In two conversations spanning seven years, Moby tells Kyle Meredith about creating beauty in chaos — first at SXSW 2011, where he previewed Destroyed, an album and photo book born from sleepless nights in hotel rooms, filled with “broken-down electronics” and midnight-highway moods. Flash forward to 2018, he’s promoting Everything Was Beautiful & Nothing Hurt and unpacking the emotional weight of songs like “Motherless Child,” connecting their grief and longing to his own life and the world’s unraveling. From playing bass with OMD on an upside-down guitar to comparing humanity to “scared little monkeys at a watering hole,” Moby weaves the personal and political, the sacred and absurd.

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Kyle Meredith talks with Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene about reuniting the sprawling collective for Hug Of Thunder, rediscovering friendship as the heart of creation, and the emotional night they played Manchester just after the attacks—with Johnny Marr joining onstage.

Then, Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz joins twice: first in 2015, when she discussed using Foil Deer to push feminism and social awareness into rock’s conversation (“I’d rather be a social justice warrior than a rich kid with a drug problem”), and again in 2018 to unpack Twerp Verse, scrapping an entire album post-election to write songs that mattered, navigating “lyrical mystery,” and how horror films inspired her monster metaphors. Both artists reflect on turning chaos into connection—and the power of art to speak when the world gets too loud.

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Backstage at Bourbon And Beyond, Kyle Meredith caught up with Mary Chapin Carpenter to talk about her new album Personal History, a record she says she’s been working on for nearly five years and one that truly earns its title. She digs into songs like “Paint + Turpentine” and “Girl and Her Dog,” and how the more personal her stories get, the more universal they become.

Then, Kyle talks with Trampled By Turtles’ Erik Berry about Alan Sparkhawk with Trampled By Turtles — their new collaboration with the Low frontman. Berry recalls the Duluth roots that connected them, the influence Low had on their early years, and how their friendship led to an album and a handful of rare live shows. It’s one of those projects that’s special precisely because it can’t happen too often. And stick around afterward for a bonus interview with Trampled’s Dave Simonet from 2017.

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