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Tim 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.

  • 47 minutes 58 seconds
    Clarence Clemons tribute
    NPR's ON POINT with Tom Ashbrook June 23, 2011 With Robert Santelli from Grammy Museum
    1 July 2011, 2:56 pm
  • 5 minutes 38 seconds
    Love is Strange
    Mickey and Sylvia > Wings (1973) > Tim Riley remix
    7 May 2011, 12:59 am
  • 23 minutes 58 seconds
    WNYC'S SOUNDCHECK, AUGUST 31, 2010
    Smackdown debate: Beatles vs. Stones, Oldham Refs...
    10 September 2010, 4:18 pm
  • 9 minutes 38 seconds
    Steely Dan Does Boston, 7/22/09
    Album night devoted to AJA turned into AJA plus ROYAL SCAM, and a bunch more. see http://www.artsjournal.com/riley for more...
    24 July 2009, 10:46 pm
  • 45 minutes 3 seconds
    Michael Jackson
    "The pure products of America go crazy..." Talking with Anthony DeCurtis on NPR's On Point, broadcast June 26, 2009
    27 June 2009, 2:46 am
  • 47 minutes 36 seconds
    On Point: The Song Is You 4-27-2009
    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.
    28 April 2009, 2:50 am
  • 47 minutes 40 seconds
    MASH OR GET MASHED
    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.
    7 February 2009, 2:20 am
  • 6 minutes 57 seconds
    Andras Schiff's Late Beethoven
    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.
    28 January 2009, 7:13 pm
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    rockcritics.com: the Beatle bibliography
    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
    19 November 2008, 2:29 pm
  • 51 minutes 7 seconds
    Obama: the Motown President
    Talking about Lisa Robinson's oral history of Motown in the current issue of Vanity Fair... On Point, NPR, Thursday, November 13, 2008
    14 November 2008, 2:50 am
  • 5 minutes 1 second
    Review of Portishead's THIRD CD May 5, 2008
    The new Portishead album, THIRD, has been worth the nine years' wait.
    5 May 2008, 8:20 pm
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