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Hello there, subscribers! Thank you again for taking the dive to support our zinemaking efforts for the year ahead. It means the world you like our content enough to do that, and we’re working our cabooses off to make each issue better than the last.
I’m writing with the vaguest concept of an idea I’ve been kicking around in my head the last week or so, and I’m genuinely curious to hear what you think via a reply to this email. As a subscriber, this is something extra I’d work on for you, so I’m curious if you think it’s valuable or too much.
The question: Would you want more frequent writing, curation, and recs from from Train Songz twice a week, to kick things off on Monday mornings and close things out on Fridays?
I would want this to serve as a bit of a “home page” for you to kick off and close your week; something you would open and have the confidence it was worth 5-10 minutes of your morning to read a bit of writing or click through some curated links/new music pertaining to musical happenings I think might think be of interest to you.
As Train Songz grows outside Instagram, it’s not that I don’t love posting silly content a few times per week and having fun over there, but I do firmly believe there’s more meaningful and lasting ways for us to create an online-offline community.
I think a platform for more frequent and casual writing would be fun for me to have, because we write about very specific and timely things in print. Plus, words are pretty hard to come by in the zine (even at 42 pages) and a ton of ideas get cut. So it could be cool for us to have a casual and frequent place to write and share on top of the quarterly print-exclusive stuff that we spend a ton of time on.
Important: I don’t want to spam you and assume you want this just because you signed up for the print. This would be a separate, opt-in situation that you could have emailed to you when a new blog post drops or just check the blog at your leisure. It wouldn’t be behind a separate paywall other than what you’ve already done, which is paying for a year of the print.
So let me know… if this sounds rad, I want to hear from you, and if this sounds like too much, I want to hear from you. This is an early-days idea, and the soonest it would kick off is in April.
—The Conductor