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To mark the release of his latest solo record,  I Want Blood ,  Jerry Cantrell joins  Kyle Meredith  for a discussion on the nuances of balancing legacy and innovation within a long, storied career. Listen to their conversation. Cantrell, who’s best known as the driving force behind  Alice in Chains , opens up about the creative process behind his newest album and how the pressure to deliver somet...

Kyle Meredith With...  is celebrating its milestone 1,000th episode (!!) with an incredible two-guest episode. Host Kyle Meredith sits down with two of rock’s most unique minds,  Les Claypool  of  Primus  and  Maynard James Keenan  of  Tool / Puscifer , for a conversation that quickly veers off into the kind of absurdity you might expect. The two rockers talk about thwarting crimes, performing in...

Big Sean  delves into the creative process behind his latest album  Better Me Than You  and his upcoming book  Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace  in a new interview with  Kyle Meredith . Listen now. The Detroit rapper opens up about balancing both major projects simultaneously, expressing his excitement at being able to contribute to the culture of hip-hop with music...

In this special Rewind episode of Kyle Meredith With… , Lindsey Buckingham discusses reuniting with the late Christine McVie, which evolved into a duet album that also featured Fleetwood Mac members Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. Listen to the archived conversation now. Lindsey reflects on reconnecting with McVie after her 15-year hiatus, describing how their chemistry in the studio was unexpected...

In  Chosen Family ,  Heather Graham  takes on the triple role of writer, director, and star, crafting a heartfelt comedy about the challenges of family dynamics, relationships, and personal growth. Graham, along with co-stars  Julia Stiles  and  Thomas Lennon , speaks with  Kyle Meredith  about their roles and the process of making the film. Listen now. Stiles, who plays Anne’s troubled sister, de...

Speaking with Kyle Meredith, Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood opens up about his new photography book, How To Disappear: A Photographic Portrait of Radiohead, which captures the band’s journey from 2003’s Hail to the Thief to 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool . The book offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at Radiohead, a band known for its mystique, and includes personal photos interspersed with words of refl...

The Offspring  are back with a brand new album,  Supercharged , arriving October 11th, just three years after their previous effort,  Let the Bad Times Roll . That's quite an upgrade from the nine-year gap between 2012's  Days Go By  and  Bad Times , and the band's  Dexter Holland  and Noodles tell  Kyle Meredith  about the momentum they’ve found and why  Supercharged  feels like their...

This week's Rewind takes listeners back to 2018, when Roxy Music ’s Bryan Ferry joined Kyle Meredith to reflect on the band’s self-titled debut album, revisiting the demos, vaulted outtakes, and the youthful energy that shaped the iconic record. Listen to the archival interview now. Ferry fondly recalls the excitement of being in the studio for the first time, experimenting with various musica...

When it comes to genre twists,  It’s What’s Inside  doesn’t disappoint. The new Netflix film presents a dark take on the body-swap formula, turning a pre-wedding celebration into a spiraling existential nightmare. The film's stars  Brittany O’Grady , Gavin Leatherwood, and Alycia Debnam-Carey join  Kyle Meredith  to untangle the identity-based chaos of the flick. Listen to the cast talk about ...

Troy Sanders  of  Mastodon  (someone Consequence dubbed one of the  Best Bassists of All Time !) sits down with  Kyle Meredith to reflect on celebrating the 20th anniversary of  Leviathan  on their recent  co-headlining tour with Lamb of God  — a tour that felt like a reunion of old friends. Listen now. Boldness is something Mastodon knows well. When they dropped  Leviathan , a conceptual metal al...

Vernon Reid  of  Living Colour  joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about his feature on the final  MC5  album,  Heavy Lifting , as well as his side projects and what's next for Living Colour. Listen now. Reid has always been a guitar powerhouse, and his contribution to  MC5's “Can’t Be Found”  channels exactly what you’d expect: energy, intensity, and thoughtfulness. Reid describes his connecti...

For this week's rewind episode, Kyle Meredith with... looks back at four interviews with St. Vincent . Listen to all of them now. Starting in 2012 while she was touring Strange Mercy, Meredith catches up with songwriter Annie Clark backstage at Bonnaroo to discuss her then-upcoming collaboration with the Talking Heads’ David Byrne, punk rock, and dancing. The next stop finds us backstage in Na...

James Bay  is four albums deep into a career that could’ve seen him settle into the comfortable realm of “indie-darling-goes-commercial.” But, as he tells  Kyle Meredith , instead of coasting along, he’s hitting the gas pedal. His latest release,  Changes All the Time , might be his most vulnerable and revealing yet. The album’s title says it all — it’s about embracing change, for better or worse....

Natasha Rothwell isn’t afraid to get real. The actor, writer, and producer has been creating nuanced, relatable characters for years, from  Insecure  to  The White Lotus , and her new  Hulu  series  How to Die Alone  offers another deep dive into human emotion and comedy. Rothwell sits down with  Kyle Meredith  to discuss the show’s development, its themes of loneliness, and the cathartic power of...

Dave Pirner  is still running at full throttle with  Soul Asylum , and their latest record,  Slowly But Shirley , proves that their musical engine has plenty of mileage left. Speaking with  Kyle Meredith , Pirner discusses the band’s new album, their  upcoming tour  with The Juliana Hatfield Three (get tickets  here !), and what it takes to keep the creative fire burning 40 years into a career. Li...

In this archived episode from 2017, Joe Scarborough stops by to talk about launching his career in music. Listen here. The Morning Joe host and former congressman, who was once named by Time as one of the most influential people in the world, discusses his songwriting, the decision to finally release his work publicly, and (of course) how politics makes its way into his music. Listen to Joe Scarbo...

H. Jon Benjamin , known for voicing iconic animated characters like  Bob from  Bob’s Burgers  and Archer from  Archer , is back with his most unexpected passion project: the Jazz Daredevil. In an interview with  Kyle Meredith , Benjamin talks about his latest release,  The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of the (Unproduced) Film: The Jazz Daredevil . Listen to it now. Of the new soundtrack, Ben...

Keith Urban joins Kyle Meredith to talk about his latest album, High . The country superstar tells us how the new collection started with a scrapped album that he started in 2022, and how ultimately he was unhappy with the limitations that the record faced, as well as breaking past his own songwriting comfort zones. Urban also details working with Mike Elazondo on “Laughing All The Way To The Dran...

Comedian  Tim Heidecker  joins  Kyle Meredith  to delve into the creative processes behind his latest album,  Slipping Away . Listen to the interview now. Known for his comedy projects like  Tim and Eric , Heidecker’s new record showcases his personal and musical evolution, which deepened during the pandemic. “I was hesitant to get sincere because my comedy was so drenched in irony. But this recor...

On this special rewind episode, revisit five interviews with  Les Claypool  of Primus and more. Listen to the trip through time and bass here. Starting in 2011, Claypool and his band dropped into the WFPK studio to dig into their just-released Green Naugahyde . From there, the musician talks about Americana music (and his Duo de Twang project), the Primus biography, and their tribute to Willy Wonk...

The Jesus Lizard ’s  David Yow  joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about  Rack , the band’s first release in 26 years. The rock icon dives deep on the record as well as his acting career, so listen now. Yow discusses how the record came to be, mentioning how band members Dwayne Denison and Mac McNeilly had been working on new ideas without his knowledge. Despite years apart, Yow explained that the band...

Keith Powers and Jan Luis Castellanos join  Kyle Meredith  to talk about  Uglies , the new Joey King-starring movie that adapts Scott Westerfeld’s iconic book series. Listen to the interview now. Launching into a discussion about the film, which explores a futuristic world where everyone is conventionally attractive, both actors laugh at the idea that anyone in the movie could be considered "u...

Comedian  John Early  joins  Kyle Meredith  to talk about the new album version of his hit  HBO  stand-up special  Now More Than Ever . Listen to the interview now. Early tells us about modeling the special after  The Last Waltz , the iconic concert film centered on The Band. He reveals the stories behind the songs that he and his band cover in the special, including Britney Spears’ “Overprotected...

On this collection of four (!!) archival interviews, Father John Misty’s Josh Tillman talks about everything from drumming with Fleet Foxes to releases like Fear Fun and I Love You Honeybear . Listen to it all now. First, Tillman touches on his debut album under the (at the time) new moniker, having just come from a drumming stint with Fleet Foxes. We then pick up in backstage at Bonnaroo 2013, wh...

Sugaray Rayford joins Kyle Meredith to talk about his album Human Decency. The Grammy-nominated blues titan discusses his growing up in severe poverty in Texas before making his way to California and finding his voice in R&B and Blues (and meeting a pre-famous Vanilla Ice), as well as how his time in the Marines influenced his style of social justice lyrics, while also taking a page from Princ...