RiYL Podcast
1) Episode 308: Taylor Goldsmith (of Dawes)
Fresh off a hike up Mount Kilmanjaro with his fiancee (now wife) and a ritualistic beard shaving, Taylor Goldsmith sits down to talk about Dawes’ latest, Passwords. The new record finds the band divin...Show More
2) Episode 745: Adam Goldberg
The Goldbergs' 2021 move was meant to be temporary, a relocation from Los Angeles to his wife's hometown while the new network television gig did its thing. And then something happened -- The Equalize...Show More
3) Episode 744: Dominique Fils-Aimé
A few moments into My World is the Sun, there's little doubt Dominique Fils-Aimé is doing what she was put on this earth to do. As an ode to vulnerability, the record shines as it strips away instrume...Show More
4) Episode 742: The Happy Fits
Surprise, it's all four members of The Happy Fits, beaming in from their Philadelphia practice space. After a rough couple of years -- losing a member, gaining two, moving, breakups, interventions, so...Show More
5) Episode 723: Ryan Walsh (Hallelujah the Hills)
Few albums warrant their own YouTube explainer direct from the band. It's not exactly necessary for Deck -- particularly in the wake of compilations produced from the project's 54 songs -- but it's pa...Show More
6) Episode 742: KT Tunstall
It takes light 4.2 years from Proxima Centauri, the nearest non-sun star, to reach Earth. It took the songs of 2025’s Stargazer EP nearly five times that to see the light of day.That’s nothing in cosm...Show More
7) Episode 741: Tom Gauld
It takes a unique talent to find one's work thumbtacked above desks at libraries across the world. But Tom Gauld wasn't content to simply rest on the literary laurels that come with his frequently sha...Show More
8) Episode 740: Sean Mason
How often do we truly afford ourselves a fresh start? Sean Mason went all after his first record.The Southern Suite put the pianist on the map, there was a disconnect. Mason left New York, stopped dri...Show More
9) Episode 739: Michael Hampton (Parliament-Funkadelic)
At 17, Michael Hampton blasted off from Earth in the Mothership. More than half a century later, the Funkadelic guitarist has never looked back.He does, however, make the occasional pitstop home for i...Show More
10) Episode 738: Morgxn
Happiness wasn’t too far from home. After stints in larger cities, following more traditional music routes, Morgxn settled just outside of Nashville – it doesn’t hurt, of course, when home is Music Ci...Show More