Music Person

By Dylan Tupper Rupert & Talkhouse

A podcast about music and the people who live it, by Dylan Tupper Rupert.... more

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The podcast currently has 20 episodes available.

Music Person episodes:

November 12, 2025 Ryan Davis
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, Townes Van Zandt.

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1h 16min
November 05, 2025 Dylanfest 2025
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 referenced:
Bellflower, Lily Seabird, Thomas Dollbaum, Jeffrey Silverstein, Squirrel Flower, Dean Johnson, Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, the Replacements.

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56min
October 15, 2025 Madi Diaz
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.

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1h 19min
October 08, 2025 Jay Som
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 In Car, Lala Lala, Lucinda Williams, My Bloody Valentine, Mini Trees, Craft Spells, Molly Burch, Bethany Cosentino, Alex G, Caroline Polacheck, HAIM.

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1h 26min
October 01, 2025 Esther Rose
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 Winter, The Lostines, Chris Acker, Duff Thompson, Twain, Mashed Potato Records, Bonnie Raitt.

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1h 10min
September 24, 2025 Greg Mendez
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.

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1h 4min
September 18, 2025 Hopscotch Scene Report
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, Sluice, Libby Rodenbough, Mipso.

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57min
September 10, 2025 Fust (Aaron Dowdy)
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, Dead Gowns

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1h 10min
August 27, 2025 Dean Johnson
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 Green, Duff Thompson

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1h 35min
August 20, 2025 Georgia Maq
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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1h 31min

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