Audrey Nuna joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the wild ride from her sophomore album Trench to becoming part of the global phenomenon KPop Demon Hunters . She digs into how the film changed her career overnight, the surprise of watching a Korean-American project go worldwide, and why recording for HUNTR/X helped her reconnect with the raw, human side of music. Audrey also teases her next album — one focused on imperfection, restraint, and real emotion — and opens up about simulation theory, crea...
Nov 10, 2025•26 min•Ep. 1087
Erika Christensen and Penelope Ann Miller join Kyle Meredith to talk about their new indie film After All , a moving three-generation story about family, forgiveness, and generational trauma. Christensen, who also executive produced, digs into why she was drawn to Ellen—a woman finally forced to grow up—and how the film’s stillness and honesty set it apart from today’s flashier fare. Miller discusses playing a mother facing dementia, channeling her Texas roots, and embracing the discomfort of sh...
Nov 05, 2025•41 min•Ep. 1086
Florence Welch of Florence And The Machine joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her new album Everybody Scream , her gothiest record yet and a sister to Dance Fever . Florence opens up about insecurity, imperfection, and how a near-death experience reshaped her connection to witchcraft and creativity. She discusses recording raw, unpolished takes with Aaron Dessner, lyrical callbacks to “Daffodil” and “Cassandra,” and how this record explores the line between prophecy and catastrophe. Florence also...
Nov 03, 2025•26 min•Ep. 1085
Famke Janssen joins Kyle Meredith to talk about her new Netflix series Amsterdam Empire , where she plays Betty, a former pop star out for revenge after her husband’s very public affair. Janssen dives into developing Betty as both actor and executive producer, working in her native Dutch for the first time, and creating the character’s colorful, childlike fashion herself as co-designer. She also tells Kyle about shooting a full music video as Betty, performing her own vocals and choreography, an...
Oct 29, 2025•22 min•Ep. 1084
Ricky Wilson and Simon Rix of Kaiser Chiefs talk with Kyle Meredith about their comeback moment on Education, Education, Education & War —finding purpose again after lineup changes, learning not to play it safe, and rediscovering the joy of being a band that still has something to say. Cut to three years later, and Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub joins Kyle just as Brexit breaks, reflecting on optimism, aging gracefully in rock, and crafting Here , an album about love and contentment in unce...
Oct 27, 2025•37 min•Ep. 1083
In two conversations spanning seven years, Moby tells Kyle Meredith about creating beauty in chaos — first at SXSW 2011, where he previewed Destroyed , an album and photo book born from sleepless nights in hotel rooms, filled with “broken-down electronics” and midnight-highway moods. Flash forward to 2018, he’s promoting Everything Was Beautiful & Nothing Hurt and unpacking the emotional weight of songs like “Motherless Child,” connecting their grief and longing to his own life and the world...
Oct 22, 2025•24 min•Ep. 1082
Michaela Jaé Rodriguez and Ron Funches join Kyle Meredith to talk all about Season 3 of Loot on Apple TV+. The pair get into what it’s like returning to their characters for a third time, how much of their real lives influence the writing, and the magic of collaborating with the show’s team. They also share what it was like filming the instantly-infamous Nude Beach episode with Henry Winkler (it was freezing), how their off-screen friendships fuel the on-screen chemistry, and what’s next — from ...
Oct 20, 2025•23 min•Ep. 1081
Kyle Meredith talks with Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene about reuniting the sprawling collective for Hug Of Thunder , rediscovering friendship as the heart of creation, and the emotional night they played Manchester just after the attacks—with Johnny Marr joining onstage. Then, Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz joins twice: first in 2015, when she discussed using Foil Deer to push feminism and social awareness into rock’s conversation (“I’d rather be a social justice warrior than a rich kid with a...
Oct 15, 2025•50 min•Ep. 1080
Backstage at Bourbon And Beyond, Kyle Meredith caught up with Mary Chapin Carpenter to talk about her new album Personal History , a record she says she’s been working on for nearly five years and one that truly earns its title. She digs into songs like “Paint + Turpentine” and “Girl and Her Dog,” and how the more personal her stories get, the more universal they become. Then, Kyle talks with Trampled By Turtles’ Erik Berry about Alan Sparkhawk with Trampled By Turtles — their new collaboration ...
Oct 13, 2025•26 min•Ep. 1079
Here’s a double feature: Marty Stuart joined Kyle Meredith in 2017 to talk about his album Way Out West , a record that drifts between cowboy songs, desert psychedelia, surf rock, and even flying saucers, all captured with help from Heartbreaker Mike Campbell. Stuart also opened up about his deep ties with Native communities, his lifelong love of California’s mythology, and how Western folklore still fuels his songwriting. And going back to 2012, the late Justin Townes Earle sat down with Kyle t...
Oct 08, 2025•25 min•Ep. 1078
Ian Astbury of The Cult catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about touring both The Cult and their short-lived precursor #DeathCult on the new Paradise Now tour. Astbury digs into the Orwellian echoes of 1983, why revisiting Death Cult feels like a “zero point” reset, and how it recharges his artistic DNA. He also reflects on being an outlier in the mainstream, the contradictions of fame, and his frustrations with the loss of danger in modern rock. Along the way, he touches on performing with T...
Oct 06, 2025•36 min•Ep. 1077
Kyle Meredith sat down with Colin Hay at both Bonnaroo 2012 and again in 2017, and with Bruce Cockburn that same year, to talk about the strange gifts of staying power. Hay reflected on turning his between-song stories into a comedy tent set, losing Men at Work bandmate Greg Ham while hitting the 30th anniversary of their debut, and how songs can always be reborn if you bring fresh energy. By 2017, he was releasing a new album alongside the documentary Waiting for My Real Life , talking about “s...
Oct 01, 2025•39 min•Ep. 1076
The one and only Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, drops in to talk with Kyle Meredith about her new book Elvira’s Cookbook From Hell . Cassandra Peterson digs into why it took decades to convince publishers this was more than a Halloween gag, but rather a year-round goth lifestyle guide, complete with stories from her childhood, her time in Italy (where she learned to cook and, oh yeah, got kidnapped), and even recipes tied to the 1988 Elvira: Mistress of the Dark film. She also talks about putting...
Sep 29, 2025•25 min•Ep. 1075
Alyvia Alyn Lind joins Kyle Meredith to talk all about the Netflix series Wayward , where she plays a teen trapped in a so-called therapeutic school with cult vibes and a whole lot of buried trauma. The Chucky and Spiderwick Chronicles star digs into the psychological layers of the show, the early-2000s setting (and killer soundtrack featuring Third Eye Blind and Pink Floyd), and what it was like collaborating with creator/co-star Mae Martin. She also touches on her horror fandom, her love of Ha...
Sep 26, 2025•24 min•Ep. 1074
Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy joins Kyle Meredith to dive into his ambitious new triple solo album, Twilight Override . Clocking in at 30 songs across three discs, the project explores the past, present, and future—not as a rigid concept record, but as a flowing arc of memory, meaning, and hope. Tweedy shares how the record was inspired by the voices of his touring band, and how writing for their harmonies pushed the songs into new emotional territory. He also reflects on post-pandemic generational trauma...
Sep 22, 2025•24 min•Ep. 1073
The cast of The Senior -- Michael Chiklis, Rob Corddry, and Mary Stuart Masterson -- along with the actual former football player the movie is based upon, Mike Flynt, join Kyle Meredith to talk about the film's wild-but-true story. The Senior follows Flynt as he becomes the older player to ever suit up for a college football team -- at the age of 59. Chiklis, who was also 59 when filming, talks about the physical toll of hitting the field, how he approached portraying a living person, and why th...
Sep 17, 2025•35 min•Ep. 1072
Hannah Stocking, Madison Pettis, and Yvonne Orji talk with Kyle Meredith about The Wrong Paris on Netflix — where a contestant (played by Miranda Cosgrove) signs up for a Parisian dating show and lands in Paris, Texas instead, plotting an early exit until feelings complicate the plan. We get into audition choices (including a full-throttle Southern accent), improv on set, playing “ambitiously passionate” reality-show personas, and how Yvonne’s hosting on real-life dating shows informed her in-fi...
Sep 15, 2025•17 min•Ep. 1071
Kyle Meredith talks with Willem Dafoe, Corey Hawkins, Anna Diop, and director Nadia Latif about turning Walter Mosley’s novel The Man in My Basement into a psychological thriller where race, trauma, and grief haunt every frame. The story follows Charles Blakey (Corey Hawkins), a man on the verge of losing his ancestral Sag Harbor home, who agrees to rent his basement to the mysterious Aniston Bennett (Willem Dafoe) for the summer—only to find himself pulled into a chilling reckoning with history...
Sep 10, 2025•26 min•Ep. 1070
It's a Rewind double feature today on Kyle Meredith With , as we bring you a pair of episodes from 2017. First, Soft Cell’s Marc Almond talks with Kyle Meredith about shaping his 2017 solo album, Shadows and Reflections , as a '60s-steeped, orchestral “torch and baroque” set—curating lesser-known gems, keeping the original arrangements’ DNA, and slipping in two new cuts (including the filmic “No One to Say Goodnight To” and the Walker Brothers-sized “Embers”). Then on the second half of the epis...
Sep 08, 2025•25 min
Sabrina Impacciatore showed up to The Paper — the long-awaited return to the world birthed by The Office — like a heat-seeking comet, all glamour, sharp elbows, and survival instinct. She spoke with Kyle Meredith about stepping into a franchise with generations of fans and finding the funny even when the stakes feel like a barbell on your shoulders. She calls the weight a motivator, not a burden, and her character of Esmeralda arrives fully charged: vintage-star hair, weaponized nails, and a don...
Sep 03, 2025•20 min•Ep. 1069
Lzzy Hale of Halestorm spoke with Kyle Meredith about Everest , the band’s roaring new record born from a “desert island” headspace in Savannah with Dave Cobb. Nearly three decades into their run, Hale framed the album as a live-wire snapshot instead of a genre exercise: big melodies, bigger punches, and zero interest in coloring inside the lines. It’s the sound of a band refusing to calcify. Listen now. “We were writing and recording in real time,” Hale says, describing how the band ditched old...
Sep 01, 2025•27 min•Ep. 1068
For this edition of Kyle Meredith with... , listen to Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips across three interviews that span their albums King’s Mouth and The Terror , collaborations with Miley Cyrus and Kesha, and covers of The Beatles. Coyne also digs into concept records, becoming a new father, the perception of songs like “Giant Baby,” and why useful music — like “Happy Birthday" — matters. He also reflects on the band’s legacy, staying curious, the balance between pop culture chaos and charity w...
Aug 27, 2025•52 min
David Rysdahl sat down with Kyle Meredith to dig into FX’s Alien: Earth , the latest installment of the Alien franchise. Known for roles in Fargo and Oppenheimer , Rysdahl steps into a story that uses sci-fi horror as a Trojan horse for bigger questions — AI, environmental collapse, corporate greed, even the messy question of whether humanity deserves to stick around. Listen to the conversation now. For Rysdahl, working again with creator Noah Hawley after Fargo meant playing more than just a sc...
Aug 25, 2025•24 min•Ep. 1067
DEVO ’s story has finally been distilled into a new documentary , and it’s landed on Netflix thanks to director Chris Smith. Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale joined Kyle Meredith to talk about the film, which charts the band’s path from Kent State to post-punk pioneers to MTV oddities to cultural prophets who survived long enough to tour with The B-52's (get tickets here !). It’s been a long time coming, but in true DEVO fashion, the doc doesn’t offer an “ultimate truth” — just one version of...
Aug 20, 2025•26 min•Ep. 1066
For this special Rewind episode, Kyle Meredith talks with DJ Shadow, as well as Black Eyed Peas’ Taboo and apl.de.ap, about pushing their artistry into bold new directions. Revisit the conversations now. DJ Shadow takes us inside The Mountain Will Fall , which at the time was his first “artist show” in four years. Plus, he chats about the rediscovery of long-lost multi-tracks and how staying forward-thinking keeps his music vital. Taboo and apl.de.ap discuss their song “Street Livin'” as a raw d...
Aug 18, 2025•32 min
Genndy Tartakovsky has spent decades shaping the animation landscape with everything from Dexter’s Laboratory to Samurai Jack , but when he sat down with Kyle Meredith , the talk was all about his first leap into unapologetically adult animation. His new Netflix film Fixed follows a good-natured dog named Bull on the last wild night before his scheduled neutering, a premise Tartakovsky says came to him in a single lightning-strike moment. Seventeen years, multiple pitches, and one truly committe...
Aug 15, 2025•18 min•Ep. 1064
The Alien franchise has never been short on xenomorphs, but FX ’s Alien: Earth proves there’s plenty more to fear than acid blood and chestbursters. In a conversation with Kyle Meredith , showrunner Noah Hawley , producer David W. Zucker, and cast members Timothy Olyphant , Sydney Chandler, Samuel Blenkin, Alex Lawther, and Babou Ceesay unpacked the series’ deeper bite: AI ethics, corporate dystopias, and what happens when humanity hardwires itself into machines. Listen to all of the conversatio...
Aug 11, 2025•20 min•Ep. 1064
Documentarian Amy Berg has tackled powerful subjects before — from clergy abuse to the West Memphis Three — but this time, she's turned her lens on one of music’s most luminous and elusive figures: Jeff Buckley . In a conversation with Kyle Meredith , Berg opens up about It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley , a documentary that traces the short, brilliant life of the Grace singer through rare archival footage, intimate interviews, and a narrative woven with personal depth. It’s a project that took over...
Aug 06, 2025•32 min•Ep. 1063
Revisit the time Kyle Meredith sat down with John Flansburgh and John Linnell of They Might Be Giants on this special Rewind episode. The crew chats about the albums Nanobots and I Like Fun , digging into how the band continues to find new ways to be weird 20 albums in. Listen to their insights now. The Johns discuss the strange comfort fans find in their music during chaotic times, how short songs and dark characters let them explore new creative corners, and why they’ve never subscribed to the...
Aug 04, 2025•37 min
Luciane Buchanan joins Kyle Meredith With… to talk about her powerful role in Chief of War , the new Apple TV+ series created by and starring Jason Momoa. Set during the late 18th century, the show tells the story of the unification of the Hawaiian Islands—told through an Indigenous lens—and Buchanan plays Queen Ka'ahumanu whose political savvy and presence made the unification possible. It’s an expansive, lushly shot series about resistance, legacy, and the long shadow of colonization. Listen n...
Jul 30, 2025•15 min•Ep. 1062
