NPR CRITIC, EMERSON COLLEGE PROFESSOR and AUTHOR TIM RILEY reviews pop and classical music for NPR’s ON POINT and HERE AND NOW and COPPER magazine from PSAUDIO.com. 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. His current projects include his Beatles multimedia textbook WHAT GOES ON (Oxford, 2019), and millennium pop, an interactive digital anthology of criticism coming in 2022.