Past appearances

Live band shows

• Shining Wire, bass – Blue Moon Tavern, July 2026
• Meredith Smith, bass and vocals – 44th St. Fest, Jun 2026

School of Rock season shows

• Classic Metal, bass and vocals – Tim’s Tavern, Jun 2026
• Classic Metal, bass — The Crocodile, Apr 2026
• Fleetwood Mac, guitar and vocals — Tim’s Tavern, Jan 2026
• Best of the 80s, bass and vocals — Tim’s Tavern, Sept 2025
• Best of the 90s, bass and vocals — Tim’s Tavern, Jun 2025
• Best of the 90s, bass — The Crocodile, Mar 2025
• Black Keys vs White Stripes, bass — Tim’s Tavern, Jan 2025

Literary and live music events

• Carrie Akre book release, producer — Easy Street Records, May 2024
• Cass Garrison book release, producer/host — Common Area Maintenance, May 2024
• Becoming Visible book release, producer/host — The Rabbit Box Theatre, Feb 2024

Podcast appearances

• Garbage, contributor — Hidden Jukebox, Jan 2024
• Bittersweet, contributor — The Cryptonaturalist, Nov 2020

Volunteering and venue support

• Marketing support — Conor Byrne co-op, 2026 – present
• FOH event support — Fremont Abbey, 2021 – present

Retail and media events

• Digital streaming and web, producer — KEXP, 2006-2008

Bylines

• Reactor Magazine (editorial)
• The Gravity of the Thing (fiction)
• Voices of Tacoma (poetry)
• Seattle Music Insider (editorial)
• Back Beat Seattle (editorial)
• Bust Magazine (editorial)
• Cowboy Jamboree (fiction)

Long bio

Meredith is a writer, musician and producer in the Seattle area. As a kid, Meredith dreamt of becoming a Broadway playwright, and wrote voraciously. Once upon a time, she even sent fan scripts of Daria episodes to MTV – sadly, they never got back to her. After several years of acting and singing in local community theatre productions, Meredith’s friends asked her to play drums in their punk trio. It felt like she had finally found her tribe. She spent the next six years playing in a variety of punk and twee bands in the West Texas DIY music scene, before finally fronting her own band, Very Communist. Her bands shared stages with Mars Volta, The Shins, The Bangs, and many others. After spending a summer at the University of Washington, she knew Seattle was the place she wanted to call home.

Even though she found music to be exciting, she continued to work as a writer and editor in the high school and college media journalism trenches. Not long after moving to the Pacific Northwest, she landed at KEXP 90.3 FM as a digital producer for kexp.org. She eventually left the station to pursue her other creative passions – which, at the time, included founding a small beauty brand. She grew the brand to an annual six figures before the birth of her daughter, at which time, she sold the company to new owners. The brand, like many bandmates before and after, moved to Portland. But under her helm, Sweet Anthem was featured in Anthropologie, stores from Seattle to Milan, and earned press from Seattle Metropolitan, The Stranger, Seattle Brides, Ca Fleure Bon, The Seattle Times, Now Smell This, Indie Perfumes, and more.

Years later, in spite of a change in media and delivery mechanism, her work continues to explore much of the same as it always did. Dichotomies, multiple voices, defamiliarized writing, everyday horrors. A blend of reality and something else. Distillations of the idea that, in love, everyone is complicit. The vibes are that of the best indie movie soundtrack you can never find in your local record store, but you still hear it in your head and in your heart. Similar artists include Tennis, Japanese Breakfast, and The Sundays. Local sound-alikes include Coral Grief, Sea Lemon, and TV Star.

In addition to writing music, Meredith still writes poetry, short and long fiction, and editorial features. She is proud to have her work included in The Cryptonaturalist, The Gravity of the Thing, and elsewhere. She has produced literary and live music events at The Rabbit Box Theatre, Common Area Maintenance, and Easy Street Records, to name a few.

In the real world, she is mom to Charlotte, a Kirby-playing, guitar-shredding middle schooler. You can currently find Meredith playing at open mics and area events this summer with her band, a five-piece aptly called Meredith Smith, and on various dates with Shining Wire.