Mid-Riff

030 / Meredith Stern (Alpha Error, Whore Paint, Teenage Waistband) on Really All Ages Spaces


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Hilary talks with Meredith Stern, drummer, DJ, and visual artist, about buying snares with the buddy system, gas mask microphones, using repetition to shift narratives, and what may be the wildest tour story you’ve ever heard. Plus, how to apologize.

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MEREDITH’S BIO

Meredith Stern (she/her) is a member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative. She works as a printmaker and ceramic artist and has been drumming in loud bands for over two decades, including Alpha Error, Whore Paint, and Teenage Waistband. She co-founded the DIY music venue Nowe Miasto in New Orleans and spent several years as Program Director at AS220 Rhode Island's largest non-profit community arts and performance space, booking acts such as: Andrew W.K., Cherie Lily, The Sun Ra Arkestra under Marshall Allen, ESG, Lightning Bolt, and Deer Tick.

In 2016-2017 Meredith created a series of prints on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is featured in the collections of the Library of Congress. She has additional works in collections such as: the Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, London Metropolitan University's Women's Library, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

Meredith resides in Rhode Island, the ancestral territory stewarded by the Narragansett, Nipmuc, Wampanoag, Niantic, and Mashapaug Nahaganset nations, where she collaborates with worms and bees to tend to a small backyard organic garden and fruit orchard.

MENTIONS

Minor Threat / Bikini Kill / Minutemen / Cabbage Collective / Nowe Miasto / AS220 / Ludwig / Armageddon Records / Amebix / Roy Mayorga / Nausea / Sabian / Sonor / Village Drum and Music / Lightning Bolt / Wendy O. Williams / Plasmatics / Equal Justice Initiative / Audre Lorde

MEREDITH’S LINKS

Justseeds’ Website

Meredith’s Website

Meredith’s Instagram

Alpha Error Bandcamp

Whore Paint Bandcamp

Teenage Waistband

MID-RIFF LINKS

Website

Instagram

Facebook

Newsletter

Blog 

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CREDITS

Meredith’s Bumper Track: “I’d Eat My Bones” by Whore Paint

Theme Music: "Hedonism" by Towanda

Artwork by Julia Gualtieri

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