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Kyle Meredith With...

902 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 63 ratings

Kyle Meredith With... is an interview series in which WFPK's Kyle Meredith speaks to a wide breadth of artists. Meredith digs deep to find out how their work is made and where their journey is going. From legendary artists to the newer class, from musicians to film & television stars, you'll hear about the things you were always curious about from all of your favorites. 

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Neck Deep’s Ben Barlow on Pop Punk, Political Songs, and Aliens

January 19, 2024 09:00 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MB

Neck Deep’s Ben Barlow joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the band’s new self-titled album. The frontman discusses taking their sound “back to their roots” and making the tough decision to scrap the work they had been doing halfway in Los Angeles, and, instead, doing a self-produced LP back home in Wales, as well as the plan to purposefully try to make a pure pop-punk album and what that means in the scope of their catalog. Barlow goes on to talk about including a Beatles sendup in the single...

Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy on Covering R.E.M. & Finding Cool Music

January 17, 2024 09:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MB

Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy join Kyle Meredith to talk about covering R.E.M.'s Murmur album for a February tour. Shannon, known for The Shape of Water, Revolutionary Road, and recently with George & Tammy, and Narducy who spends time with Bob Mould, Superchunk, and Split Single, discuss why they decided to cover the classic 1983 LP, finding the album Document as their entry point when they were younger, and how the cooler music would find them in their youth. Shannon also talks about s...

Carrie Brownstein & Corin Tucker on Sleater-Kinney’s Dark, Emotional Little Rope

January 15, 2024 09:00 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MB

Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker of  Sleater-Kinney catch up with Kyle Meredith to talk about Little Rope, a record that was completed in the aftermath of a deadly car accident involving Brownstein's mother and stepfather in Italy in late 2022. The Sleater-Kinney members discuss how the emotionally personal album felt like it had higher stakes, the choice to open with the dark and sinister “Hell,” and being very specific about the sounds they were going for with producer John Congleton. We...

Eduardo Franco on Self Reliance’s Ninja Skills, Andy Samberg Limo Rides, & Stranger Things 5

January 13, 2024 09:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MB

Eduardo Franco joins Kyle Meredith to talk about starring in Jake Johnson’s Self Reliance, a film that follows a disillusioned man who receives an invitation to win $1 million by taking part in a reality television game on the dark web. The Stranger Things actor talks about how he landed the part and came up with the right tone for his Production Assistant character, as well as his own thoughts on the bigger message of the movie and if he would get into a limo that had Andy Samberg offering ...

Jack Antonoff on New Bleachers, Movie-Like Albums, & Lana Del Rey’s “Perfect Voice”

January 12, 2024 09:00 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MB

Jack Antonoff joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the new Bleachers self-titled album. The songwriter/super-producer discusses the band’s direct threads to his 2000s group, Steel Train, what the original title for this record "Tribute Living" said about the themes heard within, and how he sees each album as a movie. Antonoff also shares his thoughts on society heading towards a new kind of monoculture, the heartbreaking moments from his past that still share a narration in his current songs, w...

Peter Capaldi & Tom Moutchi on Crimes Dramas, a Changing London, & New Music

January 10, 2024 09:00 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MB

Peter Capaldi & Tom Moutchi join Kyle Meredith to talk about the new Apple TV+ series, Criminal Record, a powerful, character-driven drama set in the heart of contemporary London which picks up when an anonymous phone call draws two brilliant detectives into a confrontation over an old murder case – one a young woman in the early stages of her career, the other a well-connected man determined to protect his legacy. Capaldi, known for his work in Dr. Who and The Suicide Squad, discusses his f...

Mckenna Grace on Friendship Songs, Metal Albums, & Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

January 08, 2024 09:00 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MB

Mckenna Grace joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her latest single, “Natalie,” as well as reprising her role in the upcoming Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. The actress/musician discusses how she wrote the new song as a tribute to her friend Xochitl Gomez, basing her recent EPs on different genres (pop-punk for Bittersweet 16 and folk for Autumn Leaves), and wanting to make a metal album. In fact, Grace namechecks System of a Down as one of her current favorite bands, but not to be boxed in, als...

Kyle Meredith Rewind: Janelle Monáe on The Age of Pleasure & Upcoming Role in A24’s De La Resistance

January 06, 2024 09:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB

We're taking a few weeks off here on Kyle Meredith W..., but wanted to thank you for listening in this year by sharing some of our favorite interviews from 2023. We'll be back with brand new episodes on January 8th. For now, here's my chat with Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament. Here are the original show notes: Janelle Monáe rings in to talk with Kyle Meredith about her latest album, The Age of Pleasure. The musician/actress tells us the importance of the opening line “I’m not the same” and how it s...

Kyle Meredith Rewind: Andy Taylor on Recovering From Pop, David Bowie’s Death, & Duran Duran’s Lost Reportage LP

January 05, 2024 09:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MB

We're taking a few weeks off here on Kyle Meredith W..., but wanted to thank you for listening in this year by sharing some of our favorite interviews from 2023. We'll be back with brand new episodes on January 8th. For now, here's my chat with Andy Taylor. Here are the original show notes: Andy Taylor joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Man’s A Wolf To Man, his first solo album of original material in 36 years. The former Duran Duran guitarist talks about how he first considered a Power Sta...

Kyle Meredith Rewind: Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme on Stereotypes, Existence, & Gallows Humor

January 03, 2024 09:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MB

We're taking a few weeks off here on Kyle Meredith W..., but wanted to thank you for listening in this year by sharing some of our favorite interviews from 2023. We'll be back with brand new episodes on January 8th. For now, here's my chat with Josh Homme, the frontman of Queens of the Stone Age. Here are the original show notes: Josh Homme, the frontman of Queens of the Stone Age, reunites with Kyle Meredith in a discussion about the band's upcoming album, In Times New Roman, their first ...

Kyle Meredith Rewind: Dolly Parton on Classic Rock, Classic Costumes, & Trying to Reunite Led Zeppelin

January 01, 2024 09:00 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MB

We're taking a few weeks off here on Kyle Meredith W..., but wanted to thank you for listening in this year by sharing some of our favorite interviews from 2023. We'll be back with brand new episodes on January 8th. For now, here's my chat with Dolly Parton. Here are the original show notes: Dolly Parton joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her new album, Rockstar, new book Behind The Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, and induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The country music legend dish...

Kyle Meredith Rewind: Les Claypool on Covering Tool and Pink Floyd & Upcoming Albums with Delirium and Billy Strings

December 29, 2023 09:00 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MB

We're taking a few weeks off here on Kyle Meredith W..., but wanted to thank you for listening in this year by sharing some of our favorite interviews from 2023. We'll be back with brand new episodes on January 8th. For now, here's my chat with Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament. Here are the original show notes: Les Claypool catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about bringing back Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade for a summer tour, in which they’ll be playing Pink Floyd’s Animals ...

Kyle Meredith Rewind: Keanu Reeves and Dogstar on Reuniting & Listening to Alvvays and The Jesus and Mary Chain

December 27, 2023 09:00 - 25 minutes - 23 MB

We're taking a few weeks off here on Kyle Meredith W..., but wanted to thank you for listening in this year by sharing some of our favorite interviews from 2023. We'll be back with brand new episodes on January 8th. For now, here's my chat with Keanu Reeves. Here are the original show notes: After 20 years apart, Dogstar are back as the trio consisting of Keanu Reeves, Bret Domrose, and Robert Mailhouse. The trio sat down with Kyle Meredith to talk about their new single, "Everything Turns...

Kyle Meredith Rewind: Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament on Deaf Charlie, Yield, & the Next PJ Album

December 25, 2023 09:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MB

We're taking a few weeks off here on Kyle Meredith W..., but wanted to thank you for listening in this year by sharing some of our favorite interviews from 2023. We'll be back with brand new episodes on January 8th. For now, here's my chat with Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament. Here are the original show notes: Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about the debut album, Catastrophic Metamorphic, that’s just arrived from his side project Deaf Charlie, a collaboration with form...

David Alan Grier on The Color Purple, Candy Cane Lane, & A Soldier’s Play

December 23, 2023 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MB

David Alan Grier joins Kyle Meredith to talk about his work in the latest film version of The Color Purple, as well as working alongside Eddie Murphy for the first time in 30 years in the recently released Candy Cane Lane. The comedy and drama legend tells us how, early on, he based the rhythm of his career off of what he saw Michael Keaton doing in the 80s, what it was like getting to play Santa Claus in the Prime Video film, and the uncomfortable clock costume he wore in the live-on-stage ...

Michiel Huisman on Zack Snyder, Rebel Moon, & Game of Thrones

December 22, 2023 09:00 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MB

Michiel Huisman joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, which features a colony on the edge of the galaxy that finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical government, who then dispatch a young woman with a mysterious past to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them take a stand. Huisman, who’s spent time in Game of Thrones and The Haunting of Hill House, discusses what it means to act inside of a space opera, finding his “simple farmer” characte...

Gracie Abrams on New Music, Grammy Nomination, & Touring with Taylor Swift

December 20, 2023 09:00 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MB

Gracie Abrams catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about her Grammy nomination (Best New Artist), debut album Good Riddance, and the work she’s continuing with Aaron Dessner on her next LP. The singer-songwriter tells us about getting a call from fellow nominee Noah Kahan after hearing the news, how she now hears the record after touring it for a year, and why this set of songs was so much more personal than her earlier work. Abrams also discusses how her writing changed after meeting and w...

Niousha Noor on the Weight, Family, and Music of The Persian Version

December 18, 2023 09:00 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MB

Niousha Noor joins Kyle Meredith to talk about The Persian Version. The film, loosely based on Maryam Keshavarz’s life, also stars Layla Mohammadi and tells the story of a young, gay Iranian-American woman who is often at odds with her family, particularly with her mother, and especially after getting pregnant from a one-night stand with a Hedwig and the Angry Inch actor. The actress discusses how the film focuses on an immigrant family in ways that we don’t usually get to see on screen and ...

Nathan Stewart-Jarrett & Niamh Algar on the Truth, Complication, & Masks in Culprits

December 16, 2023 09:00 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MB

Nathan Stewart-Jarrett & Niamh Algar join Kyle Meredith to talk about their roles in the Disney Plus/Hulu series Culprits. The show focuses on a team of specialists who commit a heist, but unlike most movies of this genre, our story kicks off where most crime stories end: after a high-stakes heist, when the crew of elite criminals have gone their separate ways and have tried to leave their old lives behind. Past and present collide when a ruthless assassin starts targeting them one by one. W...

Vince Clarke on Ambient Music, Blade Runner, and Erasure’s Next LP

December 15, 2023 09:00 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MB

Erasure’s Vince Clarke joins Kyle Meredith to talk Songs of Silence, his very first solo album that finds the Erasure (and Depeche Mode and Yaz) legend pointing towards drone and ambient music. The synth-pop artist tells us how the record, almost an accident, came to be, taking inspiration from Blade Runner 2049, and why ambient music is having a real moment right now. Clarke goes on to discuss how his videos give the songs another dimension, adapting an old union folk song, a desire to work...

Julia Michaels & Ben Rice on Soundtracking Wish for Disney’s 100th Anniversary

December 13, 2023 09:00 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MB

Julia Michaels & Ben Rice join Kyle Meredith to discuss scoring Disney’s newest animated feature, Wish. The songwriting duo takes us behind the scenes of what it was like to not only land a Disney soundtrack but on the legendary studio’s 100th anniversary, with the backstory on what led to getting the call and the emotions that came with it. Michaels & Rice go on to tell us how they had to change their typical songwriting style in favor of writing for ensembles and imaginary characters, how ...

Omar J Dorsey on Acting Alongside Sebastian Maniscalco and Charlie Sheen in Bookie

December 11, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MB

Omar J. Dorsey drops by to talk with Kyle Meredith about co-starring in Bookie, the new buddy comedy from Chuck Lorre and airing now on Max. Alongside Sebastian Maniscalco, with great cameos from Charlie Sheen and Toby Huss, the series follows two bookies as they grapple with the challenges posed by the imminent legalization of sports betting while navigating through a world of unpredictable clients and a lifestyle that takes them on a rollercoaster journey across every facet of Los Angeles....

Stacey Kent on Recording Fan Favorites and Why We Love Waltzes & Sad Songs

December 08, 2023 09:00 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MB

Stacey Kent joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Summer Me, Winter Me, her new album that collects songs fans had requested at her live show over the years but had never recorded. The jazz vocalist discusses how the rag-tag group of songs still makes up an album that flows, why she loves the ephemeral quality of playing live, and what new bits she found in these decades-old songs. Kent also tells us why she recorded two different versions of “Ne Me Quitte Pa”, the changes that “Postcard Lover” ...

Rosanne Cash on The Wheel, Singing with The National, & Covering Lou Reed

December 06, 2023 09:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MB

Rosanne Cash joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the 30th anniversary of The Wheel, the 1993 album that kicked off a second chapter of her career. The singer-songwriter tells us about getting her masters back from Sony, what it was like to make this record as her life was in a complete upheaval, and the beauty of an album that has an artist’s back up against the wall. Cash goes on to discuss the scene of musicians she found in early 90s New York, having director Mary Lambert helm the video for...

Kate Siegel on Looks, Sounds, and Drama of The Fall of the House of Usher

December 04, 2023 09:00 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MB

Kate Siegel catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about her role in the Mike Flanagan-created The Fall of the House of Usher, a Netflix miniseries that is loosely based on various works by Edgar Allan Poe and tells the downfall of a family, a corrupt pharmaceutical company, and a mysterious woman plaguing the characters as they disappear one by one. Alongside Siegel, the ensemble cast also features Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Mary McDonnell, Henry Thomas, Rahul Kohli, and Mark Hamill. The...

Shelley Hennig on Playing Drunk, Absurd Moments in Nudity, & Her Dolly Parton Action Theme Song

December 01, 2023 09:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MB

Shelley Hennig joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Obliterated, out now on Netflix. The series, which also stars Nick Zano, C. Thomas Howell, and Lori Petty, showcases an elite special forces team who, after thinking they stopped a nuclear threat on Vegas, decides to party hard with booze and drugs, only to find out after everyone is good and sloshed that the bomb they neutralized was fake. Cue the action and the hilarity. The actress discusses the return of absurd moments in action/comedy, no...

McG on Body Switch Movies, His 90s Music Videos, & Having Weezer In His New Movie

November 29, 2023 09:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MB

McG joins Kyle Meredith to talk about his new Netflix film, Family Switch. The movie, which stars Jennifer Garner, Ed Helms, Emma Myers, and a lineup of great cameos, finds a chance encounter with an astrological reader (Rita Moreno) that causes the Walkers to wake up to a full body switch between all of the members of the family. The director tells us why he wanted to add to the canon of body switch movies like Vise Versa and Freaky Friday, what it was like to workshop with the actors for e...

Sam Nelson on Aquaman 2, Favorite Soundtracks, & the Next X Ambassadors Album

November 27, 2023 09:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MB

X Ambassadors frontman Sam Nelson Harris joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the band’s new single, "Deep End," which serves as the credit music in the new Aquaman 2: Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. The hit-making singer-songwriter discusses writing for the Jason Momoa-starring superhero movie, as well as what draws him to write for films (the band has also been featured on the soundtracks to Transformers, The Call of the Wild, and Suicide Squad, among others), his favorite movie soundtracks, an...

Chicago’s Lee Loughnane on Christmas Hits, Beatles Classics, & Upcoming Tour with Earth, Wind, & Fire

November 24, 2023 09:00 - 25 minutes - 23 MB

Chicago ’s Lee Loughnane joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the legendary band’s new holiday collection, Greatest Christmas Hits. The trumpeter discusses the group’s success with their three Xmas records and what kicked it off 25 years ago on the first one, how they give so many classics their Chicago sound, and co-writing the original song “A Child’s Prayer”. Loughnane goes on to talk about covering The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour” and what he thinks of the new song “Now and Then,” how th...

R.E.M.’s Mike Mills on the Electronics, Mystery, & Difficult Circumstances of 1998’s Up

November 22, 2023 09:00 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MB

R.E.M.’s Mike Mills catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about the 25th-anniversary edition of Up, their first post-Bill Berry album that found the Athens band trying out a new electronic-based sound. The bassist/songwriter discusses the difficult circumstances in which the LP was created, how they found the sound, and the stories behind songs “Airportman,” “Sad Professor,” “Daysleeper,” and “Hope”. Mills goes on to talk about why they decided not to include the demos on this deluxe package...

Goosebump’s Isa Briones & Ana Yi Puig on Fresh Nostalgia, Trauma, and a 90’s Soundtrack

November 20, 2023 09:00 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MB

Isa Briones & Ana Yi Puig join Kyle Meredith to talk about the new Goosebumps series, out now on Disney+ and Hulu. This latest iteration finds the popular R.L. Stine books given a fresh take and a bit more of an adult storyline, following a group of five high schoolers who embark on a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing three decades earlier of a teen named Harold Biddle — while also unearthing dark secrets from their parents’ past. Alongside Briones and Puig, the s...

Francis Lawrence on the Music, Rebellion, & Extra Footage of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

November 17, 2023 09:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MB

Francis Lawrence joins Kyle Meredith to talk about The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, the prequel that stars Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler and serves as an origin story to villain Coriolanus Snow and takes place 64 years before the Jennifer Lawrence-starring run of the story. The director, who was also behind Catching Fire and both Mockingjays, discusses how music has a much bigger focus this time around, working with Dave Cobb to bring the songs to life, and casting Rachel Ze...

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Scott Hamliton Kennedy on Anti-Vaxxers, Disinformation, and a Shot In The Arm

November 15, 2023 09:00 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MB

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Scott Hamilton Kennedy join Kyle Meredith to discuss the new documentary, Shot In The Arm, which takes a look at the "anti-vax" movement, both before but especially during the COVID outbreak, and the disinformation that threatens our future. Kennedy, the writer and director, talks about originally working on a piece about the 2019 measles outbreak before transitioning to what was happening in 2020, while deGrasse Tyson digs into the social contract we as a society hav...

Dolly Parton on Classic Rock, Classic Costumes, & Trying to Reunite Led Zeppelin

November 13, 2023 09:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB

Dolly Parton joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her new album, Rockstar, new book Behind The Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, and induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The country music legend dishes on how she chose the songs for the album based on some of her husband’s favorite classics and how she modeled her early costumes and looked after a local woman in her hometown. Parton also digs into the song "World On Fire," one of a handful of original songs on the 30-track LP, and how it l...

Rufus Wainwright on Opera, Taylor Swift, and 20 Years of Want

November 10, 2023 09:00 - 19 minutes - 17.4 MB

Rufus Wainwright joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the 20th anniversary of Want, his double album (when parts one and two are combined) that found himself becoming more of his true self on record. The interview was recorded at the Hell or Highwater bar in Louisville, KY the day before Wainwright performed the songs with the Louisville Orchestra, so the two discuss what lends this particular album to an orchestral arrangement and why the album was always meant to be played that way, as well a...

Gavin Rossdale on Bush’s Greatest Hits, Favorite B-Sides, and A New Album

November 08, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MB

Gavin Rossdale catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about the new best-of from Bush, Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994-2023. The alt-rock legend discusses the band’s popular resurgence, compares the 90s lineup of the band to the relaunched 2010s version, and the new single, “Nowhere To Go But Everywhere,” that arrives on the compilation. Rossdale also considers the band’s b-sides, his preference for the Mouth remix from the soundtrack to American Werewolf In Paris, and why they chose to cover ...

Johnny Marr on His Favorite Guitars, Solo Cuts, & Signature Sound

November 06, 2023 09:00 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MB

Johnny Marr catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about his new best-of collection, Spirit Pour, as well as his new book, Marr’s Guitars. The legendary singer/guitarist tells us how the book came to tell his life story through the instruments featured in the pages, lending some of his best guitars to Radiohead, Oasis, and New Order, and the one he bought while in Louisville that he named after Muhammad Ali. Marr goes on to discuss his signature sound, a preference to write from feeling, what...

Everclear’s Art Alexakis on the Adversity, Youth, & Rallying Cries of Their New Live LP

November 03, 2023 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MB

Everclear singer-songwriter Art Alexakis joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the band’s new live album, Live At The Whiskey A Go Go. The frontman starts by proclaiming that he’s done with making albums and plans to concentrate more on singles and live releases before the conversation turns to his history of writing lyrics that seem to narrate a much bigger story throughout their catalog, lyrics that include plenty of easter eggs for longtime fans. Alexakis gives the backstories on “Father of M...

Paul Rodgers on Arethan Franklin’s Approval, Blues Classics, & His New Solo LP

November 01, 2023 04:59 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MB

Paul Rodgers joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Midnight Rose, the legendary singer’s first album of originals in over twenty years. The Bad Company / Free frontman discusses the simplicity in his favorite records, the blues music that influenced so many of his generation, and getting a nod of approval from Aretha Franklin. Rodgers also tells us how the song “Take Love” has roots from his time fronting Queen in the 2000s, before heading back to 1983’s Cut Loose (his first solo LP) and how it ...

The Kills on Witchy Songs, Church Studios, & Godless Spirituals

October 30, 2023 08:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MB

The Kills drop by to catch up with Kyle Meredith about their latest album, God Games. Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince take us through the challenges they put in place for themselves, including playing instruments they had never played before and staying away from the ones they’re known for, as well as the magic in naivety. Jamie then dives into recording “Godless Spirituals” in a church studio, one they preferred to stay deep in the depths of the dark basement studio rooms, along with the ti...

David Yates & Lawrence Grey on Pain Hustlers, Emily Blunt, & Harry Potter

October 28, 2023 08:00 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MB

David Yates & Lawrence Grey join Kyle Meredith to talk about the film, Pain Hustlers (out now on Netflix), which tells the story of Liza Drake (Emily Blunt), a blue-collar single mom who has just lost her job and is at the end of her rope when a chance meeting with pharmaceutical sales rep played by Chris Evans puts her on an upwards trajectory economically - but dubious path ethically - as she becomes entangled in a dangerous racketeering scheme. Dealing with her increasingly unhinged boss ...

Boy Named Banjo on Late Night Driving Bands, Whiskey Songs, & New Music

October 27, 2023 08:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MB

Boy Named Banjo joined Kyle Meredith backstage at the Bourbon & Beyond festival in Louisville, KY in an interview originally recorded for Fender Premium Audio and Nissan Trucks. The band dug into their major label debut album, Dusk, which arrives a decade after their first, self-released LP, The Tanglewood Sessions, and what the evolution of their sound and songwriting has looked like in hindsight. Barton Davies, William Reames, Willard Logan, Sam McCullough, and Ford Garrard discuss the alb...

The Japanese House on Linklater’s Boyhood, Joni Michell’s Tuning, and Covering ABBA

October 25, 2023 08:00 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MB

The Japanese House joins Kyle Meredith to discuss the new LP, In The End It Always Does. Amber Bain digs into the revealing nature of their songs, taking inspiration from 101 Dalmations and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, and how the record came from much of what she was reading. Bain also talks about Joni Mitchell’s influence on her melodies and guitar tunings, and why she chose to cover ABBA’s Super Trouper in a live show. Listen to The Japanese House sit and chat about all this and more in ...

The Killers’ Brandon Flowers on Greatest Hits, Solo Albums & Hanging with Eddie Vedder

October 23, 2023 08:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MB

The Killers’ Brandon Flowers joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the band’s upcoming best-of collection. The frontman tells us how their new single, "Your Side of Town," is a nod to the music of his teenage years, and goes on to dish on the vault of unreleased songs that the band has accumulated over the years, as well as how they chose which tracks would make the new compilation. Flowers also discusses what attracts him to writing about the type of characters that populated last year’s Pressu...

Lessons In Chemistry’s Courtney McBroom on 1950s Food & Brie Larson’s Cooking

October 20, 2023 08:00 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MB

Cooking author and chef Courtney McBroom joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the new Apple TV limited series, Lessons In Chemistry, which stars Brie Larson as a chemist in the 1950s constantly having to prove herself against a male-dominated field, eventually finding an easier route and use for her skills as the host of a cooking show. McBroom tells us about consulting on a show like this, what the food of the 1950s was generally defined by, and how Larson is also a great cook in real life. Sh...

Foo Fighters’ Chris Shiflett on the Bridge Between Punk & Americana and His New Guitar Podcast

October 18, 2023 08:00 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MB

Foo Fighters' guitarist Chris Shiflett catches up with Kyle Meredith to dig into his latest solo album, Lost At Sea. The Foo Fighters guitarist discusses his history with Americana and country rock music, how he finds the most interesting guitar playing coming from country music, and bands like Social Distortion and X being the bridge between punk and Americana. Shiflett goes on to tell us how his days in No Use For A Name had an influence on one of the new songs and how his sobriety played ...

Liz Phair on 90s Mythology, Unreleased Music, & Her Next Album and Memoir

October 16, 2023 08:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MB

Liz Phair catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about the 30th anniversary of Exile In Guyville and touring the classic 90s touchstone with an immersive live story that spotlights the LP’s ties with The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Mainstreet. The indie legend discusses the overwhelming mythology created around her early days, fighting criticism to keep control of her artistic vision, and the piles of unreleased material from that era. Phair goes on to further dig into how she wanted to give voi...

Sarah Silverman on Comedy Albums, Songwriting, & Remembering Scott Hutchison

October 13, 2023 08:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MB

Sarah Silverman joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her new comedy album, Someone You Love, which started as a special that can be seen on Max, with the vinyl version arriving Dec. 15 via Thirty Tigers. The comedian/actress/musician discusses some of her favorite comedy albums from the likes of Steve Martin, Brian Regan, and Robin Williams, to loving Broadway cast recordings when she was growing up, as well as her preference between CDs and vinyl. Silverman also talks about the songwriting sid...

Duff McKagan on Bob Dylan’s Approval, Stone Gossard’s Archiving, & Playing with Iggy Pop

October 11, 2023 08:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MB

Duff McKagan joins Kyle Meredith to talk about his latest solo album, Lighthouse. The Guns N’ Roses bassist talks about how seeing small-town America while touring informed the latest set, as well as which song is an ode to The Vibrators, which song his bandmate Slash ended up on, and what it was like to get a major compliment from Bob Dylan about his lyrics. McKagan goes on to discuss teaming up with Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard’s record label Loosegroove to release his pre-GnR material, playi...

Felicia Day on Redemption Stories, British Humor, & Trashing the 2000s

October 09, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MB

Felicia Day joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her new Audible Original series, Third Eye, a comedy love letter to sci-fi and fantasy that tells the story of Laurel, a “Chosen One” wizard still grappling with the fallout of failing a decade earlier in her fight with an ultimate evil villain and also features the voices of Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Sean Astin, Lily Pichy, Danny Pudi, Alan Tudyk, London Hughes, Christopher Judge, and “Weird” Al Yankovic. The actress/writer tells how she origina...

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