Here is the first installment of “Twin Cities Mix”, a Spotify playlist by one of our Music Journalists, Maddy Melloy. This first playlist stands in solidarity with the BLM movement and features all Black musicians from Minneapolis and St. Paul.

This is the first write-up to go along with Nat’s TRASH MAG playlist, L.A. or Bust, where she highlights female/queer/POC musicians in the L.A. area.

TRASH MAG Co-Founder & Co-Editor in Chief Sara Ghassemzadeh sits down with Maddie Calderon, a multi-media artist from Los Angeles to talk about everything from Maddie’s goals for the year to different mediums of art she’s been experimenting with lately.

TRASH MAG Co-Founder & Co-Editor in Chief Bergen Flom sits down with a Los Angeles artist, Marianella Perez, to talk about everything from self-care to how Los Angeles has inspired Mari.