• Home
  • About
    • blog riley
    • Tim Riley
    • Contact
  • AJBlogs
  • ArtsJournal

blog riley

rock culture approximately

You are here: Home / 2009 / Archives for January 2009

Archives for January 2009

ANDRAS SCHIFF: BEETHOVEN

January 28, 2009 by Tim Riley

Andras Schiff finished his Beethoven sonata cycle last fall. Here's my NPR story that ran yesterday, with quotes from his Guardian master class podcasts. … [Read more...]

FACES ON FILM

January 27, 2009 by Tim Riley

Geezers and used record hounds gathered at this Center for Arts at the Armory benefit Saturday night, featuring the Neighborhoods and Burma. Most impressive opener: Faces on Film, cross between David Byrne, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, backed by Pavement, if Pavement was a really good version of The Band, … [Read more...]

Rosanne Cash: Inaugural Remembrance

January 20, 2009 by Tim Riley

I performed at one of the inaugural balls in 1993, at the first Clinton inauguration. I was invited because Al Gore was a family friend, and because I had played at a few events for him when he was doing environmental work as a senator. I was thrilled. I got a beautiful dress, lent to me by the … [Read more...]

This Machine Kills Fascists

January 19, 2009 by Tim Riley

or, Guthrie Wrote a Column for the Daily Worker Blacks far outclassed whites aesthetically yesterday, typically. At least MOST whites on that stage realized it as it was happening (perhaps not Bono, or Bon Jovi). My kids made two piercing requests: "Long Walk Home" by Bruce, and "We Shall Overcome" … [Read more...]

A GREAT EAR SPEAKS

January 15, 2009 by Tim Riley

Editors of magazines and newspapers really, really want writers to say that something is dead. Partly because it's a dogmatic position that makes people's blood boil, but partly because they don't want to think any longer about whatever it is that they're saying is dead. They want to cross off that … [Read more...]

GTR W/PIANO?

January 2, 2009 by Tim Riley

...Using sound-wave analysis based on the 1820s work of French scientist Joseph Fourier, Dalhousie University's Jason Brown deconstructed the opening chord with the help of basic audio-editing software. Brown found that it isn't purely guitar and bass, as previously assumed; he theorizes that … [Read more...]

This is an Archived ArtsJournal blog

Tim Riley

NPR critic, Author, Emerson College Journalist and Campus Speaker Tim Riley contributes to HERE AND NOW out of WBUR Boston. Read More…

rss thumbnailfacebook thumbnaildeliciousThumbnailyoutube thumbnail
Lennon cover qrcode gplus page pinterest
Lectures: Jodi Solomon Speakers

FEVER playlist

Books

IMG_0444
hardrainknopf
Feverpbpc
madonna_lg
RileyALLBOOKS2



Archives

This blog published under a Creative Commons license

an ArtsJournal blog

Copyright © 2026 · Magazine Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in