podcast riley

podcast riley

Commentaries on music from NPR's Here and Now and elsewhere... Author Tim Riley has written books on the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Madonna, and his most recent title is FEVER: HOW ROCK'N'ROLL TRANSFORMED GENDER IN AMERICA (Picador 2005). He is at work on a major new biography of John Lennon for W.W. Norton slated for 2009. His music commentary is featured regularly on NPR's HERE AND NOW, the nationally-syndicated show produced weekdays out of WBUR-FM in Boston.

Episodes

Clarence Clemons tribute

July 1, 2011 • 47 mins
NPR's ON POINT with Tom Ashbrook June 23, 2011 With Robert Santelli from Grammy Museum
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Love is Strange

May 6, 2011 • 5 mins
Mickey and Sylvia > Wings (1973) > Tim Riley remix
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WNYC'S SOUNDCHECK, AUGUST 31, 2010

September 10, 2010 • 23 mins
Smackdown debate: Beatles vs. Stones, Oldham Refs...
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Steely Dan Does Boston, 7/22/09

July 24, 2009 • 9 mins
Album night devoted to AJA turned into AJA plus ROYAL SCAM, and a bunch more. see http://www.artsjournal.com/riley for more...
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Michael Jackson

June 26, 2009 • 45 mins
"The pure products of America go crazy..." Talking with Anthony DeCurtis on NPR's On Point, broadcast June 26, 2009
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On Point: The Song Is You 4-27-2009

April 27, 2009 • 47 mins
Arthur Phillips's new novel, The Song Is You, binds together fiction with music criticism using sharp musical descriptions to steer terrific characters. A talk with Phillips and Tim Riley, hosted by Tom Ashbrook.
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MASH OR GET MASHED

February 6, 2009 • 47 mins
Jon Nelson hosts "Some Assembly Required," which specializes in underground sound collage and mashups. As "Escape Mechanism," he's released an album of his own, "Emphasis Added." This ON POINT interview includes music from Nelson, Eno and Byrne, Eric B and Rakim, Girl Talk, People Like Us, Wobbly, Turnstylz, and DJ callers who argue for a new musicianship. Broadcast on Thursday, February 5, 2009.
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Andras Schiff's Late Beethoven

January 28, 2009 • 6 mins
The intrepid Hungarian Andras Schiff released his Late Beethoven sonatas to complete his ECM cycle last fall. Here's the review, with excerpts from his podcasts at Wigmore Hall.
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rockcritics.com: the Beatle bibliography

November 19, 2008 • 67 mins
A long chat with Scott Woods of rockcritics.com about the top ten Beatle books, the state of Beatle scholarship, and the state of criticism. Visit: http://rockcritics.com
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Obama: the Motown President

November 13, 2008 • 51 mins
Talking about Lisa Robinson's oral history of Motown in the current issue of Vanity Fair... On Point, NPR, Thursday, November 13, 2008
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Review of Portishead's THIRD CD May 5, 2008

May 5, 2008 • 5 mins
The new Portishead album, THIRD, has been worth the nine years' wait.
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Springsteen: Magic Tour Opener 10-2-07

October 4, 2007 • 4 mins
Springsteen opened his Magic Tour at the Hartford Civic Center the other night. WBUR's HERE AND NOW broadcast this review.
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Leon Fleisher's Epic Comeback

August 2, 2007 • 8 mins
Musicians revere pianist Leon Fleisher for his early concerto recordings with conductor George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra in the late 1950s: his Beethoven cycle is still a marvel and still in print. But where Beethoven was robbed of his hearing, Fleisher was robbed of his fingers: in the early 1960s, right as he was preparing for a major tour, he contracted a rare neurological condition called focal dystonia, which ...
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Australian Broadcasting: Sgt Pepper

May 28, 2007 • 2 mins
Another Sgt Pepper story, down under.
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SGT PEPPER AT 40

May 25, 2007 • 48 mins
Commentary with Tim Page and Anthony DeCurtis about the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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US VS JOHN LENNON review

September 27, 2006 • 9 mins
Interview with David Leaf, co-director of US VS JOHN LENNON, documentary on Lennon's political activism.
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Pollini Zeros In On Chopin's Nocturnes

September 7, 2006 • 9 mins
 
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Complete Motown Singles

December 13, 2005 • 9 mins
Paired with Holland Dozier Holland set and Motortown Revue Live!
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Studio 360 WNYC: George Harrison obit

October 31, 2005 • 4 mins
12-08-01: This got filed a week after he died, deflecting a week's worth of "silent" Beatle blather.
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Wisconsin Public Radio

October 21, 2005 • 50 mins
8/10/04: promoting FEVER on Wisonscin Public Radio... easily the best interview covering material from the book.
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