Unreliable narrator.
#Jewel’s album Freewheelin’ Woman is her most fearless yet — a little Muscle Shoals, a little Chekhov, and a lot of soul-baring honesty. We talked about her mental health activism, industry double standards, and the weirdest lullaby success story ever.
https://www.lpm.org/music/2022-07-12/jewel-i-like-to-be-on-the-edge-of-failure
#LizzyGreene joins me tonight on @WFPK to talk #RansomCanyon!
Also spinning Etta James, Sault, Ramones, Wet Leg, Massive Attack, Leon Bridges, The Killers, Nick Cave & the Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn theme.
6p ET.
Modern cowboys, post-punk, and sibling chaos.
They got the Strokes. They got shrooms. They got a city on fire.
#WyattOleff and #ChaseSuiWonders join me to talk about the Apple TV+ series #CityOnFire—the chaos of 2003-era New York, what happens when you film psychedelic scenes in the East Village at 3 a.m., and how a #Radiohead song still makes Wyatt cry.
Also, turns out Chase is writing a TV series, Wyatt knows how to use a payphone now, and both are quietly manifesting a Season 2.
#Semisonic’s label said Feeling Strangely Fine had “no singles.” #DanWilson almost believed them… until he ghosted the label, they gave up, and “Closing Time” became an all-time anthem.
We talked dream songs, #CaroleKing collabs & #Adele hits.
#Jewel joins me on the show tonight—so yes, we’ll be unpacking poetry, pain, and the power of yodel-adjacent pop-folk.
Also on rotation: Matthew Sweet (power pop dreamboat), Tori Amos (piano exorcisms), Mike Watt (punk philosopher), Aimee Mann (emotional sniper), Folk Implosion (Lo-fi and loaded), Lake Street Dive (jazz-pop swagger), and new Lorde.
6p ET on WFPK. Vulnerable, volatile, vibey.
#HippoCampus didn’t just write an album. They threw open the doors of their mental health, their relationships, and their creative process—and recorded what happened.
Bambi finds the band leaning into emotional chaos, electronic textures, and trumpet solos, with lyrics about anxiety, masculinity, and figuring out how to stay human in a collapsing timeline.
#JackJohnson made his most sonically adventurous, philosophically curious, and beer-bottle-blown record yet.
Meet the Moonlight dives into empathy, tribalism, and keeping an “Open Mind”—even if producer Blake Mills isn’t sure that’s a good thing.
We talk bottle flutes, surfing-inspired choruses, and why the refillable cup movement might just save the world (or at least your next concert).
#DanWilson is my guest tonight—which means we’re talking #Semisonic, songwriting sorcery, and the subtle power of a perfectly placed chord change.
Also on deck: Harry Nilsson (chaotic genius), Marianne Faithfull (voice of gravel and grace), Jack White (still building guitars from haunted barn wood), Blondie (punk disco royalty), Prince (everything), new Primus with Maynard James Keenan, and the theme to Today’s Special, for anyone who grew up trusting mannequins.
6p ET on WFPK.
#DanielleMacdonald on being handcuffed to an oven, dancing to “Piano Man,” filming in Ireland, and why The Tourist S2 was never supposed to exist.
Also: #JellyRoll, #Blink182, and the dream of Iceland S3.
On today’s episode of Kyle Meredith With… I’m joined by #TheDoors drummer #JohnDensmore.
We dig into the band’s 60th anniversary, unravel the myth of #JimMorrison, talk about reuniting with Robby Krieger, and get into a whole lot more.
https://consequence.net/2025/05/john-densmore-the-doors-interview-podcast/
#JackJohnson drops by tonight, so expect chill vibes, deeper thoughts, and the quiet threat of a surfboard just out of frame.
Also in the mix: Bowie (glam philosopher), Zeppelin (mythological riff beasts), The Flaming Lips (technicolor weirdos), Lou Reed (cooler than you), Elton John, new Anders Osborne covering Neil Young, and one of the Spin City themes.
6p ET on WFPK. Sand between your toes, static on your soul.
This week on Kyle Meredith With...:
🪘 John Densmore (The Doors)
🎛️ Lenny Waronker (Warner Records legend)
And on WFPK (weeknights at 6p ET):
Jack Johnson, Dan Wilson, Jewel, Lizzy Greene & H. Jon Benjamin.
A chill wave of weird just for you.
ALO's #ZachGill has thoughts about fatherhood, guilty pleasures, and what #SteelyDan arguments reveal about your soul.
Life in the Multiverse might be billed as a solo album, but it’s got daughters on backing vocals, songs about his dad ordering a guitar from a Sears catalog, and one very convincing lie about a Turtles cover being written for his youngest.
Plus: the politics of punk, the philosophy of Carl Jung, and why We Built This City might actually slap.
#APerfectCircle's Billy Howerdel says What Normal Was is the record his teenage self was always looking for—B-52s, The Cars, Cure vibes, and yes, some parental eye-rolling.
“We had too much good music back then.”
#Passenger’s Songs for the Drunk and Brokenhearted isn’t just another breakup album — it’s a full circle of heartbreak, lockdown melancholy, accidental #LeonardCohen tributes, and environmental redemption. We talked about lyrical cringe, pandemic creativity, and why playing his old albums live during quarantine forced him to rethink his entire catalog.
Also: he wrote a ballad for his cat. She hated it.
#MaryTylerMoore changed TV by wearing pants. And that was just the beginning.
I spoke with #LenaWaithe and Rishi Rajani about their Emmy-nominated doc Being Mary Tyler Moore, unpacking the quiet radicalism of Moore’s work, the brutal Susskind interview, and what it means to be a reluctant feminist icon.
Also: their follow up doc tackles why America turns to Black music in hard times.
https://www.lpm.org/music/2023-10-01/lena-waithe-mary-tyler-moore-was-the-jackie-o-of-television
#CraigFerguson may be done with stand-up, but he’s not done being Craig Ferguson. In our chat, he talks about the Hobo Fabulous docuseries, #Trump jokes, why PC culture is good, and his next move: directing a feel-good sports movie.
🎤 “I think I might be done doing stand-up.”
👀 “PC culture forces you to be clever.”
🎬 “Now I just want to wear a puffy jacket and tell people what to do.”
https://www.lpm.org/music/2020-01-31/craig-ferguson-i-think-i-might-be-done-doing-standup
My latest interview with Josh Homme of #QOTSA. We talk In Times New Roman, why genre is “for teenagers and people who work at record stores,” and how gallows humor keeps him sane in a world on fire.
🔊 “Are you here to service the proof of nothing?”
💀 “When life is rough, it’s really fucking funny.”
🍦 “No one else licks Rocky Road.”
Roger Earl says being in #Foghat for 50 years hasn’t dulled his edge—it’s just sharpened his commitment to never play a drum solo in a ballad.
We talk about the live album Eight Days on the Road, recording at Daryl’s House, recruiting Charlie Huhn by mailing him 30 songs, the true secret to Guitar Hero immortality, and why any song with more than three chords should be viewed with “a certain amount of suspicion.”
P.O.D.’s Satellite dropped on 9/11. It had a song called Alive that sounded like a prayer and Youth of the Nation that sounded like a warning.
Over 20 years later, #SonnySandoval tells me what it was like to write two blocks from a school shooting, why hope was their accidental superpower, and how HR from #BadBrains showed up to the studio with two parakeets.
https://www.lpm.org/music/2021-11-22/p-o-d-s-sonny-sandoval-were-a-band-of-love-and-hope