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 645: Murr and Q (Impractical Jokers)
Fun bonus episode this week, as we're joined by James "Murr" Muray and Brian "Q" Quinn of "Impractical Jokers. The pair discuss their upcoming tour and keeping the show fresh after 10 seasons.
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00:27:19 |
Sat 06 Apr 2024
Episode 644: Lauren Denitzio (Worriers)
Health scares have a way of prioritizing things. For Lauren Denitzio, undergoing heart surgery at the young age of 25 brought one key priority into sharp focus: music. Since then, the musician has ap…
00:46:18 |
Sat 30 Mar 2024
Episode 643: Tom McGreevy (Ducks Ltd.)
Ducks Ltd. arrived out of nowhere with 2019's Get Bleak. The tight four-song EP offered grad-level crash course on perfect indie pop hits. This year's Harm's Way find the group plumbing the kind of j…
00:55:52 |
Sun 24 Mar 2024
Episode 642: Sean O'Hagan (High Llamas)
There are more than a few points when Hey Panda sounds like the work of an entirely different band. The songwriting is sharp as ever, but Sean O'Hagan gleefully pushes the High Llamas into new direct…
00:54:10 |
Sun 17 Mar 2024
Episode 641: Mayo Thompson (the Red Krayola)
In 1970, Mayo Thompson released his only solo record to date. It's a strange thing to write 50 years later, especially given the Texas-born musician's wildly prolific career as the sole consistent me…
01:11:54 |
Sun 10 Mar 2024
Episode 640: Andrew 'Falco' Falkous (McLusky, Future of the Left)
The legend of McLusky has grown greatly since the the group's initial breakup in 2005. The release of the three-disc Mcluskyism compilation is no doubt reasonable for much of that prolonged success. …
00:58:26 |
Sun 03 Mar 2024
Episode 639: Marta Cikojevic (Marci, Tops)
After half-a-decade with Montreal's dreamy synth pop group Tops, Marta Cikojevic took her own turn in the spotlight in 2022. The eponymous debut of her project Marci finds the musician embracing danc…
00:47:06 |
Sun 25 Feb 2024
Episode 638: Doug Gillard (Guided By Voices, Bambi Kino)
For a few decades now, it seems like Doug Gillard is everywhere. He's the second longest tenured member of the wildly prolific Guided By Voices, behind frontman, Robert Pollard, having been in and ou…
00:43:27 |
Mon 19 Feb 2024
Episode 637: BLKBOK
On 2022’s self-titled debut, BLKBOK enlisted poet (and English teacher) Lauren Delaphena to record spoken work tracks, which served to break up instrumental tracks. For the follow up, Charles Wilson …
00:48:36 |
Thu 15 Feb 2024
Episode 636: Jillian Tamaki
By the time Roaming arrived last year, it had been nearly a decade since This One Summer, the last collaboration between cousins Jillian and Mariko Tamaki. The comic was their second joint project, f…
00:51:53 |
Sun 11 Feb 2024
Episode 635: Elizabeth Jancewicz (Pocket Vinyl)
World records can be tricky things. Rules enforced by governing bodies can disqualify potential contenders. While there was no likelihood of enshrinement at the finish line, Pocket Vinyl went for it …
00:38:56 |
Thu 08 Feb 2024
Episode 634: Eugene Hütz (Gogol Bordello)
There's no one quite like Gogol Bordello. The band has cultivated a wildly joyful mix of Romani and Ukrainian music, crossed with punk, polka and any other genre that might suitable serve the chaos. …
00:53:00 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
Episode 633: Veronica Swift
By her early 20s, Veronica Swift was a jazz veteran. The daughter of musicians (pianist Hod O'Brien and singer Stephanie Nakasian), she recorded her debut at age nine. Swift’s career has taken its sh…
00:49:50 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
Episode 632: Meklit Hadero
Place invariably has a profound impact on the art we make. Immigration melds cultures and creative output, a phenomenon embodied by musical cross pollination. Movement, which began its second season …
00:53:15 |
Fri 26 Jan 2024
Episode 631: Ellis Ludwig-Leone (San Fermin)
As day jobs go, one could do a lot worse than composer. Classically trained at Yale, Ellis Ludwig-Leone spends much of his time writing music for institutions including the New York City Ballet. By n…
00:56:02 |
Sat 20 Jan 2024
Episode 630: Matt Pryor (of The Get Up Kids)
With a name borrowed from the Get Up Kids’ second EP, Red Letter Days finds front man Matt Pryor delving deep into personal stories. The memoir was adapted – in part – from the musician’s journals, b…
00:47:06 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
Episode 629: Emily Whitehurst (of Survival Guide and Tsunami Bomb)
Survival Guide is, for all intents and purposes, Emily Whitehurst. What began as collaboration evolved into a solo act. For the project’s fourth album, deathdreams, the musician has continued to push…
00:49:24 |
Sat 06 Jan 2024
Episode 628: June Millington (Fanny)
Plenty of pioneers aren’t sufficiently recognized in their time. Fanny had its share of high profile champions, from David Bowie to Steely Dan, but nothing amounting to the level of stardom they migh…
00:46:04 |
Sun 31 Dec 2023
Episode 627: MS Harkness
A deeply personal meditation on life, art and surviving capitalism, Time Under Tension further establishes MS Harkness as a formative voice in auto-bio comics. The book – her first for Fantagraphics …
00:35:33 |
Mon 25 Dec 2023
Episode 626: Will Butler (Sister Squares, Arcade Fire)
When the time came to put out a new record, Will Butler formed a band. Comprised of the group he’d toured with for his 2015 debut, Policy, Will Butler and Sister Squares released a 14 track self-titl…
00:50:14 |
Sun 17 Dec 2023
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