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Tim Riley
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Associate Professor of Journalism, Emerson College
Boston
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Biography
NPR CRITIC, EMERSON COLLEGE PROFESSOR and AUTHOR TIM RILEY reviews pop and classical music for the NEW YORK TIMES, the Los Angeles Review of Books, truthdig.com, NPR's ON POINT and HERE AND NOW, and many other publications. He was trained as a classical pianist at Oberlin and Eastman. Since 2009, he has taught digital journalism at Emerson College in Boston. Brown University sponsored Riley as Critic-In Residence in 2008, and Jon Pareles hailed his first book, Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988), as bringing "new insight to the act we've known for all these years..." (New York Times Book Review). His television appearances include the PBS Newshour, CBS Morning and Evening News, MTV, and the History Channel. Riley gave a keynote address at BEATLES 2000, the first international academic conference in Jyvaskyla, Finland. Since then, he's given hundreds of lively multi-media lectures on "Censorship in the Arts," and "Rock History." He publishes the riley rock report for substack: https://rileyrockreport.substack.com For archives see http://timrileyauthor.com
npr, music, journalism classical, podcast, politicsrock music, multimedia, rock music history, pop culture, criticism
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Content
By Tim Riley Verified| riley rock report@ I spoke with Cornell’s Jeremy Braddock about his new book Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums (California University Press). We started with some of the more obvious Beatle connections and talked through the catalog. If you haven’t sampled these albums yet, start with Bozos, widely considered the most accessible yet spine-cracking. He runs a juicy Substack with FT interviews and asides called Giant Slide 19 Holes Underground Parking.
By Tim Riley Verified| riley rock report@ Most people recognize David Lindley’s cartoon outburst from Jackson Browne’s “The Load-Out/Stay” medley from Running on Empty (#20, 1978), if not the Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs surf-doo-wop source from 1960. I saw him multiple times in Boston and Newport, and allmusic.com lists sessions for acts as varied as James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Rod Stewart, Lonnie Mack, and Iggy Pop. This review ran in the Boston Phoenix in 1988.
By Tim Riley Verified| riley rock report@ Historian Preston Lauterbach works the backstreets of rock’s story, the many accidental and circuitous paths the music takes before congealing into a popular style. With Before Elvis, he lands a major statement about how Presley immersed himself in the Memphis of 1948-1945, what he heard on the radio, in churches, and in clubs.
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