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 choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 moving to Woodstock in the before times (pre-cell phone).  They discuss how the lore of Woodstock drew Dan and Elizabeth there, how Storey found her own voice growing up in the shadow of musical giants, and the differences between growing up in an artist colony-style small town versus an industry city. Artists referenced in this episode: Ida, the Hated, The Band, Levon Helm, Amy Helm, Bad Brains, Michael Hurley, Happy Traum, Larry Campbell, Ronnie Spector, the McGarrigle Sisters, Tsunami, Simple Machine Records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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

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

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

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