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.