Kyle Meredith

Tonight on WFPK: David Duchovny (X-Files), Josh Radnor (HIMYM), and Monica Raymund (Hightown) drop in!

Plus: Shudder To Think, Cake, Ani DiFranco, The Bangles, Robyn Hitchcock, new Alex G & the Californication theme.

6p ET on WFPK

Leslie Odom Jr: “I’ve got grand, big ideas.” Leslie Odom Jr. on Becoming “Mr.,” Finding His Voice at Skywalker Ranch, and Ditching the Symphony Gigs for a Tour Bus

Hamilton star #LeslieOdomJr. wrote an album from scratch, booked a tour bus for the first time, and dropped a Mr. Tibbs quote mid-record. We talk Harriet, Sopranos, and journaling at Skywalker Ranch

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Vera Farmiga: “I know I need to do a role if I get scared of doing it” Vera Farmiga and Cherry Jones on Playing God, Holding Guilt, and Holding On

#VeraFarmiga says if a role scares her, that’s how she knows she has to do it. #TheConjuring star opens up about finding strength in fear, channeling abandonment, and why “playing God” doesn’t mean a thing to her.

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Lucy Dacus: "I was writing as I was feeling things to figure out what I felt” Lucy Dacus on Love, Loss, and Lyrics That Stare Back at You

#LucyDacus is back with Forever is a Feeling, her most poetic, emotionally heavy, and quietly devastating album yet. We talked about the dreamlike production, Jim Croce covers, playing in churches, and why eye contact at her shows might haunt you later.

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Documentarian Amy Berg on Capturing the Myth and Humanity of Jeff Buckley in It’s Never Over: Podcast Filmmaker Amy Berg talks capturing the myth and humanity of Jeff Buckley in the It's Never Over documentary on the Kyle Meredith With podcast.

Amy Berg joins Kyle Meredith With… to talk about her #JeffBuckley doc It’s Never Over, voicemail confessions, feminist icons, Grace’s magic, and if My Sweetheart the Drunk was meant to be released.

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Collective Soul's Ed Roland: "I'm not a guy who can write about Johnny on the dock" Collective Soul’s Ed Roland on Forgiveness, Forgotten Demos, and Scream 2

Over 30 years in and #CollectiveSoul are still writing classics.
#EdRoland joins me to talk about Vibrate, writing on piano, the hidden magic of #Scream2's “She Said,” recording in Elvis' Palm Springs, and how forgiveness shaped their most personal songs.

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YUNGBLUD: "If the bear’s biting me, I’m gonna bite it back" YUNGBLUD on Death, Dancing, and Doing It All in a Glendale Bedroom

He sampled The Cure, danced through a breakdown, and made the best lyrics of his life—all in a Glendale bedroom.

#YUNGBLUD joins me to talk about The Funeral, Tissues, reversed snares, goth pop, and why the spirit of a live show is his true religion.

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Lucy Dacus joins me tonight on WFPK!

Also: Sleater-Kinney, Joan Jett, The Clash, Joy Division, Tom Waits, Fiona Apple, new Neko Case, and the It’s Always Sunny theme.

Emotions. Chaos. Art.

6p ET on WFPK

Dawn Richard: “I was born in the music industry through a machine” Dawn Richard on Sci-Fi New Orleans, Singing Over Beethoven, and Why She’s Not Asking for Your Validation

#DawnRichard turned her trauma into a techno opera. Half android, half human, fully fearless.

Second Line: An Electro Revival is part autobiography, part New Orleans sci-fi, and part genre-assassination. “King Creole is the assassin of genres,” she tells me.

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YouTube video by Kyle Meredith With... (Subscribe!) Kyle Meredith with... Nada Surf

Matthew Caws of Nada Surf called from a red phone booth in London to talk solitude, sanity, and You Know Who You Are.

Bonus: the wild backstory behind “Gold Sounds” and how a SXSW jingle became a full track.

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John Paul White: “I’m the big gray cloud floating in” John Paul White on Fatherhood, Darkness, and the Death of Genre

“I don’t write happy songs. I write #JohnPaulWhite songs.”

We talked gothic Americana, 80s metal, parenting a teenage shredder, and the death of genre.

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Billy Bob Thornton: “If I’m not creating, I lose my mind” Billy Bob Thornton on Geoff Emerick, Radical Moderation, and the Power of the Tuba

Billy Bob Thornton says he’s a “radical moderate” & always recording. The Boxmasters’ Speck—produced by Beatles legend Geoff Emerick—might be their most powerful yet.

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Tonight on WFPK: I hang with #CollectiveSoul’s Ed Roland, spin 4 hrs of greatness (yes, incl. Bill Nye the Science Guy theme), and on the podcast, revisit my chats with #TheyMightBeGiants.

Science rules. So does radio.

6p ET on WFPK

Louisville's indie music scene turns up the volume with 2 August shows Wombo and Ryan Davis drop albums to ignite Louisville's indie flame with shows planned at Butchertown's Whirling Tiger.

Thanks to WDRB News for having me on to talk about Louisville music, including Wombo and Ryan Davis.

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YouTube video by Kyle Meredith With... (Subscribe!) Kyle Meredith with... Man Man

Honus Honus talks Man Man’s On Oni Pond, writing “Head On,” living in the woods, almost being a screenwriter, and why his chaos might actually be the plan.

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Michael Ealy: “We’re turning the psychological thriller genre on its head” Michael Ealy on Satirical Thrillers, Cross-Generational Karaoke, and the Art of Knowing When to Say No

Michael Ealy talks casseroles, satire, dad playlists, and cross-generational New Edition karaoke.

Also: how Mr. Telephone Man > Baby Shark and why he’s almost ready to direct.

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Here’s me, Tyler Childers & a bunch of radio folks (none of whom are on my Bitin’ List).

This week on Kyle Meredith With…: Amy Berg on the new #JeffBuckley doc + a look back at They Might Be Giants.

Guests on WFPK: Ed Roland, Lucy Dacus, David Duchovny, The Edge & more.

The Jesus Lizard's David Yow: "We're always gonna sound like us, even if we tried not to" David Yow on Golden Showers, Surreal Witches, and the Jesus Lizard’s Reluctant Resurrection

David Yow on Jesus Lizard’s first album in 26 years:

“It’s like fucking an old girlfriend. But it was good!”

We talked Rack, movie roles, golden showers for corpses, and witches conjured by Lhasa de Sela.

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Butch Vig: “Sometimes you’ve got to look to the cosmos just to make sense of all of this” Butch Vig on Divine Accidents, Cosmic Escapism, and the Garbage Record That Got Weird

#ButchVig on 5 Billion in Diamonds, cosmic escapism, and Garbage's “dark & schizophrenic” No Gods, No Masters:

Also: Bond themes, Sinatra vibes & his own drum plugin.

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Kevin Smith: "To still be enchanted by movies is a gift." Kevin Smith on Nostalgia, Nerd Pressure, and the Sacred Weirdness of Masters of the Universe

Did #KevinSmith just create the best Masters of the Universe anything ever?

I talked to him about turning childhood nostalgia into Shakespearean stakes, getting Henry Rollins to voice a techno cult leader, and why Mark Hamill had to be Skeletor.

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YouTube video by Kyle Meredith With... (Subscribe!) Kyle Meredith with... Brent Cobb

#BrentCobb’s plan B was songwriting. Plan A was also songwriting.

We talked family demos passed at funerals, working with cousin Dave Cobb, and how Shine On Rainy Day became an unintentional love letter to Georgia.

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The Minus Five's Scott McCaughey: “Mitch McConnell and his cronies should be hung for treason" Filthy Friends’ Scott McCaughey on Protest Rock, Portland’s Wrecking Crew, and His Albums with R.E.M.

Scott McCaughey calls Filthy Friends “a climate change party band” and thinks Mitch McConnell should be tried for treason. So yeah, this ain’t The Baseball Project.

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Luna's Dean Wareham: “I’m always resistant to buying new albums from reformed bands” Dean Wareham on Luna’s Second Act, the Art of the Obscure Cover, and Making Music When You’re “Good and Ready”

#DeanWareham on Luna’s return, deep-cut covers, troll instrumentals, and why adding vocals often ruins a song.

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Dhani Harrison: “I don’t write songs unless there’s a dog involved” Dhani Harrison on Motorways, Scoring Films, and Wilburying with Jeff Lynne

Dogs in space. Synths from secret folders. A decade-late sequel.

I talked with #DhaniHarrison about Motorways (Erase It), scoring documentaries for RZA and HBO, touring with ELO, and whether Fistful of Mercy will ever return.

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Counting Crows' Adam Duritz: “We were kind of a joke to critics, but never musicians" Adam Duritz on Rock Operas, Musical Geekdom, and the Lost Tapes of Counting Crows

#AdamDuritz on glam guitars, lost tapes, and why Counting Crows were emo before emo was cool.

“My generation doesn’t even have a name of its own…”

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Richard Linklater: “Who doesn’t fantasize about being someone else?” Richard Linklater on Hit Man, Glenn Powell’s Many Faces, and His Iconic Film Soundtracks

#RichardLinklater on Hit Man, Glenn Powell’s fake assassins, existential rewrites, and his 20-year film-in-progress.

“We’re all one confidence boost away from becoming someone else.”

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#KevinSmith is my guest tonight!

We’re talking Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and more.

Also: PRJCTR, Nina Simone, The Broken Spurs, Stones, Black Lab, and new Jon Batiste.

6p ET on WFPK. Bring your own chocolate-covered pretzels.

Yola: “Queer women were at the start of rock and roll" Yola on Genre Fluidity, Diamond-Studded Lies, and the Queer Women Who Invented Rock

Yola’s Stand for Myself tears down genre walls, colonial lies & the myth that rock wasn’t started by a queer Black woman. “We’ve already changed history once. Say it again: Sister Rosetta Tharpe invented rock & roll.

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Tami Stronach: "There's still a massive love for The NeverEnding Story" Tammy Stronach on Fairy Tales, Reclaiming the Witch, and The NeverEnding Story

40 years after #TheNeverEndingStory, #TammyStronach returned to acting—this time as a witch with layers, dance moves, and invisibility issues. She and husband Greg Steinbruner tell me how Man and Witch went from a 10-minute short to a full-on fairy tale.

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Jose Gonzalez: “Even Buddha was a doomsday dude” José González on Doomsday Dudes, Effective Altruism, and Singing to Toddlers About Titties

#JoséGonzález is singing about existential risk, effective altruism, and “honey on your titties”—all in the same breath. He tells me why he covered himself, how becoming a dad changed his writing, and what frustrates him most about “doomsday dudes.”

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