent Rademaker (of Beachwood Sparks)
What's a dozen or so years between friends? 2012's Tarnished Gold found Beachwood Sparks in fine form. Eleven years had passed since the band's first two records were released within a year of each o…
01:00:56 |
Fri 26 Jul 2024
Episode 662: Joe Bonamassa
At 12, Joe Bonamassa was opening for the BB King. Twelve years later, his career was a at a crossroads. He's been through a pair of major label deals and suddenly found himself tasked with releasing …
00:31:28 |
Fri 19 Jul 2024
Episode 661: Tracy Bonham
Like many of us, Tracy Bonham's been through it over the last couple of years. Her latest single, “Damn The Sky (For Being Too Wide)," processes some of those feelings of isolation and disconnect. It…
00:49:21 |
Fri 12 Jul 2024
Episode 660: Dent May
The Ukulele was a gimmick, as Dent May is the first to admit. It did the trick on the Mississippi-born musician's second album, The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele. The LP --…
00:47:16 |
Sat 06 Jul 2024
Episode 659: Leela Corman
Prior to Beat the Champ, Leela Corman hadn’t drawn much wrestling. The 2015 record would be the first two Mountain Goats covers drawn by the cartoonist. Corman’s passion for bodies in motion would re…
00:40:44 |
Sat 29 Jun 2024
Episode 658: Jim Skafish
It’s not easy being a pioneer, but Jim Skafish came out of the gate swinging. In the late-70s, the Chicago musician became the first American signed to Miles Copeland’s hugely influential IRS records…
01:04:00 |
Sat 22 Jun 2024
Episode 657: Kevin Huizenga
This year, Drawn & Quarterly is reissuing Curses. Now 20 years old, the book represents Kevin Huizenga at his finest. The book features a collection of stories united by the cartoonist's long time le…
00:47:30 |
Thu 13 Jun 2024
Episode 656: Will Turpin (Collective Soul)
Over the decades, Collective Soul has managed to avoid many of the pitfalls that torpedoed their contemporaries. The Georgia-based band saw a quick rise in the early 90s, on the backs of hits like "S…
00:28:24 |
Thu 06 Jun 2024
Episode 655: Bruce Sudano
The most recent stage of Bruce Sudano’s career began in earnest just over a decade ago. His wife and long-time creative partner, the legendary Donna Summer, passed in 2012. With their children now gr…
00:47:16 |
Sat 01 Jun 2024
Episode 654: Pearl Harbour
It's been a hard few years for most of us, but Pearl Harbour has managed to stay positive throughout. It's no small feat, given struggles with lung cancer that have indefinitely sidelined her singing…
00:49:39 |
Sun 26 May 2024
Episode 653: Louis Cato
In Summer 2022, Jon Batiste left his longtime role as band leader for Stephen Colbert's Late Show. Longtime bandmate and sometime replacement Louis Cato stepped into the role, breathing new virtuosic…
00:51:35 |
Tue 21 May 2024
Episode 652: Nate Powell
The term "love letter" is criminally overused in this industry, but you'd be hard pressed to find a more appropriate phrase for Fall Through. The book finds cartoonist Nate Powell reconnecting with t…
00:59:23 |
Sat 18 May 2024
Episode 651: Brian Harnetty
The Workbench is an ode to the power of objects. The EP is the celebration of the titular possession Brian Harnetty inherited when his father passed. It's an tribute to a man who could seemingly "fix…
00:48:56 |
Sat 11 May 2024
Episode 650: Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields)
September marks 25 years since the release of 69 Love Songs. The landmark triple-album cemented frontman Stephin Merritt's states as one of the finest songwriters of his generation. A quarter-century…
00:39:46 |
Sat 04 May 2024
Episode 649: Tracyanne Campbell (Camera Obscura)
Ten years is forever in the rock world. There were times it seemed Camera Obscura might never return. The 2015 death of longtime keyboard player Carey Lander put the group’s future in limbo. For the …
00:47:51 |
Thu 25 Apr 2024
Episode 648: Emel Mathlouthi
For our conversation, Emel Mathlouthi popped into a Brooklyn coffee shop. It’s a little cacophonous, but also a fitting microcosm of the city she now calls home. The musician moved to the States afte…
00:43:45 |
Thu 18 Apr 2024
Episode 647: Mary Timony
Fifteen years is forever in the world of popular music. But the number doesn't tell the whole story. While it's been a decade-and-a-half since Mary Timony released her last solo record, the low-key g…
00:52:57 |
Fri 12 Apr 2024
Episode 646: Don Was
Few individuals have left as an indelible a mark on late-20th century American popular culture as Don Was. As a producer, he work includes some of music’s biggest names, including Bob Dylan, The Roll…
00:44:45 |
Sat 06 Apr 2024
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