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Kyle Meredith With...
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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Johnny Marr on His Favorite Guitars, Solo Cuts, & Signature Sound
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…
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Everclear’s Art Alexakis on the Adversity, Youth, & Rallying Cries of Their New Live LP
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…
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Paul Rodgers on Arethan Franklin’s Approval, Blues Classics, & His New Solo LP
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…
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The Kills on Witchy Songs, Church Studios, & Godless Spirituals
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…
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David Yates & Lawrence Grey on Pain Hustlers, Emily Blunt, & Harry Potter
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…
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Boy Named Banjo on Late Night Driving Bands, Whiskey Songs, & New Music
Boy Named Banjo joined Kyle Meredith backstage at the Bourbon & Beyond festival in Louisville, KY in an interview originally recorded for Fender Premium Audio…
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The Japanese House on Linklater’s Boyhood, Joni Michell’s Tuning, and Covering ABBA
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…
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The Killers’ Brandon Flowers on Greatest Hits, Solo Albums & Hanging with Eddie Vedder
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…
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Lessons In Chemistry’s Courtney McBroom on 1950s Food & Brie Larson’s Cooking
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…
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Foo Fighters’ Chris Shiflett on the Bridge Between Punk & Americana and His New Guitar Podcast
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…
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Liz Phair on 90s Mythology, Unreleased Music, & Her Next Album and Memoir
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…
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Sarah Silverman on Comedy Albums, Songwriting, & Remembering Scott Hutchison
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…
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Duff McKagan on Bob Dylan’s Approval, Stone Gossard’s Archiving, & Playing with Iggy Pop
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…
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Felicia Day on Redemption Stories, British Humor, & Trashing the 2000s
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…
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Susan Tedeschi on Playing Her Prom, Grunge Inspirations, & Secret Punk Aspirations
Susan Tedeschi joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the 25th-anniversary edition of Just Won’t Burn. The Tedeschi Trucks member tells how this is the album that…
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Josh Radnor on Breakup Albums, Funeral Songs, & His Debut Solo Album
Josh Radnor joins Kyle Meredith to discuss his debut solo album, Eulogy: Volume I. The How I Met Your Mother and Fleishman Is in Trouble actor retraces his…
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Kristin Hersh on Clear Pond Road, Nick At Nite, & Signs That Give Our Lives Direction
Kristin Hersh catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about her latest solo album, Clear Pond Road. The Throwing Muses leader tells us about trashing an album…
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LANY on Personal Lyrics, Parenthood, & Why They Love U2 and Coldplay
LANY joined Kyle Meredith to dig into their 5th album, A Beautiful Blur. Paul Klein and Jake Goss take us through writing opening cut XXL just out of lockdown…
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Physical’s Annie Weisman on Sheila Rubin’s Redemption & the Big 80’s Soundtrack
Physical creator & showrunner Annie Weisman joins Kyle Meredith to talk about wrapping up the Apple TV+ series that stars Rose Byrne as Sheila Rubin, the…
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Expend4bles Team on New Action Heroes, Big Stunts, & a Rockin’ Soundtrack
Director Scott Waugh and producer Les Weldon join Kyle Meredith to talk about Expend4bles, the 4th installment of the series known for having an all-star cast…
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The Breeders on 30 Years of Last Splash, J Mascis-Assist, & Kim Deal Solo Album
The Breeders sit down with Kyle Meredith to talk about the 30th-anniversary edition of Last Splash. Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs, and Jim Macpherson…
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The Morning Show’s Executive Producers on Season 3’s Drama, Music, & New Cast
Executive producers of The Morning Show, Lauren Neustadter & Michael Ellenberg join Kyle Meredith to talk about season 3 of the Apple TV+ series. The two paint…
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Baroness’ John Baizley on Finding His Way, Tolerating Pop, & Seeing Sonic Youth and Nirvana Live
Baroness’ John Baizley joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the band’s new album, Stone. The frontman discusses his penchant for short album titles in the likes…
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Corey Taylor on Slipknot’s Hooks, Bowie’s Foresight, & Plans for Famous Monsters
Corey Taylor joins Kyle Meredith to talk about his sophomore solo album, CMF2. The Slipknot and Stone Sour singer discusses the genre-defying set, writing on…
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Michael C. Hall & Princess Goes on Driving Music, Mysterious Lyrics, & Keytar Solos
Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum joins Kyle Meredith to talk about their latest release, Come Of Age. The band that’s fronted by actor Michael C…
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Laufey on From The Start, Pop Leaning Jazz, & Working with Dan Wilson
Laufey joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her new LP, Bewitched. The Icelandic singer-songwriter tells us her journey of finding jazz after growing up in a…
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Andy Taylor on Recovering From Pop, David Bowie’s Death, & Duran Duran’s Lost Reportage LP
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…
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Ratboys’ Julia Steiner on Loss, Acceptance, & Making Noise For the Ones You Love
Ratboys’ Julia Steiner joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the band's latest album, The Window. The Louisville-raised lead singer reminisces about interning for…
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Westlife on Pure Pop Music, Billy Joel Vibes, & Their First North American Tour
Westlife sit down with Kyle Meredith to discuss their first North American tour in their 25-year career. Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, & Shane Filan…
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Tommy Stinson on The Replacements’ Tim, Playing with X’s John Doe, & Lorde’s Swinging Party Cover
Tommy Stinson joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the new deluxe edition of The Replacements classic 1985 album, Tim, as well as his debut release with new band…
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Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison on Stop Making Sense & the Healing Process of Reuniting
Talking Heads keyboardist and guitarist Jerry Harrison joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the 40th anniversary of Stop Making Sense, which not only just had a…
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Lena Waithe & Rishi Rajani on Being Mary Tyler Moore, Nick At Nite, & Verzuz
Lena Waithe & Rishi Rajani join Kyle Meredith to discuss the new Emmy-nominated documentary, Being Mary Tyler Moore, out now on Max. The producers talk about…
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Idina Menzel on Reclaiming and Reframing What It Means to Be a Drama Queen
Idina Menzel joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Drama Queen, her first album of new material since 2016’s self-titled LP. The Broadway legend, who’s also…
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The Hives on Youth, Maturity, & The Hottest Show They’ve Ever Played
The Hives join Kyle Meredith to talk about The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, their first album in 11 years. Howlin' Pelle Almqvist and Nicholaus Arson tell us…
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Barry Manilow on Electronic Music, Broadway, & 50th Anniversary of his Debut
Barry Manilow joins Kyle Meredith to talk about his current tour, album anniversaries, and upcoming releases. The legendary singer tells us about the money he…
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Cory Finley on Landscape With Invisible Hand, 1950s American Television, & the Dark Future of A.I.
Cory Finley joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the new movie, Landscape With Invisible Hand, which finds an occupying alien species' bureaucratic rule and…
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They Cloned Tyrone Filmmakers on Clones, Conspiracies, & Erykah Badu’s New Version of Tyrone
Juel Taylor and Tony Rettenmaier join Kyle Meredith to talk about the movie They Cloned Tyrone, which follows three friends as they discover and ultimately…
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Madison Beer on the Music of the 60s, Personal Growth, & Being Inspired by The Beatles
Madison Beer joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her new album, Silence Between Songs. The pop star discusses her growth through therapy and self-care, her…
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Tom Harper and Matthias Schweighöfer on Gal Godot’s Heart of Stone, A.I., & Classic Needle Drops
With Heart of Stone now on Netflix director Tom Harper and actor Matthias Schweighöfer sit down with Kyle Meredith to dig into the Gal Gadot-starring action…
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Kyle Meredith Rewind: The Band's Robbie Robertson
In the wake of The Band's Robbie Robertson passing away on August 9th, we're honoring his memory be releasing this 2019 episode of Kyle Meredith With…
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Faouzia on Transition Periods, Comfort Zones, & New Music
Moroccan-Canadian singer-songwriter Faouzia joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her latest single, "La La La," and proclaims this is "a doll…
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Bethany Cosentino on Self Discovery, Being an Icon, & Getting Guidance from Hayley Williams and Shirley Manson
Bethany Cosentino catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about her debut solo album, Natural Disaster. The Best Coast singer tells us about keeping the album a…
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Kyle Meredith With… Celebrates 800 Episodes with Josh Homme, Janelle Monae, Keanu Reeves and more
For the 800th episode, Kyle Meredith looks back at some choice interviews from this year. Among guests featured, we get to hear from Queens of the Stone Age…
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Victony on Soweto, Future Music, and Being “The Outlaw King”
Victony joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the music he’s releasing this year that has included the new version of Soweto that originally appeared on his 2022…
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Emily Kinney on Listening to Rilo Kiley, Writing About The Avett Brothers, & Getting Help from Cursive’s Tim Kasher
Emily Kinney joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her new album, Swimteam. The actress/musician tells how Cursive’s Tim Kasher gave her encouragement to keep…
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Elizabeth Perkins on Season 2 of Minx, 70’s Los Angeles, & Seeing Joni Mitchell Live
Actress Elizabeth Perkins joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her role in the second season of Minx. Perkins tells us about her first impressions of the show…
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Ellie Kemper on Cranky Characters, Running to Salt-N-Pepa, and Singing Along with Lady Gaga
Ellie Kemper sits down with Kyle Meredith to talk about Happiness For Beginners, her new movie out now on Netflix, a story that finds her character newly…
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Dylan Arnold on Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan, Nuclear Weapons, & A.I.
Dylan Arnold joins Kyle Meredith to talk about his portrayal of Frank Oppenheimer in the new Christopher Nolan blockbuster Oppenheimer. The Halloween actor…
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The Cast of Minx on Representation, Rock Star Hangs, & Karaoke Parties
The cast of Minx joins Kyle Meredith to talk about season 2, now showing on Starz. Lennon Parham (Shelly), Jessica Lowe (Bambi), Oscar Montoya (Richie), and…
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Keanu Reeves and Dogstar on Reuniting & Listening to Alvvays and The Jesus and Mary Chain
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…
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Bruno Major on Queen’s Influence, A.I.’s Importance, & Paranoia of Columbo
Bruno Major engages in a conversation with Kyle Meredith, where they dive into his latest album, Columbo. The singer-songwriter discusses how he wears his…
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Lior Phillips on the History of South African Music, Political Activism, & Disney
Lior Phillips joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her new book, South African Popular Music (Genre: A 33 1/3 Series). The writer and podcast host (check out This…
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Janelle Monáe on The Age of Pleasure & Upcoming Role in A24’s De La Resistance
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…
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Greta Van Fleet’s Sam Kiszka on Starcatcher & the Creation of the Universe
Greta Van Fleet’s Sam Kiszka catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about the band’s new album, Starcatcher. The bassist recounts why the band went back to an…
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Ian Hunter on Working with Jeff Beck, Taylor Hawkins, Jeff Tweedy, & Slash
Ian Hunter drops in to talk with Kyle Meredith about Defiance Part 1, the first in a two-part guest-heavy series. The Mott The Hoople singer tells us about…
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Lucinda Williams on Working with Springsteen, Learning from Petty, and the Brilliance of Dylan
Renowned singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams sits down with Kyle Meredith to discuss her latest album, Stories From A Rock n Roll Heart, a collection born out…
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311’s Nick Hexum on Music, Evolver, & Drop D Heaviness of Their Next LP
311's Nick Hexum reunites with Kyle Meredith for a discussion about the 30th anniversary of 311's debut album, Music, as well as the 20th anniversary of…
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Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament on Deaf Charlie, Yield, & the Next PJ Album
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…
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Veruca Salt’s Louise Post on the Trauma, Women Pirates, & Rebirth That Lead To Sleepwalker
Louise Post, the iconic figure from Veruca Salt, joins Kyle Meredith for an insightful conversation about her debut solo album, Sleepwalker. Post shares the…
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Jason Scott Lee on the Cultural Stories of Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Jungle Book, and Doogie Kameāloha, M.D
Jason Scott Lee joins Kyle Meredith to delve into his latest film, The Wind & The Reckoning. This groundbreaking movie not only marks the first international…