Pianists Rudolf Serkin and Glenn Gould, Boxed
RJ Smith's Chuck Berry biography threads upbeat songs through worried times

February 2023

Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love Stares Down the Haters, and Punk's Fate
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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…
Hero Blues: Bob Dylan's Twisted Philosophy of SongListen now (11 min) | Throughout his sixty-year-plus career, Bob Dylan has combined an “incredible skill with a wildness of spirit,” as magician Penn…
Hero Blues Bob Dylan's Twisted Philosophy of Popular Song, World Literature Today, January 2023 Listen to audio narration here (11 mins) THROUGHOUT HIS…

December 2022

rerun: rockcritics.com talks with Tim Riley about the Beatles bibliography, 2008Listen 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…
Lars Vogt 1970-2022 podcast: rockcritics.com interview from 2008 2022 Slams Shut, part II CLASSICAL Classical still outsells jazz, but the peaking…
Pagan Holidays, Rock'n'roll, and Our Long TunnelListen now (53 min) | Ten years ago NPR had me on to rant about pagan rituals, from the vault.
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…