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TAME IMPALA, LONERISM; LENNON
OUT TODAY: Tame Impala's LONERISM (Modular): Also: Reviewed soon in truthdig. George Harrison: It's Johnny's Birthday And this, including a comparative look at Beatle covers: Related articles Stream Tame Impala's New Album Lonerism Tame Impala - … [Read more...]
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
OR, MODERNITY'S ELEVATOR SHAFT Chiming on all the chatter about use of the Beatles in the "Lady Lazarus" episode of Mad Men last week. Most of the speculation circles around the cost of using the track, the first on a major American TV show ($250k, big whoop). But few seem interested in tying … [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...]
1.5B EMI/UNIVERSAL DEAL APPROACHES CLOSE
Universal Music is close to sealing a $1.5 bn-plus deal to buy EMI Music, home to acts including the Beatles and Coldplay, with owner Citigrouppushing for negotiations to be … [Read more...]
BILL WYMAN ON SCHLOCKUMENTARIES: SCORCESE’S HARRISON
Image via WikipediaFinally, the film really never investigates the real mystery of Harrison: What was he so morose about? Now, Ringo Starr is one who appreciates the cosmic joke life played on him. He has a cheerful acceptance of life's whimsy, hiding what no doubt has been his daily prayers since … [Read more...]
10 INDOMITABLE LENNON TRACKS
This first list ran in the Kirkus newsletter this week, the second list got dumped: Riley's 10 Favorite Lennon Tracks"Ten is way too hard, but it's a very illuminating exercise," Riley said when asked to list his favorites. "Once you do it, you realize Lennon remains among a handful … [Read more...]
CASTING BEYOND NOWHERE BOY
Image by triley60 via Flickr...But Tim Riley, who just finished his big bio John Ono Lennon, hails Nowhere Boy's musical authenticity and "weird mother/son/aunt love triangle, one of the most screwed-up relationships ever." Riley screened it for his Emerson College students, … [Read more...]
FRIDAY DETEROIRATA X:1
A New Weekly List of Ephemera Quote of the Week: "The renegade spawn of more than one bastion of privilege, [Oliver] Stone has tried over and over to make a movie this perceptive and knowledgeable about contemporary society. Now he's been left looking like a chump by a dude who not only never went … [Read more...]
NOWHERE BOY
EIGHT REASONS TO SEE NOWHERE BOY Aaron Johnson's thoughtful-anarchic 16-year-old John Lennon, young enough to blush.Kristin Scott-Thomas's ferociously understated Aunt Mimi, a broadax in pearls.Anne-Marie Duff as Julia Stanley, John's natural mother, whose guilt smothers him with too much and … [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...]
ARTHUR PHILLIPS: SONG IS YOU
author interview A Conversation with Arthur PhillipsArthur Phillips is interviewed by Tim Riley, the author of several books on rock history, including Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary and Fever: How Rock 'n' Roll Transformed Gender in America. Riley edits the Riley Rock … [Read more...]
LENNON, MCCARTNEY, TRAFFIC, WEATHER
Peter Carlin's Paul McCartney: A Life (Touchstone) "Among the many virtues of Carlin's sympathetic yet discerning portrait is the way he turns so many familiar details into a fresh life story. This is the Cute Beatle you only thought you knew, whose good cheer feeds off ferocious ambition. In … [Read more...]
MICHAEL JACKSON’S THIS IS IT: POST-MODERNISM CUBED
(notes toward the essay nobody's written yet...) As a ginormous crossover pop star, Michael Jackson embodied the era's cosmic mismatch of outsized talent and crashingly banal taste, the black Barbra Streisand. Tipped just a few degrees in the right direction and he could have been a colossus, a … [Read more...]