Meredith Johnston's guest appearances

Meredith Johnston

SOUND + PROCESS

This Is Your Afterlife

Rodrigo Constanzo

Josh Mason

Marcus Fischer

Meng Qi

Joshua Saddler

Karl Fousek

Emily Sprague

Piotr Szyhalski

Angela Guyton

Nick Sanborn

Sean Hellfritsch

Ezra Buchla

Izzy Barreiro

Carl Testa

Joseph Branciforte

OwlTail

Bummer-pop artist Meredith Johnston (aka Warm Human) and I go back many years to our improv comedy days, and that rapport allows me to give her the shit she deserves for her love of butt rock and nu metal. Meredith's a great storyteller, charismatic, complex, dark, and painfully honest about the twists of her brain. Her willingness to display all these facets of herself makes for an intense episode AND one of the most entertaining.Content warning: eating disorders, physical abuse, (drug/alcohol) addiction, Meredith likes Imagine Dragons, Cream Cheese Hot Dog.If you think This Is Your Afterlife is worth the price of a nice coffee or a cheap meal, please consider joining my Patreon for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Subscribers get my full convos with guests, the companion podcast This Is Your Aftershow, and shoutouts in future episodes.Leave a voicemail, and I'll play it on the show: (313) MIST-URA (647-8872).Follow Meredith/Warm Human on Instagram, @lovechunkz, and Twitter, @w000rm.Buy Warm Human tunes on Bandcamp, and stream on Spotify and everywhere else.See Warm Human on September 3 at Sleeping Village in Chicago.Check out her podcast, Sobriety Sucks.Subscribe to my newsletter, Definitive Answers, for weekly personal and cultural essays, plus music recs! And follow me @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram.---Transcript: This Is Your Afterlife on PodscribeMusic = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

Bummer-pop artist Meredith Johnston (aka Warm Human) and I go back many years to our improv comedy days, and that rapport allows me to give her the shit she deserves for her love of butt rock and nu metal. Meredith's a great storyteller, charismatic, complex, dark, and painfully honest about the twists of her brain. Her willingness to display all these facets of herself makes for an intense episode AND one of the most entertaining.Content warning: eating disorders, physical abuse, (drug/alcohol) addiction, Meredith likes Imagine Dragons, Cream Cheese Hot Dog.If you think This Is Your Afterlife is worth the price of a nice coffee or a cheap meal, please consider joining my Patreon for $5 or $15/month at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/davemaher" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">patreon.com/davemaher</a>. Subscribers get my full convos with guests, the companion podcast This Is Your Aftershow, and shoutouts in future episodes.Leave a voicemail, and I'll play it on the show: (313) MIST-URA (647-8872).Follow Meredith/Warm Human on Instagram, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lovechunkz/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@lovechunkz</a>, and Twitter, <a href="https://twitter.com/w000rm" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@w000rm</a>.Buy Warm Human tunes on <a href="https://warmhuman.bandcamp.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>, and stream on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/55B50xjgkbaSWD0MZXhhX4?si=8gdMEB_rQOyigNwHpogZ0g" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a> and everywhere else.See Warm Human on <a href="https://sleeping-village.com/event/lynyn/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">September 3 at Sleeping Village</a> in Chicago.Check out her podcast, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sobriety-sucks/id1500521153" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Sobriety Sucks</a>.Subscribe to my newsletter, <a href="https://thisisdavemaher.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Definitive Answers</a>, for weekly personal and cultural essays, plus music recs! And follow me @thisisdavemaher on <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisIsDaveMaher" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thisisdavemaher/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>.---Transcript: <a href="https://app.podscribe.ai/series/1246109" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">This Is Your Afterlife on Podscribe</a>Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

I Listen to Staind a Lot with Meredith Johnston (Warm Human)

Over the years, I’ve been lucky to watch Meredith Johnston perform in a variety of contexts — improvisational comedy across Chicago, film (2018's Pet Names), and most recently music under the moniker Warm Human — and every project is anchored in emotional exploration.Her upcoming album, Ghastly, tells deeply personal stories through a melange of synths, vocal processing, and brilliant pop arrangements. As a producer, composer, and lyricist, Meredith infuses feeling into each bit of the album’s DNA. She tells her side of the story with a balance of ferocity and compassion that is, at times, both uniquely funny and absolutely heartbreaking. Ghastly will, no pun intended, haunt you well after its last track.Throughout this conversation, Meredith unpacks some complex topics — her insecurities while performing live, navigating her ownership as a storyteller over shared experiences, and her struggles with different forms of addiction.bandcamp: https://warmhuman.bandcamp.comlines: https://llllllll.co

Over the years, I’ve been lucky to watch Meredith Johnston perform in a variety of contexts — improvisational comedy across Chicago, film (2018's Pet Names), and most recently music under the moniker Warm Human — and every project is anchored in emotional exploration. Her upcoming album, Ghastly, tells deeply personal stories through a melange of synths, vocal processing, and brilliant pop arrangements. As a producer, composer, and lyricist, Meredith infuses feeling into each bit of the album’s DNA. She tells her side of the story with a balance of ferocity and compassion that is, at times, both uniquely funny and absolutely heartbreaking. Ghastly will, no pun intended, haunt you well after its last track. Throughout this conversation, Meredith unpacks some complex topics — her insecurities while performing live, navigating her ownership as a storyteller over shared experiences, and her struggles with different forms of addiction. bandcamp: <a href="https://warmhuman.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://warmhuman.bandcamp.com</a> lines: <a href="https://llllllll.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://llllllll.co</a>

Meredith Johnston (warm human): Sound + Process # 15