Tim Riley

• Issue editor and contributor, AMERICAN MUSIC PERSPECTIVES, 4, 1, MOTOWN, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 01/01/25
• Publisher and writer, riley rock report: listen smarter, A bi-monthly audio substack newsletter., 01/01/21, present
• Author, music, love & squalor: classic rock's wild ride: A Tim Riley Digital Anthology, Faculty Advancement Fund Grant (FAFG), 01/01/20, present
• Founder and editor, the riley rock index, music's metaportal, 01/01/05, present
• Music Critic, blog riley on ArtsJournal.com, 01/01/03, 01/01/18
• Public Interactive, Executive Producer, Published syndicated cultural pages for National Public Radio, 01/01/99, 01/01/02
• Executive Producer, Rock.com, Music criticism for online retail, 01/01/98, 01/01/99
• Managing Producer, Top 5% Database, Lycos.com, Web editorial, 01/01/97, 01/01/98
• Founding Editor and Publisher, millennium pop, A quarterly journal, 01/01/93, 01/01/95
• "Cellars by Starlight" Columnist, The Boston Phoenix, 01/01/88, 01/01/91
• Arts Reporter, The Tab, 01/01/87, 01/01/88

• Now and Then, new Beatles song with John Lennon's voice, drops, Here and Now, WBUR Boston, 11/02/23
• The Beatles & The Rock and Roll Narrative featuring Tim Riley, Media Path Podcast, #92, 04/14/22
• New documentary explores the ups and downs of The Beatles' Let It Be sessions, Here & Now, WBUR Boston, NPR, 11/23/21
• The Beatles get back to their roots, Switched-On Pop podcast, 11/18/21
• Tim Riley-Tell Me Why, Beatles Books podcast, 10/08/21
• Interview with Author/Critic Tim Riley!, I've Got a Beatles Podcast, 151, 02/19/20
• Looking Back On The 2010s In Social Movements And In Music, Radio Boston, WBUR Boston, 12/23/19
• Listening Back: 50 Years Of The Beatles' White Album, On Point, WBUR Boston, 11/28/18
• The Year In Health, Science, Sports & Music 2017, Radio Boston, WBUR Boston, NPR, 12/27/17
• 8 Speakers That Will Convince You To Give Bluetooth a Try, The ARTery, WBUR Boston, 12/14/17
• Sgt. Pepper at 50: What The Beatles Can Teach Us About Trump, Cognoscenti, WBUR Boston, 06/01/17
• Remembering Music Icon Chuck Berry, Radio Boston, WBUR Boston, NPR, 03/20/17
• Prince: His Royal Badness, Dies at 57, Radio Boston, WBUR Boston, NPR, 04/21/16
• George Martin: the Fifth Beatle, On Point, WBUR Boston, NPR, 03/11/16
• Ground Control to David Bowie: Remembering an Icon, On Point, WBUR Boston, NPR, 01/12/16
• Bill Medley's Blue-Eyed, 'Unchained' Soul, On Point, WBUR Boston, NPR, 10/19/15
• An Insider's View Of The Bob Dylan Story, On Point, WBUR Boston, NPR, 09/17/14

Title: Associate Professor of Journalism

• The riley rock report: listen smarter, A newsletter and podcast detailing rock history's influence on contemporary trends., 03/01/22
• Introduction to the Motown Special Issue: The Way You Do the Things You Do., AMERICAN MUSIC PERSPECTIVES, 4, 1, 1-19, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 01/01/23
• Drive My Car: Motown and Black America Meets the Beatles., AMERICAN MUSIC PERSPECTIVES, 4, 1, 65-79, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 01/01/23
• Selected Motown Bibliography., AMERICAN MUSIC PERSPECTIVES, 4, 1, 105-109, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 01/01/23, Compiler
• Bold Whispers, Ironic Subtexts, Los Angeles Review of Books, 08/27/25
• I Will Not Waste Chalk, Los Angeles Review of Books, 07/30/25
• The Young Dead, Los Angeles Review of Books, 02/06/25
• More Than Life Itself, Los Angeles Review of Books, 12/22/24
• Heartbreak Supernova: On Carrie Courogen's 'Miss May Does Not Exist', Los Angeles Review of Books, 06/25/24
• Can You Hear Me Now, truthdig, 05/07/24
• Waving or Drowning: On Bradley Cooper's Maestro, Los Angeles Review of Books, 12/28/23
• A Poet of the Anticipation of Joy: On Laurie Winer's Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical, Los Angeles Review of Books, 07/06/23
• How Much Faith Is Left?: On Warren Zanes's Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska, Los Angeles Review of Books, 06/09/23
• Portraying Mozart in His Time, truthdig, 04/21/23
• Hero Blues: Bob Dylan's Philosophy Twists Popular Song, World Literature Today, 01/01/23
• Tim Riley's Best Albums of 2022, Copper Magazine, 01/01/23
• Review: The Other Sides of Kansas, Independent Magazine, 12/29/22
• New Classical Recordings: Igor Levit's Tristan, and Beethoven for Three from Ax, Kavakos and Ma, Copper Magazine, 11/06/22
• Ding-A-Ling! Let's Talk About Chuck Berry, Creem, 10/27/22
• Cats Are Indescribably Wonderful, Shostakovich's Fugues Less So: On Elizabeth Wilson's Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia, Los Angeles Review of Books, 08/04/22
• Reconsider Baby: Elvis, the Movie, Copper Magazine, 07/17/22
• Lightning Striking, by Lenny Kaye, Copper Magazine, 02/14/22
• Who Needs a 'National' Music?: On Joseph Horowitz and the American Style, The Los Angeles Review of Books, 01/28/22
• Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These: Get Back, Copper Magazine, 12/20/21
• The Beatles: Get Back glosses over the band's acrimonious end, The Conversation, 12/03/21
• White-Knuckling It: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band-The Ultimate Collection, Copper Magazine, 10/01/21
• Alternate Realities-Janácek: Piano Works, Copper Magazine, 09/27/21
• Born-Again Brahms, Copper Magazine, 07/09/21
• The Darwin of the Classics, The Los Angeles Review of Books, 05/03/21
• The Beatles in Context, Music and Letters, 102, 1, 174-176, 02/01/21
• Adrift in Cosmic Quarantine: Randy Newman Turns 77, The Los Angeles Review of Books, 11/28/20
• The Gigantor of Art, The Los Angeles Review of Books, 09/15/20
• Country, Smoothed Over, truthdig, 09/26/19
• No Success Like Failure, The Los Angeles Review of Books, 08/22/19
• Evolution of a Medium, truthdig, 07/12/19
• Return of the Unrepressed, The Los Angeles Review of Books, 01/24/19
• Black Lives Matter and the Untold Story of Altamont, truthdig, 09/21/18
• Dylanizing the Great American Songbook, The Los Angeles Review of Books, 06/17/18
• Serkin, Gould and the Pianist's Ideal, truthdig, 01/26/18
• Sticky Fingers, truthdig, 12/23/17
• The American Sputnik: Van Cliburn Heats Up the Cold War, The Los Angeles Review of Books, 05/10/17
• I Am Brian Wilson, truthdig, 03/17/17
• The Man Who Invented Rock'n'Roll: Sam Phillips, truthdig, 03/18/16
• Children of the Stone, truthdig, 10/30/15
• Book Review: Why Acting Matters, The National Memo, 03/08/15
• Book Review: Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?, The National Memo, 11/07/14
• Why Steely Dan Doesn't Suck, Radio Silence, 3, 04/01/14
• Pre-Fab Four, The New York Times, 12/08/13
• Breaking Bad, Nurse Jackie, and the Complete Inversion of '60s Drug Culture, The Atlantic, 08/01/13
• Ain't Dead Yet: Notes on Woody Guthrie, Radio Silence, 2, 109-121, 04/01/13
• Imagine All My Words, truthdig, 11/14/12
• We're Going to Need a Smaller Teacup, Huffington Post, 11/13/12
• Ain't It Funky, truthdig, 06/07/12
• An Open Letter to Sir Paul McCartney: Save Abbey Road Studios, Huffington Post, 05/01/07
• Hey Jude, Manchester University Press, 01/01/07
• Abbey Road Reunion, blog riley, 11/01/06
• Movie Nation, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 01/15/05
• Another Side of Bob Dylan, World Literature Today, 79, 3-4, 8-12, 01/01/05
• Elitism for Dummies, blog riley, 01/01/05
• Bob Dylan's Back Pages, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 11/15/04
• CD reviews, Courtney Love, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Shelby Lynne, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 09/20/04
• Out of Ear's Reach, slate.com, 06/21/04
• Horowitz Unbound, Sony classical reissue review, 12/10/03
• Do The Mash, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 08/01/03
• All Together Not, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 05/12/03
• Celluloid Life Stories, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 01/28/03
• Techno Lust, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 12/09/02
• Really Big Shoe, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 09/23/02
• Lonesome Day, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 08/06/02
• Castaways, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 07/22/02
• Songs of Everything, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 01/01/02
• Jim Keltner's Time is Tight, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 11/01/01
• Same as the Old Boss, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 10/01/01
• Not Your Daddy's Country Sweethearts, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 10/01/01
• Lay Down Your Weary Tune, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 09/01/01
• Radio Sweethearts, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 08/01/01
• Car Tunes, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 08/01/01
• Too Much Monkey Business, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 08/01/01
• Is There Sex After Death?, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 07/01/01
• Premium Blend Awards, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 06/01/01
• Nuggets II, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 05/01/01
• Hoover's Greatest Hits, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 05/01/01
• Napster: Free At Last, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 05/01/01
• Great Pretenders, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 05/01/01
• On the Rebound, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 05/01/01
• Living Proof: The Rev. Bruce Springsteen and His E Street Choir, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 04/01/01
• Rutles Rule, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 03/01/01
• That's What Friends Are For, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 03/01/01
• Love in Vain, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 02/01/01
• It's a Mad World After All: The Same Old Gas Meets a New Medium, Public Arts: Fine Grind syndicated column, 12/01/99
• Review of Invisible Republic by Greil Marcus, The Boston Review, 10/01/97
• For The Beatles: notes on their achievement, Journal of Popular Music, 6, 03, 257-272, 10/01/87

• What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music and Their Times, Oxford University Press, 01/01/19
• Lennon: The Man, The Myth, The Music-The Definitive Life, Hyperion, 01/01/11, Best Nonfiction Titles of 2011, Kirkus Reviews
• Fever: How Rock'n'Roll Transformed Gender in America, St. Martin's, 01/01/04
• Madonna Illustrated, Hyperion, 01/01/92
• Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary, Alfred A. Knopf, 01/01/92, Vintage paperback edition, 01/01/93, Da Capo 2nd edition, 01/01/99
• Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary, Alfred A. Knopf, 01/01/88, Vintage paperback edition, 01/01/89, Da Capo 2nd edition with new afterword, 01/01/02

• Associate Professor of Journalism, Emerson College, 09/01/17, present, Curriculum, Faculty Status, DPSC, CFO search, Journalism Undergraduate Mentor Program (JUMP), The Independent Magazine, 5 Cent Sound
• Graduate Program Director, Journalism, Emerson College, 09/01/17, 05/01/23
• Faculty Assembly Chair, Faculty Council, Emerson College, 09/01/17, 05/01/20
• Assistant Professor of Journalism, Emerson College, 09/01/11, 05/01/16
• Co-Founder, Summer High School Journalism Institute, 01/01/10, present
• Journalist-in-Residence, Emerson College, 09/01/09, 05/01/11
• Critic-in-Residence, Brown University, 01/01/08, 12/31/08
• International Fellow, Indiana University, 01/01/08, 12/31/08