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 606: Shakey Graves
Soundtracking a movie was a perfect opportunity to flex new songwriting muscles. As is often the case in life, however, things went nowhere near according to plan. There's not a lot you can do when y…
00:52:16 |
Mon 02 Oct 2023
Episode 605: Laurie Berkner
Play children’s music long enough and something peculiar starts to happen: your fans start having kids of their own. A quarter century after releasing her album, Laurie Berkner is a veritable music i…
00:59:44 |
Sun 01 Oct 2023
Episode 604: Rina Ayuyang
Set during the first year of the Great Depression, The Man in the McIntosh Suit is a classic noir meets immigrant story. The book follows one-time lawyer from the Philippines, who finds employment as…
00:59:16 |
Sat 30 Sep 2023
Episode 603: Kyle Kinane
Released on YouTube earlier this year, Shocks & Struts finds Kyle Kinane in top form. The comedian may have intentionally slowed down his breakneck touring schedule, but he remains one of the consist…
00:51:16 |
Tue 26 Sep 2023
Episode 602: Sarah Mary Chadwick
There’s a sense of optimism that breaks through on Messages to God. It’s marked change from the darkest moments of its predecessor. Consistent across all of Sarah Mary Chadwick’s songs, however, is a…
01:00:20 |
Sat 23 Sep 2023
Episode 601: Hari Kondabolu
Few things in this life make one rethink the state of the world quiet like parenthood. It’s a subject Hari Kondabolu knows well. The comedian’s dives into the topic on his latest standup album, Vacat…
00:51:16 |
Wed 20 Sep 2023
Episode 600: Bill Griffith
After Invisible Ink, the floodgates opened. Since the book's publication, Bill Griffith has been a graphical novel producing machine. In fact, he's working on one right know, as I write this. Nobody'…
01:13:07 |
Thu 14 Sep 2023
Episode 599: Joyce Farmer
Tits & Clits changed the underground comics scene forever. Over its 15-year-long existence, the anthology published such now legendary cartoonists as Mary Fleener, Roberta Gregory and Trina Robbins. …
00:57:48 |
Sun 10 Sep 2023
Episode 598: Heather Woods Broderick
“Many of us yearn for stillness and peace, as an escape from the movement all around us,” Heather Woods Broderick says of her latest LP. “Yet movement is perpetual, happening all the time on some lev…
00:49:27 |
Wed 06 Sep 2023
Episode 597: Alasdair MacLean (of The Clientele)
The imagery of a distant fire found its way into several of I Am Not There Anymore’s tracks, most notably “Claire’s Not Real.” Frontman Alasdair MacLean says he was inspired by trip to Spain in the s…
00:55:11 |
Fri 01 Sep 2023
Episode 596: Julia Wertz
In many ways, Impossible People is a companion piece to Drinking at the Movies. The new book finds Julia Wertz confronting the period of her life detailed in its predecessor. It’s as much a story abo…
00:42:42 |
Sun 27 Aug 2023
Episode 595: Michael Gira (of Swans)
Last year marked 40 years since the Swans hit the scene. Those decades have produced some of the most forward-looking albums in an era when rock music often feels stagnant. Released in June, the Swan…
00:42:30 |
Mon 21 Aug 2023
Episode 594: Alex Winter
When we last spoke to Alex Winter, he was in the midst of a publicity push for his Zappa documentary – a longtime passion project about enigmatic musician of the same name. This time out, the actor-t…
00:31:48 |
Mon 14 Aug 2023
Episode 593: John McCauley (of Deer Tick)
[Apologies for the literal jackhammering 10 feet from my window for portions of the recording. I promise it hurt me more than it hurts you.] “I feel very lucky that we all ran into each other at some…
00:42:36 |
Thu 10 Aug 2023
Episode 592: Alison Leiby and Halle Kiefer
[Apologies for the poor audio quality on my end. I was unknowingly dealing with microphone issues.] Ruined’s premise is simple enough. One host loves horror movies. The other can’t bring herself to w…
00:40:40 |
Sun 30 Jul 2023
Episode 591: Bill Janovitz (of Buffalo Tom)
Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History is every bit as grandiose as its subtitle suggests. It’s a sprawling and lovingly researched portrait of an unsung roc…
00:54:51 |
Tue 25 Jul 2023
Episode 590: Trever Keith (of Face to Face)
What do you do when you’ve got a bunch of paintings and nowhere to show them? If you’re Trever Keith, you do the same thing you’ve done your entire adult life: go on tour. The Face to Face front man …
00:58:15 |
Thu 20 Jul 2023
Episode 589: Cindy Crabb
In terms of both influence and longevity, few zines rival Doris. While Cindy Crabb hasn’t published an issue in several years, it remains a prominent presence in bookstores across the world. The seri…
00:53:59 |
Sun 09 Jul 2023
Episode 588: Jad Fair (of Half Japanese)
There’s prolific and then there’s Jad Fair. The 30 albums released by his seminal art punk band Half Japanese just scratches the surface. Since 1974, the musician has released hundreds of albums, inc…
00:35:11 |
Sun 02 Jul 2023
Episode 587: Tommy Stinson (of The Replacements and Guns N’ Roses)
Wronger finds Cowboys in the Campfire embracing the sort of stripped down twangy Americana such band name suggests. It’s the latest left turn in a career full of them. Tommy Stinson’s musical career …
00:46:32 |
Wed 28 Jun 2023
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