Geoff Rickly
Geoffrey William Rickly. Talkhouse Contributing Writer and former singer of Thursday and Ink & Dagger. Current singer of UN and No Devotion, making occasional music of various shapes and sizes. You can follow him on Twitter here.
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Geoff Rickly (Thursday) Talks with Jonah Bayer on the Talkhouse Podcast
“Oh my God, how far up my own ass am I crawling?”
Geoff Rickly (Thursday, UN, Ink & Dagger) Pays Tribute To His Hip-Hop Hero, Phife Dawg
The rocker always felt a kinship with Phife, even if he’s more like Q-Tip.
Geoff Rickly (Thursday, UN, Ink & Dagger) Talks HTRK’s Psychic 9-5 Club
Maybe we all have missing pieces. Maybe life, in its seemingly endless procession of days, strips things away until it feels like we're just...
Geoff Rickly (Thursday, UN, Ink & Dagger) Talks the XX and the Most Expensive Concert Ever
A couple of weeks ago I paid $2,000 to see the XX play for forty people at New York’s Park Avenue Armory. They're not one of my favorite bands or...
Geoff Rickly (Thursday, UN, Ink & Dagger) Talks Nils Frahm’s Spaces
There are moments in life when the traffic clears and the streets quiet and the ten thousand things fall away from us. Life comes briefly into focus.
Geoff Rickly (Thursday, UN, Ink & Dagger) Talks the Live Evolution and Devolution of Nine Inch Nails and Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Before I get started, I should probably mention that reviewing a Nine Inch Nails/Godspeed You! Black Emperor show is a personal and slightly...
Geoff Rickly (Thursday, UN, Ink & Dagger) Talks Raein’s Sulla Linea Dell’Orizzonte fra Questa Mia Vita e Quella di Tutti
Every few years, someone will start a debate about what punk really is. Most recently, this debate was sparked by a Seattle Weekly piece...
Geoff Rickly (Thursday, UN) Talks Deafheaven’s Sunbather
Some records are giant mistakes. A revered artist or a promising young band will take a sharp left turn and make an overtly ambitious...
Geoff Rickly (Thursday, UN, Ink & Dagger) Talks Deerhunter’s Monomania
Being an outsider isn't as easy as it seems. Just ask the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, whose instant classic "Maps" sabotaged their outsider ArtStar cachet...
Geoff Rickly (Thursday, UN) Talks the Nine Circles of the Warped Tour
This past summer I took a terrifying journey. Though it was a road that I had walked many times before, I was nonetheless unprepared for the...
Geoff Rickly (Thursday, UN, Ink & Dagger) Talks Cult of Youth’s Love Will Prevail
Over the course of the last 15 years of playing, listening to and talking about music, I've come to realize that there really is no such thing as a...










