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Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · Dec 4

I'm spending my time on Facebook doing music and movie news, as well as lots of interviews. Stop by, leave a comment, or hang for some general loitering.

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Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 13h

“Maybe the music sounds heavy because we were completely unsettled when we made it.”

John Baizley of Baroness digs deep into Stone, balancing beauty and brutality, Nick Cave and Nirvana, and why even their worst songs might still serve a greater purpose.

www.lpm.org/music/2023-1...

Baroness’ John Baizley: “We don’t want to belong to a genre anymore”

Baroness Finds Beauty in the Breakdown: John Baizley on Stones, Scars, and Singing Through the Static

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 17h

Daryl Hall on working with Joni Mitchell, dueting with Todd Rundgren, and making music with Dave Stewart: “We had Joni in the room and didn’t even try writing a song… what were we thinking?”

www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...

Daryl Hall: "I’ve been working in two parallel worlds for decades"

Daryl Hall talks about creating with Robert Fripp, covering Todd Rundgren, & recording with Joni Mitchell

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 17h

DEVO: “The B-52s aren’t weird. We aren’t weird. We just stuck to our visions.”

Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale talk 50 years of de-evolution, Boogie Boy vs. Neil Young, and the candy-coated apocalypse that is their Netflix doc.

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DEVO: “Rock and roll has two or three very basic dumb ideas”

DEVO on De-Evolution, Netflix, and a Candy-Coated Apocalypse

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 1d

Midge Ure on touring with Howard Jones, dueting with Kate Bush, and pretending to be in Kraftwerk: “We’re not just the jukeboxes—we built the jukeboxes.”

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Ultravox's Midge Ure: "We get older but we don’t seem to learn much”

Midge Ure on Howard Jones, Duet with Kate Bush, & The Man Who Sold the World

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 1d

“I’m not here as the guru who figured it all out. I’m still in the trenches.”

Lzzy Hale talks grief-rock anthems, covering Adele like a Tim Burton ghost, and why mental health honesty matters more than perfection.

www.lpm.org/music/2022-1...

Halestorm's Lzzy Hale: "I'm just out here trying to find meaning in chaos”

Lzzy Hale on Breakdown Songs, Dark Covers, and Saying “I’m Not Okay”

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 1d

“Most people are paranoid because we don’t know what’s happening.”

Charles Dance — bone-dry and sharper than ever — talks Rabbit Hole, AI dread, media disillusionment, and eating eggs with Kiefer Sutherland.

www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...

Charles Dance: "Most people are paranoid because we don't know what's happening"

Charles Dance on Paranoia, Punchlines, and the Perils of Playing It Straight

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 1d

John Prine on Tree of Forgiveness, Pluto, and putting the dog before the kids (because it sang better).

“Basically, I’m pretty lazy. But I get around to it.”

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John Prine: “Basically, I’m a little lazy”

John Prine on Scientists, Spector, and the Songs That Won’t Quit

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 2d

Jen Cloher calls her self-titled album her most honest — a record about love, distance, and the politics that sneak into both.

“It’s not a breakup album,” she says. “It’s about being in it.”

www.lpm.org/music/2017-1...

Jen Cloher: “It’s a funny time to be on this planet"

Jen Cloher on Honesty, Home, and How the Dream Fades

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 2d

After being dropped from his label, Scotty McCreery bet his career on “Five More Minutes.” It hit No. 1—without a label—and everything changed. Then he followed with The Soundcheck Sessions, reflecting on love, second chances, and the freedom of writing his own story.

www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...

Scotty McCreery: "People had put me on this pedestal"

Scotty McCreery on Reinvention, Real Love, and the Long Road Back

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 2d

“We’re not the young underdogs anymore. We’re the ones carrying the torch.”

State Champs' Derek DiScanio on Kings of the New Age, confidence, and finally debunking that damn “Stitches” cover.

www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...

State Champs' Derek Discanio: “We’re not the young, exciting underband anymore”

State Champs’ Derek DiScanio on Confidence, Covers, and Carrying the Pop-Punk Torch

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 2d

Giles Martin on remixing Sgt. Pepper: “The Beatles weren’t old men making nostalgic music—they were in their twenties. I want people to hear that youth again.”

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Giles Martin: “You could argue that Sgt. Pepper is the greatest album of all time”

Giles Martin on Sgt. Pepper, Preserving the Beatles’ Magic, and Hearing the World for His Father

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 2d

“We’re fleas on the back of a dog named Earth,” says Les Claypool. Sean Lennon adds, “We’re having a party while the world burns.”

www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...

Les Claypool & Sean Lennon: "Sometimes you stand on the edge of disaster just to see what it feels like”

Les Claypool & Sean Lennon on South of Reality, Cosmic Chaos, and Partying While the World Burns

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 2d

Tonight’s guest list: Tommy Stinson of The Replacements, Baroness’ John Dyer Baizley, and Harry Potter director David Yates.

Add 4 hours of new music, classic alt, and whatever else sneaks in.

6p ET on WFPK

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 2d

Wallows say Model is their most confident record yet — and they still cut some of their best songs.

We talked boy band melodies, B-side magic, and recording fast with John Congleton.

www.lpm.org/music/2024-0...

Wallows: "We’re in a more assured place, personally and as a band"

Wallows on Model, the Art of the B-Side, and How Their Saddest Song Was Inspired by a Boy Band

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 3d

Daryl J. Johnson once chased Miley Cyrus down the street naked on Punk’d. So when Jake Johnson asked him to do a toilet scene in Self Reliance, he said, “That’s nothing.”

www.lpm.org/music/2024-0...

Daryl J Johnson: "I ran down a street naked chasing Miley Cyrus"

Daryl J. Johnson on Self Reliance, Toilet Humor, and Why He’ll Never Trust Andy Samberg in a Limo

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 3d

“Hip-hop killed song structure in the best way,” says Patrick Watson. On Waves, he’s letting go of form, metaphor, and even pain itself—channeling Leonard Cohen, Frank Ocean, and a flooded street in Beijing into one of his most intimate records.

www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...

Patrick Watson: “I don’t want to write something that makes people feel worse"

Patrick Watson on Waves, Leonard Cohen, and the Music That Makes the Body Buzz

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 3d

CJ Ramone says he’s “a pirate who can pull into any port and feel at home,” but California’s been good for the former Marine and one of the last Ramones standing.

We talked about The Holy Spell, Justin Timberlake’s surprising fandom, and maybe retiring to a boat.

www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...

CJ Ramone: “The Ramones influenced more groups than any band after the Beatles”

CJ Ramone on California Dreams, Lost Friends, and Punk Retirement

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 3d

Noelle Scaggs moved to Nashville, hit creative burnout, and still helped Fitz and the Tantrums write the most infectious track of their career. “We were asking ourselves, is this really us?” she says of “HandClap.” It was, and then some.

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Fitz & the Tantrums' Noelle Scaggs: “We got burned out and needed real life stuff"

Fitz & the Tantrums' Noelle Scaggs on Moving to Nashville, Creative Growing Pains, and the Birth of “HandClap”

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 3d

After a decade in the Harry Potter world, director David Yates dives into Big Pharma’s dark side with Pain Hustlers. Or as producer Lawrence Grey puts it: “We went from Hogwarts to hot tubs full of pharma reps.”

www.lpm.org/music/2023-1...

David Yates: “We went from Hogwarts to hot tubs full of pharma reps"

David Yates and Lawrence Grey on Pain Hustlers, Emily Blunt’s Moral Whirlwind, and Finding Truth in the Greed

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 4d

OK Go's Damian Kulash wrote a breakup album before the breakup happened — and only realized it after his wife walked out.

“Turns out I was trying to tell myself something.”

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OK Go’s Damian Kulash: “The distinction between songwriting and making a video is arbitrary”

OK Go’s Damian Kulash on Hungry Ghosts, Viral Afterlife, and Writing a Breakup Album Before the Breakup

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 4d

Neil Halstead sent Slowdive 40 electronic sketches before they started everything is alive. “We were scared of the pop version,” he says of their hit “Kisses.”

Also: the band still records in the same studio they used in the 90s. Same leather sofa and everything.

www.lpm.org/music/2024-0...

Slowdive's Neil Halstead: “We’ve always been an overly curated band"

Slowdive’s Neil Halstead on Shoegaze Moods, 60s Pop, & Old Studio Couches

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 4d

CHVRCHES’ Screen Violence started as a horror concept — and then became real.

“Some stuff went wrong inside my aquarium,” Lauren Mayberry says. “So I wrote my way out.”

www.lpm.org/music/2021-1...

Chvrches' Lauren Mayberry: "The dark forces have blessed us"

Lauren Mayberry on Horror, Hope, and Haunting Her Own Ghosts

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 4d

Nathaniel Rateliff calls And It’s Still Alright “kind of a divorce record wrapped in a death record,” but it’s also about finding hope.

“I acknowledge the darkness, but I want there to be more than that.”

www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...

Nathaniel Rateliff: "There’s beauty in the struggle"

Nathaniel Rateliff on Divorce, Death, and the Unexpected Hope Behind And It’s Still Alright

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 4d

Will Butler wrote Generations while yelling “What do I do?!” into the void — and turned it into a dance party.

“It’s all thorny. I’m just trying to show up.”

www.lpm.org/music/2020-1...

Arcade Fire's Will Butler: "I think every songwriter makes a persona"

Will Butler on Generations, American Guilt, and the Punk Theater of Not Knowing Anything at All

Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org · 4d

Jamila Woods on Legacy! Legacy!: “Each track is a self-portrait through someone else’s name.”

We talked poetry, Afrofuturism, and why she included a bibliography in the liner notes.

www.lpm.org/music/2019-1...

Jamila Woods: “For Black people, just imagining ourselves in the future is revolutionary”

Jamila Woods on Legacy! Legacy!, Afrofuturism, and Writing Self-Portraits Through Her Heroes