Toody Cole of Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows, and the Rats from Portland, Oregon. Recorded live onstage at Treefort Music Fest on March 26, 2026. Dylan and Toody discuss her life as a pioneering woman in punk, love at first sight, homesteading in the woods, building a punk house temple from scratch and salvaged scrap, raising children, how the grunge era hit different in middle age, and continuing the legacy of her late husband Fred Cole. Artists we mentioned: Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows, the Rats, Ran...
Apr 08, 2026•1 hr 9 min
Buck Meek of Big Thief from Los Angeles, CA. Buck and Dylan discuss growing up in Texas Hill County amongst guitar legends, channeling youth with older legends, unpacking the mythology of Big Thief’s relational intelligence, working alongside your ex-wife, your current wife, and your brother, wearing suits, and regional BBQ. + Buck answers a listener advice question. Artists we mentioned: Big Theif, Slim Richey, Django Porter, Brandon Gist, Lucinda Williams, Laraaji, Tucker Zimmerman, Adrianne L...
Apr 01, 2026•1 hr 13 min
Florence Shaw of Dry Cleaning from South London, England. Florence and Dylan discuss the difficulties of international touring, what your brain feels like on art school, black plastics, wanting to become a horse, reaching an associative songwriting state, and riding the bus as an idea-generating machine. + Florence gets something off her chest. Artists we mentioned: Cate Le Bon, Ryan Davis, Black Midi, bar italia, Jeff Tweedy, Elton John. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...
Mar 25, 2026•1 hr 24 min
Join Dylan as she catches up with a hit parade of music friends from the 2025 season of Music Person! Cozy up by the fire (or whatever) for a warm chat as we take a fond look back at our best music memories of 2025, and look ahead to a very exciting 2026. Featuring: Ryan Davis, Aaron Dowdy of Fust, Madi Diaz, Esther Rose, Georgia Maq, Merce Lemon, and a surprise holiday visit from Lily Seabird. Happy New Year, Music People! Thank you for listening. We’ll be back soon! Learn more about your ad ch...
Dec 31, 2025•1 hr 27 min
The final installment of a 3-part travelogue mini-series exploring the music life in the Hudson Valley, New York. For this very special Christmas Eve episode, Dylan sits down with Dan Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell of the band Ida, and their daughter, singer-songwriter Storey Littleton have a wide-ranging discussion about the multigenerational experience of living the music life. Starting off in the DC punk scene of the 80s, to the indie rock scene in Brooklyn in the 90s and early aughts, to m...
Dec 24, 2025•1 hr 36 min
Part 2 of a 3-part travelogue mini-series exploring the music life in the Hudson Valley, New York. Maya Bon and Ryan Albert of Babehoven from Hudson, New York. Maya, Ryan, and Dylan discuss the seasonality of creativity, moving from the West Coast to the Northeast, gardening, doing a ton of drugs in old age for fun, unconventional wedding brainstorming, Hilma af Klint, and water. + Music journalist Jenn Pelly takes Dylan to a sitar concert at a secret ashram. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...
Dec 18, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 22
A 3-part travelogue mini-series exploring the music life in the Hudson Valley, New York. Hannah Cohen of the Catskill Mountains, New York, featuring Sam Evian. Hannah and Dylan discuss building the residential recording studio of your dreams, connecting to the seasons, small town living forcing you to grow up, and the music community in and around Woodstock today. + Dylan, Jenn Pelly, Olivia Bee, and friends take a swim at Colgate Lake, and visit Big Pink. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Dec 11, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 21
Daniel Bateman of Frog from New Rochelle, New York. Dylan and Daniel discuss fathering twins, working in film production, cult fandom, improvisation, and whether New Rochelle is the best city in the entire world. Artists we referenced: Uncles, Count Basie, Weirs, Ariel Pink, Holy Shit, Girls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 26, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 20
S.G. Goodman from Murray, Kentucky. S.G. and Dylan discuss slow burn careers, connections between manual labor and songwriting, mental health and life on the road, how a Southern Baptist kid becomes a Calvinist teenager, and spreadin’ them toes out all across the nation. Artists we referenced: Tyler Childers, Erin Rae, the Savage Radleys, Fust. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 19, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 19
Ryan Davis of Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band from Louisville, Kentucky. Dylan and Ryan discuss music life in the Southern Midwest, being a reluctant entrepreneur, Air Guitar by Dave Hickey, how much the UK loves literary songwriters, being embarrassed by your vision addiction, and cracking the case. + Ryan gives a letter of recommendation. Music stuff we referenced: Sophomore Lounge Records, Cropped Out Festival, State Champion, Fust, David Berman and Silver Jews, Greg Mendez, Elliot Smith, T...
Nov 12, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 18
A scene report from Dylanfest 2025. It was on August 2nd, on Orcas Island, in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. It was a weekend-long mini music festival produced by Dylan, in collaboration with Jay Blackington and Jocelyn Cecil of Houlme, and R.J. Myers and Ali Boe of Alder Vulture. Live sound was by Caleb Turner at Going Left Sound. Check out @dylanfest on Instagram for more. (Dylanfest is the name of any show that Dylan produces, but, like, this one is the main one.) Artists we refere...
Nov 05, 2025•56 min•Ep. 17
Madi Diaz of Nashville, Tennessee. Madi and Dylan discuss her rural homeschooled childhood to her Philly punk scene adolescence, fucking around songs and finding out songs, post-breakup shame, tabbing out, the real artists of Nashville, and faith. + Madi answers a listener advice question. Artists we referenced: Allison Kraus, Mannequin Pussy, Turnstile, Japanther, Lightning Bolt, Marren Morris, Brothers Osborne, Kacey Musgraves, Tennille Townes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...
Oct 15, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 16
Melina Duterte of Jay Som from Los Angeles, CA. Melina and Dylan discuss her pandemic pivot to music production, distinctions between the algorithm and OG social media, the Bay Area, the changing landscape of indie success, how love helped her music career, and b*dr**m p*p. + Melina answers a listener advice question. Artists we referenced: boygenius, Chastity Belt, Bachelor, Routine, Whitmer Thomas, Vagabon, Lucy Daucus, Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, Fenne Lilly, Al Menne, Sour Widows, Blonde ...
Oct 08, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 15
Esther Rose from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Esther and Dylan discuss her early hip-hop and techno influences, her divorce jumpstarting her musical career, being too weird for roots music and not weird enough for indie rock, quitting drinking, and Dylan drinking so much coffee she starts spilling tea. + Esther answers a listener advice question. Artists we referenced: J Dilla, The Deslondes, Dean Johnson, Adrienne Lenker, Wednesday, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Video Age, Jack White, Bella White, Cameron...
Oct 01, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 14
Greg Mendez from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Greg and Dylan discuss preferring recording to performing, ripping up moldy drywall, his partner V, feeling attuned to your city, the verbose and depressive songwriter-addict canon, and the isolation and connection that comes from making music. + Greg gives a letter of recommendation. Artists we referenced: Shannon Moser, Amelia Cry Til I Die, Sadurn, Soup Dreams, Townes Van Zandt, David Berman, Elliott Smith, Maria Saint Maria. Learn more about your ...
Sep 24, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 13
Dylan goes to the Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina in September 2025. Dylan discusses North Carolina, aquatic animal-based band names, the scene at the Sheraton Hotel, alcoholic Gatorade, Southern man chaos in stereo, shrimp, boring angels, BeerTeq, and “feeling inevitable.” Artists we referenced: Frog, YHWH Nailgun, Weirs, Pat Keen Band, Thomas Dollbaum, Greg Mendez, Geese, Cameron Winter, Villagerrr, Merce Lemon, Florry, This Is Lorelei, Hemlock, Little Mazarn, Superchunk, S...
Sep 18, 2025•57 min•Ep. 12
Aaron Dowdy of Fust from Durham, North Carolina. Fust’s latest album, Big Ugly, is out now on Dear Life Records. Aaron and Dylan discuss the map of North Carolina indie rock, getting his PhD at Duke, where to find the best Guinness in the Triangle, and finding your people through music. + Aaron gets something off his chest. Artists we referenced: Drive By Truckers, Thomas Dollbaum, Merce Lemon, Friendship, Tomberlin, Weirs, Sluice, Wednesday, the Mountain Goats, Hiss Golden Messenger, Florry, De...
Sep 10, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 11
Dean Johnson from Seattle, WA. His new album, I Hope We Can Still Be Friends , is out now. Dean and Dylan discuss launching his solo career breakthrough in middle age, Seattle neighborhood micro-scenes, the New Orleans Americana scene, and tales from the frontlines of Dylanfest. + Dean gives a letter of recommendation. Artists referenced: Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Iron & Wine, the Moondoggies, Sera Cahoone, Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band, Chris Aker, Esther Rose, The Deslondes, Steph G...
Aug 27, 2025•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 10
Georgia Maq from Melbourne, Australia and now Los Angeles. Her new EP, God’s Favourite , is out September 4, 2025. Georgia and Dylan discuss Georgia being a nurse in the pandemic, discovering her post-Camp Cope solo sound, spirituality, Erewhon, fathers, altruism, cosmetic surgery, personality transplants, Steely Dan, cursive singing, and Waffle House. + Georgia gets something off her chest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Aug 20, 2025•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 9
Greg Rutkin of Night Club 101 and Baby’s All Right in New York City. Greg and Dylan discuss the current cultural moment in NYC, the legacy of Billy Jones, SUNY Purchase as a music scene petri dish, real talk about career prospects in the indie music industry, the literary versus music undergrounds, and looking like a human flute. + Greg answers a listener advice question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Aug 13, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 8
Francie Medosch of Florry from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Francie and Dylan discuss Zyn, silliness, being a Last Waltz truther, discovering the underground through Bandcamp, and being tired of sad indie rock music. + Francie gets something off her chest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 30, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 7
Zack Borzone of YHWH Nailgun and Sha La La from New York City. Zack and Dylan discuss speaking in tongues, imagination, poetry, the relationship between faith and noise, and finding agency as a kid in DIY scenes. + Zack gives a letter of recommendation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 23, 2025•59 min
Indigo De Souza from Marshall, North Carolina, and now Los Angeles. Her new album, Precipice , is out July 25, 2025. Indigo and Dylan discuss losing her home in Hurricane Helene, the magic of Los Angeles, and her inner child. + Indigo answers a listener advice question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 16, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 5
Rachel Brown of Water From Your Eyes from New York City. Rachel and Dylan discuss the Water From Your Eyes/This Is Lorelei/Fantasy of a Broken Heart extended universe, being Paul Bank’s wedding band, passions for both corn and Korn, and NYC DIY. + Rachel gets something off their chest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 09, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Merce Lemon from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her album Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild is out now. Merce and Dylan discuss growing up amongst adult artists, city nature, swimming, youth, grief, and wooden spoons. + Merce gets something off her chest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 02, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 3
Molly Burch on leaving music to start PICNIC Studio, a progressive art space for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, in Pasadena, California. Follow PICNIC Studio and Molly Burch on Instagram. Molly and Dylan discuss joy and self-doubt, real talk about the indie music business, learning when and how to pivot your whole career, and the delights of working with developmentally disabled artists. + Molly gives us a letter of recommendation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...
Jun 25, 2025•1 hr
Karly Hartzman of Wednesday from Asheville, North Carolina. Wednesday’s new album, BLEEDS , is out September 19, 2025. Karly and Dylan discuss being an introverted observer writer girl type, the merits of staying in your local scene, complicated feelings about Los Angeles, and Karly’s breakup with partner and bandmate MJ Lenderman. + Karly answers a listener advice question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jun 18, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Dylan Tupper Rupert is a music writer, podcast host, and producer in Los Angeles. You might know her as the host of KCRW's Lost Notes: Groupies , or as the producer fka Producer Dylan of Bandsplain . This spring, her new show Music Person is coming to the Talkhouse Podcast Network—where she'll have in-depth conversations with musicians and brilliant people in the greater music ecosystem, and will sometimes maybe even go on an adventure. So here's a sneak peek—Dylan's diary of her week in Austin ...
Jun 11, 2025•35 min
Coming June 18: a new podcast from writer and producer Dylan Tupper Rupert about music people and the lives they lead. Featuring interviews with Karly Hartzman of Wednesday, Indigo De Souza, Molly Burch, and more to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 09, 2025•1 min
