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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle
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In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful
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For this Black History Month, I would like to formally invite all white people to stop complaining about not using the n-word, as if we didn't already let you all have the race-and-gender-neutral term "motherfucker."
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Jack Mirkinson
19 days ago
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on
@thenation.com
, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read!
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A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/a-day-for-gaza-intro-explainer/
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Ever heard of the Middle Passage?
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19 days ago
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This week's paid subscriber exclusive is about the dearly departed UK punk band Shopping, their near-perfect first two albums, and why actually quitting for real is a radical act in the 2020s.
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A Posthumous Tribute to Shopping
The beloved UK DIY dance punks called it quits last summer
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19 days ago
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First paid subscriber-exclusive post on Trick Bag is up today! I wrote about Horsegirl's first two albums—as well as the nature of expectation and "hype" when it comes to precocious young bands.
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How Horsegirl Traded Vibes for Growth
The NYC-via-Chicago trio's first two albums mark a huge shift in the young band's trajectory
https://trickbag.substack.com/p/how-horsegirl-traded-vibes-for-growth
27 days ago
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You might think it's a coincidence that the new Roc Marciano album leads off with a song called "Trick Bag." I call it cosmic intervention.
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Roc Marciano - Trick Bag (Visualizer)
YouTube video by RocMarcianoVEVO
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30 days ago
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Jeff Weiss
about 1 month ago
The Best Rock Records of 2025 Featuring Added Dimensions, Sharp Pins, Artificial Go, Eraser, Fugitive Bubble, Galore, good flying birds, Orcutt Shelley Miller, MARAUDER, Josie, and more. Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes returns.
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Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes: The Best Rock Records of 2025 | Passion of the Weiss
Serving up the greatest underground rock music of the year.
https://www.passionweiss.com/2026/01/14/douglas-martins-dirty-shoes-the-best-rock-records-of-2025/
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These 2016 memes are real wild. It is unsettling to know that at least a third of the professional/music scene peers and pals I have were teenagers 10 years ago haha.
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DMDS Best of '25 is up. Had an awesome time making this (last?) year's list. The best guitar records to come out of the underground (unless they were written about elsewhere lol).
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Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes: The Best Rock Records of 2025 | Passion of the Weiss
Serving up the greatest underground rock music of the year.
https://www.passionweiss.com/2026/01/14/douglas-martins-dirty-shoes-the-best-rock-records-of-2025/
about 1 month ago
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New year, new column, same me. "Songs the Lord Taught Us" is a way for me to scratch my itch to do more personal writing.
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Songs the Lord Taught Us #1: Moments of 2025
Martin Douglas's personal essay series begins with new beginnings and tough endings
https://trickbag.substack.com/p/songs-the-lord-taught-us-1-moments
about 2 months ago
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Seattle Times Critics Poll 2025 just dropped. Here's my ballot.
about 2 months ago
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A context-free quote from one of the works listed in this Best of '25 Mail Bag: "I'm in the coffin but I'm still coughin'."
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The Trick Bag Mail Order #002: A Parting Shot for 2025
Martin Douglas bids good fucking riddance to 2025
https://open.substack.com/pub/trickbag/p/the-trick-bag-mail-order-002-a-parting?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2xisp
2 months ago
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Here's a goodie that didn't make the Mail Bag: For my final KEXP interview, I had the unreal pleasure of getting to speak to Gina Birch—artist and founding member of the Raincoats(!!!).
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The Raincoats’ Gina Birch on Career and Solo Album, Trouble
YouTube video by KEXP Podcasts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwkkxgREbdE
2 months ago
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Hahaha I really enjoyed talking to
@janehu.bsky.social
and
@samjleeds.bsky.social
about local music and weed culture from the perspective of the most maligned generation.
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2 months ago
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sam j leeds
2 months ago
This episode was such a blast to record. Shout out to
@douglasmartini.bsky.social
for sharing a wealth of great music. We created a companion playlist of all our favorite tracks from local bands. Give it a listen!
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Had a ball making this list for my friends at
@mergerecords.bsky.social
!
mergerecords.com/about/2025eoty
2 months ago
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Contributed to
@see-saw.fun
's Best of 2025 physical newsletter! Find out what a group of heavy hitters in the punk and rock 'n roll scene thought were the year's greatest albums!
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see/saw's top 54 punk & rock'n'roll records of 2025 from see/saw
see/saw's top 54 punk & rock'n'roll records of 2025 from see/saw
https://see-sawdotfun.bandcamp.com/merch/see-saws-top-54-punk-rocknroll-records-of-2025?ref=see-saw.fun&fbclid=PAb21jcAOtiARleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA81NjcwNjczNDMzNTI0MjcAAadjrUHTo5IZ6h4WhMuQ2C0bg1GGBThUjvb1q48JLAa2A9wXZvD8_TztosDeFg_aem_dhupCE2gH3SengF_udHqsQ
2 months ago
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Elmattic
3 months ago
FEAR & LOATHING IN CHARM CITY :: BEST OF 2025 Wrote about my five top albums of the year--the most necessary, the dimension of the present: Infinity Knives x Brian Ennals DJ Haram Sunmundi x Sasco billy woods Gabe 'Nandez x Preservation
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Fear & Loathing in Charm City :: Best of 2025
Top 5 for the year: Ennals x Infinity Knives, DJ Haram, Sasco x Sunmundi, billy woods and Gabe 'Nandez x Preservation.
https://open.substack.com/pub/elmattic/p/fear-and-loathing-in-charm-city-best?r=3rgbn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Play It Strange, a Substack newsletter about the heyday of the SF weirdo rock/punk/DIY scene (one of my current favorites), quoted me from an old article about seeing one of my favorite live bands in the world—Thee Oh Sees.
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16. Thee Oh Sees’ In the Master’s Bedroom and the Live Experience: 2008
Putting on searing live shows that guarantees your own legend
https://sanfranciscopsycherock.substack.com/p/16-thee-oh-sees-in-the-masters-bedroom
2 months ago
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Published my final piece for KEXP yesterday. Onward and upward.
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Throwaway Style: Thank You This Has Been a Very Fun Experience
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2 months ago
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"If you need circumstances to be ideal to try, maybe you just suck." —Jon Moxley
2 months ago
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Doug Burzum
3 months ago
The only groups who could touch the MGs were Funkadelic, The Meters, and The JBs. That’s the entire list. A transformative guitarist in a revolutionary group.
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For my friends at
@bandcamp.com
, I wrote about the best John Dwyer album of 2025.
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The Best Albums of 2025: Day 1, A–L
Day one of our three-day look at the year’s best records.
https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2025/the-best-albums-of-2025-day-1-a-l
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Birthday Happiness to Jimi Hendrix, born November 27, 1942. Here he is onstage backing The Ronettes:
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The best, most nuanced opinions I've read about this movie (that I really enjoyed). By far.
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3 months ago
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Wrote about Etran de L'Air and whatever the opposite of ancestral weight is. (Ancestral levity? Ancestral lightness?)
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: On Etran De L'AĂŻr and Lifted Ancestral Weight
An unreleased personal essay inspired by the guitar heroes of Niger
https://trickbag.substack.com/p/from-the-archives-on-etran-de-lair
3 months ago
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Turns out sunshine and Prozac really helps with depression! Who knew?
3 months ago
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Taniel
3 months ago
I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
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If Aaron Judge winning American League MVP over Cal Raleigh isn't a clear indicator of sweeping market bias (not just in sports but everywhere), I don't know what is.
3 months ago
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BREAKING NEWS: Working in music media means dealing with a constant state of anxiety about your field crumbling under the weight of late stage capitalism (I wrote this op-ed in 2022 lol).
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: In Observance of the Slow Death of the Alt-Weekly
An ode to idiosyncratic local publications in the midst of mass media homogenization
https://trickbag.substack.com/p/from-the-archives-in-observance-of
3 months ago
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BREAKING NEWS: Working in music media means dealing with a constant state of anxiety about your field crumbling under the weight of late stage capitalism (I wrote this op-ed in 2022 lol).
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: In Observance of the Slow Death of the Alt-Weekly
An ode to idiosyncratic local publications in the midst of mass media homogenization
https://trickbag.substack.com/p/from-the-archives-in-observance-of
3 months ago
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Leor Galil
3 months ago
Very sun-times to hold off on writing about Adamn Killa till he got arrested for doing arrest me daddy lol
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Chicago rapper Adamn Killa tells cops to 'arrest me, daddy.' Getting arrested won't stop him.
Adam Kelly, who goes by the stage name Adamn Killa, was handcuffed and briefly held in a squad car after interrupting a traffic stop for one of his social media videos. After he was released, he went ...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/11/10/chicago-rapper-adamn-killa-tells-cops-to-arrest-me-daddy-getting-arrested-wont-stop-him
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I was notified last week that I am getting laid off from KEXP in December. I don't really want to talk about it. But are you an editor for a reputable music publication with decent pay? Get at me:
[email protected]
4 months ago
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Jeff Weiss
4 months ago
A beautiful requiem for the miracle that was D'Angelo. The pen, the voice, the face, the talent. The three classics. The genius that he could summon by force of will. The impossibility of categorizing him. The void that his death leaves. By Abe Beame
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The Anointed One: A Requiem For D'Angelo | Passion of the Weiss
Abe Beame eulogizes the inimitable genius of the soul icon who tragically passed away yesterday after a battle with cancer.
https://www.passionweiss.com/2025/10/14/dangelo-obituary-vodoo-black-messiah/
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When I write or talk about things like soul and the blues, I'm not referencing musical genres, but a spiritual disposition. That said, D'Angelo was on a very short list of the very best soul artists in the history of music.
4 months ago
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Happy Indigenous People's Day. Make sure you pay homage to the creator of garage punk.
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Link Wray - Hidden Charms.
YouTube video by GBD
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4 months ago
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Years ago, I sort of a name for myself writing incredibly vulnerably. Then I wanted to just be known as a good writer. I almost didn't pull this one out of the archives.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: On Writing, Trauma, and Depression
A very personal essay from the archives for World Mental Health Day
https://open.substack.com/pub/trickbag/p/from-the-archives-on-writing-trauma?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2xisp
4 months ago
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Evan Minsker
5 months ago
Tony Milek is the frontman of Bermuda Squares, guitarist in Neo Neos, one of the best punk songwriters and screamers in Minneapolis. This is a person who I’m proud to call a friend—who has helped me out in immeasurable ways. He’s going through a medical emergency right now and needs some help.
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Donate to Support Tony's post-amputation recovery and long term care, organized by Annie Sparrows
Tony Milek, who you may know from fronting Bermuda Squares, p… Annie Sparrows needs your support for Support Tony's post-amputation recovery and long term care
https://gofund.me/ed1ffd9c6
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Now that Musk has called for a Netflix boycott over a trans cartoon character, I'm all in for supporting Netflix at all costs lmao.
5 months ago
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My friend accidentally recreated the Double Nickels on the Dime cover while I was driving my El Camino (circa 2018, I think).
5 months ago
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Memphis just hits different. I'm having lunch at Hattie B's—essentially fast food for those not familiar—and they're banging a seven-minute Issac Hayes jam.
5 months ago
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Tapping in to let you know Gonerfest is still undefeated.
5 months ago
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The weird thing about having an Instagram for my newsletter is that I almost got offended that I left myself on "seen."
5 months ago
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Early Rapture is the best thing that has ever come out of DFA. By, like, a lot. Don't @ me.
5 months ago
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New Mail Bag dropped today!
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The Trick Bag Mail Order #001
Also known as "The Mail Bag," here is a collection of stuff Martin Douglas has been carrying
https://open.substack.com/pub/trickbag/p/the-trick-bag-mail-order-001?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2xisp
5 months ago
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Really tempted to write a Trick Bag feature titled "The Top 100 James Baldwin Quotes That are Different from the Same Dozen James Baldwin Quotes Always Posted on Instagram."
5 months ago
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It's so exhausting to be a Black person in a country that hates Black people. Even if you're "smart," even if you're "talented," even if you're "insightful," you still live in a country that hates you.
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I want you to put the word out there that we back up. ("We" as in "real writers.")
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A Trick Bag Manifesto
Call it a statement of purpose, call it a war cry, call it whatever
https://trickbag.substack.com/p/a-trick-bag-manifesto
5 months ago
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