His contributions to The New York Times include a piece about Algerian "pop rai" artist Khaled Brahim[4] and another on the avant-garde artists of the Theatre of Eternal Music and their battles for proprietorship of drone music;[5] a Pitchfork feature on the year 1979 in Chicago touches on both power pop and the racial dimensions of anti-disco sentiment during "the Rise of House Music";[6] he has written about trip hop for Rolling Stone[7] and reviewed new work by jazz saxophonist Matana Roberts for NPR's All Things Considered.
[14] A total of nine issues of Butt Rag were published, and one of them attracted the attention of three Chicago Reader employees, including the then-editor-in-chief Michael Lenehan.
[3][15] In 2017, Dare Mighty Things declared Margasak one of "37 Influential Media People Shaping The Future Of Chicago".
[16] In September 2018, Margasak announced he would be leaving the Chicago Reader to attend the American Academy in Rome as part of its Visiting Artists & Scholars Program.
[17] He said his goal in starting the series was "to connect the dots between the strong experimental, improvised and contemporary classical scenes in Chicago".