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2 weeks ago | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | CJ Simonson
It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring the collaboration between Color Green’s Corey Madden and Ty Segall, FRECKLE, and of the moment post-country Chicago band Truth or Consequences New Mexico’s EP THIS TIME OF YEAR!Truth Or Consequences New Mexico – THIS TIME OF YEARGenre: Countrygaze, Post-CountryFavorite Tracks: “Honey, We’re In Hell!” “Between GA,” “Seed of Doubt”There’s just a lot to digest about Truth Or Consequences New Mexico’s sound.
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2 months ago | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | CJ Simonson |Ronnie Wood
There are a few non-music related things I love about Steel Wool, so let me count them out for you before I jump into discussing their great new EP: The art for this project, done by Los Angeles artist Cayla Blachman, is incredible; the packshots for both “Eyes Closed” and the excellent standout “Fading” are remarkable, and their debut self-titled EP has a similarly striking intensity.
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2 months ago | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | CJ Simonson
The “About” section of this website was written sometime back in 2018. I only know that because if you go back and look at it, it tells the broadly uneventful but important origin story of this publication and offhandedly mentions the launch being “three-years-and-change” in the past. So it’s startling to realize that A) we for sure should update that thing and B) that we’re now 10 fucking years past the quiet moment a bunch of Chapman University students launched an online pop culture website.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | CJ Simonson |Jack Probst
It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring LAKE’s undeniably shiny indie pop explosion BUCOLIC GONE and some fear’s cripplingly human slowcore self-titled debut! LAKE – BUCOLIC GONEGenre: Indie Rock, Sunshine Pop, Adult ContemporaryFavorite Tracks: “Blue Horizon,” “Wonderful Sunshine,” “Love is Deeper”When I was small, my grandma would build a nest for me every afternoon.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | CJ Simonson |Ronnie Wood
It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring Dead Gowns’ utterly beautiful debut IT’S SUMMER, I LOVE YOU, AND I’M SURROUNDED BY SNOW and wakelee’s tightly wound emo EP DOGHOUSE! Dead Gowns – IT’S SUMMER, I LOVE YOU, AND I’M SURROUNDED BY SNOW Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Indie Rock Favorite Tracks: “How Can I,” “Wet Dog,” “In The Haze,” “Swimmer,” “See People” “I don’t think I can afford the time to not sit right down & write a poem about the heavy lidded white rose I hold in my hand” So goes...
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | CJ Simonson |Ronnie Wood
You can rely on Delivery to deliver heaps of rowdy, roaring guitars. The Melbourne five-piece are quickly getting their name out there. Their lockdown-born 2022 debut record, FOREVER GIVING HANDSHAKES, a set of spindly, rumbling punk songs, marked Delivery’s beginning of becoming a true Australian phenomenon. They’ve since kept busy, playing tons of dates across Australia and Europe, and have scored themselves a deal with the label Heavenly Recordings. Everything is looking up for the band.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | CJ Simonson |Ronnie Wood
As it goes, Merry-Go-Round Magazine is an independent, online culture magazine based in Los Angeles, CA. While our reach has become much more global, and our writer base has expanded far beyond our SoCal roots, it will always be an LA mag. I sat with my car packed during the fires, prepared to leave on Wednesday the 8th in case the Sunset fire jumped the 101 and I had to bail. Our film editor Kevin Cookman had to evacuate his home because of the Altadena fire.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | CJ Simonson
Before I was the music fan I am now, when I was instead known as one of the resident film buffs at my high school, I wrote a massive report on Bob Dylan. It was ostensibly my senior research paper, though it was in an honors English class my junior year—a group paper deep diving into a subject, with a broad thesis and carefully detailed MLA citations. Basically, the kind of thing kids are no doubt scamming their way through with ChatGPT now.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | CJ Simonson |Ronnie Wood
Thanks for clicking into our end of the year coverage! Merry-Go-Round Magazine is an independent culture site funded by people like you! If you’re enjoying our End of 2024 Coverage, consider becoming a member of our Patreon, or even donating to our operation here! Between now and January 1st, you can get one of our amazing crewneck sweaters if you become a Patron at the $5 tier! Thanks in advance for supporting MGRM!We, as a public, need to stop treating music as sports.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | CJ Simonson
Thanks for clicking into our end of the year coverage! Merry-Go-Round Magazine is an independent culture site funded by people like you! If you’re enjoying our End of 2024 Coverage, consider becoming a member of our Patreon, or even donating to our operation here! Between now and January 1st, you can get one of our amazing crewneck sweaters if you become a Patron at the $5 tier! Thanks in advance for supporting MGRM! A lot has happened in the 24 months since we named MJ Lenderman the Best New...
