In the oft-forgotten, no-man’s-land territory of West Virginia is where Aaron Dowdy’s family came from—on his dad’s side, through a multiplicity of generations. Dowdy’s grandmother was born in ...

10 years ago, I wanted to watch every Adam Sandler movie. A completionist at heart, I yearned so badly to claim that I’d conquered his entire filmography. So, I watched them all, one by one, piece by ...

Durham, NC band Fust have announced their highly anticipated new album Big Ugly, due out March 7th via Dear Life Records. Lead single “Spangled”, available now, combines big chords and band leader ...

Durham, North Carolina-based Fust (led by singer/songwriter Aaron Dowdy) are releasing their third studio album, Big Ugly, on March 7 via Dear Life. Now they have released the album’s second single, ...

Fust have released their new record Big Ugly, out now via Dear Life Records. The band joins a long tradition of artists that have tried to present life in the dirty South, from the lived-in short ...

Aaron Dowdy started writing songs because of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. It started at age 11, when his parents took him to a music festival in their hometown of Bristol, Virginia. The musical ...

North Carolina alt-country band Fust have teamed up with Merce Lemon to cover George Jones' "Choices" and "Cup of Loneliness", which will be self-released as a 7" split. Fust frontperson Aaron Dowdy ...

Fust’s Aaron Dowdy tells Max Mazonowicz about the shifting of time and history in the forgotten corners of the South. “For me, the responsibility has come after the fact. Like people are listening to ...

Aaron Dowdy is constantly writing songs — recording on his phone the melodies that loop in his head or jotting down lyrics with the pen he always keeps in his breast pocket. It's something he's been ...