Fust promo photo

Fust

Fust promo photo

Agent:
Andrew Stocker

Fust — the Durham, North Carolina-based band — announce their new album, Big Ugly, out March 7th via Dear Life Records. Big Ugly arrives after the release of 2024’s Songs of the Rail––“one of the best alt-country compilations…in a long, long time” (Paste) –– and 2023’s standout Genevieve, which unassumingly introduced new listeners to Fust’s unmistakable blend of “small-town poetry” (Mojo) with a familiar yet probing “country-tinged folk-rock” (KEXP) that made it “one of the most fun rock records of the year” (Pitchfork). Big Ugly finds Fust taking its “gutsy, blue-collar Americana” (New Commute) further than it has before. Songwriter Aaron Dowdy pushes his obsessions with country-storytelling to more mystifying places, telling stories of Southern life teeming with utopian possibility that arises uniquely from the contradictions for which the south is infamously known. In this way, it is a record that could easily be filed on the record shelf alongside lyric-forward indie or Southern rock, as well as on the bookshelf amongst the throngs of Southern literature hellbent on proving the elegance of grittiness. Big Ugly is also Fust––above all a group of close friends––uncovering a freedom within their sincere form of loose and fried guitar rock, emboldened to deliver both their most intimate songwriting and biggest sound to date. While perhaps “few voices can write a song quite like Aaron Dowdy” (Paste), it is clear upon listening that Big Ugly is an album of fully recognizable voices. One hears in the music the years of interplay between Avery Sullivan (Sluice) on Drums, Justin Morris (Sluice, Weirs) on guitar and vocals, Oliver Child-Lanning (Sluice, Weirs) on bass and vocals, Frank Meadows on piano, John Wallace (Colamo) on guitar and vocals, and Libby Rodenbough (Mipso) on fiddle and vocals. Big Ugly is also the second collaboration with the Asheville-based engineer Alex Farrar, recorded together throughout the summer of 2024 at Drop of Sun Studio. And with the help of many friends including Merce Lemon, Dave Hartley (The War on Drugs), and John James Tourville (The Deslondes), Big Ugly is exactly what one feels it to be: a huge group of people gathered together, stumbling upon songs amidst long days and even longer nights.

Upcoming Shows

March 17, 2026 Cleveland, OH Beachland Tavern
March 18, 2026 Evanston, IL SPACE
March 19, 2026 Milwaukee, WI Cactus Club
March 20, 2026 Des Moines, IA xBk Live
March 21, 2026 Omaha, NE Reverb Lounge
March 22, 2026 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
March 25, 2026 Salt Lake City, UT The DLC at Quarters
March 27, 2026 Boise, ID Treefort Music Fest
March 28, 2026 Walla Walla, WA Billsville West
March 29, 2026 Seattle, WA Sunset Tavern
March 31, 2026 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
April 02, 2026 San Francisco, CA Bottom Of The Hill
April 03, 2026 Los Angeles, CA Zebulon
April 04, 2026 San Diego, CA Soda Bar
April 06, 2026 Phoenix, AZ Valley Bar
April 09, 2026 Austin, TX Sagebrush
April 10, 2026 Houston, TX White Oak Music Hall - Upstairs
April 11, 2026 New Orleans, LA Hogs For The Cause
Not Available
April 12, 2026 Jackson, MS Duling Hall
April 14, 2026 Knoxville, TN The Pilot Light
April 15, 2026 Asheville, NC The Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall
April 16, 2026 Boone, NC Lily's Snackbar
Not Available
April 17, 2026 Durham, NC Motorco Music Hall
June 20, 2026 Greenfield, MA Green River Festival

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