RiYL
Episodes
Episode 057: Ray Wylie Hubbard
11 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
After our interview, Ray Wylie Hubbard and I grab some coffee across the street. He asks me what new bands I’m listening to, and I rattle off a coup...
Episode 056: Paul Hornschemeier
04 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
I tried to interview Paul Hornschemeier back in February, on getting a bit of last minute news from his on-again, off-again publisher Fantagraphics th...
Episode 055: Ultragrrrl
28 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
There’s something slightly surreal in reading a book, knowing the final chapters will dovetail with your own life, if only slightly. By the end of M...
Episode 054: Keith Morris
21 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
“I’m sorry if I can’t look you in the eyes during the interview,” Keith Morris apologizes, taking the microphone from me. I’m slightly baffl...
Episode 053: Marc Maron (Again)
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
With this episode, Marc Maron becomes RiYL’s first-ever repeat guest (forgetting for a moment, the last-minute double-header from Dave Hill), and it...
Episode 052: Ben and Ellen Harper
07 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Ben and Ellen Harper are in New York for a few days ahead of a trip to Europe. It’s a tour the former had scheduled for some time now, 17 “acousti...
Episode 051: Chris Hayes
29 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Hayes arrives carrying a sandwich in a brown paper bag. When I make some offhanded joke about the host of a primetime cable news show having to ...
Episode 050: Rhett Miller
23 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
“She Loves the Sunset” from 2008’s Blame it on Gravity is a peppy little number about love and loss. It’s a good song from a good record, but ...
Episode 049: Bob Fingerman
16 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In April of last year, Image Comics published Maximum Minimum Wage, a hardcover compilation of Bob Fingereman’s long-running Fantagraphics series. T...
Episode 048: Avi Reichental
08 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
When 3D Systems CEO Avi Reichental swung by the city to address the Inside 3D Printing conference in Manhattan, it seemed like the perfect opportunity...
Episode 047: Box Brown
02 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
I can’t think of a single cartoonist whose work I’ve watched progress from such an early stage. And it was no doubt that exact drive to put his st...
Episode 046: Ben Lindbergh
26 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
My knowledge of sabermetrics is elementary, at best. I know that it’s utterly transformed baseball analysis and helped get a lot of plush clubhouse ...
Episode 045: Molly Crabapple
18 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Molly jokingly noted recent online accusations that this so-called “Crabapple” person was actually a collective of people posing as a single perso...
Episode 044: Shlomo Lipetz
12 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
I met Shlomo last week at New York's City Winery, just before settling into another RiYL interview. The 6'4 mustachioed Israeli was making sure everyt...
Episode 043: Doug Gillard
05 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
From Guided By Voices to Nada Surf, if you can think of a seminal indie rock band from the past 20 years, there's a pretty decent chance Doug Gillard'...
Episode 042: Amber Papini and Nathan Michel
27 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Come spend 45 minutes in the Red Hook living room shared by Hospitality's singer and percussionist a day after the launch of their sophomore record. T...
Episode 041: Colin Spoelman
19 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Spoelman quite literally wrote the book on home whiskey distillation. Is a subject he knows a thing or two about, having transformed the output ...
Episode 040: Rodney Anonymous
12 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past 30 years, Rodney Anonymous has become a sort of Philadelphia landmark like Ben Franklin's house or that big cracked bell. If you get a c...
Episode 039: Jason Louv
05 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
When the next generation finds itself knee-deep in an occult revival, who better to call that Jason Louv. My two-time former roommate swung by New Yor...
Episode 038: Karen Green
29 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Strange to think, more than twenty years after Maus became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer, the concept of comics as academic pursuit still ...
Episode 037: Joe Garden
23 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Onion's former Features Editor and current Adult Swim employee for a frank discussion about buying Firehose records on eBay after a dream tol...
Episode 036: Mike Park and Dan Potthast
16 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Every show can't be a skafest -- unless, of course, you're Dan Potthast. We swung by the MU330 frontman's Santa Cruz apartment, and happened to catch ...
Episode 035: David Cope
10 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
David Cope is a professor emeritus at the University of California and a pioneer in the world of computer created music, having worked to perfect clas...
Episode 034: Mark Frauenfelder
01 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The Boing Boing / Make Magazine / Cool Tools editor and I found the quietest corner we could at the recent Engadget Expand event in New York to discus...
Episode 033: Marie Javins
18 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Marie Javins is a comics writer, world traveler, art school professor and friend to Daniel Johnston. She ventured into the city to discuss all of the ...
Episode 032: Robert Newsome
11 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded at Java Joe's in Athens, GA, the editor of the Atomic Elbow zine gives us a long overdue lesson about the world of professional wrestling. Ho...
Episode 031: Dave Hill (Pt. 2)
06 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Still aching for some hot Dave Hill action after that last hour-long interview? Good news: we squeeze another half hour out of the comedian on hearing...
Episode 030: Dave Hill (Pt. 1)
04 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Come, sit down and enjoy some light jazz trumpet at a Greenwich Village coffee shop with Dave Hill. The Tasteful Nudes author joins us for what turns ...
Episode 029: Will Cullen Hart
28 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We pulled up a lawn chair in the Will Cullen Hart's cat-infested backyard in Athens, GA to discuss the Circulatory System / Olivia Tremor Control fron...
Episode 028: Travis Morrison
20 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The lead singer of the Dismemberment Plan makes some pretty solid arguments in favor of getting Bob Mould to appear on The Simpsons. And with that you...
Episode 027: Peter Bagge
13 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Spend an hour or so at Seattle's Whisky Bar, discussing the life of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger with Hate cartoonist Peter Bagge. Seems...
Episode 026: Paul Pope
06 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down with the Battling Boy cartoonist at one of his favorite New York City haunts to discuss just about everything. There's mythology, filmmaki...
Episode 025: Julie Samuels
30 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We happened to swing by the Electronic Frontier Foundation's office the same day the digital rights organization filed a challenge to Personal Audio's...
Episode 024: Tim Stevens
22 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Engadget's former editor-in-chief (and my former boss) sits down at a noisy Manhattan diner to discuss the state of tech journalism and his nascent no...
Episode 023: Al Burian
16 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We meet the Burn Collector author at a cafe in Berlin to discuss teaching comics, the legacy of World War II, surviving as a writer and cold war era p...
Episode 022: Leslie Stein
09 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The Eye of the Majestic Creature artist / Prince Rupert's Drops bandmember joins us in Union Square to discuss mixology, performance jitters and nosta...
Episode 021 (mini): Reggie Watts
02 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this mini-episode, Comedy Bang Bang co-host Reggie Watts discusses not practicing, live experimentation and the most serious song he's ever written...
Episode 020: Seth Lind
27 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This American Life's director of operations takes us behind the scene at the radio show to talk NPR, podcasting and working down to the wire. Hosted o...
Episode 019: Kim Deitch
18 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams cartoonist joins us to talk collections, aging and getting a late start. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
Episode 018: Lisa Hanawalt
12 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Hanawalt's comics are about horses and cats and genitals and things. Some of her less racy work has appeared in The New York Times. Here we talk ...
Episode 017: Martha Grover
29 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The One More for the People author discusses fundamentalism, fears of the apocalypse, zine making and life with an incurable disease. Hosted on Acast....
Episode 016: Dave Allen
21 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
As one might expect from the original Gang of Four bass player turned interactive brand strategist, Dave Allen's got something fascinating to say abou...
Episode 015: Nicole Georges
13 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The Calling Dr. Laura author discusses tiny dogs, family crises and self-publishing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 014: DJ Spooky
06 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Paul "DJ Spooky" Miller took time out of his insanely busy travel schedule to meet us at Union Square. Naturally, we talked traveling, staying busy an...
Episode 013: Scott Aukerman
30 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
When a famous comedian tells you that he worked on "Shark Tale," that fact pretty much become your sole focus. This is that story. Hosted on Acast. Se...
Episode 012: Ellen Forney
24 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Marbles is that sort of book that makes you want to immediately spark up a conversation with its creator. Thankfully, that's what podcasts are for. Ho...
Episode 011: Douglas Rushkoff
17 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The Present Shock author joins us to discuss the death of the narrative, the importance of books and how we're misusing technology. Hosted on Acast. S...
Episode 010: Julia Wertz
10 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The former Fart Party cartoonist talks about being a former cartoonist and spending her days breaking into abandoned hospitals. Hosted on Acast. See a...
Episode 009: Marc Maron
02 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
New York vs. LA, the future of podcast and how Iggy Pop will always take is shirt off, whether you ask him to or not. It's a shorty but a goody, with ...
Episode 008: John Vanderslice
25 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Nothing like digitally recording an interview in an analog mecca like Tiny Telephone -- but as John Vanderslice says, it's all about the right tool fo...
Episode 007: Larry Livermore
18 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We're still waiting for our copy of Larry Livermore's new book to ship. In the meantime, however, we've managed to coax some Spy Rock memories out of ...
Episode 006: Shannon Wheeler
12 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The Too Much Coffee Man creator talks the bible, Berkeley High and drinking at airports. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 005: Jesse Thorn
05 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
America's radio sweetheart joins us from his studio in downtown Los Angeles to discuss the dirty business of podcasting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
Episode 004: John Roderick
14 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
John Roderick's less inclined to play the role of the cross country troubadour in the heady days, but the indie rock elder statesman has slipped quite...
Episode 003: Erica Dawn Lyle
30 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Erica Dawn Lyle discusses life in New York, self-publishing, the art scene and the death of her alter ego. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for ...
Episode 002: Mary Roach
03 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Roach writes wonderful books about pooping in space and vaginal bunnies. She is, unsurprisingly, an equally delightful podcasting guest. Hosted o...
Episode 001: Peter Stampfel
03 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The great Holy Model Rounder figures out Skype to join us on our maiden episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.