January 17, 2025

🚂 Reminder... NEW ZINE OUT!

Check out the new Train Songz Fall '24 zine packed with art, interviews, and a chance to win!

Hello there!

First thing’s first, I want to remind you that Train Songz Fall ‘24 IS OUT NOW. The theme is “Dig A Little Deeper In The Zine.”

• 2025 subscriptions for all four issues this year are $33 and up. I recommend $44 but it’s a sliding scale from $33 to $99. Subscribers get hand-numbered zines and ship first.

• Individual copies are $5 and up, I recommend $11 but it’s a sliding scale from $5 to $33.

Shipping: Zines should start shipping by next Friday. We will having shipping notifications this time! Working with a professional mailing house…

Free option: Both individual copies and subscriptions can be requested for free via the site, and for every 10 paid we give out one free. I don’t ask for any explanation as to why you’re requesting for free, and you don’t owe me one. Honor system. We got you.

📖 In this zine…

• 42 pages of content! Double last time and legally as thick as an envelope can be

• Sick covers by @hippieshit and @somesaxyart

• Mountain Grass Unit interview about Renewal

• Whacky data analysis

• More art than ever

• A bigger crossword

• In-depth research on song histories for you Olde-heads out there (we know you love it)

• Articles about Helene & Highway Prayers and a fan perspective on this year’s unique Renewal

• A QR code to a magical digital portal only accessible through the zine with a lot of fun stuff and curation

🕊️ Mountain Grass Unit giveaway

If you order by Monday, you’ll be entered to win:

• A MGU hat by @domeswap

• (2) physical tickets to see MGU in Asheville on February 15, after Billy’s show

I have 4 hats and 3 sets of tickets, so there will be 7 winners. Right now I have 750 orders, which puts your chances at a little under 1% — happy Custy Games!

📻 Train Songz Presents…

Each zine I release a set of music from a band we dig in a “radio show” called Train Songz Presents… where the only rule is to open and close your set of music with a train song.

This time around, we’re featuring North Fork Crossing.

You can listen here. Toss it on at work or while commuting today!

Setlist:

Gone Gone Gone
Get Back >
Big Mon >
Kitten and the Cat
If You Quit >
Goodbye Joanne
Ghost of the Night
DLL >
Ear to the Ground
Mountain Train

🏔️ Denver…

I’m looking for some small businesses (especially restaurants and breweries) to stock zines at for the Billy run next weekend, and in return I can hopefully drive some foot traffic… If you have any good ideas, let me know? Respond here.

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I’ll have more later, like when the merchandise store opens up… but that won’t be for a few weeks.

-The Conductor