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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 musicians. Meredith digs deep into the artist's work to find out how the music is made and where their journey is going, from legendary artists like Robert Plant, Paul McCartney, U2, and Bryan Ferry, to the newer class of The National, St. Vincent, Arctic Monkeys, Haim, and Father John Misty.

Charlie Mackesy on Animating The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse for Apple TV+

22 mins; January 16, 2023

Rob Lowe on Dog Gone, West Wing, and 9-1-1: Lonestar

17 mins; January 13, 2023

Madison Cunningham on Revealer & Being Mistaken for Wait Staff at the Grammys

25 mins; January 11, 2023

Ben Gibbard on the Death Cab for Cutie/The Postal Service Tour, 2000s Indie, and More

43 mins; January 09, 2023

Harry Melling on Portraying Edgar Allen Poe, The Always Present Harry Potter Universe, & Listening to Black Midi and Squid

19 mins; January 06, 2023

Kyle Meredith Rewind: Bring Me the Horizon

13 mins; January 04, 2023

Kyle Meredith Rewind: 5 Seconds of Summer

25 mins; January 02, 2023

Kyle Meredith Rewind: Tears for Fears

24 mins; December 30, 2022

Kyle Meredith Rewind: Avril Lavigne

31 mins; December 28, 2022

Kyle Meredith Rewind: Les Claypool

79 hours 6 mins; December 26, 2022

Kyle Meredith Rewind: Kirk Hammett

30 mins; December 23, 2022

Kyle Meredith With… The 700th Episode: featuring Jared Leto, Maya Hawke, Jack Black, Kate Siegel, Jamie Campbell Bower, Suki Waterhouse, & Kiefer Sutherland

37 mins; December 21, 2022

Madelyn Cline on Glass Onion’s All-Star Cast, Ed Norton’s Playlists, & Daniel Craigs Aversion for Jazz

17 mins; December 19, 2022

Margo Price on Her Memoir & New Album, Complicated Relationship with Nashville, & Spending Thanksgiving with Willie Nelson in Hawaii

18 mins; December 16, 2022

Simple Minds’ Jim Kerr on Reaching Into Their Past, Collaborating with Russell Mael of Sparks, & Having 90s Grunge Turn Their Critical Tides

27 mins; December 14, 2022

Steven Page on Space and The Universe, His Friendship with Ryan Reynolds, & Forever Being Tied to the One Week Video

56 mins; December 12, 2022

Danny Pudi on Mythic Quest, the Community movie, & Avatar: The Last Airbender

28 mins; December 09, 2022

Shirley Manson on Garbage’s Anthology, James Bond Theme, & Next Album

48 mins; December 07, 2022

Benmont Tench on the New Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live Set and Unreleased Vault Songs

26 mins; December 05, 2022

Collective Soul’s Ed Roland on Vibrate, Disciplined Breakdown, & Scream 2

25 mins; December 02, 2022

Hermanos Gutierrez on Dan Auerbach, Desert Sounds, & Multicultural Background

18 mins; November 30, 2022

Zella Day on Finding Her Dance Groove, Moving on From Sad Girl Indie, & the Hollywood “Reality”

23 mins; November 28, 2022

Jason Isbell, Jim James, and Doug Martsch on Scorsese, Live LPs, & New Music

21 mins; November 23, 2022

Debbie Gibson on Winterlicious Holiday Music and Updating The Breakfast Club with Anthony Michael Hall

27 mins; November 21, 2022

Noah Cyrus on Writing with Ben Gibbard and LP, Duetting with Her Dad, and Living Out Her Legend of Zelda Fantasies

24 mins; November 18, 2022

Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger and Ryan Peake on Heavy Music, 80s Nostalgia, & Time Travel

33 mins; November 16, 2022

Melia Kreiling on Mammals, Kintsugi, & The Influence of Nick Cave and Patti Smith

17 mins; November 14, 2022

Stone Temple Pilots’ RobertDe Leo on Americana Sounds, Gordon Lightfoot, & Fishing

37 mins; November 11, 2022

Sammy Hagar on Channeling Montrose, Covering Costello, & a Lost Van Halen Song from Twister

31 mins; November 09, 2022

Mark Rylance & Trudie Styler on AI, Singularity, Othering, Empathy, and Evolution

16 mins; November 07, 2022

The Lone Bellow on the Spirit of Roy Orbison, America’s Opioid Crisis, & Getting Beaten Up in NYC

38 mins; November 04, 2022

The Cult’s Ian Astbury on Under the Midnight Sun, Gothic Futurism, and the Optics of Nostalgia

66 hours 15 mins; November 02, 2022

Alphaville’s Marian Gold on Eternally Yours, Space Exploration, and Shakespeare

34 mins; October 31, 2022

Julian Lennon on Jude’s Coming-of-Age Story and Watching John in the Get Back Doc

18 mins; October 28, 2022

Bryan Adams on So Happy It Hurts, John Cleese, and Re-recording His Classics

18 mins; October 26, 2022

Serj Tankian on Mixing Humor with Facts, Interactive Experiences, and System of a Down

25 mins; October 24, 2022

Kenzie Ziegler on Her New Music, Clothing Line, and Growing Up in the Public Eye

18 mins; October 21, 2022

Cavetown on Becoming Worm Food, Directing Frogs, and Working with beabadoobee

22 mins; October 19, 2022

Rita Wilson on the '70s, Duetting with Willie and Costello, and Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City

19 mins; October 17, 2022

The 1975’s Matt Healy on Self-Awareness, Writing Songs with No Choruses, and Their New Album

17 mins; October 14, 2022

Jack McBrayer on Kindness, OK Go, R.E.M., and Kenneth “The Page” Parcell

16 mins; October 12, 2022

Bring Me the Horizon on Next Chapter of Post Human, Emo Sounds, and Self-Acceptance

13 mins; October 10, 2022

Bush’s Gavin Rossdale on Heavy Sounds, Religious Iconography, and Constantine 2

25 mins; October 07, 2022

The xx’s Oliver Sim on Horror and Having Graham Norton, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Placebo as Childhood Heroes

23 mins; October 05, 2022

Neil Giraldo on Pat Benatar’s Rock Hall Induction, Challenging Pop Audiences, and Reimagining Romeo & Juliet

20 mins; October 03, 2022

Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason on Touring the Early Catalog, New Floyd Music, and Remixing Animals

20 mins; September 30, 2022

Metric’s Emily Haines and James Shaw on Letting Go, Exposing Pain, and Johnny Marr

20 mins; September 28, 2022

LAUV on Existential Crises, Inner Child Therapy, and His Meditation Club Hotline

16 mins; September 26, 2022

Santigold on New Album Spirituals, Women in Music, and Her Own Line of Tea

23 mins; September 23, 2022

YUNGBLUD on How Information Kills Art, Sampling The Cure, and Channeling Radiohead

21 mins; September 21, 2022

Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale on Covers, Work Anxiety Nightmares, and the Mental Health Behind Back from the Dead

27 mins; September 19, 2022

LeAnn Rimes on Making Up with Her Past, Honoring Taylor Hawkins, and Texting in Rage Against the Machine Lyrics

25 mins; September 16, 2022

Flogging Molly’s Dave King on Steve Albini, History Repeating, and 20 Years of Drunken Lullabies

25 mins; September 14, 2022

Blondie’s Clem Burke on Their Box Set, Bowie’s Influence, and Johnny Marr's Appearance on Their Next Album

19 mins; September 12, 2022

Josh Gad on Central Park’s Meat Loaf-style Power Ballad and the Return of Kristen Bell and Sam Richardson

13 mins; September 09, 2022

The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli on the Illumination of How Do You Burn and Loss of Mark Lanegan

67 hours 21 mins; September 07, 2022

Greta Van Fleet’s Sam Kiszka on Opening for Metallica and Going Back to Their Roots for New LP

17 mins; September 06, 2022

Robin Trower and Derek Sherinian on Mastering Their Instruments and Famous Collaborations

22 mins; September 05, 2022

Ronnie Dunn on Finding the Musical Intersection of Merle Haggard and Mick Jagger

21 mins; September 02, 2022

Corey Feldman on Unearthed Soundtrack Cuts from Lost Boys and Dream a Little Dream, Plus His Dr. Dre and Suicidal Tendencies

35 mins; August 31, 2022

Hayley Orrantia on Performing in Kinky Boots, the Future of The Goldbergs, and "Gasoline"

21 mins; August 29, 2022

IVE on "After Like," Sudden Success, and Loving Modern Family and Korean Horror Films

12 mins; August 26, 2022

Sabrina Carpenter on Vulnerability, Nonsense, and Influences on Emails I Can't Send

20 mins; August 24, 2022

Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon 40 Years of Rio, Rock Hall Induction, and Working with Blur's Graham Coxon

19 mins; August 22, 2022

Interpol’s Paul Banks on The Other Side of Make Believe, Fables, and Conspiracies

45 mins; August 19, 2022

Steve Howey on Day Shift’s Vampires, True Lies, and Shameless

18 mins; August 17, 2022

Veruca Salt’s Louise Post on Rediscovered Demos, Upcoming Solo LP, and Making Her Kid Listen to Nirvana

30 mins; August 15, 2022

Vera Farmiga and Cherry Jones on Faith, Sympathy, and Five Days at Memorial

12 mins; August 12, 2022

Goo Goo Dolls' Johnny Rzeznik on TikTok Culture and Rediscovering the Band's '90s Angst

32 mins; August 10, 2022

Kate Siegel on Her Warmup Music for Midnight Mass & The Time Traveler’s Wife

28 mins; August 08, 2022

Tenacious D's Jack Black and Kyle Gass on '90s Alt-Comedy and The Story of Their Career

17 mins; August 05, 2022

Bananarama on Masquerade, 40th Anniversary, and Living Above the Sex Pistols

21 mins; August 03, 2022

Sarah Drew on Apple TV+’s Amber Brown, Grey’s Anatomy, Daria, and More

21 mins; August 01, 2022

Amanda Shires on “The Hard Shit" in Relationships, Take It Like a Man, and Her Abortion-Themed Single

31 mins; July 29, 2022

A Perfect Circle’s Billy Howerdel on Musical Influences, Remixing Puscifer, and What Normal Was

23 mins; July 27, 2022

Greg Puciato on New Album Mirrorcell, Abstract Lyrics, and Touring with Jerry Cantrell

36 mins; July 25, 2022

The Fixx’s Cy Curnin on Every Five Seconds, the Band's First Album in a Decade

26 mins; July 22, 2022

Maya Hawke on Being Inspired by Taylor Swift's Folklore, Finding Confidence, and Stranger Things

47 mins; July 20, 2022

Midge Ure on Touring With Howard Jones, Dueting with Kate Bush, and "The Man Who Sold the World"

23 mins; July 18, 2022

Lance Reddick on Netflix's Outrageous Comedy Farzar and Portraying Resident Evil's Albert Wesker

21 mins; July 15, 2022

My Morning Jacket on Archival Live Series and a Potential Band-Run Festival

26 mins; July 13, 2022

Angel Olsen on Big Time, Her '80s Covers EP, and Time Traveling Dreams

19 mins; July 11, 2022

Journey’s Neal Schon on Guitarists That Inspired Freedom & Possible 3-Hour Live Shows

28 mins; July 08, 2022

ABC’s Martin Fry on Sex Pistols, David Bowie, and 40 Years of The Lexicon of Love

29 mins; July 06, 2022

Coheed and Cambria’s Claudio Sanchez on Infinite Outcomes and Multiverse Storytelling

24 mins; July 01, 2022

Foals’ Yannis Philippakis on Making a Dance Record with a Deeper Meaning

16 mins; June 29, 2022

Carly Rae Jepsen on New Music, Rostam, and Kate Bush

21 mins; June 27, 2022

Big Time Rush on Reuniting, Reinventions, New Music, and the Forever Tour

19 mins; June 24, 2022

Chelsea Cutler on Loving Taylor Swift, the Passage of Time, and Next Album Plans

19 mins; June 22, 2022

Three Days Grace on Explosions, Algorithms, and Their 25th Anniversary

20 mins; June 21, 2022

Joey McIntyre on New Kids on the Block’s Mixtape Tour, Nostalgia, and Broadway

26 mins; June 17, 2022

Lyle Lovett on 12th of June, Becoming a Father at 60, and Hijinks with Chris Isaak

53 mins; June 15, 2022

Jamie Campbell Bower on Finding His Voice for Stranger Things, Basing New Music on Dante's Inferno

23 mins; June 13, 2022

Phoebe Bridgers on Covering The Carpenters with Jack Antonoff for the Minions Soundtrack

47 mins; June 10, 2022

Jewel on Freewheelin’ Woman, Covering Maggie Rogers, Mental Health Activism

25 mins; June 08, 2022

Finneas on “Naked," Scoring for B.J. Novak, and “Getting Back to Work with Billie”

20 mins; June 06, 2022

Howard Jones on Dialogue, Optimism, and His Upcoming Tour with Midge Ure

43 mins; June 03, 2022

The Wild Things on Working with Pete Townshend, Concept Albums, and Face Crystals

27 mins; June 01, 2022

5 Seconds of Summer on Major Chords, Solo Albums, and the Upcoming 5SOS5

25 mins; May 30, 2022

Hacks' Mark Indelicato on Season 2’s Road Trip, Queer Representation, & Laurie Metcalf

27 mins; May 27, 2022

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