The wait is over, and the most chaotic family reunion of the year has arrived. Happy Gilmore 2 sees Adam Sandler reprising his legendary golf-club-swinging man-child — only this time, he's got backup. Kyle Meredith caught up with the new generation of Gilmore lunacy: Conor Sherry, Ethan Cutkosky, Maxwell Jacob Friedman, and newcomer Philip Fine Schneider, who play Happy’s four sons in a long-awaited sequel that’s more absurd, more heartwarming, and somehow even more Sandler. Listen to the episod...
Jul 28, 2025•14 min•Ep. 1061
Kyle Newacheck sat down with Kyle Meredith to talk about the long-awaited Happy Gilmore 2 , which brings Adam Sandler’s hockey-stick-wielding everyman back to the green nearly 30 years after the original. The Workaholics alum and Murder Mystery director had the unenviable task of balancing nostalgia for one of the most quoted comedies of the ’90s with a modern polish. “It’s a comedy-first movie,” Newacheck explains. “There’s no genre overlay. It’s a family, fun, heartfelt comedy.” Listen to the ...
Jul 23, 2025•20 min•Ep. 1060
Michael Clifford is no stranger to arenas full of screaming fans as a member of 5 Seconds of Summer , but he’s now venturing into the uncharted territory of solo artistry with his debut album SIDEQUEST . The guitarist-turned-frontman caught up with Kyle Meredith to talk about how the record came to be, the joy and anxiety that came with doing it alone, and how becoming a father restructured his creative compass. Listen now. While SIDEQUEST is certainly a departure from 5SOS’s collective sound, C...
Jul 21, 2025•26 min•Ep. 1059
On the rewind episode of Kyle Meredith With.. , hear from Caroline Polachek and Alison Goldfrapp — two vocalists who could probably sing a grocery list and still make it sound like avant-garde pop bliss. Polachek, formerly of Chairlift, has turned heartbreak and hyperpop into an art form, floating somewhere between baroque synths and Enya-core. Goldfrapp, meanwhile, has spent decades wrapping disco, glam, and electroclash into one shimmering Goldfrapp package. Lately, she’s stepped out solo just...
Jul 16, 2025•21 min
Ben Folds recently sat down with Kyle Meredith to talk about the complicated year that saw him record a stunning live album with the National Symphony Orchestra just before stepping down as Artistic Advisor for the Kennedy Center. Folds opens up about the importance of the Kennedy Center’s mission, how it connects communities beyond the stage, and why that made his exit during the Trump administration’s takeover so necessary. Listen now. Reflecting on the album, Folds calls it “an absolute honor...
Jul 14, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 1058
For the fourth time around, Milo Manheim, Meg Donnelly, Malachi Barton, and Freya Skye sat down with Kyle Meredith to sink their teeth into Zombies 4 , the latest chapter of Disney’s monster-mash musical saga. This time, Zed and Addison find themselves caught in the middle of a new supernatural rivalry — Daywalkers vs. Vampires — as they play camp counselors to Seabrook’s most fang-tastic new recruits. Listen to the episode now. Both Manheim and Donnelly have leveled up as executive producers on...
Jul 09, 2025•13 min•Ep. 1057
Rhian Teasdale of Wet Leg catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about the band’s wildly anticipated sophomore album, moisturizer . After riding the wave of their self-titled debut — and the indie smash “Chaise Longue” — the CoSigned band doubled down on what made them so joyously chaotic in the first place. Now a five-piece, they holed up in the countryside, turned off their phones, and let their oddball impulses thrive. Listen now. “A lot of it just came out of GarageBand bedroom demos the firs...
Jul 07, 2025•20 min•Ep. 1056
Renée Elise Goldsberry sat down with Kyle Meredith to dive deep into her vibrant debut album, Who I Really Am . The Tony-winning powerhouse, best known for her role as Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton , is proving she’s just as compelling behind a mic as she is on stage. Blending pop with the theatrical soul of Broadway, she's crafted a record that defies genre while still feeling timeless. Listen now. Of course, Hamilton remains a cherished chapter. She revisited “Satisfied” for the album and rece...
Jul 02, 2025•35 min
Lucy Dacus sits down with Kyle Meredith to discuss her latests solo record, Forever Is a Feeling . The singer-songwriter unpacks the new album’s lush poetry, the angelic iconography behind its cover, and the raw intimacy of performing in churches and museums. Listen now. Touring behind the new record (get tickets here !), Dacus found herself gravitating towards sanctuaries both literal and spiritual. “Places like that always feel super reverent whether or not you’re religious,” she says of the c...
Jun 30, 2025•33 min
Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips sat down with Kyle Meredith for three conversations across a handful of years to talk about solo albums, Luna reunions, and songwriting. Sometimes, these chats even double as emotional excavation. Listen to the archived interviews now. Wareham, known for his iconic turns in Galaxie 500 and Luna, talked in 2014 about finally releasing his first solo album and what it meant to step out from the comfort of collaboration. He also chats about working with My Morning J...
Jun 25, 2025•46 min
Alan Walker dropped in to talk with Kyle Meredith about the evolution of Walker World — a decade-long transformation that’s turned a teenage bedroom producer into a globe-touring architect of immersive EDM. With the WalkerWorld 2.0 album, the brand-new single “Me, Myself & the Night,” and a multimedia blitz that includes a mobile app and cinematic film experience, the 27-year-old artist is engineering something more expansive than just chart hits. Listen now. Written during a writing camp in...
Jun 23, 2025•24 min•Ep. 1053
Kyle Meredith sits down with two legends, Randy Bachman and the late Gary Brooker to talk about legacy and how you live with — and sometimes rewrite — the ghosts of greatness. Listen to these archive interviews now. Hear Brooker of Procol Harum speak just before his passing about the band’s 50-year retrospective Still There’ll Be More , the timeless power of “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” and why Procol never quite fit in anyone’s box (except maybe their own). Then, it’s Randy Bachman (The Guess Who,...
Jun 18, 2025•21 min
Zara Larsson caught up with Kyle Meredith to talk about her new album Midnight Sun , her second LP in just over a year. Powered by creative momentum and a self-described “dream team” of collaborators, Larsson is embracing a more spontaneous workflow that channels her current energy into a confident, cohesive record. Listen now. The record's namesake track, “Midnight Sun,” is a tribute to summer nights in her native Sweden, where the sun never fully sets and life feels mythically endless. “I want...
Jun 16, 2025•31 min•Ep. 1052
Seth MacFarlane has long lived at the intersection of irreverence and reverence. As the creator of Family Guy , he built an empire of absurdist animation, but his latest creative projects deepens his musical streak. He caught up with Kyle Meredith to talk about his new album Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements , a collection of unearthed and previously unrecorded Frank Sinatra charts. From there, the conversation swings through his revival of The Naked Gun , a reimagining of The ’Burbs , an...
Jun 11, 2025•51 min•Ep. 1051
Shirley Manson has never been one to shy away from big feelings, big statements, or big synths. Speaking with Kyle Meredith , the Garbage frontwoman dives into Let All That We Imagine Be the Light , a record that flickers with vulnerability, political outrage, and, surprisingly, hope. The follow-up to 2021’s No Gods No Masters , the new LP serves as a spiritual twin — but this one stares down the chaos with resilience rather than just rage. Listen now. “I realized that if I didn’t change my tack...
Jun 09, 2025•42 min•Ep. 1050
Mark Hamill has played a Jedi, a clown prince of crime, and just about everything in between — but it’s The Life of Chuck that he says might be one of the most special experiences of his entire career. The pop culture icon sat down with Kyle Meredith to talk about the new Mike Flanagan film, a surreal, poetic meditation on existence based on a Stephen King novella. Listen to the episode now. For Hamill, the film’s emotional core hit hard — both as a performer and as someone reflecting on a long ...
Jun 04, 2025•25 min•Ep. 1049
Finn Wolfhard has officially gone solo. After fronting Calpurnia and The Aubreys, the Stranger Things star is stepping out under his own name with Happy Birthday , an album of tape-saturated indie rock that pulls from Elliott Smith, Ben Lee, Daniel Johnston, and some garage-punk loudness for good measure. The actor spoke with Kyle Meredith all about it, listen now. Wolfhard wrote 50 songs in a single year, then cherry-picked the most personal ones to record alone — initially planning to hide beh...
Jun 02, 2025•23 min•Ep. 1048
In this two-part Rewind episode, Kyle Meredith catches up with Imperial Teen and Rainer Maria — two cornerstone indie bands that helped shape the lo-fi-to-mainstream arc of alternative music. Listen to their insights now. Taped at different moments in their respective comebacks, both interviews dive into the complexities of making new music after years away. Imperial Teen reflect on their 2012 album Feel the Sound , the logistics of long-distance collaboration, and why they never intentionally c...
May 28, 2025•27 min
Auliʻi Cravalho (best known as the voice of Moana) returns to the mic in Lulu Is a Rhinoceros , a new Apple TV+ animated musical that asks, “What if identity was more than skin — or fur — deep?” Voicing a dog who sees a rhinoceros when they look in the mirror, Cravalho uses this children’s story to navigate themes of gender identity, kindness, and self-acceptance, and talks with Kyle Meredith all about it. Listen now. Cravalho is also coming off a run in Cabaret starring alongside Adam Lambert, ...
May 26, 2025•14 min•Ep. 1047
In this long-lost 2016 conversation, legendary Warner Bros. Records president Lenny Waronker walks Kyle Meredith through the iconic Burbank offices (now shuttered), sharing candid stories about signing Prince, nearly passing on “Wicked Game,” quietly acquiring Tom Petty, and what made the label — and its artists — so visionary. Listen now. Waronker reflects on his early studio days, the genius of Prince’s bassless “When Doves Cry,” the Black Album saga, and how letting artists lead was always th...
May 21, 2025•26 min•Ep. 1047
John Densmore has spent 60 years drumming in the shadow of both jazz greats and one very poetic lizard king, and has lived to talk about it. In this chat, he joins Kyle to dig into The Doors ’ ongoing live album series , the hypnotic pulse of “Riders on the Storm,” and having a front row seat to Ray Manzarek’s insane two-handed abilities. Listen now. He also shares how the band’s improvisational wizardry worked in real time — like jamming out "The End" while Jim Morrison free-associated poetry a...
May 19, 2025•36 min•Ep. 1046
Hannah John-Kamen returns to the MCU in Thunderbolts* , reprising her role as Ghost — a character who’s now less flickery rage-machine, more emotionally self-aware loner with sarcasm issues. The film trades in the usual spandex-and-quips formula for something darker: guilt, depression, shame, and what happens when the Avengers forget your name. It’s a Marvel movie by way of group therapy, and she’s here for it. The actress spoke with Kyle Meredith all about it, and you can listen to the conversa...
May 14, 2025•23 min•Ep. 1045
Gene Simmons returns to Kyle Meredith With… to celebrate the 50th anniversary of KISS ’s Dressed to Kill , the album that gave us the studio version of “Rock and Roll All Nite”—which, according to Gene, may or may not qualify as a hit depending on your definition of the word. Listen now. Simmons reflects on the bands origins as four “unqualified” New Yorkers in makeup and heels who somehow ended up headlining stadiums. He also talks about life after the “final” KISS tour, which includes his new ...
May 12, 2025•31 min•Ep. 1044
Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Nettles join Kyle Meredith to talk about The Bondsman , Prime Video ’s new supernatural dramedy where Bacon plays a dead bounty hunter who gets resurrected to do the devil's bidding. It’s a Blumhouse show, so expect a dash of horror, a dollop of weird, and a good amount of twang. Nettles, best known as half of Sugarland and her role in The Righteous Gemstones , finally plays a musician on-screen — something she’s avoided until now for fear of being accused of, well, play...
May 07, 2025•19 min•Ep. 1043
Adam Duritz joins Kyle Meredith to dive deep into Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets! , the long-awaited completion of Counting Crows ’ two-part album project. The singer opens up about the two-year pause he took due to a crisis of confidence, and how a record by Gang of Youths inspired a complete rewrite where he scrapped and reworked an entire batch of songs for the first time in his career. Listen now. During the in depth conversation, Duritz reflects on Counting Crows’ early days, including...
May 05, 2025•54 min•Ep. 1042
This time on Kyle Meredith With… , it’s a double bill of the most cerebral funk you’ve ever danced to, featuring none other than Talking Heads’ David Byrne & Jerry Harrison. Listen to these archival interviews now. Byrne is the platonic ideal of the quirky frontmen, the king of the oversized suit, and the only guy who can make anxiety sound like a party trick. Whether he’s turning nervous tics into chart-topping hits with Talking Heads, penning essays on music theory, or staging Broadway sho...
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Don Felder has spent the last five decades shaping the sound of classic rock — most famously as the guitar maestro behind The Eagles ’ “Hotel California.” Now, he’s cracking open The Vault: 50 Years of Music , a new album that pulls from demos and song ideas dating back to 1974, when Felder first joined the Eagles. Listen now. In this interview with Kyle Meredith , Felder discusses how he unearthed forgotten gems from a long-abandoned storage unit, reworking early sketches like “Move On” and giv...
Apr 28, 2025•30 min•Ep. 1041
This archive episode from Kyle Meredith With… features two guests with wildly different claims to rock legacy. One helped define it, and one is currently protecting it: Ian Paice of Deep Purple and Jean Fogelberg. Listen to their interviews now. First up is Ian Paice, the last original member still keeping Deep Purple in the game over 50 years later. As the drummer behind “Smoke on the Water,” he’s one of the few humans whose tom fills have been played in every Guitar Center across America. But ...
Apr 23, 2025•19 min
You know Lizzy Greene from her Nickelodeon days ( Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn ), or more recently from A Million Little Things . Now, she’s stepping into a pair of dusty boots for Netflix’s Ransom Canyon , a Western drama where she plays Lauren Brigman, the small-town Texas sheriff’s daughter with big dreams of escape. The role is something of a full-circle moment for the Dallas native, who brought her own background in horseback riding and cheerleading to the role (with a detour to the ER af...
Apr 21, 2025•26 min•Ep. 1040
On this pair of archive interviews from Kyle Meredith With… , dive into the world of one of the most successful duos in music history: Daryl Hall and John Oates. One’s a blue-eyed soul pioneer with a voice built to cut through FM static. The other’s a mustachioed master of melodic restraint. Together, they blurred the lines between rock, R&B, and pop — then turned that blur into decades-long chart domination. We look back at a two interviews, one with Oates in 2018 regarding a solo album and...
Apr 16, 2025•36 min
