Hey y’all,

High time for Asheville weekend two! While the person writing this email will be on his couch enjoying his nugs net net subscription and updating the live setlist on BMFSDB, plenty of Team Train Songz and friendly volunteers donning black “Print Media Dealer” tees will be handing out zines ‘round town, in an effort to get our latest issue in front of folks off Instagram…

So if you’ll be in Asheville but already got a zine, consider showing one to a friend and supporting any of the local businesses who were kind enough to pick up my cold call and agree to let us drop zines off. Give ‘em the Train Bump for me!

After-parties w/ Zines

• 2/15: Redbud & Bald Mountain Boys (One World Brewing)

• 2/15: Mountain Grass Unit (Orange Peel)

• 2/16: Sicard Hollow (Third Room)

The latest zine features an interview with Mountain Grass Unit about their Renewal experience, so they’ll have zines at their merchandise table. Support the band and grab a free zine.

Local businesses w/ zines

Restaurants / Bars / Breweries

• Shady Grove Coffee

• Taco Billy

• DSSOLVR

• Manicomio Pizza

• Jack of the Wood

• Burial Beer Co. South Slope Taproom

• The Whale :: South Slope

• Terra Nova

• White Duck Taco

• High Five Coffee :: Downtown

Shops

• Malaprop's Bookstore

• Downtown Books & News

• Citizen Vinyl

• Wonderland

• Push Skate Shop

• Indo

• Static Age Records

• Voltage Records

🗺️ P.S. If you’re a Google Maps user, you can check out Train Mapz to see all the places and venues in Asheville stocking the zine! Just follow that link.

We’ll be running this zines-plus-local-businesses playbook again in Atlanta and Nashville… My hope is that it gives subscribers an idea of places to hit (for my “Reddit best sandwich Nashville” crowd) and introduce someone new to the zine.

—The Conductor