Kyle Meredith With... is an interview series in which WFPK's Kyle Meredith speaks to a wide breadth of artists. Meredith digs deep to find out how their work is made and where their journey is going. From legendary artists to the newer class, from musicians to film & television stars, you'll hear about the things you were always curious about from all of your favorites.
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OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder on New Album Artificial Paradise, Solo Album, and Radiohead's Influence
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OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Artificial Paradise, the band's new album. Tedder discusses the new approach the band took when writing and recording Artificial Paradise, explaining why the feel of the record is so different from OneRepublic's past releases. He touches on the references in "I Ain't Worries," the dark ori…
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Deryck Whibley on the End of Sum 41, Chaotic Partying, and His Upcoming Memoir
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Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley talks with Kyle Meredith about the band’s final album, Heaven :x: Hell, and his upcoming memoir, Walking Disaster. Listen to the frontman's insights. Whibley discusses the reasoning behind bringing the famed pop punk band to an end, as well as the artistic journey that led them to record their final album. He touches on thei…
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Rewind: Juliana Hatfield on Election Songs, Liz Phair, Reality Bites, and My So-Called Life
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On this archival episode of Kyle Meredith with..., hear three throwback interviews with Juliana Hatfield. Hatfield chats about everything from her album Pussycat to the memories she associates with the start of her career as a solo artist to paying tribute to Olivia Newton-John. Elsewhere, she touches on Weird, meeting Liz Phair, and her contributi…
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Tami Stronach on The NeverEnding Story, The Childlike Empress, & Returning to Acting
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Tami Stronach (also known as The NeverEnding Story’s Childlike Empress) and her husband, actor and producer Greg Steinbruner, join Kyle Meredith to talk about their new film Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps. Listen to the two run through the new project. Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps tells the story a lonely goatherd who …
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Victoria Justice on Suits: L.A., Depravity, and Leaning into Her Sensual Side
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Victoria Justice talks with Kyle Meredith about her most recent singles (including "Down") and her upcoming film roles (including Depravity and California King). Listen to the now. The former Victorious star discusses why she's so focused on her music career as of late, as well as why hew new musical era finds her leaning into a more sensual side o…
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Minnie Driver on The Serpent Queen, Her Next Album, and Coldplay’s “Sparks”
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Minnie Driver joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I on the Starz series The Serpent Queen. Listen to the conversation now. The actress discusses why she sees The Virgin Queen as “a woman of appetites," the factual liberties the show takes, and creating a rock 'n' roll version of the historical figure. Speaking of musi…
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Rewind: Chris Cornell on Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, and His Solo Work
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For this week’s rewind episode, the late Chris Cornell discusses Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Audioslave, and his solo material. Listen to his insights on this interview from the vaults. Cornell talks about Soundgarden’s eventual (still waiting) inclusion into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, his time in Temple of the Dog, and his very first solo s…
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Ride’s Mark Gardener on Their New Album Interplay and Loving Their New Wave Forefathers
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Ride’s Mark Gardener links up with Kyle Meredith to talk about Interplay, the shoegaze band’s new studio album. Listen to the conversation above now. The singer and guitarist discusses how the latest batch of songs found their true voice while on tour, the legal troubles with their ex-management that bled into the recording sessions, and looking ba…
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Chloe Coleman on Growing Up in My Spy: The Eternal City, Action, and Activism
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Chloe Coleman joins Kyle Meredith to chat about My Spy: The Eternal City, the sequel to the 2020 film My Spy that once again starts Coleman and Dave Bautista. Listen to the conversation now. Coleman talks about what it was like to return to the character nearly five years later, seeing herself and her character grow from script to script, and the p…
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5 Seconds of Summer’s Ashton Irwin on His New Solo Album BLOOD ON THE DRUMS and Bucking Advice
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5 Seconds of Summer’s Ashton Irwin chats with Kyle Meredith about his new solo album, BLOOD ON THE DRUMS. Listen to the conversation now. Irwin dives into his particular style of multi-genre songwriting, as well as how he has sought to distinguish his solo identity from his role in 5 Seconds of Summer. Then, the artist touches on going against trad…
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Rewind: Sabrina Carpenter on Channeling Alanis Morissette, Dolly Parton, and Ani DiFranco
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With Sabrina Carpenter having her latest success with “Espresso” and “Please Please Please,” as well as and her upcoming Short n’ Sweet album, it’s a perfect time to listen back to this 2022 interview with Kyle Meredith. Listen to the conversation from the vaults now. Carpenter talks about her album Emails I Can’t Send, the journey to allowing hers…
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Travis' Fran Healy on Their New Album L.A. Times and Gaslight Culture
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Travis’ Fran Healy joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the Scottish band’s new album, L.A. Times. Listen to the conversation now. The frontman discusses how and why Los Angeles became the thematic center of the band's new set of songs, explaining how the city functions as a coal miner's canary for the state of the world. He then touches on the amount…
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Kylie Cantrall on Disney's Descendants: The Rise of Red and Her New Music
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Kylie Cantrall joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Descendants: The Rise of Red, the fourth film in Disney's Descendantsfranchise. Listen to the conversation now. Cantrall dives into the new Descendants installment, which follows Princess Red, the rebellious daughter of the tyrannical Queen of Hearts from Wonderland, as she prepares to attend a new s…
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Mark Oliver Everett on New Album Eels Time!, Writing with Tyson Ritter, and Acting with Kate Beckinsale
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Eels’ Mark Oliver Everett -- or "E" -- chats with Kyle Meredith about the band's new album, Eels Time! Listen to the two's conversation now. The indie rock songwriter dives into his recent experience of undergoing open heart surgery, though, as he explains it, any song on Eels Time! that deal with mortality or existentialism were written prior to t…
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Rewind: Twenty One Pilots on Vessel, Religion, and Ukuleles
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Listen to Twenty One Pilots’ Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun cat about their album Vessel and more on this Kyle Meredith with... interview from the archives. The two chat about their quick ascent to fame, working as long as they could as an independent act, and the perceptions expectations and perceptions that came along with newfound stardom. They also …
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Annabeth Gish on Ride, Pretty Little Liars, and Mike Flanagan’s Universe
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Annabeth Gish joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her new movie Ride, which finds her co-starring with C. Thomas Howell and screenwriter/director Jake Allyn. The film tells the story of a family of bull riders fighting to survive in a small Texas town while dealing with addictions, health, and religion that’s embedded in the deep south. The legendary…
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Anthony Michael Hall on Trigger Warning, '80s Classics & Developing a Show with Robert Downey Jr
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Anthony Michael Hall joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the Jessica Alba-fronted revenge thriller Trigger Warning, which is out now on Netflix. Listen to the conversation now. The iconic actor dives into why he is so attracted to playing villains, basing his Trigger Warning character on Ted Turner, and what it was like to do big action stunts with A…
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Kurtwood Smith on That '90s Show Season 2 & Remembering Dead Poets Society
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Kurtwood Smith chats with Kyle Meredith about That '90s Show Season 2, which is streaming now on Netflix. Listen to their conversation. The actor discusses how the cast and writing team found their footing for the legacy show, as they hoped to toe the line between finding a fresh identity and honoring the original series, That '70s Show. He then to…
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Rewind: Paul McCartney on Writing with John Lennon, Connecting to The Beatles, and Reconsidering Wings
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In this interview from the vaults, Paul McCartney chats with Kyle Meredith about his album New, John Lennon, and other Beatles related topics. Listen to the full chat now. McCartney dives deep into his songwriting techniques, shines a light on the traps he tries to avoid, and ultimately explains how he was able to crank out so many iconic songs. Fu…
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Ali Siddiq on His New Special The Domino Effect Part 4, Prison, and Finding the Funny
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Ali Siddiq joins Kyle Meredith to talk about The Domino Effect Part 4, the conclusion of his multi-part standup comedy special that retraces his arrest at 19 and his subsequent six year incarceration. Listen to the comic's thoughts on the new material. Siddiq launches into talking about deconstructing the period of his life into a series, the impor…
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Wallows on Their New Album Model, Heartbreak, and Covering The Strokes
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On this episode of Kyle Meredith with..., Wallows chat about their new project Model, a record they call their "most freeing album." Listen to bandmates Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters, and Cole Preston converse Diving into the new set of songs, the three Wallows members explain how they feel the new project is a direct response to their 2022 eff…
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Cleopatra Coleman on FX’s Clipped, Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, and Her Own Music
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Cleopatra Coleman joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her portrayal of V. Stiviano in the FX miniseries Clipped, which tells the true story the Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his eventual downfall. Listen to the interview. The Australian actress discusses the myth that real Stiviano created after leaking tapes of Stiviano's racists ra…
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Rewind: Todd Rundgren revisits Nazz, The Hermit of Mink Hollow & White Knight
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Today we rewind back to 2018, when Todd Rundgren dropped by the series to talk with Kyle Meredith about his 1968 album Nazz, 1978’s Hermit of Mink Hollow, and 2017's White Knight. Revisit the interview. Elsewhere, the songwriter talks about working with The Lemon Twigs, as well as writing his autobiography, The Individualist. Listen to Todd Rundgre…
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G-Eazy on His New Album Freak Show and Getting B-Real of Cypress Hill's Blessing
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G-Eazy catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about Freak Show, the new album that finds the Oakland rapper trying out new sounds and personas. Listen to the interview now. The artist talks about relocating to New York, embodying the theme of a freak show for the new set of songs, and how, underneath it all, the album is really a story of self-accep…
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Andrew McCarthy on Making Peace with and Celebrating the Brat Pack
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Andrew McCarthy joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Brats, the new documentary that takes a deep dive into the famed "Brat Pack" of 1980s Hollywood stars. Listen to the interview now. McCarthy chats about why he finally stopped running from this period of his past and explains how he has finally made peace with the term "Brat Pack," which McCarthy an…
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