Tonight’s guests include Joel Courtney, Andy Delaney, and Faouzia. Plus new music, classics, news, and more. 6p ET on WFPK. All rise.

Had a great time talking with Rupert Grint, Seidi Haarla, and director Hanna Bergholm about Nightborn. We get into body horror, Finnish mythology, animatronic babies, and why the first year of parenthood can feel like the ultimate horror story. consequence.net/2026/07/nigh...

Tonight’s guests include Travis Fimmel, Luciane Buchanan, and Michiel Huisman. Plus new music, classics, news, and more. 6p ET on WFPK. Pillage responsibly.

Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones stepped outside the band for Far From Saints, his project with Patty Lynn and Dwight Baker. They made the debut in nine days, waited four years to release it, then had to relearn what they’d recorded. www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...

Jake Johnson played Karl’s breakdown as straight drama until the note came back: “I’m looking for a comedic panic attack.” He and Jessy Hodges told me how Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed found room for laughs inside the custody fights, true crime, and general misery. www.lpm.org/music/2026-0...

Tonight’s guests include Jane Kaczmarek, Willem Dafoe, and Emily Bett Rickards. Plus new music, classics, news, etc. 6p ET on WFPK. It’ll be a gas!

Is it better to live a lie if the truth will destroy you? Tim Robbins, Common, Alexandria Riley, Ashley Zukerman, and Jessica Henwick joined me to unpack the shifting power, fractured memories, and political paranoia of Silo Season 3. consequence.net/2026/07/silo...

Tonight’s guests include Chris Cornell and Stone Gossard. I’m looking back at earlier interviews with Cornell, who passed away in 2017, and his onetime Temple of the Dog bandmate and regular guest on the show, Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard. Plus new music, classics, news, etc. 6p ET on WFPK.

Ian Hunter made Defiance in a basement, then Slash, Jeff Beck, Mike Campbell, Taylor Hawkins, and the rest started piling in. At 84, he still treated songwriting like catching whatever the spirits threw over the wall. “I’d like to think that I still get lucky sometimes.” www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...

“You don’t get a story if you don’t go up the stairs.” Tatiana Maslany told me why Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed needed Paula to ignore every sensible instinct, grab a hockey stick, and walk straight toward the trouble. www.lpm.org/music/2026-0...

Beabadoobee was supposed to become a nursery teacher. Instead, she made Fake It Flowers and screamed loudly enough to hide how sad she really was. She told me how touring forced her to confront the childhood wounds she’d carried into adulthood. www.lpm.org/music/2020-1...

Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed begins with an epidemic of loneliness and ends up somewhere around digital voyeurism, amateur detective fever, and Tatiana Maslany starring in her own modern-day Rear Window. David J. Rosen and David Gordon Green told me how it all came together.

Bill Callahan tried playing “Tugboats and Tumbleweeds” for his superhero-obsessed son. The kid simply left the room. No notes, no review, just the purest form of music criticism. www.lpm.org/music/2019-0... #BillCallahan #Music

“There’s nothing longer than a short film.” Tom Cavanagh told me the line in You’re Killing Me needed no ornamentation or overplaying. Good writing had already done the job. His only responsibility was not getting in its way. www.lpm.org/music/2026-0... #TomCavanagh #YoureKillingMe

“People make change, not politicians.” B-Real told me how Prophets of Rage sharpened Cypress Hill’s political voice, why Kentucky should embrace its cannabis culture, and how the group was still giving everybody hell 30 years later. www.lpm.org/music/2022-0...

Tonight’s guests include John Gallagher Jr., Jasmine Cephas Jones, and Carl Clemons-Hopkins! Plus new music, classics, news, etc. 6p ET on WFPK. Three’s good company.

Brandi Carlile told me becoming a parent changed the way she sees everything, from violence in movies to the songs she writes. One of my favorite conversations about empathy, growth, and why we never really stop becoming ourselves. www.lpm.org/music/2024-0...

“Every dating experience I have is worse than the last.” Kimiko Glenn told me every song on Modern Dance came from a real relationship, then we got into dating disasters, emotional maturity, and why she finally decided to turn her diary into an EP. www.lpm.org/music/2026-0...

Tonight’s guests include my friends Suki Waterhouse and Maya Hawke, as well as the great Japanese House! Plus it’s my first day back after trotting around London, Paris, and Belgium for a couple weeks. New music, classics, news, etc. 6p ET on WFPK. Customs cleared the playlist.

Jack Antonoff told me Bleachers isn’t about wanting everyone. It’s a sifter. He wants his people, the ones who get the joke, survive the grief, and still believe a room full of songs can count as church. www.lpm.org/music/2026-0... #JackAntonoff

Tonight’s guests include Kevin Bacon, Suzanne Vega, and a look back at my talk with the late Robbie Robertson of The Band. Plus new music, classics, news, etc. 6p ET on WFPK. It’s got pep.

Maya Hawke said Maitreya Corso started as a record about work, then love barged in and ruined the meeting. “I didn’t know how to accept being seen so fully,” she told me. A newlywed album, but with panic, ambition, a Stranger Things fallout, and house cats. www.lpm.org/music/2026-0... #MayaHawke

Tonight’s guests include Bella Thorne, Chloe Cherry, and Izabel Pakzad. Plus new music, classics, news, etc. 6p ET on WFPK. Pretty snazzy.

Always a pleasure catching up with Tori Amos. We dive into In Times of Dragons, revisiting Silent All These Years, writing through myth, and why reconnecting with her younger self became central to the album. One of my favorite conversations with her. consequence.net/2026/07/tori...

Tonight’s guests include Beck, Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse), and Vince Clarke (Erasure)! Plus new music, classics, news, etc. 6p ET on WFPK. That’s a honey.

Courtney Barnett told me “Same” came from slowing down “Elevator Operator” and realizing one tiny chord progression still had more to say. “Sometimes an idea needs 10 years to figure itself out” is a pretty good argument for keeping the junk drawer. #NewMusic www.lpm.org/music/2026-0...

Stephen Malkmus told me Traditional Techniques started by letting the music lead, which apparently meant 12-string folk sketches, Afghan instruments, Spooner Oldham, & a flute player with a bag of them “like choosing a wand in Harry Potter.” The weird road remains open. www.lpm.org/music/2020-0...

Idina Menzel told me Drama Queen was her way of making a disco record without reeling in the voice. Big, angry, glittery, a little needy, and built around reclaiming a phrase that usually gets thrown like an insult. The dancefloor got the Broadway belt. www.lpm.org/music/2023-0... #IdinaMenzel

Ted McGinley told me Season 3 of Shrinking finally let Derek be more than “this smiley face.” His read on the character was even better. Derek is an iceberg, happy on top, a whole strange foundation underneath. www.lpm.org/music/2026-0... #TedMcGinley #Shrinking

“I’m still trying to push the boundaries of what an electric guitar can be” Tom Morello told me that meant building The Atlas Underground Fire around riffs that could survive just about anything, including Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder tearing into Highway to Hell. www.lpm.org/music/2021-1...