Tris McCall is a music journalist, novelist, and rock musician from Hudson County, New Jersey, described by The New York Times as "the plugged-in, Internet-era muse of Jersey City." In 2010, he became the music critic for the Newark Star-Ledger. As of 2017, McCall has released four solo albums; songs intended for two future albums are previewed alongside his short stories in a web project called McCall's Almanac.Tris McCall has written about art, architecture, performance, politics, and public culture for many publications, including the Newark Star-Ledger, the Bergen Record, Jersey Beat, the Jersey City Reporter, the Jersey Journal, the Jersey City Independent, and New Jersey dot com.Discography1998 Straw Man Special1999 If One of These Bottles Should Happen to Fall: Jersey Songs by Tris McCall2003 Shootout at the Sugar Factory 2006 I'm Assuming You're All in Bands: Tris McCall in Brooklyn 2009 Let the Night FallMcCall's first novel, The Trespassers, was written in 2006 and published in 2012.