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 625: Chris Oliveros
In 1989, a 23-year-old Chris Oliveros founded a quarterly publication that grew into one of the world’s most respect independent comics publishers. In 2015, he left the company after 25 years, in ord…
00:45:20 |
Sun 10 Dec 2023
Episode 624: Jack Tatum (Wild Nothing)
In 2019, Jack Tatum and his wife made the move from Los Angeles to Virginia. As timing goes, the decision couldn't have been better, as they rode out the pandemic with considerably more space. Since …
00:48:32 |
Mon 04 Dec 2023
Episode 623: Joshua Cotter
A few months ago, Joshua Cotter did something difficult: he asked for help. Social media posts detailing the number of copies his Nod Away series have sold struck a chord. If a supremely talented art…
00:50:34 |
Thu 30 Nov 2023
Episode 622: Kevin Hearn (of Barenaked Ladies)
Few bands reach the status of “institution.” It’s a qualifier that has applied to Barenaked Ladies for several decades now. Multi-instrumentalist Kevin Hearn has been a part of that journey since 199…
00:39:57 |
Sun 26 Nov 2023
Episode 621: Zia McCabe (of the Dandy Warhols)
Last night was a late one – a big show at Pappy and Harriets in Pioneertown, California, followed by the inevitable after party. Zia McCabe dials in from the passenger seat of the tour bus, slightly …
00:53:38 |
Mon 20 Nov 2023
Episode 620: Jaime Wyatt
"World Worth Keeping" is a joyful song of existential crisis, celebrating a planet as it stares down the face of climate change. It's a perfect microcosm of its creator's work, at once serious and pl…
00:40:24 |
Sun 12 Nov 2023
Episode 619: Riley Black
Sixty-six million years ago, roughly three-quarters of the Earth’s plants and animals went extinct. As Riley Black notes, such deaths happened almost instantaneously. Those who survived asteroid impa…
01:01:07 |
Wed 08 Nov 2023
Episode 618: Neil Gust (of Heatmiser, No. 2)
The Music of Heatmiser affords the titular band an occasion to step outside their own large shadow. It's an opportunity to judge the group on its own merit, beyond simply serving as a launchpad for i…
00:57:02 |
Thu 02 Nov 2023
Episode 617: Josh Radnor
A dozen different songs about death. That's how one arrives at a title like Eulogy Volume 1. But not all deaths are equal. Some are metaphorical, representing a new beginning. Josh Radnor's first sol…
00:48:34 |
Sun 29 Oct 2023
Episode 616: Nick Thorburn (of Islands and the Unicorns)
This month marks 20 years since the Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? The Unicorns' sophomore album is a singular triumph for a group that was clearly too beautiful to live. But it didn't take N…
00:50:22 |
Wed 25 Oct 2023
Episode: 615: Jeremiah Fraites (of The Lumineers)
Northern (Redux) began as something altogether different. The planned record length cover of Taylor Deupree’s 2006 ambient album became a collaboration. Jeremiah Fraites brought Dupree into the proje…
00:51:51 |
Sun 22 Oct 2023
Episode 614: Roger Eno
Sitting in the backseat of an Uber on the way home from a three week work trip, I tossed The Skies, They Shift Like Chords on my music player. “Centering” is the first word that comes to mind. A few …
00:50:23 |
Wed 18 Oct 2023
Episode 613: Kristin Hersh (of Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave)
Some artists prefer to "let the art speak for themselves." It's a stance I respect, but hope to never encounter during an interview. Kristin Hersh, on the other hand, is an open book. The musician ha…
00:42:00 |
Sun 15 Oct 2023
Episode 612b: Daniel Clowes again
Several months before the release of Monica, I spoke with Daniel Clowes for a magazine feature. I consider this a kind of companion piece to our more recent conversation, digging deeper into his late…
00:38:44 |
Fri 13 Oct 2023
Episode 612a: Daniel Clowes
With a few days between book tour dates, Daniel Clowes is decompressing in his Bay Area home. It had been a few months since we’d spoken for a magazine piece – a perfect time to reflect on the critic…
00:50:50 |
Fri 13 Oct 2023
Episode 611: Norman Blake (of Teenage Fanclub)
For 34 years, Teenage Fanclub has remained remarkably consistent, both in terms of lineup and quality. Emerging from the Glasgow scene at the tail end of the 80s, the band’s 11 records maintain a lev…
00:53:19 |
Wed 11 Oct 2023
Episode 610: Jerry Harrison (of The Modern Lovers and Talking Heads)
As a member of both the Modern Lovers and Talking Heads, Jerry Harrison has had a profound impact of rock music. Along with his solo work, he’s also produced some of equally influential acts, includi…
00:38:54 |
Tue 10 Oct 2023
Episode 609: Avey Tare (of Animal Collective)
Knowing full well that I've become the interviewer who asks about album names, I can't help but draw a parallel between Isn't it Now and Ram Daas. There's truth in the comparison, stemming from the b…
00:56:13 |
Sun 08 Oct 2023
Episode 608: Ibrahim Maalouf
For some musicians, touring is a strange dichotomy. In him home of France, Ibrahim Maalouf plays stadiums. It’s a different vibe here in the States where he finds himself playing to a few hundred, in…
00:51:30 |
Thu 05 Oct 2023
Episode 607: Jon Lajoie (of Wolfie’s Just Fine)
The first Wolfie's Just Fine album arrived in 2016. I Remembered, But Then I Forgot marked a major shift in Jon Lajoie’s music, toward more earnest songwriting.He admits to an initial hesitation. Aft…
01:03:23 |
Tue 03 Oct 2023
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