Kyle Meredith
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Scoot McNairy on Blood for Dust: “If you think it, the audience can see it.”
Onscreen stillness, offscreen mudding, and why he’s betting on a new ‘90s-style indie film wave.
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Onscreen stillness, offscreen mudding, and why he’s betting on a new ‘90s-style indie film wave.
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Scoot McNairy: "I'd love for a 90s-style golden era for independent films again"
Scoot McNairy on Blood for Dust, Working with Kit Harington, and Why He’ll Always Choose the Outdoors Over a Soundstage
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November 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Scoot McNairy on Blood for Dust: “If you think it, the audience can see it.”
Onscreen stillness, offscreen mudding, and why he’s betting on a new ‘90s-style indie film wave.
www.lpm.org/music/2024-0...
Onscreen stillness, offscreen mudding, and why he’s betting on a new ‘90s-style indie film wave.
www.lpm.org/music/2024-0...
Jim Peterik wrangled a rock reunion for Winds of Change — Dennis DeYoung, Mike Reno, 38 Special, and even a posthumous Jimi Jamison track built from lost vocals. “We all had tears in our eyes,” he said.
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
Survivor's Jim Peterik: "We’ve all been through the storm and we’re still here"
Jim Peterik on ‘Winds of Change,’ Lost Songs, and Rocking with Friends Old and New
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November 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Jim Peterik wrangled a rock reunion for Winds of Change — Dennis DeYoung, Mike Reno, 38 Special, and even a posthumous Jimi Jamison track built from lost vocals. “We all had tears in our eyes,” he said.
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
Aaron Bruno says it’s “almost punk rock to play rock and roll” these days, so AWOLNATION’s Here Come the Runts did exactly that. A loud, human, guitar-driven pushback against plastic pop and environmental apathy.
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AWOLNATION: “It’s almost punk rock to play rock and roll music”
AWOLNATION’s Aaron Bruno on ‘Here Come the Runts,’ Guitars as Synths, and the Punk Rock of Playing Rock
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November 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Aaron Bruno says it’s “almost punk rock to play rock and roll” these days, so AWOLNATION’s Here Come the Runts did exactly that. A loud, human, guitar-driven pushback against plastic pop and environmental apathy.
www.lpm.org/music/2018-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2018-0...
Before Gaga or Miley, there was #Peaches — the artist who taught pop how to grow up. In this vault interview, she talks cancer, heartbreak, Berlin, & inspiring Britney, Christina, and Pink to get dirty.
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www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
Peaches: “I wasn’t interested in being the victim”
Peaches on how thyroid cancer and a breakup lead to The Teaches of Peaches. The pop icon also talks about her influence on Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, & Pink
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November 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Before Gaga or Miley, there was #Peaches — the artist who taught pop how to grow up. In this vault interview, she talks cancer, heartbreak, Berlin, & inspiring Britney, Christina, and Pink to get dirty.
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
Jon Batiste called We Are “a full panorama of my artistry” written in six days, finished in nine months, and prophetic before it even knew it. He also talked about Soul, spiritual creation, and how music can “feed people deeply.”
www.lpm.org/music/2021-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2021-0...
Jon Batiste: "The world needs authentic artistry right now"
Jon Batiste on ‘We Are,’ ‘Soul,’ and Feeding the Spirit Through Music
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November 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Jon Batiste called We Are “a full panorama of my artistry” written in six days, finished in nine months, and prophetic before it even knew it. He also talked about Soul, spiritual creation, and how music can “feed people deeply.”
www.lpm.org/music/2021-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2021-0...
Tonight on Kyle Meredith With… we’re turning the guitars all the way up and letting the legends loose.
Susan Tedeschi brings that blues fire, John Fogerty brings the bayou mud, and Lenny Kravitz brings the leather pants.
6p ET on WFPK.
Susan Tedeschi brings that blues fire, John Fogerty brings the bayou mud, and Lenny Kravitz brings the leather pants.
6p ET on WFPK.
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Tonight on Kyle Meredith With… we’re turning the guitars all the way up and letting the legends loose.
Susan Tedeschi brings that blues fire, John Fogerty brings the bayou mud, and Lenny Kravitz brings the leather pants.
6p ET on WFPK.
Susan Tedeschi brings that blues fire, John Fogerty brings the bayou mud, and Lenny Kravitz brings the leather pants.
6p ET on WFPK.
John Roberts—aka Linda from Bob’s Burgers—has gone full ‘80s synth-pop, driving KITT from Knight Rider with Margaret Cho in his video “Danger.” He talks Debbie Harry, finding his sound, and why Gen X still has plenty left to say.
www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...
Bob's Burger's John Roberts: “The 80s were a freer time”
John Roberts on Knight Rider, Debbie Harry, and Finding His Sound Beyond Bob’s Burgers
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November 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
John Roberts—aka Linda from Bob’s Burgers—has gone full ‘80s synth-pop, driving KITT from Knight Rider with Margaret Cho in his video “Danger.” He talks Debbie Harry, finding his sound, and why Gen X still has plenty left to say.
www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...
Jim Adkins says love isn’t something you get, but something you work for. The Jimmy Eat World frontman talks writing about love for decades, why there are no rules left in music, and what it means to still be a “current band” this far in.
www.lpm.org/music/2018-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2018-0...
Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins: “I want to exercise our freedom of speech in a way that’s effective"
Jim Adkins on the Evolution of Love, Punk Ethics, and Staying Current
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November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Jim Adkins says love isn’t something you get, but something you work for. The Jimmy Eat World frontman talks writing about love for decades, why there are no rules left in music, and what it means to still be a “current band” this far in.
www.lpm.org/music/2018-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2018-0...
Audrey Nuna dropped in to talk about starring in #KPopDemonHunters, her debut album Trench, and simulation theory.
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Audrey Nuna on Singing as KPop Demon Hunters' Mira, Humanity in Music, and Living in a Simulation: Podcast
Audrey Nuna, who provides Mira's singing voice in KPop Demon Hunters, talks the global smash and her own music on the Kyle Meredith With podcast.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Audrey Nuna dropped in to talk about starring in #KPopDemonHunters, her debut album Trench, and simulation theory.
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Tonight: Rickie Lee Jones stops by — the Duchess of Coolsville herself. Brandi Carlile’s here too, proving once again she can out-sing and out-feel just about anyone in the room. And John Roberts — Linda Belcher herself — talks Bob’s Burgers, music, and flipping patties.
6p ET on WFPK
6p ET on WFPK
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Tonight: Rickie Lee Jones stops by — the Duchess of Coolsville herself. Brandi Carlile’s here too, proving once again she can out-sing and out-feel just about anyone in the room. And John Roberts — Linda Belcher herself — talks Bob’s Burgers, music, and flipping patties.
6p ET on WFPK
6p ET on WFPK
“Lead Belly was the father of family music”
Dan Zanes on Lead Belly, Baby! — a modern tribute featuring Chuck D, Valerie June & Billy Bragg.
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Dan Zanes on Lead Belly, Baby! — a modern tribute featuring Chuck D, Valerie June & Billy Bragg.
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The Del Fuegos' Dan Zanes: “Lead Belly is my main man”
Dan Zanes on Lead Belly, Chuck D, and Making Family Music for Everyone
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November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“Lead Belly was the father of family music”
Dan Zanes on Lead Belly, Baby! — a modern tribute featuring Chuck D, Valerie June & Billy Bragg.
www.lpm.org/music/2018-0...
Dan Zanes on Lead Belly, Baby! — a modern tribute featuring Chuck D, Valerie June & Billy Bragg.
www.lpm.org/music/2018-0...
Blue Öyster Cult’s Joe Bouchard talks Strange Legends, true crime lyrics, & how Don’t Fear the Reaper became an anthem for the apocalypse (with help from Stephen King).
www.lpm.org/music/2020-1...
www.lpm.org/music/2020-1...
Blue Öyster Cult’s Joe Bouchard: "We never thought 'Reaper' would have this kind of life"
Joe Bouchard on Blue Öyster Cult’s Legacy, True Crime Lyrics, and the Cowbell That Won’t Die
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November 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Blue Öyster Cult’s Joe Bouchard talks Strange Legends, true crime lyrics, & how Don’t Fear the Reaper became an anthem for the apocalypse (with help from Stephen King).
www.lpm.org/music/2020-1...
www.lpm.org/music/2020-1...
Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney, Filthy Friends) isn’t done fighting. “The climate has changed,” she told me. “Not ‘will change.’ Has changed.” Her record Emerald Valley turns grief for the planet into electric protest.
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
Corin Tucker: “You don’t grow as an artist unless you ask more of yourself”
Corin Tucker on Filthy Friends, Climate Grief, and the Unfinished Business of Rock and Roll
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November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney, Filthy Friends) isn’t done fighting. “The climate has changed,” she told me. “Not ‘will change.’ Has changed.” Her record Emerald Valley turns grief for the planet into electric protest.
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
Susan Tedeschi’s Just Won’t Burn is over a quarter century old and still smokes. She tells me how a blues jam in Boston, a pile of CDs, and a run of timing changed her life. “That record got me my first Grammy nom, my husband, and a career,” she laughs.
www.lpm.org/music/2023-1...
www.lpm.org/music/2023-1...
Susan Tedeschi: “There’s something about the blues that makes you want to go dark”
Susan Tedeschi on 25 Years of Just Won't Burn, Grunge Inspirations, & Secret Punk Aspirations
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November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Susan Tedeschi’s Just Won’t Burn is over a quarter century old and still smokes. She tells me how a blues jam in Boston, a pile of CDs, and a run of timing changed her life. “That record got me my first Grammy nom, my husband, and a career,” she laughs.
www.lpm.org/music/2023-1...
www.lpm.org/music/2023-1...
“History is more frightening than fiction.”
Corey Hawkins, Anna Diop & director Nadia Latif on turning Walter Mosley’s The Man in My Basement into a haunted reckoning with race, grief & guilt.
www.lpm.org/music/2025-1...
Corey Hawkins, Anna Diop & director Nadia Latif on turning Walter Mosley’s The Man in My Basement into a haunted reckoning with race, grief & guilt.
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Corey Hawkins: “History is more frightening than fiction. It’s a horror show.”
Corey Hawkins, Anna Diop, and Nadia Latif on “The Man in My Basement,” Race Through Horror, and Finding the Monsters Within
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November 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“History is more frightening than fiction.”
Corey Hawkins, Anna Diop & director Nadia Latif on turning Walter Mosley’s The Man in My Basement into a haunted reckoning with race, grief & guilt.
www.lpm.org/music/2025-1...
Corey Hawkins, Anna Diop & director Nadia Latif on turning Walter Mosley’s The Man in My Basement into a haunted reckoning with race, grief & guilt.
www.lpm.org/music/2025-1...
At 59, Mike Flynt went back to college to play football. The Senior tells his wild true story, with Michael Chiklis tackling the role (literally). “We all have regrets,” Chiklis told me. “What Mike did is what we all want—a second chance.”
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www.lpm.org/music/2025-1...
Michael Chiklis: “We all have regrets and things we wish we could fix"
Michael Chiklis and Mike Flynt on The Senior, Second Chances, and Hitting Back at 59
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November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
At 59, Mike Flynt went back to college to play football. The Senior tells his wild true story, with Michael Chiklis tackling the role (literally). “We all have regrets,” Chiklis told me. “What Mike did is what we all want—a second chance.”
www.lpm.org/music/2025-1...
www.lpm.org/music/2025-1...
Richard Curtis once told me, “Santa helps, but he doesn’t fix everything.” That was when he turned his kids’ stories into That Christmas with Brian Cox & Ed Sheeran.
www.lpm.org/music/2024-1...
www.lpm.org/music/2024-1...
Richard Curtis: "The producers wanted me to do Love Actually for kids"
Richard Curtis on Santa, Ed Sheeran, and Building a Better Christmas
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November 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Richard Curtis once told me, “Santa helps, but he doesn’t fix everything.” That was when he turned his kids’ stories into That Christmas with Brian Cox & Ed Sheeran.
www.lpm.org/music/2024-1...
www.lpm.org/music/2024-1...
Back in 2014, I talked with Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace at Forecastle right after Transgender Dysphoria Blues dropped. She said, “Rock’s never been fair. It’s usually the bands with the least to say that get the biggest.”
www.lpm.org/music/2014-1...
www.lpm.org/music/2014-1...
Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace: “I don’t set out to be a role model, but I have this platform"
Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace on Punk, Perspective, and Why Rock Still Matters
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November 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Back in 2014, I talked with Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace at Forecastle right after Transgender Dysphoria Blues dropped. She said, “Rock’s never been fair. It’s usually the bands with the least to say that get the biggest.”
www.lpm.org/music/2014-1...
www.lpm.org/music/2014-1...
Rickie Lee Jones once told me about the time she went walking by the river in Louisville and saw a dead cow float by right before diving into a conversation about the American Songbook, ghost characters, and surrendering control to Russ Titelman.
www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...
Rickie Lee Jones: “History is written by people who don’t know you”
Rickie Lee Jones on Rediscovering the Songbook, Floating Cows, and Letting Go of Control
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November 9, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Rickie Lee Jones once told me about the time she went walking by the river in Louisville and saw a dead cow float by right before diving into a conversation about the American Songbook, ghost characters, and surrendering control to Russ Titelman.
www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...
Bonnie Raitt on Dig In Deep: “Money shouldn’t be buying legislators. It’s an auction, not an election.” Still raging, still heartbreakin’, still the queen.
www.lpm.org/music/2016-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2016-0...
Bonnie Raitt: “I wouldn’t have a gig if people got along”
Bonnie Raitt Talks ‘Dig In Deep,’ Political Frustration, and Finding the Right Love Song
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November 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Bonnie Raitt on Dig In Deep: “Money shouldn’t be buying legislators. It’s an auction, not an election.” Still raging, still heartbreakin’, still the queen.
www.lpm.org/music/2016-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2016-0...
Cults told me they never planned for Go Outside to blow up. “We only had three songs out and had to prove we could write a whole album,” Madeline said. Not bad for a couple of art-school kids who turned vintage girl-group pop into modern alt-radio gold.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Cults told me they never planned for Go Outside to blow up. “We only had three songs out and had to prove we could write a whole album,” Madeline said. Not bad for a couple of art-school kids who turned vintage girl-group pop into modern alt-radio gold.
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Matthew Ryan opens Hustle Up Starlings with “Everything sucks as bad as it gets” — but don’t be fooled. It’s not cynicism; it’s survival. He told me about heroes, hope, and finding his Mike Campbell in Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon.
www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
Matthew Ryan: "We all have wolves at our door"
Matthew Ryan on Darkness, Heroes, and Finding His Mike Campbell
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November 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Matthew Ryan opens Hustle Up Starlings with “Everything sucks as bad as it gets” — but don’t be fooled. It’s not cynicism; it’s survival. He told me about heroes, hope, and finding his Mike Campbell in Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon.
www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
Courtney Marie Andrews says Old Flowers is “a record about heartbreak written when heartbreak was all I could think about.” Sparse, raw, and painfully human — it’s a nine-year relationship collapsing in slow motion, but with melodies that still heal.
www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...
Courtney Marie Andrews: “Love and heartbreak are long stories”
Courtney Marie Andrews on Heartbreak, Hope, and the Beauty of Saying Too Much
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November 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Courtney Marie Andrews says Old Flowers is “a record about heartbreak written when heartbreak was all I could think about.” Sparse, raw, and painfully human — it’s a nine-year relationship collapsing in slow motion, but with melodies that still heal.
www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...
Toro y Moi’s Mahal starts with a Jeep engine and ends when it shuts off — a psychedelic joyride through love, identity, and funk history. “I just wanted to put the listener in the Jeep,” Chaz Bear told me. Mission accomplished.
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
Toro y Moi: "I felt it was the right time to really represent my Filipino side"
Toro y Moi on Jeeps, Joyrides, and the Price of Love
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November 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Toro y Moi’s Mahal starts with a Jeep engine and ends when it shuts off — a psychedelic joyride through love, identity, and funk history. “I just wanted to put the listener in the Jeep,” Chaz Bear told me. Mission accomplished.
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
Manchester Orchestra told me The Million Masks of God is “birth to death,” a cosmic limo ride with the Angel of Death, written while they were becoming fathers and saying goodbye to one. Heavy stuff, but still hopeful.
www.lpm.org/music/2021-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2021-0...
Manchester Orchestra's Andy Hull: "Whatever the afterlife actually is, it'll surprise us all"
Manchester Orchestra on Death, Dads, and the Drug-Filled Limousine Ride to the Afterlife
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November 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Manchester Orchestra told me The Million Masks of God is “birth to death,” a cosmic limo ride with the Angel of Death, written while they were becoming fathers and saying goodbye to one. Heavy stuff, but still hopeful.
www.lpm.org/music/2021-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2021-0...