“I feel like I’m making an album every single week.”
Siddhartha Khosla on scoring This Is Us, tapping percussion on his desk, and writing music that needed to feel “classic and timeless… something that feels like it’s always been there.”
Kyle Meredith
Unreliable narrator.
“It’s like when you gotta go to the bathroom, you gotta go to the bathroom. There’s nothing stopping you.”
Dan Estrin on writing The Reason in his mom’s guest bedroom, surviving a life-threatening accident days before tour, and still hearing the song in the wild years later: “I’m at the grocery store… and the florist lady is just rocking out, singing it.” Some songs don’t leave quietly.
“…I was told you had to be in a very narrow lane to be legitimate.”
Hamilton's Renée Elise Goldsberry on why it took this long to make Who I Really Am, refusing to pick one genre or identity, and finally giving herself permission to be all of it at once.
“…I just started humping the chair.”
Shelley Hennig on the audition that taught her to fully commit, Obliterated, and how absurdity only lands when you go all in.
“There were some songs that were really good. They just weren’t finished. So we finished them.”
Lou Gramm talking about reopening the Foreigner 4 vault turns into a bigger conversation about deadlines, sobriety, sharing the mic, and why some of his best shows came after he got his life straight. And a new solo album on the way.
My guests on tonight's show are Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, and Jared Leto!
Plus four hours of new cuts, classic alternative, music trivia, and whatever happens when actors start talking about music.
No six degrees required. I already did the math.
6p ET on WFPK.
“You could have a per-minute counter on the d*ck jokes.”
That was Lance Reddick — precise, thoughtful, and completely unafraid to laugh at the absurd.
In this conversation, the late actor moved easily from filthy animation (Farzar) to Shakespeare, musical rhythm, and why he always played the person, never the symbol.
https://www.lpm.org/music/2022-08-17/lance-reddick-i-realized-i-had-to-go-back-to-basics
“If you think the song is about you, you’re probably correct.” Anthrax's Scott Ian didn’t name names, but Get Off doesn’t bother with subtlety anyway. Motor Sister sounds like five friends locking in, turning amps up, and remembering that rock & roll is supposed to be fun. No frills. All frills.
“We check the nostalgia box like a mofo.”
NKOTB's Joey McIntyre on touring, embracing the past without getting stuck in it, and realizing the choreography from 1992 is still very much in their bones.
“I wouldn’t be on this interview if I wasn’t Caleb from Stranger Things,” Caleb McLaughlin said, reflecting on the show that shaped his life and career.
After years of waiting, growing up on set, and learning patience the hard way, tomorrow’s final episode lands as both a payoff and a quiet exhale — the moment where Lucas steps out of Hawkins and Caleb gets to see what comes next.
“I’ve never been more grateful to the show, and I’ve never enjoyed making it more, but I’m ready to welcome a new experience,” Maya Hawke said as Stranger Things headed toward its end. She compared it to graduating — excited, terrified, suddenly without the safety net that’s defined years of her life.
Tomorrow’s finale isn’t just goodbye to Hawkins. It’s the moment where the training wheels come off.
“When Stranger Things came into my life, I didn’t go looking for it — it appeared,” Jamie Campbell Bower said. “And it lined up with what I was already wrestling with.”
As the series reaches its finale, Vecna isn’t just a monster left behind in Hawkins — he’s part of a chapter closing, while Bower keeps pushing forward, building new worlds in music and art that feel just as dark, just as human.
“As Stranger Things is coming to an end now, it’s kind of my job to rediscover who I am after that,” Joe Keery said.
After years of living inside Hawkins, the finale isn’t just the end of a show, it’s the moment where everything opens up, and Steve Harrington finally gets to step aside so the next version can walk in.
“We were shooting it for so long that it was hard to find time for anything else,” Finn Wolfhard said about Stranger Things. “Now that the show ended, we finally have a bit more breathing room.”
After years of growing up inside Hawkins, tomorrow’s finale really is the end of the road — the goodbye that’s been hovering over them for years finally lands.
“I’m really passionate about music that makes you dance,” Ellie Goulding said at SXSW way back in 2011. “But the songs I feel the most from are pop songs.”
Early days, total chaos, and a debut moment where folk, pop, and common sense somehow all coexisted.
“We’ve been talking about the end of Stranger Things for three years,” Gaten Matarazzo laughed. “I promised people they’d get sick of asking us how it feels to say goodbye.”
Now it’s finally here and he’s honest about the freedom, the nerves, and why he’s in no rush to rebrand himself as anything other than someone who loves the work.
Tonight, more #StrangerThings energy on WFPK with Jamie Campbell Bower, Maya Hawke, and Caleb McLaughlin joining me.
Four hours of the best new cuts, classic alternative, music trivia, and whatever else sneaks through the studio door.
6p ET. The Upside Down, one last time.
“…it’s okay to not be okay sometimes.”
Mitchy Collins on how lovelytheband started as a therapy session, “Broken” was the first song they ever wrote, and how letting go of pressure turned into a six-week #1.
“…so many things can happen when you’re young that feel like the end of the world. Then you realize nothing really happens.”
Wallows on naming their debut, dodging the LA scene, and surviving a literal tour bus fire. Growing up, slowly, sounds pretty good.
“…you can accomplish so much by not caring who gets the credit.”
Neil Giraldo on the Pat Benatar's Rock Hall induction, invisible musicians, and scoring Romeo & Juliet.
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