Tim Riley's Blog, page 3
September 30, 2016
Regulators! Let’s Dance!
Music books left off Billboard's semi-respectable list...
August 30, 2016
July 30, 2016
August: Medium Finds Message
Tom Hull has a dense roundup of political thought surrounding the Republican hatefest, and continues to update with think pieces and canon fodder. Also, maintains an ongoing annual list. Light-bulb joke springs to life Iggy Jackson-Cohen channels TTP bluster
July 1, 2016
July All-Stars Get Off-On Bowie
Five Quotes from Rob Sheffield’s On Bowie (Dey Street) “Then there’s the Rip Torn full-frontal scene. (Rip ain’t no Jenny Agutter, that’s for sure.)…” “How is it possible to get so flaked out that John Phillips looks like the reliable pro?” “In a way, the Davis/Murray/Almomar trio are like the quartet who backed Rod Stewart on his […]
April 30, 2016
This Is What May Sounds Like
Take it to the Bridge: From the Boston Phoenix, Graffiti Bridge review, 1990 
March 31, 2016
Producer’s April: George Martin, Sam Phillips
Jerry Lee Lewis's mother to her son: "You and Elvis are good, son — but you’re no Chuck Berry. Chuck Berry is rock ’n’ roll from his head to his toes..." from Peter Guralnick's Sam Phillips bio...
Classical Pop Art:
while the overall style of each fine artwork is maintained, eisen bernard bernardo’s mash-ups create quirky unions of contemporary and classical imagery. Source: eisen bernard bernardo pairs pop culture album covers with classical paintings Here’s Milo Miles talking with Robin Young:
February 29, 2016
Marching Through Springsteen Chapter Titles: Definitive Pianists, Composers to Follow
Drop-Kick My Carburetor, Baby, Through the Greasy Diners of Working Class Fatalism and other titles from Springsteen's Memoirs...
January 31, 2016
Don’t Stare at February’s Tassles: A Click In Every Pot
Blackstar, David Bowie (with the Donny McCaslin Quartet and guitarist Ben Monder) (Columbia) Peter Doggett on On Point, January 12, 2016 Jon Pareles Obituary, New York Times Greil Marcus on Lodger, 1979 (“…ideas are run up the flagpole, but try and find the flagpole…”), Rolling Stone Lester Bangs on Diamond Dogs, 1974, Creem Woody Guthrie Pens Anti-Trumper […]
December 31, 2015
Jumpin’ January Jehovahs: Stuff Like This
River, Season 1 (BBC1/Netflix) As Detective John River, Stellan Skarsgård, agony in a trenchcoat, investigates his partner Stevie’s murder. Bookended by the Tina Charles’s 1976 No. 1 (UK) “I Love to Love (But My Baby Just Loves to Dance),” a pure a jolt of disco joy, the song seems to leak straight from Nicola Walker’s […]
