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I'm Gary Suarez of CABBAGES
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Music journo/critic who wrote for every publication you used to read.
CABBAGES is my hip-hop newsletter + rapper movie podcast.
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This season on CABBAGES, we're watching wrestling movies. This week's episode is no exception. www.cabbageshiphop.com/podcast-dark...
Podcast: 'Dark Match' With Len Bowen
The Winnipeg rap veteran discusses his fellow Canuck's role in this wrestling tournament nightmare set in the 1980s.
www.cabbageshiphop.com
A great way to spend your afternoon: listening to a live concert recording of the greatest rock band in the world boris.bandcamp.com/album/journe...
Journey -Live at Port City Music Hall 20190912-, by Boris
11 track album
boris.bandcamp.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Back when ppl knew howta fkn dress
February 15, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Has anyone on here seen Crime 101 in IMAX or 4DX? Is it worth the premium upgrade or should I just see it in standard?
February 15, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Doing laundry, listening to Manassas and the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, thinking about dressing like a '70s country rocker for the foreseeable future
February 14, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Back when ppl knew howta dress
February 14, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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ICYMI
I interviewed Jah Pool, a hip-hop tastemaker involved in the New Chicago movement—he manages rappers, books shows (including pop-ups on the back of U-Haul vans), and hosts projects
Jah Pool, hip-hop manager and promoter - Chicago Reader
A workhorse of the #NewChicago scene, Jah Pool has managed breakout star Thirteendegrees° and created the compilation New Chicago, Vol. 1.
chicagoreader.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Needed a whole album of Black Star x Griselda tbh

youtu.be/7icGNCSMa5U?...
Westside Gunn - Peppas (Official Video) ft. Black Star
YouTube video by WESTSIDEGUNNVEVO
youtu.be
February 12, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Bonobo peaked with 'Animal Magic.'
February 12, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Let Nic Cage do whatever he wants for the rest of his career. youtu.be/HgMbkitzhEM?...
“Spider-Noir” – Authentic Black & White Teaser Trailer | Prime Video
YouTube video by Prime Video
youtu.be
February 12, 2026 at 6:25 PM
White Man's Burden (1995)
Pi (1998)
The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
Have asked this before and always like the responses. What are your biggest “I saw that in the first run cinema” flexes? Couple of mine:

Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
February 12, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Daft Punk Is Praying At My House
February 11, 2026 at 3:17 PM
In news that will matter to a certain kind of New Yorker, Baohaus is reopening in the old Yaffa Cafe space on St. Marks.
February 11, 2026 at 2:32 PM
This season on CABBAGES, we're watching wrestling movies. This week's episode is no exception. www.cabbageshiphop.com/podcast-dark...
Podcast: 'Dark Match' With Len Bowen
The Winnipeg rap veteran discusses his fellow Canuck's role in this wrestling tournament nightmare set in the 1980s.
www.cabbageshiphop.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:40 PM
CABBAGES has a modest Discord presence, but if/when they implement this I will gladly stop using it altogether
February 10, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Girls Against Boys opening the NYC gig has me seriously considering attending a Jimmy Eat World concert
February 10, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens
February 10, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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Miles Davis might have been better at wearing sunglasses than playing the trumpet
February 9, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Not sure if there's a specific Discogs issue, but people have to have (or feel like they have) disposable income to buy stuff. And with international shipping now more prohibitively expensive than before, the business model of a Discogs Marketplace seems unsustainable.
so is discogs just kinda dead for selling now?
February 7, 2026 at 4:13 PM
BORIS got me three times for Bandcamp Friday, with two live albums and the Japanese edition of the exquisite psych rock outing 'Rainbow' with Michio Kurihara boris.bandcamp.com/album/rainbo...
Rainbow -Japanese version-, by Boris with Michio Kurihara
9 track album
boris.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:18 PM
You probably didn't know that Trey Songz, Fetty Wap, and R-Truth co-starred in a WWE movie back in 2018.

Well, now you do.

We watched it for the CABBAGES Hip-Hop Podcast with special guest Chester Watson (of @powrecordings.bsky.social).

www.cabbageshiphop.com/podcast-bloo...
Podcast: 'Blood Brother' With Chester Watson
The P.O.W. Recordings artist stops by to discuss WWE's cat-and-mouse thriller starring Trey Songz and R-Truth.
www.cabbageshiphop.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:46 PM
From: Con Edison
Subject line: Your Con Edison bill is ready
Me:
February 5, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Might have to start watching basketball if this is what's happening
That’s right. Fran Leibowitz on celebrity row at tonight’s Knicks- Nuggets game
February 5, 2026 at 2:33 PM
You could fund like ten laid-off journalists' Substacks for that amount.
You can pay $875 to hear the Coldplay concert HR woman “take back the narrative”
February 4, 2026 at 8:26 PM
I know this is an unpopular take, but most people pay nothing for journalism yet pay for streaming video services and programs like Amazon Prime. Cutting any one of those could cover the cost of a few laid-off journos' Substacks.
i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
February 4, 2026 at 8:14 PM