Tim Riley

NPR CRITIC, EMERSON COLLEGE PROFESSOR and AUTHOR TIM RILEY reviews pop and classical music for NPR's ON POINT and HERE AND NOW. His reviews appear widely in the NEW YORK TIMES, truthdig.com, the LA REVIEW OF BOOKS, the HUFFINGTON POST, THE WASHINGTON POST, SLATE.COM and SALON.COM. He earned degrees in classical piano from Oberlin and Eastman.

Since 2009, he has taught digital journalism at Emerson College in Boston. Brown University hosted Riley as Critic-In Residence in 2008, and his first book, Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988), was hailed by the New York Times as bringing "new insight to the act we've known for all these years..." In 2011, the New York Times hailed his John Lennon biography as a "critical tour-de-force..." His television appearances include the PBS Newshour, CBS Morning and Evening News, MTV, and the History Channel.

His current projects include the music metaportal, the RILEY ROCK INDEX, and a major new Beatles multimedia textbook (Oxford, 2019).

For a schedule of current appearances see http://timrileyauthor.com

Visit: timrileyauthor.com, @rileyrockindex

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