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.

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

-The Conductor