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 586: Chad Clark (of Beauty Pill)
Last year, Chad Clark got a new heart. It was an emergency transplant, after a mechanical version failed – the latest in a horrific season of events that began when he was diagnosed with a rare heart…
01:09:18 |
Sat 24 Jun 2023
Episode 585: Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
The bad apology has become a major feature of modern American life. “I’m sorry to anyone I might have offended” more often than not boils down to “I’m sorry I got caught. Are the impacted obligated t…
01:04:00 |
Sat 17 Jun 2023
Episode 584: Debora Iyall (of Romeo Void)
Fifty years after its founding, Romeo Void finally got its first live album earlier this year. Released in limited quantities for Record Store Day, Live from the Mabuhay Gardens: November 14, 1980 fi…
00:55:03 |
Wed 07 Jun 2023
Episode 583: Vashti Bunyan
In the early 70s, Vashti Bunyan went away. Frustrated with an industry unwelcoming of her talents, she eventually moved back to Scotland and raised three children. She never sang, and rarely missed i…
00:53:06 |
Sat 03 Jun 2023
Episode 582: Poolblood
A wonderfully lush and layered debut, Mole is awash with ideas. Maryam Said’s Poolblood project arrive with a truck full of ideas and a reverence for pop rock. Said’s religious upbringing offered lit…
00:57:41 |
Sat 27 May 2023
Episode 581: Kid Koala
There’s no such thing as half-measures in Kid Koala land. Take, for example the recent release of Creatures of the Late-Afternoon. Most would be perfectly content to issue 20 tracks half as innovativ…
01:05:09 |
Sat 20 May 2023
Episode 580: Vashti Bunyan, Howard Fishman and Ryan Walsh
A special edition of the podcast this week, as we joined by three musicians who have released books. Howard Fishman’s To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse is avail…
01:03:57 |
Sun 07 May 2023
Episode 579: Carl Newman (of the New Pornographers)
Few in the indie world are as deft at creating a perfect pop song as Carl Newman. Since the late-90s, he’s served as the principle songwriter, front man and nucleus of The New Pornographers. A little…
00:40:51 |
Thu 04 May 2023
Episode 578: Leslie Stein
Brooklyn's Last Secret is a wonderful synthesis of its creator’s twin passions. It’s a book that cartoonist and rock guitarist Leslie Stein was uniquely qualified to create. The book is built around …
00:58:40 |
Fri 28 Apr 2023
Episode 577: Mark Erelli
Sometimes your body knows innately, well before those reach your brain and sink their hooks into your consciousness. Of course, it’s also entirely possible that Blindsided’s title was just one of tho…
00:47:31 |
Wed 19 Apr 2023
Episode 576: Barbara Brandon-Croft
Where I’m Coming From arrived in the Detroit Free Press at the tail end of the 80s. The strip, based on Barbara Brandon-Croft’s friend circle, was a breath of fresh air amid often formulaic newspaper…
00:58:29 |
Sat 15 Apr 2023
Episode: 575: (Bonus) Chip Zdarsky
This bonus episode features the a full version of my recent conversation with the Batman writer for Publishers Weekly. The feature can be found here.
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00:42:25 |
Sun 09 Apr 2023
Episode 574: Paul Rainey
This has never been a podcast obsessed with spoilers. In fact, the topic has rarely comic up over nearly 600 episodes. But Why Don’t You Love Me is the kind of book you desperately don’t want to spoi…
00:51:17 |
Sat 08 Apr 2023
Episode 573: Lee Fields
After more than two decades, Lee Fields left the music industry and strongly considered opening a fish store. “What do you know about fish?” his wife asked. Very little, turns out. He did, however, k…
01:00:09 |
Thu 30 Mar 2023
Episode 572: Renee Scroggins (of ESG)
Formed in the late-70s South Bronx, ESG has an almost impossibly wide-ranging impact on popular music. Factory Records-owner Tony Wilson spotted sister act performing in Manhattan, and within days th…
00:44:45 |
Sat 25 Mar 2023
Episode 571: Daniel Hunt (of Ladytron)
Even with nearly a quarter-century under their belt, five years was a long time to wait between Ladytron releases. The group had settled into a comfortable cadence of three year, but 2019’s self-titl…
01:08:02 |
Fri 17 Mar 2023
Episode 570: Charles R. Johnson
Earlier this year, The New York Times Review of Books published All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End. The collection features cartoons dating back to the 60s and 70s, offering a glimpse into author…
00:49:59 |
Thu 09 Mar 2023
Episode 569: Ivan Julian (of Richard Hell and the Voidoids)
There are those musical careers that follow predictable paths – and then there’s Ivan Julian’s. The child of a Navy officer, he found himself in far flung corners, including Guantanamo Bay. After spe…
00:49:29 |
Fri 03 Mar 2023
Episode 568: Rich Brown
Beyond Vaudeville is a perfect time capsule. It’s a pre-internet era, when public access provided a rare outlet for entertainers. As Frank Hope, Rich Brown was the neurotic calm in the storm. Along w…
01:02:07 |
Fri 24 Feb 2023
Episode 567: Marc Byrd (of Hammock)
Sometimes you can’t fully appreciate the power of music until you need it. For me, it was 2019’s Silencia, which helped me through the darkest period of the pandemic. Naturally, I jumped at the oppor…
00:53:30 |
Sat 18 Feb 2023
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