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Slowdive ’s  Neil Halstead  joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about the band's new album  Everything Is Alive , taking inspiration from The Cure, and old studio couches. The frontman discusses the origins of Slowdive's new album, their second since reforming in 2013, as well as the background to his creative process. He then dives into specific tracks, like "Alife" and "Kisses.&#34...

Emily Hampshire (known for Schitt’s Creek and 12 Monkeys ) joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about her role in  Self Reliance , the new Hulu original film directed by and starring Jake Johnson. The actress tells the story of how she linked up with Johnson and acting opposite a film's director/writer,. She also discusses other upcoming projects, like rebooting Norman Lear's Mary Hartman, Mary H...

Neck Deep’s Ben Barlow joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the band’s new self-titled album. The frontman discusses taking their sound “back to their roots” and making the tough decision to scrap the work they had been doing halfway in Los Angeles, and, instead, doing a self-produced LP back home in Wales, as well as the plan to purposefully try to make a pure pop-punk album and what that means in t...

Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy join Kyle Meredith to talk about covering R.E.M.'s Murmur album for a February tour. Shannon, known for The Shape of Water, Revolutionary Road , and recently with George & Tammy, and Narducy who spends time with Bob Mould, Superchunk, and Split Single, discuss why they decided to cover the classic 1983 LP, finding the album Document as their entry point wh...

Carrie Brownstein  and  Corin Tucker of  Sleater-Kinney catch up with Kyle Meredith to talk about Little Rope , a record that was completed in the aftermath of a deadly car accident involving Brownstein's mother and stepfather in Italy in late 2022. The Sleater-Kinney members discuss how the emotionally personal album felt like it had higher stakes, the choice to open with the dark and siniste...

Eduardo Franco joins Kyle Meredith to talk about starring in Jake Johnson’s Self Reliance , a film that follows a disillusioned man who receives an invitation to win $1 million by taking part in a reality television game on the dark web. The Stranger Things actor talks about how he landed the part and came up with the right tone for his Production Assistant character, as well as his own thoughts o...

Jack Antonoff  joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the new Bleachers self-titled album. The songwriter/super-producer discusses the band’s direct threads to his 2000s group, Steel Train, what the original title for this record "Tribute Living" said about the themes heard within, and how he sees each album as a movie. Antonoff also shares his thoughts on society heading towards a new kind of...

Peter Capaldi & Tom Moutchi join Kyle Meredith to talk about the new Apple TV+ series, Criminal Record , a powerful, character-driven drama set in the heart of contemporary London which picks up when an anonymous phone call draws two brilliant detectives into a confrontation over an old murder case – one a young woman in the early stages of her career, the other a well-connected man determined...

Mckenna Grace joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her latest single, “Natalie,” as well as reprising her role in the upcoming Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire . The actress/musician discusses how she wrote the new song as a tribute to her friend Xochitl Gomez, basing her recent EPs on different genres (pop-punk for Bittersweet 16 and folk for Autumn Leaves ), and wanting to make a metal album. In fact, G...

We're taking a few weeks off here on Kyle Meredith W..., but wanted to thank you for listening in this year by sharing some of our favorite interviews from 2023. We'll be back with brand new episodes on January 8th. For now, here's my chat with  Pearl Jam ’s Jeff Ament. Here are the original show notes: Janelle Monáe  rings in to talk with Kyle Meredith about her latest album,  The Age...

We're taking a few weeks off here on Kyle Meredith W..., but wanted to thank you for listening in this year by sharing some of our favorite interviews from 2023. We'll be back with brand new episodes on January 8th. For now, here's my chat with  Andy Taylor . Here are the original show notes: Andy Taylor  joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Man’s A Wolf To Man, his first solo album of or...

We're taking a few weeks off here on Kyle Meredith W..., but wanted to thank you for listening in this year by sharing some of our favorite interviews from 2023. We'll be back with brand new episodes on January 8th. For now, here's my chat with  Josh Homme , the frontman of  Queens of the Stone Age . Here are the original show notes: Josh Homme , the frontman of  Queens of the Stone Ag...

We're taking a few weeks off here on Kyle Meredith W..., but wanted to thank you for listening in this year by sharing some of our favorite interviews from 2023. We'll be back with brand new episodes on January 8th. For now, here's my chat with  Dolly Parton . Here are the original show notes: Dolly Parton  joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her new album,  Rockstar,  new book  Behind T...

We're taking a few weeks off here on Kyle Meredith W..., but wanted to thank you for listening in this year by sharing some of our favorite interviews from 2023. We'll be back with brand new episodes on January 8th. For now, here's my chat with  Pearl Jam ’s Jeff Ament. Here are the original show notes: Les Claypool  catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about bringing back Colonel Les...

We're taking a few weeks off here on Kyle Meredith W..., but wanted to thank you for listening in this year by sharing some of our favorite interviews from 2023. We'll be back with brand new episodes on January 8th. For now, here's my chat with  Keanu Reeves . Here are the original show notes: After 20 years apart,  Dogstar  are back as the trio consisting of  Keanu Reeves , Bret Domro...

We're taking a few weeks off here on Kyle Meredith W..., but wanted to thank you for listening in this year by sharing some of our favorite interviews from 2023. We'll be back with brand new episodes on January 8th. For now, here's my chat with Pearl Jam ’s Jeff Ament. Here are the original show notes: Pearl Jam ’s Jeff Ament catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about the debut album,...

David Alan Grier joins Kyle Meredith to talk about his work in the latest film version of The Color Purple , as well as working alongside Eddie Murphy for the first time in 30 years in the recently released Candy Cane Lane . The comedy and drama legend tells us how, early on, he based the rhythm of his career off of what he saw Michael Keaton doing in the 80s, what it was like getting to play Sant...

Michiel Huisman joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon , which features a colony on the edge of the galaxy that finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical government, who then dispatch a young woman with a mysterious past to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them take a stand. Huisman, who’s spent time in Game of Thrones and The Haunting of Hill Ho...

Gracie Abrams catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about her Grammy nomination (Best New Artist), debut album Good Riddance , and the work she’s continuing with Aaron Dessner on her next LP. The singer-songwriter tells us about getting a call from fellow nominee Noah Kahan after hearing the news, how she now hears the record after touring it for a year, and why this set of songs was so much more...

Niousha Noor joins Kyle Meredith to talk about The Persian Version . The film, loosely based on Maryam Keshavarz’s life, also stars Layla Mohammadi and tells the story of a young, gay Iranian-American woman who is often at odds with her family, particularly with her mother, and especially after getting pregnant from a one-night stand with a Hedwig and the Angry Inch actor. The actress discusses ho...

Nathan Stewart-Jarrett & Niamh Algar join Kyle Meredith to talk about their roles in the Disney Plus/Hulu series Culprits . The show focuses on a team of specialists who commit a heist, but unlike most movies of this genre, our story kicks off where most crime stories end: after a high-stakes heist, when the crew of elite criminals have gone their separate ways and have tried to leave their ol...

Erasure ’s  Vince Clarke joins Kyle Meredith to talk Songs of Silence , his very first solo album that finds the Erasure (and Depeche Mode and Yaz) legend pointing towards drone and ambient music. The synth-pop artist tells us how the record, almost an accident, came to be, taking inspiration from Blade Runner 2049, and why ambient music is having a real moment right now. Clarke goes on to discuss...

Julia Michaels & Ben Rice join Kyle Meredith to discuss scoring Disney’s newest animated feature, Wish. The songwriting duo takes us behind the scenes of what it was like to not only land a Disney soundtrack but on the legendary studio’s 100th anniversary, with the backstory on what led to getting the call and the emotions that came with it. Michaels & Rice go on to tell us how they had to...

Omar J. Dorsey drops by to talk with Kyle Meredith about co-starring in Bookie , the new buddy comedy from Chuck Lorre and airing now on Max. Alongside Sebastian Maniscalco, with great cameos from Charlie Sheen and Toby Huss, the series follows two bookies as they grapple with the challenges posed by the imminent legalization of sports betting while navigating through a world of unpredictable clie...

Stacey Kent joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Summer Me, Winter Me, her new album that collects songs fans had requested at her live show over the years but had never recorded. The jazz vocalist discusses how the rag-tag group of songs still makes up an album that flows, why she loves the ephemeral quality of playing live, and what new bits she found in these decades-old songs. Kent also tells us...