very respectable marsh-wiggle.
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11 Dec 2022
this seems like a good day to remind my friends to use social media sparingly, if at all, and recommend that you volunteer as little personal information to the people who run these sites as you can.
with love and concern from new jersey.
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May 7
we go through this *every time* a band from nyc gets popular. we went through it with the strokes, and vw. now it's about geese.
meanwhile, there exist 100s of great working/middle class emo & punk bands who are glossed over b/c they don't fit the narrative that rock is dead.
the “only rich kids make music nowadays” line of thinking comes from a place of good faith, like of course you’re primed to become a big star if you have wealth & family connections, but it rly only applies to the upper echelons. most of my friends are broke & still make music 🤷♀️
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Apr 10
i won the new jersey press association award for criticism. my thanks to everybody i've written about. i've learned so much from you.
it means a lot to win it for the @jerseycitytimes.
On this Local News Day, Tris McCall's award — the Jersey City Times' first — is just one of many reasons to celebrate.
jcitytimes.com/how-im-celebr…
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1 Dec 2025
let me tell you a story.
on friday, we will be reading *rafe*, a tale of a demon who wants to play the drums, in the theater at art house productions (345 marin blvd., jc). it's free!
our storytelling will be augmented by songs, synth, projections, and (maybe) a few opinions.
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17 Jun 2025
currently obsessed with it. it's an album about the dangers of aggression and it's scarily salient to the world we're trapped in.
out of ten, it's a 9.8 -- the missing 0.2 is because of the discordant parts of sound chaser. that track gets abrasive. everything else is perfect.
17 Jun 2025
This is an early YES album that I always struggled to get into when it came out. I appreciate it now but still seldom play it. What do you rate this YES album out of 10?
#mikesquestions #Prog #YES
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29 May 2025
pretty much the same stuff i'm obsessed with thirty years later.
29 May 2025
Be honest. What album or song were you completely obsessed with in high school?
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tris mccall retweeted
“Even the installations that venture beyond the walls of domestic space search for a midway point between troubled local history and half-remembered childhood memory.”
Tris McCall (@trismccall) writes about Art Fair 14C for @JerseyCityTimes
ow.ly/NgVV50VYy59
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4 May 2025
this may be the thing in the world i agree with the most.
Here's a piping hot Star Wars take for ya: The prequels should't have been about Vader at all. His backstory should have only been hinted at. His mystique made him cinema's most iconic villain overnight, and that was ruined when we learned about his childhood hobbies.
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9 Dec 2024
the 2024 pop music abstract is now live. forty thousand words on 150 '24 albums, written as fast as i can with no editing allowed. the object of the game is to try to write faster than i can think, and in so doing, figure out what it is i think.
trismccall.net/pop-music-abs…
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3 Dec 2024
immensely grateful to be receiving an andy warhol foundation arts writers grant — grateful to @artswriters, and grateful to garden state artists. everything i know about art i’ve learned from writing about your shows. glad to have this opportunity to keep learning and writing.
💥The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant is excited to announce its 2024 grantees! Congratulations to the 30 writers who received support for their articles, books, and short-form writing.💥
Read about this year's grantees and their projects: artswriters.org
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20 Nov 2024
reserve your seats for *tris mccall: songs and stories* at @arthouseprods. it’s free.
copies of *mccall’s almanac*, short stories narrated by the characters from the songs, will be available. it is a nice holiday gift for the anxious and paranoid.
arthouseproductions.org/prod…
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30 Oct 2024
when i was a kid, i didn't think that anything could be cooler than writing for the star-ledger. now that i'm grown up, i still don't. i'm grateful to have had the opportunity.
nj.com/news/2024/10/star-led…
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28 Aug 2024
fans of guitar rock of the emotional variety should know that @carlycosgrovepa has put out two outstanding, exemplary albums in a row. what a great band.
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tris mccall retweeted
12 Jun 2024
confession: i liked that song when nas was rapping like a 1930s detective
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19 Oct 2023
all i want for christmas is for carly rae jepsen and rostam to make a whole album together.
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7 Oct 2023
this is one of the best public service announcements i have ever seen.
also, *the whaler* kicks butt.
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23 Aug 2023
reserve a seat at the *return to the sugar factory* at art house productions (345 marin) on friday, sept. 8! do it before your arch-enemy does. seriously, i do not want to sing for that guy. he's mean. i want to sing for *you*:
ci.ovationtix.com/35606/prod…
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3 Jul 2023
major thematic similarities between @bcnrband live at bush hall and wish you were here. frontman down with crippling mental health issues & the rest of the band examining their complicity and guilt in a set of compassionate, beautiful songs about him. anyway. i love the album.
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19 Jun 2023
one score and zero years ago, we brought upon this earth a freaked-out, buzz-filled rock album called shootout at the sugar factory. on sept. 8, we celebrate the curious persistence of the shootout with a visually-enhanced synthesizer meltdown at @arthouseprods in jc. free show!
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24 May 2023
i am excited to be playing with office culture, creators of one of the most unusual albums of '22. an edward hopper exhibition in song, full of too-quiet interiors, late-nite phone calls, dangling conversations & diabolical riddles. lyrics that sting more each time you hear them.
23 May 2023
Next Office Culture show will be a doozy - 6/29 at Berlin (in Manhattan) w the amazing @kolbworld and @trismccall
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6 Apr 2023
bards pop up in funny places!
5 Apr 2023
Good to see @trismccall pop up in the place where he used to grace us daily with his exquisite writing! ♥️ nj.com/hudson/2023/04/the-ba… by @jimjbeat
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