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Taste in Music: Eating on Tour with Indie Musicians

by Luke Pyenson

Meals, music, and life on tour

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Awards & Recognition

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    A Pitchfork Best Book of 2024

    Named a Pitchfork Best Book of 2024.

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Meals, music, and life on tour

Food provides the thread connecting these essays and conversations with indie musicians across scenes and generations. The entries consider what touring looks like through the practical, shared experience of finding and eating meals, while opening onto stories about travel, work, and the communities formed on the road. With contributors including members of Fleet Foxes, Talking Heads, Pavement, Weyes Blood, and Frankie Cosmos, the collection brings a range of musical backgrounds to its portrait of touring life. Its combination of personal essays and conversations makes food a way into the everyday realities of an unusually mobile industry.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in indie music scenes and touring life.
  • Readers who enjoy food writing connected to travel and personal experience.
  • Readers looking for essays and conversations featuring musicians from different generations and subgenres.

Themes

Food and communityTouring and travelIndie music scenesWork and everyday life on the road

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Book overview

A Pitchfork Best Book of 2024
A Saveur Best Narrative Food Book of 2024

In this unique and deeply thoughtful collection, musician Alex Bleeker (Real Estate) and food and travel journalist Luke Pyenson (formerly of Frankie Cosmos) take readers on tour with a diverse lineup of inspiring indie musicians from around the world, sharing meals and travel experiences, peeking behind the curtain at this singular and singularly misunderstood way of life. Through original essays and engaging conversations with dozens of indie musicians representing several subgenres, scenes, and eras, food takes center stage in stories about being on tour and eating on tour and how this basic human necessity can create a sense of community and interconnectedness in one of the most mobile industries in the world. Based broadly on the subject of eating on tour, these entries each spin off into their own focused and exciting behind-the-scenes story, but all confirm what Pyenson and Bleeker suspected all along--food looms large in the lives of touring musicians, and it can be used as a gateway into understanding what going on tour is really like.

Featured contributors include:

  • Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes)
  • Chris Frantz (Talking Heads)
  • Natalie Mering (Weyes Blood)
  • Mark Ibold (Pavement)
  • John Gourley (Portugal. The Man)
  • Lily Chait (touring chef to boygenius and Phoebe Bridgers)
  • Amelia Meath (Sylvan Esso)
  • Greta Kline (Frankie Cosmos)
  • Devendra Banhart
  • Bob Mould (H
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