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Pretty Lights at Bonnaroo talking about building A Color Map Of The Sun from scratch — recording whole bands & orchestras just to sample himself, pushing past EDM labels, and breaking down his HSF (“heart, soul, flavor”) philosophy.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Pretty Lights at Bonnaroo talking about building A Color Map Of The Sun from scratch — recording whole bands & orchestras just to sample himself, pushing past EDM labels, and breaking down his HSF (“heart, soul, flavor”) philosophy.
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Tonight on WFPK, we’re throwing Bring Me The Horizon, AFI, and Alexis Ren into the same four-hour blender and seeing what happens.
Plus music trivia, new cuts, classic alternative, and a little bit of everything.
Starts at 6p ET.
Plus music trivia, new cuts, classic alternative, and a little bit of everything.
Starts at 6p ET.
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Tonight on WFPK, we’re throwing Bring Me The Horizon, AFI, and Alexis Ren into the same four-hour blender and seeing what happens.
Plus music trivia, new cuts, classic alternative, and a little bit of everything.
Starts at 6p ET.
Plus music trivia, new cuts, classic alternative, and a little bit of everything.
Starts at 6p ET.
Stranger Things is ending and Gaten Matarazzo joins me to talk about the (very) long goodbye, his role in Andy Serkis’ Animal Farm, Lego Star Wars, and why theater still feels like home.
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Gaten Matarazzo on Stranger Things, Lego Star Wars, and Saying Goodbye: Podcast
Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo talks about saying goodbye to the hit Netflix series with Season 5, and what comes next on the Kyle Meredith With podcast.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Stranger Things is ending and Gaten Matarazzo joins me to talk about the (very) long goodbye, his role in Andy Serkis’ Animal Farm, Lego Star Wars, and why theater still feels like home.
consequence.net/2025/11/gate...
consequence.net/2025/11/gate...
Van William’s The Revolution started as a breakup EP but turned into one of the most unexpectedly timely collections of songs out there. Heartache, political fractures, mountain isolation, First Aid Kit harmonies—this one hits on a few different levels.
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www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
Van William: “These last few years have been super heavy”
Van William on Breakups, Bernie's Shadow, and Writing His Way Out of the Wilderness
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November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Van William’s The Revolution started as a breakup EP but turned into one of the most unexpectedly timely collections of songs out there. Heartache, political fractures, mountain isolation, First Aid Kit harmonies—this one hits on a few different levels.
www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
I talked with Clem Burke—who we lost this April—about Bowie, Blondie’s early demos, and why “ripping yourself off” was part of the magic. Listening back now feels like a time capsule.
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www.lpm.org/music/2022-1...
Blondie's Clem Burke: “It’s really against the odds that we would have had this kind of success”
Clem Burke on Blondie’s Wild Archive, Bowie’s Cosmic Nudge, and Why It’s Fine to Rip Yourself Off
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November 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I talked with Clem Burke—who we lost this April—about Bowie, Blondie’s early demos, and why “ripping yourself off” was part of the magic. Listening back now feels like a time capsule.
www.lpm.org/music/2022-1...
www.lpm.org/music/2022-1...
Tonight on WFPK: Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Josh Homme (QOTSA), and Tadanobu Asano (Shogun)
Plus trivia, new cuts, classics, and the usual detours I swear I meant to take.
6p ET.
Plus trivia, new cuts, classics, and the usual detours I swear I meant to take.
6p ET.
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Tonight on WFPK: Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Josh Homme (QOTSA), and Tadanobu Asano (Shogun)
Plus trivia, new cuts, classics, and the usual detours I swear I meant to take.
6p ET.
Plus trivia, new cuts, classics, and the usual detours I swear I meant to take.
6p ET.
The Kills made God Games with major chords from Alison, minor chords from Jamie’s injured hand, and a vocal take off GarageBand. “My mind is a haunted house,” Mosshart says.
www.lpm.org/music/2023-1...
www.lpm.org/music/2023-1...
The Kills: "The less ability to you have, the more ideas you have"
The Kills on Witchy Songs, Church Studios, & Godless Spirituals
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November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Kills made God Games with major chords from Alison, minor chords from Jamie’s injured hand, and a vocal take off GarageBand. “My mind is a haunted house,” Mosshart says.
www.lpm.org/music/2023-1...
www.lpm.org/music/2023-1...
Chloe Coleman on My Spy 2: “Pete made me look so cool.” She trained in martial arts, rode a Vespa, and shot in a deserted Coliseum. “I still dream about the food.”
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www.lpm.org/music/2024-0...
Chloe Coleman: “If I’m not feeling confident, it doesn’t come out the same"
Chloe Coleman on My Spy: The Eternal City, Leveling Up, and Owning the Action Hero Vibe
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November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Chloe Coleman on My Spy 2: “Pete made me look so cool.” She trained in martial arts, rode a Vespa, and shot in a deserted Coliseum. “I still dream about the food.”
www.lpm.org/music/2024-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2024-0...
Alexis Ren went from social media star to sci-fi standout in Latency, a two-hander thriller about isolation, AI, and gamer life that feels like Hackers meets Her. “Jen doesn’t give a flying—,” she told me. “It was so fun to play someone like that.”
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www.lpm.org/music/2024-0...
Alexis Ren: “We’ve becoming more connected and disconnected at the same time"
Alexis Ren on Latency, Mind-Reading Game Consoles, and Letting Go of the “Cool Girl” Mask
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November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Alexis Ren went from social media star to sci-fi standout in Latency, a two-hander thriller about isolation, AI, and gamer life that feels like Hackers meets Her. “Jen doesn’t give a flying—,” she told me. “It was so fun to play someone like that.”
www.lpm.org/music/2024-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2024-0...
Bruce Hornsby pulled from Spike Lee film cues, Stevie Wonder drum grooves, and Father John Misty vibes to make Absolute Zero—an album as genre-defying as it is sneakily funky. “Steve Reich meets Prince,” he joked about one track. Not your average adult contemporary guy.
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
Bruce Hornsby: “I’ve spent my career mystifying the people who try to typecast me”
Bruce Hornsby on Absolute Zero, Scoring Spike Lee, and Channeling Prince Through Space and Steve Reich
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November 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Bruce Hornsby pulled from Spike Lee film cues, Stevie Wonder drum grooves, and Father John Misty vibes to make Absolute Zero—an album as genre-defying as it is sneakily funky. “Steve Reich meets Prince,” he joked about one track. Not your average adult contemporary guy.
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
During lockdown, Alison Mosshart dropped her solo single “Rise,” recorded a b-side with leaves, and edited her own videos. “Even when I’m showing support, it sounds menacing.”
www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...
Alison Mosshart: “I was trying to believe there was light at the end of the tunnel”
Alison Mosshart on Solo Ventures, Voice Experiments, and Kicking the Guitar’s Ass Again
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November 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
During lockdown, Alison Mosshart dropped her solo single “Rise,” recorded a b-side with leaves, and edited her own videos. “Even when I’m showing support, it sounds menacing.”
www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...
The Cult's Ian Astbury says nostalgia is an illusion, Death Cult is “beatific savagery,” and Coldplay winning Best Rock is not the problem. “We’ve always been the outlier.”
www.lpm.org/music/2025-1...
www.lpm.org/music/2025-1...
The Cult's Ian Astbury: “We’ve always been the outlier. The contradiction.”
Ian Astbury on Revisiting Death Cult, Surviving Stardom, and the Return of the Outsiders
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November 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The Cult's Ian Astbury says nostalgia is an illusion, Death Cult is “beatific savagery,” and Coldplay winning Best Rock is not the problem. “We’ve always been the outlier.”
www.lpm.org/music/2025-1...
www.lpm.org/music/2025-1...
Son Little recorded parts of New Magic in Australia. “It sparked something in me,” he told me. The album’s lead single is gto tagged as the song of the summer.
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www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
Son Little: “There’s something about finding your place, accepting the quiet"
Son Little on Finding New Magic, Singing for Richie Havens, and Making the Song of the Summer
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November 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Son Little recorded parts of New Magic in Australia. “It sparked something in me,” he told me. The album’s lead single is gto tagged as the song of the summer.
www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
Jesse Colin Young: “We didn’t choose Juneteenth for the release, but it couldn’t have been more perfect.” He and Steve Miller re-recorded “Get Together” to help fight hunger — every stream helps.
www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...
The Youngbloods' Jesse Colin Young: "Some people grow food, I grow music"
Jesse Colin Young on Reviving “Get Together” With Steve Miller, Feeding the Hungry, and Falling in Love With a New Generation
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November 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Jesse Colin Young: “We didn’t choose Juneteenth for the release, but it couldn’t have been more perfect.” He and Steve Miller re-recorded “Get Together” to help fight hunger — every stream helps.
www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...
Jamie Campbell Bower: “I’d rather it be nasty and crappy and feely than perfect and shiny and emotionless.” New music, Vecna’s voice, and a sonic descent into the Nine Circles of Hell.
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#music #tv #movies
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November 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Jamie Campbell Bower: “I’d rather it be nasty and crappy and feely than perfect and shiny and emotionless.” New music, Vecna’s voice, and a sonic descent into the Nine Circles of Hell.
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#music #tv #movies
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#music #tv #movies
Karen O on Lux Prima: “It’s like writing a soundtrack for a film that doesn’t exist yet.”
Also: Corgan approved her Bullet With Butterfly Wings cover.
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Also: Corgan approved her Bullet With Butterfly Wings cover.
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Karen O: "Touring is like a glove that never fit for me"
Karen O on Danger Mouse, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Yeah Yeah Yeah's
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November 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Karen O on Lux Prima: “It’s like writing a soundtrack for a film that doesn’t exist yet.”
Also: Corgan approved her Bullet With Butterfly Wings cover.
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
Also: Corgan approved her Bullet With Butterfly Wings cover.
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
Little Steven: “Nobody wanted Underground Garage at first. Now we’ve introduced over 1,000 bands. And if you're counting songs in an E Street setlist, you're not really listening.”
www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...
Little Steven: “Lets celebrate everything that was cool, because not very much is cool anymore”
Steven Van Zandt on Bruce Springsteen, The British Invasion, & The Underground Garage
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November 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Little Steven: “Nobody wanted Underground Garage at first. Now we’ve introduced over 1,000 bands. And if you're counting songs in an E Street setlist, you're not really listening.”
www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...
Lissie left California, bought a farm in Iowa, went fully independent, and started calling things as she sees them. “I don’t have superstardom in my sights. I just want to be myself and talk about the things that matter to me.”
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www.lpm.org/music/2016-0...
Lissie: "I didn’t want to just sit on my porch forever”
Lissie on My Wild West, Bernie, and Starting Over in Iowa
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November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Lissie left California, bought a farm in Iowa, went fully independent, and started calling things as she sees them. “I don’t have superstardom in my sights. I just want to be myself and talk about the things that matter to me.”
www.lpm.org/music/2016-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2016-0...
Mick Rock on Lou Reed: “The shot was out of focus. I thought it looked unprofessional. Lou said, ‘That’s the cover.’” Icon status: achieved.
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Mick Rock: “I shot the covers for both Raw Power and Transformer within a 24 hour period”
Mick Rock on Lou Reed, Transformer, and the Out-of-Focus Shot That Changed Rock Photography
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November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Mick Rock on Lou Reed: “The shot was out of focus. I thought it looked unprofessional. Lou said, ‘That’s the cover.’” Icon status: achieved.
www.lpm.org/music/2017-1...
www.lpm.org/music/2017-1...
“I couldn’t dance—I was too heartbroken. That’s why I covered ‘Dance With Somebody.’”
Conor Maynard talks Whitney, breakups, Broadway tricks & his hundreds of buried demos.
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
Conor Maynard talks Whitney, breakups, Broadway tricks & his hundreds of buried demos.
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
Conor Maynard: "I’ve always wanted covers to sound like new songs”
Conor Maynard on Covers, Catharsis, and the Broadway Trick That Changed His Voice
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November 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“I couldn’t dance—I was too heartbroken. That’s why I covered ‘Dance With Somebody.’”
Conor Maynard talks Whitney, breakups, Broadway tricks & his hundreds of buried demos.
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
Conor Maynard talks Whitney, breakups, Broadway tricks & his hundreds of buried demos.
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
Guster’s Ryan Miller on evolving: “We’re not clawing to stay relevant. We’re clawing to not be stuck in the ‘90s.”
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www.lpm.org/music/2016-0...
Guster's Ryan Miller: "We lost some purists, but the rest are in it for the adventure"
Guster’s Ryan Miller on Evolution, Spiritual Misreadings, and Surviving the Bongo Backlash
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November 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Guster’s Ryan Miller on evolving: “We’re not clawing to stay relevant. We’re clawing to not be stuck in the ‘90s.”
www.lpm.org/music/2016-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2016-0...
Violent Femmes’ Brian Ritchie joined me to celebrate the anniversary of 3—a raw, underrated gem born from a reunion no one made a big deal about. We talked about Gordon’s inversion boot trauma, protest songs, and a more recent Femmes record they knocked out in five days.
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
Violent Femmes’ Brian Ritchie: “We didn’t split up for any particularly good reason”
Violent Femmes’ Brian Ritchie on the Underrated ‘3,’ Inversion Boots, and New Albums
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November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Violent Femmes’ Brian Ritchie joined me to celebrate the anniversary of 3—a raw, underrated gem born from a reunion no one made a big deal about. We talked about Gordon’s inversion boot trauma, protest songs, and a more recent Femmes record they knocked out in five days.
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2019-0...
Phoenix’s Thomas Mars told me how Fellini logic and museum‑top experimentation went into Te Amo. We talked Italian disco vibes, singing in a not‑quite‑right English on purpose, and why messing with his voice made the whole band’s eyes light up.
www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
Phoenix's Thomas Mars: "We’ve always been creating our own language"
Phoenix on Italian Discos, Fellini Logic, and Turning Their Studio into a Three‑Year Funhouse
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November 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Phoenix’s Thomas Mars told me how Fellini logic and museum‑top experimentation went into Te Amo. We talked Italian disco vibes, singing in a not‑quite‑right English on purpose, and why messing with his voice made the whole band’s eyes light up.
www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
Cherry Jones on Five Days at Memorial:
“For all the moral ambiguity… I hope people wake up a bit and ask, what are we going to do about this?”
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“For all the moral ambiguity… I hope people wake up a bit and ask, what are we going to do about this?”
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Cherry Jones on Five Days at Memorial:
“For all the moral ambiguity… I hope people wake up a bit and ask, what are we going to do about this?”
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
“For all the moral ambiguity… I hope people wake up a bit and ask, what are we going to do about this?”
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
Carly Rae Jepsen and I talked about climbing trees in gowns, frolicking Kate Bush-style, touring with her “band brothers,” and why no one throws a family dance party like the Jepsens.
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
Carly Rae Jepsen: "I was kind of forced to look in the mirror"
Carly Rae Jepsen on Frolicking, Finding Herself, and the Wind That Blew Her Back
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November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Carly Rae Jepsen and I talked about climbing trees in gowns, frolicking Kate Bush-style, touring with her “band brothers,” and why no one throws a family dance party like the Jepsens.
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...