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Katie Crutchfield , the creative force behind  Waxahatchee , chats with Kyle Meredith about  Tigers Blood , her immaculate new record. Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . The singer-songwriter explains how much of the album was written while on the road touring (get tickets to her upcoming dates here !), as well as how such an environment seeped its way into the music. Crut...

Legendary actor  Kevin Bacon  and his big brother and film composer Michael Bacon join  Kyle Meredith  to discuss the new album from their collaborative musical project The Bacon Brothers,  Ballad of the Brothers . Listen to the new episode now. The duo talk about their upbringings in Philadelphia and how the setting has shaped their sound. While on the topic of foundational influences, the brothe...

Scoot McNairy  joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about his new film,  Blood for Dust , a gritty crime drama in which he plays a traveling salesman being lured down a dark and dangerous path. Listen  wherever you get your podcasts . The Narcos: Mexico  actor explains how he approached the everyman character he portrays in  Blood for Dust , leaning into the character's inherent desperation and focus...

With  Pearl Jam ’s  Dark Matter  now out in the world, we’re pulling a pair of interviews with guitarist  Mike McCready  out of the vault. Listen to both wherever you get your podcasts . Rewinding to the year 2012, McCready digs into his side projects, from his UFO tribute band Flight to Mars to The Rockfords to his pre-Pearl Jam band Shadow. Then comes the big news (at that time): the announcemen...

The English Beat ’s Dave Wakeling drops by  Kyle Meredith With…  to talk about the  Record Store Day  reissue of the band's sophomore album  Wha'ppen?  Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . The '80s legend digs into how he still connects to the dire warnings baked into the songs even 40 years after originally singing them, as well as how the progressive themes hav...

Pearl Jam ’s  Stone Gossard  catches up with  Kyle Meredith  to talk about working with Andrew Watt, finding inspiration in The Cure, and (of course) the band’s new album,  Dark Matter . Listen to the new episode wherever you get your podcasts . The guitarist explains the joy of reconnecting with producer Andrew Watt, as well as how recording like they did in the earliest days of the group helped ...

Beth Ditto  joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about  Gossip ’s reunion album,  Real Power . Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . Ditto gets into how the group decided to work with legendary producer Rick Rubin upon their reunion, as well as all of the hijinks that ensued while making the record at Rubin's Hawaiian studio. The singer also chats about how affirming it is to se...

Skeet Ulrich joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about his role in AMC's  Parish , the Giancarlo Esposito-starring series. Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . Parish  follows a family man in New Orleans (Esposito) in the aftermath of his son's violent killing and the collapse of his business. After reconnecting with an old friend from his days as a wheelman (Ulrich), he&#...

Maggie Lindemann  joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about her new EP,  HEADSPLIT . Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . The alt-metal singer-songwriter chats about paring down the scale of  HEADSPLIT  in order to build up to her next big project. Doing so, however, had a sort of freeing effect, allowing her to experiment with both her sound and lyrics. As part of the new process...

Elbow ’s Guy Garvey joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about  Audio Vertigo , the newest album from the English rock band. Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . Garvey gets into how the band developed a beat-driven mindset for the record, which eventually led them to reinvent how they approached recording. Once in the studio, bands like Talk Talk, R.E.M., and The Beatles served as...

Martin Amini joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about his new special  I’m Transcending , as well as the behind-the-scenes special  Back in the Gym . Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . Amini chats about how the age of TikTok has required comedians to come up with new material at breakneck speed. The pace can be exhausting, but it's also brought him a new kind of success. He...

George McKay and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett join Kyle Meredith to discuss Femme , a revenge thriller about Jules, who as Aphrodite Banks has a place among London’s celebrated drag artists. One night after a show, he steps out to get some cigarettes and is brutally attacked by a man out with a gang of his friends. Although Jules can recover physically, he withdraws from the outside world, traumatized....

Rudy Mancuso joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about  Música , the  mostly  true film based on his own life. Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . Música  tells a coming-of-age love story about an aspiring creator with synesthesia who must come to terms with an uncertain future. All the while, he's navigating the pressures of love, family, and his Brazilian culture in Newark,...

Hamish Linklater joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Manhunt, a conspiracy thriller about one of the best-known but least understood crimes in history, the astonishing story of the hunt for John Wilkes Booth in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. The actor, who portrays the late president, tells us about wanting to show the family side of the often-portrayed figure, finding the right v...

Gary Clark Jr.  joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about  JPEG RAW ,  his first new album in five years. Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . The singer-guitarist recaps the eventful five years since his last project, 2019's  This Land , an album that left him feeling burnt out. And yet, he found new energy after winning big at that year's Grammy Awards, making the execut...

Danielle MacDonald  joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about Season 2 of  The Tourist , out now on Netflix. Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . Originally cutting her teeth in the indie movie scene, MacDonald's career has been on an upward trajectory for years. Recently, she even had a cameo in a music video for Jelly Roll. "I don't even know how that happened, it wa...

Sheryl Crow  joins  Kyle Meredith  to dig into the details of her album,  Evolution , a record that comes after Crow announced on Meredith’s show in 2018 that she wouldn’t be making any more LPs (a sentiment she  recently echoed ). Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee discusses teaming up with producer Mike Elizondo in an attempt to...

Join  Kyle Meredith  as he looks back on the 100 most recent interviews of  Kyle Meredith With … to celebrate the show's 900th episode! Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . Hear clips from  Brandon Flowers , the lead singer of  The Killers , who discusses how the trajectory of his songwriting changed after finding Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty;  Gracie Abrams , who ref...

The Daily Show’ s Desi Lydic joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the comedy news program’s coverage of Indecision 2024 . The comedian (who happens to be from the same hometown of Louisville, KY as Kyle) discusses her journey of being inspired and obsessed with late 90s SNL to finding her comedy path after moving to Los Angeles where she would land roles in Not Another Teen Movie, Legally Blonde 2 ,...

The Jesus and Mary Chain ’s William Reid joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the band’s new LP, Glasgow Eyes. The guitarist/songwriter tells us how the brothers had to restart recording the album from scratch after their engineer lost the entire original album, how this record lines up with their 40th anniversary and how it speaks to their career, and their eclectic list of influences, which include...

The Veronicas join  Kyle Meredith  to talk about  Gothic Summer , the latest release from the Australian twin sisters. Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . Lisa and Jessica Origliasso talk about being heavily influenced by their rock upbringing and how the bands from their youth have manifested in their sound. "Our song 'Jungle' is a throwback to something like T...

Game of Thrones  actor  John Bradley  joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about starring in Netflix’s  3 Body Problem . Listen to the new  wherever you get your podcasts . Bradley discusses reconnecting with  Game of Thrones  heads David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for the new series, as well as how the process for  3 Body Problem  differed from that of the hugely popular HBO show. In particular, he talks ab...

Big Thief 's Adrianne Lenker  joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about her new solo album,  Bright Future . Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . The songwriter discusses recording much of the album in the morning in her bedroom, as well as how such a setting ultimately manifested within the songs (she even left noises from the room in the final mix). Beyond the comfortable re...

Anna Camp  joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about  Neo-Dome . Listen to the new episode  wherever you get your podcasts . The actress talks about the specifics of her unique character, as well as the sources of inspiration she pulled from for her performance. "They really wanted it to feel a little Coen Brothers-esque," she recalls. To achieve the Coen Brothers vibe, Camp dipped into a southe...

The Black Crowes ’  Chris Robinson  joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about the band's new album,  Happiness Bastards , which marks their first collection of new material since 2009. Inspired by his experience of touring  Shake Your Money Maker  for its 30th anniversary and the writing of Bob Dylan, Robinson explains how he attempted to take his lyrics to a new level for  Happiness Bastards.  Look...