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RiYL

RiYL

By: Brian Heater
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Recommended if You Like: longform conversation with musicians, cartoonists, writers and other creative types.

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Episodes
  • Episode 713: Paul Pope
    Jun 13 2025
    In the bifurcated world of comics, Paul Pope has never pledge allegiance to the superheroes of indies. The Brooklyn-based cartoonist’s move between storylines and mediums is every bit as fluid as his immediately recognizable linework. On June 19th, Manhattan’s Philippe Labaune Gallery will do its best to encapsulate that career, with a retrospective on Pope’s decades-long body of work, ranging from the John Spencer Blue Explosion to Batman.

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    59 mins
  • Episode 712: Amy Millan (Stars, Broken Social Scene)
    Jun 6 2025
    Time has a way of getting away from you. You tour with a couple of legendary indie bands (Stars, Broken Social Scene), start a family, and next thing you know, it’s been 15 years since your last solo record. I Went To Find You finds Amy Millian collaborating with new musical soul mate, Jay McCarrol. The work brought the singer back to some of her earliest musical memories of singing with her dad at bedtime. The resulting LP is a meditation on loss and celebration of the future

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    50 mins
  • Episode 711: David J Haskins (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)
    Jun 2 2025
    Well into his fourth decade as a professional musician, David J Haskins refers to The Mother Tree as, "my most personal work yet.” With such an expansive catalog, including the works discographies of Bauhaus and Love & Rockets, it's quite a claim. It is, however, a difficult one to refute, given its subject matter. A tribute to his late mother, the five-track album is centered on Haskins' poetry, set to a musical backdrop. Fittingly, it finds Haskins adding his surname, after a career of simply being "David J."

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    43 mins
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