Commentaries on music from NPR's Here and Now and elsewhere... Author Tim Riley has written books on the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Madonna,... more
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NPR's ON POINT with Tom Ashbrook June 23, 2011 With Robert Santelli from Grammy Museum
Mickey and Sylvia > Wings (1973) > Tim Riley remix
Smackdown debate: Beatles vs. Stones, Oldham Refs...
Album night devoted to AJA turned into AJA plus ROYAL SCAM, and a bunch more. see http://www.artsjournal.com/riley for more...
"The pure products of America go crazy..." Talking with Anthony DeCurtis on NPR's On Point, broadcast June 26, 2009
Arthur Phillips's new novel, The Song Is You, binds together fiction with music criticism using sharp musical descriptions to steer... more
Jon Nelson hosts "Some Assembly Required," which specializes in underground sound collage and mashups. As "Escape Mechanism," he's released... more
The intrepid Hungarian Andras Schiff released his Late Beethoven sonatas to complete his ECM cycle last fall. Here's the review,... more
A long chat with Scott Woods of rockcritics.com about the top ten Beatle books, the state of Beatle scholarship, and... more
Talking about Lisa Robinson's oral history of Motown in the current issue of Vanity Fair... On Point, NPR, Thursday, November... more