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All-Consuming Yet Inscrutable
Pianists Rudolf Serkin and Glenn Gould, Boxed
Tim Riley
Mar 24
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"C'est La Vie" Say the Old Folks
RJ Smith's Chuck Berry biography threads upbeat songs through worried times
Tim Riley
Mar 10
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February 2023
Please Change Your Mind
Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love Stares Down the Haters, and Punk's Fate
Tim Riley
Feb 24
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Rick James Parties All the Time
A 1989 comeback feeds off funk diversity: celebrate James's 75th birthday...
Tim Riley
Feb 10
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new riley rock report drops Friday, Feb 10
Different platform, same sizzle.
Tim Riley
Feb 9
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January 2023
There's no place like post-punk... the Embarrassment gets doc'd
The Other Side of Kansas We Were Famous, You Don’t Remember, directed by Daniel Fetherston and Danny Szlauderbach (Factory25) Audio: Riley interviews…
Tim Riley
Jan 27
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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…
Tim Riley
Jan 13
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Does Dylan WANT to get canceled?
Hero Blues Bob Dylan's Twisted Philosophy of Popular Song, World Literature Today, January 2023 Listen to audio narration here (11 mins) THROUGHOUT HIS…
Tim Riley
Jan 13
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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…
Tim Riley
Dec 30, 2022
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2022 lists part 2: Cascading string quartets, Papa Joe Haydn's curves, and musicology with a bullet
Lars Vogt 1970-2022 podcast: rockcritics.com interview from 2008 2022 Slams Shut, part II CLASSICAL Classical still outsells jazz, but the peaking…
Tim Riley
Dec 30, 2022
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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.
Tim Riley
Dec 9, 2022
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ERRATA: 2022 Review: rabbit holes and best ofs
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…
Tim Riley
Dec 9, 2022
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