Archive - riley rock report

Pianists Rudolf Serkin and Glenn Gould, Boxed

Mar 24

RJ Smith's Chuck Berry biography threads upbeat songs through worried times

Mar 10

February 2023

Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love Stares Down the Haters, and Punk's Fate

Feb 24

A 1989 comeback feeds off funk diversity: celebrate James's 75th birthday...

Feb 10

Different platform, same sizzle.

Feb 9

January 2023

The Other Side of Kansas We Were Famous, You Don’t Remember, directed by Daniel Fetherston and Danny Szlauderbach (Factory25) Audio: Riley interviews…

Jan 27

Hero Blues: Bob Dylan's Twisted Philosophy of Song Listen now (11 min) | Throughout his sixty-year-plus career, Bob Dylan has combined an “incredible skill with a wildness of spirit,” as magician Penn…

Jan 13

Hero Blues Bob Dylan's Twisted Philosophy of Popular Song, World Literature Today, January 2023 Listen to audio narration here (11 mins) THROUGHOUT HIS…

Jan 13

December 2022

rerun: rockcritics.com talks with Tim Riley about the Beatles bibliography, 2008 Listen now (68 min) | The latest rockcritics podcast features Tim Riley, author of one of my favourite Beatle books, Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album by…

Dec 30, 2022

Lars Vogt 1970-2022 podcast: rockcritics.com interview from 2008 2022 Slams Shut, part II CLASSICAL Classical still outsells jazz, but the peaking…

Dec 30, 2022

Pagan Holidays, Rock'n'roll, and Our Long Tunnel Listen now (53 min) | Ten years ago NPR had me on to rant about pagan rituals, from the vault.

Dec 9, 2022

Ten years back NPR invited me on to rant about pagan rituals, before times never sounded so before. Year-end lists dropping in two parts, go nuts…

Dec 9, 2022

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