Tim Riley
@timrileyauthor.bsky.social
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the riley rock report:
then tickles now
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the riley rock report:
then tickles now
https://rileyrockreport.substack.com
https://timrileyauthor.com author page
"Because it treats grim situations with whimsy, you take the stakes a lot more seriously, and the characters live with you offscreen—you’d kill for this kind of bracing sanity in the face of death, and the characters seem to live outside the script..."
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May 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Because it treats grim situations with whimsy, you take the stakes a lot more seriously, and the characters live with you offscreen—you’d kill for this kind of bracing sanity in the face of death, and the characters seem to live outside the script..."
rileyrockreport.substack.com/p/taboo-sex-...
rileyrockreport.substack.com/p/taboo-sex-...
250 years later and we still need to parse the verities of fighting tyranny and committing atrocities...
April 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
250 years later and we still need to parse the verities of fighting tyranny and committing atrocities...
After listening to Mitsuko Uchida perform Beethoven 4th Piano Concerto, I learned she attended rehearsals with a score for the Shostakovich 15th Symphony, and sat in the audience with that score after the intermission. My kind of musician. Her Beethoven soared.
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April 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
After listening to Mitsuko Uchida perform Beethoven 4th Piano Concerto, I learned she attended rehearsals with a score for the Shostakovich 15th Symphony, and sat in the audience with that score after the intermission. My kind of musician. Her Beethoven soared.
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tomorrow in the riley rock report:
April 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
tomorrow in the riley rock report:
“Do you even OWN a suit?”
March 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“Do you even OWN a suit?”
let's all get normal
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March 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
let's all get normal
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Vive la Résistance!
February 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Vive la Résistance!
Dear Senator [X], will you please use every procedural method necessary to shut down hearings and votes unless DOGE and all other Tr*mp criminal activity stops?
February 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Dear Senator [X], will you please use every procedural method necessary to shut down hearings and votes unless DOGE and all other Tr*mp criminal activity stops?
"Songs like “Maggie’s Farm” and “Highway 61” and “Like a Rolling Stone” proved far more political than even “Hattie Carroll” or “Only a Pawn in Their Game” or “Masters of War” ever could... "
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January 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"Songs like “Maggie’s Farm” and “Highway 61” and “Like a Rolling Stone” proved far more political than even “Hattie Carroll” or “Only a Pawn in Their Game” or “Masters of War” ever could... "
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https://buff.ly/4frRHqs
Dear Chris,
Rihanna called.
She's also impatient for Vol. 2.
love, yr fans
Rihanna called.
She's also impatient for Vol. 2.
love, yr fans
January 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Dear Chris,
Rihanna called.
She's also impatient for Vol. 2.
love, yr fans
Rihanna called.
She's also impatient for Vol. 2.
love, yr fans
A CRITIC’S MISGIVINGS, part 1 (après le débâcle )
Casting: Dylan was not a pretty boy, in fact, he looked odd, betrayed all norms.
Soundtrack: Dylan's voice rang out peculiar, upstaged his odd looks. It betrays norms still. Plus: Who wants to hear Chalamet sing?
https://buff.ly/4frRHqs
Casting: Dylan was not a pretty boy, in fact, he looked odd, betrayed all norms.
Soundtrack: Dylan's voice rang out peculiar, upstaged his odd looks. It betrays norms still. Plus: Who wants to hear Chalamet sing?
https://buff.ly/4frRHqs
December 26, 2024 at 4:59 PM
A CRITIC’S MISGIVINGS, part 1 (après le débâcle )
Casting: Dylan was not a pretty boy, in fact, he looked odd, betrayed all norms.
Soundtrack: Dylan's voice rang out peculiar, upstaged his odd looks. It betrays norms still. Plus: Who wants to hear Chalamet sing?
https://buff.ly/4frRHqs
Casting: Dylan was not a pretty boy, in fact, he looked odd, betrayed all norms.
Soundtrack: Dylan's voice rang out peculiar, upstaged his odd looks. It betrays norms still. Plus: Who wants to hear Chalamet sing?
https://buff.ly/4frRHqs
"...songs like “Maggie’s Farm” and “Highway 61” and “Like a Rolling Stone” proved far more political than even “Hattie Carroll” or “Only a Pawn in Their Game” or “Masters of War” ever could..."
https://buff.ly/4frRHqs
https://buff.ly/4frRHqs
December 24, 2024 at 4:59 PM
"...songs like “Maggie’s Farm” and “Highway 61” and “Like a Rolling Stone” proved far more political than even “Hattie Carroll” or “Only a Pawn in Their Game” or “Masters of War” ever could..."
https://buff.ly/4frRHqs
https://buff.ly/4frRHqs
Yes, we put Detroiters next to any Punks you care to thrust upon us... and 27 discs from Dylan's 1974 Tour still in heavy rotation, see @LAreviewofbooks Sunday evening...
December 21, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Yes, we put Detroiters next to any Punks you care to thrust upon us... and 27 discs from Dylan's 1974 Tour still in heavy rotation, see @LAreviewofbooks Sunday evening...
The MC5's High Time: "…a bustling approximation of its live sound while giving plenty of definition to individual players..."
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December 21, 2024 at 4:23 PM
The MC5's High Time: "…a bustling approximation of its live sound while giving plenty of definition to individual players..."
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timrileyauthor.com
MC5, Dylan 1974, and the new Preston Lauterbach Elvis book (summer 2025) wins pullquote of the month...
December 20, 2024 at 10:40 PM
MC5, Dylan 1974, and the new Preston Lauterbach Elvis book (summer 2025) wins pullquote of the month...
We held our lighters up high, and not just for Dylan...
December 11, 2024 at 10:27 PM
We held our lighters up high, and not just for Dylan...
SUCH a fine line
December 11, 2024 at 4:59 PM
SUCH a fine line
remembering another pending comeuppance
December 9, 2024 at 9:12 PM
remembering another pending comeuppance
early peek at Dylan 74 essay for LARB at rileyrockreport.substack.com
December 9, 2024 at 2:51 AM
early peek at Dylan 74 essay for LARB at rileyrockreport.substack.com
who does yr taxes?
December 3, 2024 at 10:12 PM
who does yr taxes?