Merry-Go-Round Magazine

Merry-Go-Round Magazine is a standalone digital culture magazine located in Los Angeles.

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The Bargain Bin: Tom Waits' ORPHANS: BRAWLERS, BAWLERS & BASTARDS

1 week ago | merrygoroundmagazine.com | Jack Probst

Working at a record store taught me a tragic truth; no matter how much you love your favorite albums, they’ll never be as popular as they deserve to be. Each month at Merry-Go-Round Magazine, I dust off some long-overlooked records, revisit my pretentious past, and explore how this music forever etched itself into my history. Eventually, all your memories get marked down and thrown into The Bargain Bin.
Interview: Cali Bellow Built Her Own World

1 week ago | merrygoroundmagazine.com | Aly Eleanor
Bandcamp Picks: Gloin & Dim Gray

2 weeks ago | merrygoroundmagazine.com | Connor Shelton

It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring Gloin’s righteously emotional ALL OF YOUR ANGER IS ACTUALLY SHAME (AND I BET THAT MAKES YOU ANGRY) and Dim Gray’s tastefully post-modern and proggy album SHARDS! Gloin – ALL OF YOUR ANGER IS ACTUALLY SHAME (AND I BET THAT MAKES YOU ANGRY)Genre: Post-Punk, Noise RockFavorite Tracks: “Bucket of Blood,” “Swamp,” “Salamander”Gloin want you to be a better person.
Steel Wool's Debut EP Offers A Stirring Vision Of Who They Are (And Who They Will Be)

2 weeks 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.
Announcing MGRM10: Merry-Go-Round Magazine's 10th Anniversary Shows

2 weeks 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.
On NOTHING STICKS, Pictoria Vark Steps It Up

3 weeks ago | merrygoroundmagazine.com | Jack Probst |Wes Anderson

Genre: RockFavorite Tracks: “Sara,” “Lucky Superstar,” “Other Things”On her lush sophomore album, Chicago artist Pictoria Vark (neè Victoria Park) steps up production on her new album to create a bold and dynamic collection of songs. If her debut, THE PARTS I DREAD, was born out of isolation during lockdown, NOTHING STICKS shows growth within her already unique, bass-centric songwriting. I always wanted to learn the bass. My uncle played bass in a band, and I idolized his Gen X slacker vibe.
Bandcamp Pick: Nicole Grace

3 weeks ago | merrygoroundmagazine.com | Jack Probst |Wes Anderson

It’s our Bandcamp Pick of the Week, featuring Nicole Grace’s whimsically folksy solo outing MINERAL FORK!Nicole Grace – MINERAL FORKGenre: Country, FolkFavorite Tracks: “REDBUD,” “DEAD DEER”St. Louis-based musician Nicole Bonura had a prolific 2024. Her band Hot Joy released one of my favorite EPs of 2024, opened for Phantogram on their stop through St. Louis, and then, over the summer, Bonura quietly dropped her first solo EP under the moniker Nicole Grace.
Bandcamp Picks: Des Demonas & Molto Ohm

1 month ago | merrygoroundmagazine.com | Dom Lepore

It’s our Bandcamp picks of the Week, featuring the alienating yet alluring electronic music of Molto Ohm’s FEED and the unwavering rock vision of Des Demonas’s APOCALYPTIC BOOM! BOOM!Molto Ohm – FEEDGenre: Experimental Electronic, Hypnagogic PopFavorite Tracks: “$$$$$$,” “Sponsored #1,” “A Place Far Away,” “11 Growth”Inessential goods and promises are rampant in society and the digital realm.
Bandcamp Picks: HORSEBATH & MAN LEE

1 month ago | merrygoroundmagazine.com | Dom Lepore |Connor Shelton

It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring HORSEBATH’s cosmic Canadian country album ANOTHER FAREWELL and MAN LEE’s skittery rock album HEFTY WIMPY! HORSEBATH – ANOTHER FAREWELLGenre: Country Rock, Alt Folk, Cosmic CountryFavorite Tracks: “Hard to Love,” “In the Shade,” “Train to Babylon”Contrary to popular belief, country music isn’t just an American phenomena.
Bandcamp Picks: LAKE & some fear

1 month ago | 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.