Talkhouse Launches New Season of Dylan Tupper Rupert's Music Person Podcast, Premiere Featuring Dry Cleaning's Florence Shaw Out Today

Inaugural Live Taping Set For Treefort Music Festival Tomorrow, In Conversation with Toody Cole of Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows & the Rats

March 25, 2026 - Talkhou se - the award-winning media company and podcast network that's home to leading titles in the worlds of music, art, food, politics and beyond - has announced a new season ofMusic Person, a series about indie music and the people who live it, hosted by intrepid journalist and curious critic Dylan Tupper Rupert. Premiering today with new episodes available weekly, the show's second season further establishes itself as a trusted destination for reliably insightful, creativity-oriented, deep-digging and anti-algorithmic conversations. Music Person is not another chat pod, nor is it a technical breakdown of process, but rather, a hub for close connections, an ongoing adventure into the people and places that matter most to culture.

Centered around three different forms of exploration - intimate, funny, and thoughtful Interviews with the artists who are actually worth their hype; personalScene Reportsfrom the festivals and events that drive the independent community forward; and richly reported Travelogues rooted in real-life and regionality - Music Person's second edition will include episodes with guitarist/vocalist Buck Meek of Big Thief, Folk Bitch Trio, Flock Of Dimes, Greg Freeman, Kevin Morby, King Tuff, Luke Temple, and more. On the heels of an inaugural season that hosted Wednesday's Karly Hartzman, Indigo De Souza, Fust, Esther Rose, Jay Som, Ryan Davis, and Hannah Cohen, broadcasts from Hopscotch and SXSW, and reports of New York City and the Hudson Valley, "The guest list already reads like a who's who of indie's current vanguard," says New Commute. "Each bringing their own shade of vulnerability and wit. It's a low-key salon, rich with conversational sidestreets and offhanded revelations."

Subscribe to Music Person and listen to Season Two's premiere, featuring Dry Cleaning's Florence Shaw: HERE

"Not to sound like an absolute corporate schlong on Linked In dot com, but when I look at what Music Person has been so far, it's really been a project of world-building," saysDylan Tupper Rupert, in the Music Person Quarterly, the podcast's seasonal dispatch and listening companion published via Substack. "It's why I focus on long-form interviews over social video or weekly newsletters or other contemporary variations of music writing. As the media business career path (lol, rest in peace old friend) slopes more steeply each week towards an atomized creator economy, there's an increased pressure to be omnipresent, to comment on everything, to post forever and infiltrate every feed, to be so many things at once. Making this podcast allows me to operate at the rate of my own creative and cognitive pace, and to prioritize connection over commentary…The real music world isn't a pool of hyper-individualists chucking their work out into a self-organizing meritocracy based on next-day album reactions. It's an ecosystem of deeply social and connected lives, and I see this all lay out in front of me in a really lovely way."

"Dylan has a very specific and singular voice and any music fan will do themselves an incredible service by plunging into the weird world Dylan has created and is documenting," saysIan Wheeler, founder of Talkhouse.

Following today's premiere, Music Person will host its very first live podcast taping tomorrow, March 26th, as part of Treefort Music Festival in Boise, ID. Taking place at 5PM in Boise Contemporary Theater, the event will see Dylan Tupper Rupert in conversation with Toody Cole of Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows, and the Rats - one of the most important women in Pacific Northwest punk history. Then, Rupert will join Fust, Merce Lemon, andGeorgia Maq on the West Coast leg of their US tour, with much more to be announced soon.

About Dylan Tupper Rupert

Dylan is a music person. She's a writer and critic (NPR, Rolling Stone, MTV), producer (The Ringer's Bandsplain, Spotify's The 33 ⅓ Podcast), & host (KCRW's Lost Notes S5, Groupies: Women of the Sunset Strip from the Pill to Punk). In her youth, she was an original voice of Rookie Mag and a presence in the West Coast indie rock scene. She publishes Crazy Mystery Catalog on Substack, hosting an essay titled How To See In the Dark, lauded by NPR Music Critic Ann Powers as "one of the essays of the year," as well as the Music Person Quarterly, a seasonal newsletter & listening companion to the Music Person podcast. She throws DIY micro-music festivals in beautiful places with great food, called Dylanfest. The flagship event is on Orcas Island, in Washington; some have called the event "the best weekend of my life." Follow her via @yaydylan& dylan tupper rupert on Substack.

About Talkhouse

Talkhouse is a Webby-Award-winning first-person media company, podcast network, and outlet for musicians, actors, filmmakers, and others in their respective fields. Talkhouse's podcast series includeSubwayTakes , How Long Gone , Blank Check , Alison Roman's Solicited Advice , Life of the Record , Craig Finn's That's How I Remember It , Santigold'sNoble Champions , Björk: Sonic Symbolism - which GQ praises as "a road map to the creative life," delivering what The New Yorker calls "a rare chance to listen in as one of the most mysterious and mystical artists working today explains herself" - as well as the new Fela Kuti: Fear No Man , which critics are raving about and represents Jad Abumrad's triumphant return to audio. Björk's Cornucopia represents Talkhouse's first foray into producing TV/film. Other projects are currently in development and production.

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