Off My Rocker, by Kenny Weissberg [Weissberg wrote a Friday column called "Hot Licks & Rhetoric" for the Boulder Daily Camera that I devoured while growing up in Colorado. He also hosted Bill Murray on a Sunday night KCRW radio show one night just a Murray started to break on SNL. We recently … [Read more...]
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About
NPR Critic and Emerson College Journalism professor Tim Riley has written five critically-acclaimed books on rock history, including Lennon: the Man, the Myth, and the Music (Hyperion, 2011). Kirkus Reviews chose it one of their best biographies from that year, The New York Times praised it as … [Read more...]
RADIO FREE LIVERPOOL: BBC MEETS THE BEATLES
Too little too late but nothing to snort at, Live at the BBC captures the Beatles in the act of defining themselves. The group’s live appearances on British radio between 1962 and 1966 have been on collectors’ short lists of unpublished Beatle wonders since they were first resurrected over … [Read more...]
DETERIORATA XIII:2 dBs, Buzzcocks, Deerhunter
The songs our parents gave us | Music | The Guardian The Warm Thrill of Confusion - NYTimes.com Articles: The Return of the Replacements | Features | Pitchfork Bob Dylan: Another Self Portrait Vs. The Basement Box | Popdose And two new laudable-recent sets from parallel worlds: the … [Read more...]
Our Mr. Brooks Born to Run — Esquire
David Brooks Bruce Springsteen Column - Our Mr. Brooks Was Born to Run - Esquire. Related articles We get it, grandpa, you're hip to Springsteen David Brooks Flies to Europe to Bash Cosmopolitanism Bruce Springsteen, The Exhibit: Born To Run Live Batch of … [Read more...]
Tim Riley
Tim Riley reviews music and books for NPR’s HERE AND NOW and ON POINT out of WBUR Boston, and serves as an Associate Professor of Journalism and Graduate Program Director at Emerson College. In addition to extensive radio work for NPR, MONITOR RADIO and STUDIO 360, his work has appeared in the … [Read more...]
Top 10 Untrue Facts About Robert Johnson: Greil Marcus
10. Like Huey Newton and Bobby Seale listening to Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" as they drew up the charter for the Black Panthers, Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen were listening to "Hell Hound on My Trail" when in 1941 they wrote "Blues in the Night." "I want him on the session," Bing Crosby, a … [Read more...]
SINEAD, ROCK PROPHET
I have often wondered how long it would take for people to stand up for Sinead O'Connor and proclaim how right she was on SNL in 1992, or how demoralizing it was to watch her get booed off Dylan's stage a few weeks later. Like how many years will it take for people to start using the dreaded Vietnam … [Read more...]
FORGET CHINA, HAPPY BOOBDAY
"When I first heard Elvis's voice I just knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody, and nobody was going to be my boss," Mr. Dylan once said. "Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail..." Bob Dylan, quoted in David Hajdu's NYTimes Op-Ed Bob DylanRelated articlesBob Dylan … [Read more...]
DETERIORATA XI:3
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: "Is it possible to be beside the point in your own memoir?" Gary Rivlin, reviewing Paul Allen's Idea Man in the NYTimes. LETTERHEAD OF THE MONTH: (via letterheady) Milton Glaser did a lot of logo work for record labels, including Bearsville. His Design Study … [Read more...]
DON’T, LOOK PENNEBAKER, REMEMBERS BACK
Greil Marcus interviews D.A. Pennebaker about filming Bob Dylan from New Video Digital on Vimeo.Related articlesUnreleased Bob Dylan Material Coming To Blu-Ray (wncx.radio.com)Why Bob Dylan didn't ring the chimes of freedom over Ai Weiwei (guardian.co.uk)Unsung Heroes: Jim James and Calexico in 'I'm … [Read more...]
FRIDAY DETEROIRATA X:2
Ephemera for Complicated Souls... Quote of the Week: Of all the preposterous things Keith Richards said on Fresh Air last week, his Altamont quote has to be the most offensive (cue: 27:40): "Meredith [Hunter], who went down in this scene... he was asking for trouble... " Right, that's what we've … [Read more...]
BOOT HEELS, WANDERING
Image via Wikipedia"People had become so identified with Bob Dylan, a certain Bob Dylan, that his move away from that image they had of him forced them to do the one thing that they didn't want to do, which is to question themselves. And when they questioned themselves, they went crazy. They went … [Read more...]
BIO
Tim Riley (triley60ATgmail.com) critiques music for NPR's HERE AND NOW out of WBUR Boston, and is Journalist-In-Residence at Emerson College. … [Read more...]
BOOKS
FEVER (Picador, 2005) surveys rock's gender styles through key figures like Elvis Presley, Tina Turner, Girl Groups, Smokey Robinson, Pete Townshend, Rosanne Cash, Joni Mitchell, Chrissie Hynde, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, and rock couples from Sonny and Cher through Kurt Cobain and Courtney … [Read more...]