Music Person
A podcast about music and the people who live it, by Dylan Tupper Rupert.
Episodes
November 26, 2025 • 63 mins
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.
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November 19, 2025 • 75 mins
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.
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November 12, 2025 • 75 mins
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 Champi...
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November 5, 2025 • 55 mins
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 Dyla...
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October 15, 2025 • 78 mins
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, ...
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October 8, 2025 • 85 mins
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 B...
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October 1, 2025 • 69 mins
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, ...
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September 24, 2025 • 63 mins
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, D...
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September 18, 2025 • 56 mins
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 Lem...
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September 10, 2025 • 69 mins
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, ...
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August 27, 2025 • 94 mins
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 th...
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August 20, 2025 • 90 mins
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.
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August 13, 2025 • 77 mins
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.
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July 30, 2025 • 59 mins
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.
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July 23, 2025 • 58 mins
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.
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July 16, 2025 • 66 mins
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.
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July 9, 2025 • 64 mins
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.
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July 2, 2025 • 71 mins
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.
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June 25, 2025 • 59 mins
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 give...
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June 18, 2025 • 60 mins
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.
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