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#MaiaMitchell & Susie Porter joined me to talk #TheArtfulDodger S2: classism, sexism, Belle’s tougher turn, and surgery scenes so realistic they built full torsos… including that belly-button moment.
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Maia Mitchell and Susie Porter on The Artful Dodger and the Second Season’s Grossest Surgery: Podcast
Maia Mitchell and Susie Porter join the Kyle Meredith With podcast to dive into Season 2 of The Artful Dodger and the season’s grossest surgery.
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February 16, 2026 at 4:50 PM
#MaiaMitchell & Susie Porter joined me to talk #TheArtfulDodger S2: classism, sexism, Belle’s tougher turn, and surgery scenes so realistic they built full torsos… including that belly-button moment.
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“Kentucky has one of the best tax incentives for film in the entire nation.”
Aaron Wiggen said that’s why Louisville is landing bigger projects and bigger names. “The biggest thing I see is the steady growth.” From PA to director, he’s watching it happen in real time.
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Aaron Wiggen said that’s why Louisville is landing bigger projects and bigger names. “The biggest thing I see is the steady growth.” From PA to director, he’s watching it happen in real time.
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Aaron Wiggen: “Kentucky has one of the best tax incentives for film in the entire nation"
Filmmaker Aaron Wiggen on Louisville’s Film Boom, Starting at the Bottom, and Surviving Rochester in February
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February 16, 2026 at 4:39 PM
“Kentucky has one of the best tax incentives for film in the entire nation.”
Aaron Wiggen said that’s why Louisville is landing bigger projects and bigger names. “The biggest thing I see is the steady growth.” From PA to director, he’s watching it happen in real time.
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Aaron Wiggen said that’s why Louisville is landing bigger projects and bigger names. “The biggest thing I see is the steady growth.” From PA to director, he’s watching it happen in real time.
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Tonight’s guests: Andy Taylor (Duran Duran), Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads), and Dave Wakeling (The English Beat)!
Additional infractions: new music, classics, news, and disruptive levels of fun facts.
6p ET on WFPK. No early dismissal.
Additional infractions: new music, classics, news, and disruptive levels of fun facts.
6p ET on WFPK. No early dismissal.
February 16, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Tonight’s guests: Andy Taylor (Duran Duran), Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads), and Dave Wakeling (The English Beat)!
Additional infractions: new music, classics, news, and disruptive levels of fun facts.
6p ET on WFPK. No early dismissal.
Additional infractions: new music, classics, news, and disruptive levels of fun facts.
6p ET on WFPK. No early dismissal.
“We live in a world that’s a constant, snowballing assault on our senses.”
Justin Lockey talks Trump, Brexit, and the far right popping up everywhere you look. “Just pick a country,” he said.
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Justin Lockey talks Trump, Brexit, and the far right popping up everywhere you look. “Just pick a country,” he said.
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Editors's Justin Lockey: “We live in a world that’s a constant, snowballing assault on our senses"
Editors’ Justin Lockey on the Duality of Violence, Political Undercurrents, and the Hope Beneath the Darkness
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February 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM
“We live in a world that’s a constant, snowballing assault on our senses.”
Justin Lockey talks Trump, Brexit, and the far right popping up everywhere you look. “Just pick a country,” he said.
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Justin Lockey talks Trump, Brexit, and the far right popping up everywhere you look. “Just pick a country,” he said.
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“The only real color in America is green.”
Sugaray Rayford on wrapping heavy truths inside deep grooves on Human Decency.
“Wake the hell up, people.”
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Sugaray Rayford on wrapping heavy truths inside deep grooves on Human Decency.
“Wake the hell up, people.”
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Sugaray Rayford: "When blues and soul are done right, there's nothing better"
Sugaray Rayford on His Grammy Nominated Blues and Tributes to Bill Withers & Little Feat
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February 14, 2026 at 12:49 AM
“The only real color in America is green.”
Sugaray Rayford on wrapping heavy truths inside deep grooves on Human Decency.
“Wake the hell up, people.”
www.lpm.org/music/2024-1...
Sugaray Rayford on wrapping heavy truths inside deep grooves on Human Decency.
“Wake the hell up, people.”
www.lpm.org/music/2024-1...
“I wanted the world, so to speak.”
Zach Condon on #Beirut’s Gallipoli.
Escapism. A flea-market postcard. And the most Beirut record he could make.
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Zach Condon on #Beirut’s Gallipoli.
Escapism. A flea-market postcard. And the most Beirut record he could make.
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Beirut's Zach Condon: "I like holding this space that’s missing in music.”
Zach Condon talks Berlin’s Influence, Indiana Jones, Game of Thrones, and Writing the Most “Beirut” Album Yet
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February 14, 2026 at 12:48 AM
“I wanted the world, so to speak.”
Zach Condon on #Beirut’s Gallipoli.
Escapism. A flea-market postcard. And the most Beirut record he could make.
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Zach Condon on #Beirut’s Gallipoli.
Escapism. A flea-market postcard. And the most Beirut record he could make.
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“If I don’t feel anxious about the record… something’s wrong.”
Shane Told on #Silverstein’s A Beautiful Place to Drown. Mass anxiety. Vietnam draft history. A saxophone cameo.
“We better put up or shut up.”
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Shane Told on #Silverstein’s A Beautiful Place to Drown. Mass anxiety. Vietnam draft history. A saxophone cameo.
“We better put up or shut up.”
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Silverstein's Shane Told: “If I don’t feel anxious about the record, something’s wrong”
Silverstein on Screaming in the Right Places, and Why Saxophones Belong in Emo Now
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February 14, 2026 at 12:42 AM
“If I don’t feel anxious about the record… something’s wrong.”
Shane Told on #Silverstein’s A Beautiful Place to Drown. Mass anxiety. Vietnam draft history. A saxophone cameo.
“We better put up or shut up.”
www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...
Shane Told on #Silverstein’s A Beautiful Place to Drown. Mass anxiety. Vietnam draft history. A saxophone cameo.
“We better put up or shut up.”
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“You should finish every song, because someone will love it.”
Peter Hook on playing every Joy Division & New Order track live — even the weird B-sides.
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Peter Hook on playing every Joy Division & New Order track live — even the weird B-sides.
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Joy Division / New Order's Peter Hook: “These songs are still changing people’s lives"
Peter Hook on Revisiting Joy Division & New Order, Nostalgia, and Why He’s Still Fighting for a Happy Ending
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February 14, 2026 at 12:36 AM
“You should finish every song, because someone will love it.”
Peter Hook on playing every Joy Division & New Order track live — even the weird B-sides.
www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
Peter Hook on playing every Joy Division & New Order track live — even the weird B-sides.
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“What’s the difference between a love song and a protest?”
Matt Berninger on Sleep Well Beast: “They’re all pointing at the same stuff — anxiety and fear and what you desire.”
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Matt Berninger on Sleep Well Beast: “They’re all pointing at the same stuff — anxiety and fear and what you desire.”
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The National's Matt Berninger: “You don’t know when you’re gonna run out of the hunger for it"
Matt Berninger on Sleep Well Beast, Love, Anger, and Screaming About Turtlenecks
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February 14, 2026 at 12:32 AM
“What’s the difference between a love song and a protest?”
Matt Berninger on Sleep Well Beast: “They’re all pointing at the same stuff — anxiety and fear and what you desire.”
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Matt Berninger on Sleep Well Beast: “They’re all pointing at the same stuff — anxiety and fear and what you desire.”
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“To lose someone is the painful version of gaining someone but it’s the same two sides of the same coin.”
Feist on writing Multitudes after becoming a parent and losing one.
“It placed me squarely on the timeline of my own mortality… which isn’t that comfortable.”
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Feist on writing Multitudes after becoming a parent and losing one.
“It placed me squarely on the timeline of my own mortality… which isn’t that comfortable.”
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Feist: “I felt like I was staring down my own mortality"
Feist on mortality & being in a songwriting group with Beck and Mac DeMarco
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February 14, 2026 at 12:24 AM
“To lose someone is the painful version of gaining someone but it’s the same two sides of the same coin.”
Feist on writing Multitudes after becoming a parent and losing one.
“It placed me squarely on the timeline of my own mortality… which isn’t that comfortable.”
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Feist on writing Multitudes after becoming a parent and losing one.
“It placed me squarely on the timeline of my own mortality… which isn’t that comfortable.”
www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...
“It doesn’t give you answers. It asks questions.”
Sydney Chandler on #AlienEarth and she said watching it back had her “chewing on questions I hadn’t even noticed were part of the piece.”
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Sydney Chandler on #AlienEarth and she said watching it back had her “chewing on questions I hadn’t even noticed were part of the piece.”
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Timothy Olyphant & Sydney Chandler: “Alien: Earth doesn't feed you the answers to its questions"
Timothy Olyphant, Sydney Chandler, Noah Hawley, and the Cast of Alien: Earth on AI, Dead-Eye Acting, and Dancing Robots
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February 14, 2026 at 12:18 AM
“It doesn’t give you answers. It asks questions.”
Sydney Chandler on #AlienEarth and she said watching it back had her “chewing on questions I hadn’t even noticed were part of the piece.”
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Sydney Chandler on #AlienEarth and she said watching it back had her “chewing on questions I hadn’t even noticed were part of the piece.”
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“Fifteen years is close to forever.”
Love Jones finally delivered The Greatest Show On Earth — eight-minute jams, warehouse sessions, Kendrick Lamar’s mic at Village Recorder, and an Ohio River origin story. “Tickets are not refundable.” Louisville’s Love Jones.
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Love Jones finally delivered The Greatest Show On Earth — eight-minute jams, warehouse sessions, Kendrick Lamar’s mic at Village Recorder, and an Ohio River origin story. “Tickets are not refundable.” Louisville’s Love Jones.
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Love Jones: "We’re just here to bring a little joy and unity back to the world"
Love Jones on The Greatest Show On Earth, Louisville Lore, and Their World Dominating Return
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February 14, 2026 at 12:17 AM
“Fifteen years is close to forever.”
Love Jones finally delivered The Greatest Show On Earth — eight-minute jams, warehouse sessions, Kendrick Lamar’s mic at Village Recorder, and an Ohio River origin story. “Tickets are not refundable.” Louisville’s Love Jones.
www.lpm.org/music/2026-0...
Love Jones finally delivered The Greatest Show On Earth — eight-minute jams, warehouse sessions, Kendrick Lamar’s mic at Village Recorder, and an Ohio River origin story. “Tickets are not refundable.” Louisville’s Love Jones.
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“I have so much confidence that I’ve never had before… and as a woman, it’s a triumph.”
Neko Case on Neon Grey Midnight Green, real musicians in a room, and singing to the dead.
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Neko Case on Neon Grey Midnight Green, real musicians in a room, and singing to the dead.
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Neko Case: “I have so much confidence that I’ve never had before”
Neko Case on Neon Grey Midnight Green, Singing to the Dead, and Humans' Superiority Complex
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February 13, 2026 at 9:55 PM
“I have so much confidence that I’ve never had before… and as a woman, it’s a triumph.”
Neko Case on Neon Grey Midnight Green, real musicians in a room, and singing to the dead.
www.lpm.org/music/2026-0...
Neko Case on Neon Grey Midnight Green, real musicians in a room, and singing to the dead.
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“It’s really hard to be present.”
Chelsea Cutler on writing in her early 20s, watching time blur, comparing timelines on social media, and why she’s done letting algorithms pick her singles.
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Chelsea Cutler on writing in her early 20s, watching time blur, comparing timelines on social media, and why she’s done letting algorithms pick her singles.
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Chelsea Cutler: "Taylor Swift is the best lyricist in pop music"
Chelsea Cutler on Growing Up Online, Writing Through Isolation, and Her Taylor Swift Appreciation
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February 13, 2026 at 12:56 AM
“It’s really hard to be present.”
Chelsea Cutler on writing in her early 20s, watching time blur, comparing timelines on social media, and why she’s done letting algorithms pick her singles.
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Chelsea Cutler on writing in her early 20s, watching time blur, comparing timelines on social media, and why she’s done letting algorithms pick her singles.
www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...
“I’m not going to write songs about sex for 20 year olds.”
Sheryl Crow on aging into her writing, letting go of control, and making the most vulnerable record of her career.
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Sheryl Crow on aging into her writing, letting go of control, and making the most vulnerable record of her career.
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Sheryl Crow: "I'm not going to write songs about sex for 20 year olds"
Sheryl Crow on ‘Evolution,’ Learning to Let Go, and That Time She Swore She’d Never Make Another Album
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February 13, 2026 at 12:42 AM
“I’m not going to write songs about sex for 20 year olds.”
Sheryl Crow on aging into her writing, letting go of control, and making the most vulnerable record of her career.
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Sheryl Crow on aging into her writing, letting go of control, and making the most vulnerable record of her career.
www.lpm.org/music/2024-0...
“…we have to really be an open society that does actually give the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people.”
Michael McDonald on aging, acceptance, singing “What’s Going On” as a prayer for peace, and Minute by Minute.
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Michael McDonald on aging, acceptance, singing “What’s Going On” as a prayer for peace, and Minute by Minute.
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February 13, 2026 at 12:36 AM
“…we have to really be an open society that does actually give the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people.”
Michael McDonald on aging, acceptance, singing “What’s Going On” as a prayer for peace, and Minute by Minute.
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Michael McDonald on aging, acceptance, singing “What’s Going On” as a prayer for peace, and Minute by Minute.
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“…nobody dies when somebody lets off a salvo of notes on an electric guitar.”
Steve Hackett on Under the Mediterranean Sky, music as an ambassador for peace, why prog is “radical music,” and bringing Seconds Out to the stage.
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Steve Hackett on Under the Mediterranean Sky, music as an ambassador for peace, why prog is “radical music,” and bringing Seconds Out to the stage.
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Steve Hackett: "Music does what politics won’t—it brings people together”
Steve Hackett on Under a Mediterranean Sky, War, and the Death of International Music
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February 13, 2026 at 12:30 AM
“…nobody dies when somebody lets off a salvo of notes on an electric guitar.”
Steve Hackett on Under the Mediterranean Sky, music as an ambassador for peace, why prog is “radical music,” and bringing Seconds Out to the stage.
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Steve Hackett on Under the Mediterranean Sky, music as an ambassador for peace, why prog is “radical music,” and bringing Seconds Out to the stage.
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“…once we get up there on stage we’re 19 or 20 again.”
Michael McDonald on rejoining The Doobie Brothers for Walk This Road, finally recording with Tom Johnston again, playing accordion at 70, and why he’s perfectly fine with the “yacht rock” tag.
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Michael McDonald on rejoining The Doobie Brothers for Walk This Road, finally recording with Tom Johnston again, playing accordion at 70, and why he’s perfectly fine with the “yacht rock” tag.
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Michael McDonald: “People either credit or blame me with changing the band”
Michael McDonald on Accordions, Accidental Activism, and Aging Like a Doobie
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February 13, 2026 at 12:27 AM
“…once we get up there on stage we’re 19 or 20 again.”
Michael McDonald on rejoining The Doobie Brothers for Walk This Road, finally recording with Tom Johnston again, playing accordion at 70, and why he’s perfectly fine with the “yacht rock” tag.
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Michael McDonald on rejoining The Doobie Brothers for Walk This Road, finally recording with Tom Johnston again, playing accordion at 70, and why he’s perfectly fine with the “yacht rock” tag.
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Tonight’s guestlist: Sydney Chandler (Alien: Earth), Dylan Arnold (Oppenheimer), Anna Diop (Titans), and Louisville filmmaker Aaron Wiggen!
Plus new music, classics, news, and overdue fines in the form of fun facts.
6p ET on WFPK. Late fees strictly enforced.
Plus new music, classics, news, and overdue fines in the form of fun facts.
6p ET on WFPK. Late fees strictly enforced.
February 12, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Tonight’s guestlist: Sydney Chandler (Alien: Earth), Dylan Arnold (Oppenheimer), Anna Diop (Titans), and Louisville filmmaker Aaron Wiggen!
Plus new music, classics, news, and overdue fines in the form of fun facts.
6p ET on WFPK. Late fees strictly enforced.
Plus new music, classics, news, and overdue fines in the form of fun facts.
6p ET on WFPK. Late fees strictly enforced.
“The truth has become this sort of inconvenient thing.”
#SherylCrow joined me on the set of Morning Joe back in 2021 to talk about raising kids in a moment where empathy and honesty feel negotiable.
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#SherylCrow joined me on the set of Morning Joe back in 2021 to talk about raising kids in a moment where empathy and honesty feel negotiable.
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February 12, 2026 at 1:34 AM
“The truth has become this sort of inconvenient thing.”
#SherylCrow joined me on the set of Morning Joe back in 2021 to talk about raising kids in a moment where empathy and honesty feel negotiable.
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#SherylCrow joined me on the set of Morning Joe back in 2021 to talk about raising kids in a moment where empathy and honesty feel negotiable.
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“It's kind of like a musical marriage,” Matt Sallee says about life inside #Pentatonix. 15 years of finishing each other’s jokes, anticipating harmonies, and answering questions in unison without planning it.
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Pentatonix's Matt Sallee & Kevin Olusola: “We just love spreading joy”
Pentatonix Talk Meet Me Next Christmas, Musical Mind-Melding, and the Joy of Holiday Harmony
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February 12, 2026 at 1:25 AM
“It's kind of like a musical marriage,” Matt Sallee says about life inside #Pentatonix. 15 years of finishing each other’s jokes, anticipating harmonies, and answering questions in unison without planning it.
www.lpm.org/music/2024-1...
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“You get a self-tape for a Christopher Nolan movie and you’re like, ‘All right, let’s go…’”
Dylan Arnold on auditioning for Oppenheimer. “That’s when the real fear sets in. Once you get it… now I have to do it.”
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Dylan Arnold on auditioning for Oppenheimer. “That’s when the real fear sets in. Once you get it… now I have to do it.”
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Dylan Arnold: "You have to bring your A-game when working with Christopher Nolan”
Dylan Arnold on Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s Set, and Playing the Other Oppenheimer
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February 11, 2026 at 9:24 PM
“You get a self-tape for a Christopher Nolan movie and you’re like, ‘All right, let’s go…’”
Dylan Arnold on auditioning for Oppenheimer. “That’s when the real fear sets in. Once you get it… now I have to do it.”
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Dylan Arnold on auditioning for Oppenheimer. “That’s when the real fear sets in. Once you get it… now I have to do it.”
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“This climate of the truth not mattering has really been so unnerving.”
Sheryl Crow on writing “Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You” with Annie Clark, releasing singles instead of albums, and why raising kids in the Wild West of tech makes honesty feel radical again.
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Sheryl Crow on writing “Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You” with Annie Clark, releasing singles instead of albums, and why raising kids in the Wild West of tech makes honesty feel radical again.
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Sheryl Crow: "It feels like our information is hijacked in a lot of ways”
Sheryl Crow on St. Vincent, Bob Dylan, The Globe Sessions, Detours, and Tuesday Night Music Club
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February 11, 2026 at 9:16 PM
“This climate of the truth not mattering has really been so unnerving.”
Sheryl Crow on writing “Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You” with Annie Clark, releasing singles instead of albums, and why raising kids in the Wild West of tech makes honesty feel radical again.
www.lpm.org/music/2018-0...
Sheryl Crow on writing “Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You” with Annie Clark, releasing singles instead of albums, and why raising kids in the Wild West of tech makes honesty feel radical again.
www.lpm.org/music/2018-0...
“I was never one of the cool kids…”
Sheryl Crow on outsider energy, politics, parenting in the Instagram era, and finally leaning into who she’s always been.
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Sheryl Crow on outsider energy, politics, parenting in the Instagram era, and finally leaning into who she’s always been.
www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
Sheryl Crow: "Art gives a voice to the collective consciousness"
Sheryl Crow on Be Myself, Political Songs, and Raising Kids in the Instagram Era
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February 11, 2026 at 8:43 PM
“I was never one of the cool kids…”
Sheryl Crow on outsider energy, politics, parenting in the Instagram era, and finally leaning into who she’s always been.
www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
Sheryl Crow on outsider energy, politics, parenting in the Instagram era, and finally leaning into who she’s always been.
www.lpm.org/music/2017-0...
Tonight’s guestlist: Neko Case, Sheryl Crow, and Feist!
Plus new music, classics, news, and items not available in stores.
6p ET on WFPK. No shipping fees.
Plus new music, classics, news, and items not available in stores.
6p ET on WFPK. No shipping fees.
February 11, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Tonight’s guestlist: Neko Case, Sheryl Crow, and Feist!
Plus new music, classics, news, and items not available in stores.
6p ET on WFPK. No shipping fees.
Plus new music, classics, news, and items not available in stores.
6p ET on WFPK. No shipping fees.