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Listen to Derek Trucks chat with Kyle Meredith about Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Live From The Fox Oakland LP in this interview from the vaults. The guitarist reveals the magic that was in the air that night, covering Leonard Cohen, George Harrison, and Eric Clapton, and how improv on stage has affected his life off stage. Listen to Derek Trucks chat about all this and more in this 2017 interview or wa...

Carly Pearce  talks with  Kyle Meredith  about her new record  Hummingbird . Listen to the interview now. The singer-songwriter details wanting to make the new album as impactful as  29: Written in Stone , enjoying writing about a woman-done-wrong, and her role as a county music connoisseur. To the point of her appreciation of the genre's history, she dives into how much inspiration she finds...

Richard Linklater  and  Adria Arjona  join  Kyle Meredith  to talk about their new film   Hit Man , an unbelievable true story about a strait-laced professor who discovers his hidden talent as a fake hitman -- a situation that, of course, becomes quite messy. Listen to the interviews now. Linklater -- the iconic writer/director behind films like  Dazed and Confused ,  Before Sunrise , and  Boyhood...

Sal Vulcano links up with  Kyle Meredith  to talk about his new standup comedy special  Terrified ,  Impractical Jokers , and more. Listen to the full interview. The comic discusses growing up riddled with fear, attributing it to the parenting style of the time, ghosts, and stories of hotel room murders. He continues on to give details on other stories that inspired the new special, including acci...

In this interview from 2018, Brandi Carlile talks with Kyle Meredith about her record By The Way, I Forgive You . Listen to their captivating chat now. Tackling issues both personal and universal, By The Way, I Forgive You found Carlile fresh from becoming a parent for the first time. The result was music that's emotional, triumphant, and honest. The record stands as a high watermark in Carlil...

Ani DiFranco  catches up with  Kyle Meredith  to talk about her new album  Unprecedented Sh!t , Hadestown , and more. Listen to the interview now. The singer-songwriter delves into the nuts and bolts of  Unprecedented Sh!t,  from its new sonic palette to its deeply political themes. DiFranco specifically dials in on “Baby Roe,” which examines the destruction of abortion rights in America. In that...

Maya Hawke  returns to  Kyle Meredith With...  to talk about  Chaos Angel , the actress and musician's third album. Listen now. Hawke explains how she wrote some of the songs for  Chaos Angel  at the same time that she was working on  Wildcat , the Flannery O'Connor biopic in which she stars (listen to her chat about  that  project on  Kyle Meredith with...  here ). She then dives into how...

King of Leon’s Caleb Followill joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Can We Please Have Fun, the ninth studio album from the Tennessee band. The frontman tells us about embracing the idea of home, how the book The Artist’s Way led to inspiration, as did the post-punk sounds of Idles and Fontaines DC. Followill goes on to discuss why they wanted to run away from their 20th anniversary, looking towards...

Tadanobu Asano  joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about the massive success of the FX/Hulu series  Shogun . Listen now. The Japanese actor, who portrays Kashigi Yabushige, dives into the complexities of embodying a character from the 1600s, his attraction to unlikable characters, and the blurred lines between good and bad within the world of  Shogun.  He then discusses the many practical difficulties...

Listen to Carl Clemons-Hopkins chat with  Kyle Meredith  about the latest season of  Hacks , streaming now on Max. Clemons-Hopkins, who plays Marcus on the series, discusses the frustrations and blessings of having a longer break between seasons than normal. He also touches on what it was like to return to the character for a third time, as well as his character’s improving work/life balance. The...

Idles ’ Joe Talbot joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about  TANGK , the band’s latest album that finds the punk act teaming up with producers Nigel Godrich and Kenny Beats. Listen to the new episode now. The frontman discusses the importance of heading into the creation of an album with a sense of purpose, how he translates his own personal emotions into lyrics, and writing while in the studio. He als...

Tiffany Boone, Alessandro Nivola & PJ Byrne join Kyle Meredith to talk about The Big Cigar, the Apple TV limited series starring André Holland as Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton that tells the incredible true story of a wild caper of Newton escaping from the FBI to Cuba with the assistance of famed producer Bert Schneider in an impossibly elaborate plan – involving a fake movie production...

Stand-up comedian Modi Rosenfeld, known professionally as MODI, joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about his special,  Know Your Audience . Listen now. The comic chats about his journey of going from being an investment banker in the '90s to a standup comedian, studying performers like Alan King along the way. He then touches on approaching art from a distinctly Jewish perspective, the nightmare of...

Thompson Twins co-founder Tom Bailey joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the 40th anniversary of Into The Gap as well as co-headlining this summer’s Totally Tubular Festival, an 80s alternative music lovers’ dream that features co-headliner Thomas Dolby, along with Modern English, Men Without Hats, The Romantics, Bow Wow Wow, Tommy Tutone and The Plimsouls. The 80s icon takes us back to the frantic...

Joe Gatto chats with  Kyle Meredith  about his tenure on  Impractical Jokers ,  his current standup tour ("A Night of Comedy"), and his hilarious podcast,  Two Cool Moms . Listen now. The former impractical joker runs through his comedic journey, explaining how a career of trying to embarrass himself and his friends eventually led him to standup. Gatto also touches on becoming a Kentucky C...

Il Divo co-founder David Miller joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about the band's new album  XX , an LP that comes on the heels of Il Divo's 20th anniversary and sees the group coving artist like Whitney Houston, Gnarls Barkley, and Willie Nelson. Listen to the new episode. The tenor talks about going independent after parting ways with Simon Cowell, losing founding member Carlos Marin, and h...

Grace Cummings  joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about her new album Ramona , which she made with Jonathan Wilson in the Topanga Canyon. Listen to the new episode above, or  wherever you get your podcasts . The Australian songwriter talks about being inspired by Angel Olsen's shift towards country stylings on  Big Time , attempting to be more vulnerable with her writing, and how words turn into v...

Sebastian Bach  joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about his solo album,  Child Within the Man , the rocker's first album in a decade. Listen now. The Skid Row co-founder discusses why it's important to keep working on new music even though he's well into his career. As for the songs on Child Within the Man , he explains how "Hold on to The Dream" pays tribute to Greta Thunberg and...

Amber Chardae Robinson chats with  Kyle Meredith  about Apple TV+’s new series  Palm Royale , which follows Maxine Simmons (Kristen Wiig) as she attempts to break into a snooty Palm Beach clique. Robinson goes deep into the show's late '60s setting, and how her character of color, Virginia, contrasts the well-off, resort-going characters she's frequently at odds with. It's a heavy...

Prentice Penny joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about his Hulu docuseries  Black Twitter: A People’s History , which charts the posts, accounts, and memes that made Black Twitter such an influential force in American political and cultural life. Listen now. Penny ( Insecure,   Uncorked ) talks about why he felt like he needed to tell the story of Black Twitter and the social movements it created. He...

Matt Mathews joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about his comedy tour "When That Thang Get Ta' Thang'n" (get tickets here !). The comedian, who originally had no aspirations to perform stand-up, dives into his experience of growing up as a gay kid in Alabama. He talks of hitting puberty the week he was supposed to compete in a singing contest, explains his love for Britney Spears and Jo...

Maya Hawke  links back up with  Kyle Meredith  to talk about  Wildcat , her new film that serves both as a biopic about novelist Flannery O’Connor and as an interpretation of the writer's Southern Gothic prose. Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . The  Stranger Things  star talks about how reading O’Connor in high school left a lasting impression on her, one that directl...

Spike Feresten joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about teaming up with  Jerry Seinfeld  for  Unfrosted , the new Netflix comedy about the earth-shattering invention of the Pop-Tart. Set in the early '60s in the town of Battle Creek, Michigan,  Unfrosted  is the hilarious saga of Kellogg's and Post, sworn cereal rivals, as they race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast fore...

Shinedown ’s Brent Smith joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about the continued success of their 2022 album  Planet Zero  and its single “A Symptom of Being Human,” what to expect from the band's next record, and more. Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . The frontman discusses why he thinks the band's music continues to resonate years after its initial release, attributi...

Sarah Dowland joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her documentary, Sue Bird: In the Clutch . The documentarian, who is also behind the legendary visual effects for several Harry Potter and Matrix films, tells us why she wanted to tell the story of the basketball legend leading up to Bird’s retirement, why we look up to athletes, and the great coincidence of this doc coming out during Caitlin Clark’s...