Bandcamp Picks: Mopar Stars & Nekra - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

It's our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring Nekra's unrelenting call for survival on the EP IS IT REALLY LIVING? and Mopar Stars' living-for-the-weekend power pop album OFFICIAL RESEARCHERS OF THE NJ DEVIL!

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Bandcamp PIck: Elanor Moss - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

It's our Bandcamp Pick of the Week, featuring the tender and vulnerable songwriting of Elanor Moss's THE KNIFE, THE NEEDLE, out now via Merge!

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COYOTE VS. ACME: The New Looney Tunes Movie Is for Adults   - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

There are multiple reasons you should be supporting COYOTE VS. ACME, but you can add to the list the fact the culturally relevant story, told with nearly century-old characters, embraces and ultimately lands that vintage Looney Tunes humor with gusto.

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Bandcamp Picks: NORMANS & Suitor - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

It's our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring Suitor's lively and theatrical indie rock album SAW YOU OUT WITH THE WEEDS and NORMAN's darkly mysterious post-punk record FAUST DEMONICA!

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Bandcamp PIcks: Sprite & Andrew Sa - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

It's our Bandcmap Picks of the Week, featuring the loose, gauzy rock of Sprite's nearly self-titled EP SPRIITE and the tender, intimate cosmic country of Andrew Sa's debut album AMERICAN ROUGH!

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Bandcamp PIcks: Sprite & Andrew Sa - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

It's our Bandcmap Picks of the Week, featuring the loose, gauzy rock of Sprite's nearly self-titled EP SPRIITE and the tender, intimate cosmic country of Andrew Sa's debut album AMERICAN ROUGH!

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Interview: Darren Hayman Looks Back - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

Darren Hayman has began reissuing and resupplying his vast catalog of music online including recently expanded editions of HAYMAN, WATKINS, TROUT AND LEE and THE VIOLENCE. He dives into what the process of looking back on 35 years has been like and what his "legacy" (our word not his) has evolved into.

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ONE NIGHT ONLY’s Sex Purge Arouses Nothing - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

Even if Will Gluck hadn't spent a fair amount of the press run for ONE NIGHT ONLY putting his foot in his mouth about the modern state of sexuality and rom-coms, the actual movie he's delivered implie...

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Bandcamp Pick of the Week: Idle County - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

It's our Bandcamp Pick of the Week, featuring Idle County's lived in alt-country debut LONG GONE SAVIOR!

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Interview: HAMILTON HOUSE’s Jordan Rowe Made an Indie Movie—Now What? - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

Filmmaker Jordan Rowe sits down to candidly discuss his feature film HAMILTON HOUSE, what making a sub-$100k movie looks like in 2026, the state of filmmaking, and the murky "what's next" for an indie film looking for distribution.

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Bandcamp PIck: Zack Benlan - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week featuring the nostalgically familiar experimental rock of Zack Benlan’s OBSCURITARIANISM! Zack Benlan – OBSCURITARIANISM Genre: Experimental Rock Favorite Tracks: “One Lifetime Ain’t Enough,” “Give Up” The title of the LP, OBSCURITARIANISM, might give the wrong impression for an uninitiated listener. Pastiches are always familiar in some sense. These are songs you have heard before, maybe near a rest stop’s vending machines when you were eight, or out the window of a wood-paneled Buick driving past another untrustable “antique” barn on the side of the highway. It feels a bit like putting your head […]

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American Football Pulls the Crowd Into the Present - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

American Football bridges the past and present in Atlanta at a sold out show at Variety Playhouse show.

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Fantasia 2026: Nicolas Winding Refn Finally Pleases With HER PRIVATE HELL - MGRM

Not without its flaws, HER PRIVATE HELL is an unapologetic act of creative anarchy from a revitalized Nicolas Winding Refn.

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Bandcamp Pick: Michaela Anne - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

It's our Bandcamp Pick of the Week, featuring Michaela Anne's heartening collection of love songs, THESE ARE THE DAYS!

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Bandcamp Picks: Holofoil & LXRP - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

It's our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring a pair of self-titled debuts including sparse and beautiful post-punk from LXRP and colorful and scrappy indie rock from Holofoil!

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THE ODYSSEY: Christopher Nolan Was Right To Fear the Supernatural - MGRM

THE ODYSSEY may feature some of Christopher Nolan's most impressive tricks yet, but the size and scale fall just short of his previous epics. The impressiveness and immediacy will land for those who already view him as a legend of Odysseus’ caliber, but ultimately it reveals his limits more than any journey the director has embarked upon yet.

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With TOGETHER // APART, Trepid Soundtracks the Early Summer Sludge - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

On their new EP, TOGETHER // APART, Athens, GA grungegazers Trepid ask a lot of questions. Beyond the metallic guitar tone and playful basslines, the answers are not only within reach, but confidently and emotionally radiating through the music.

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BACKROOMS Doesn’t Have Enough “Backrooms” - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

Kane Parsons creates an irresistible atmosphere with BACKROOMS, but even more exploration of the physical space would do wonders for a film that excels at presenting surreal found footage imagery. The intrigue of the rooms themselves is the intrigue; going forward they need to lean in more.

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Interview: ONE NIGHT Directors Maggie and Tyler Brown Dig into First Loves - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

From Tribeca 2026, Maggie and Tyler Brown sit down to discuss their short ONE NIGHT, the experience of premiering at the festival, collaborating as brother and sister, and the relationships that infor...

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Bandcamp Picks: Morgan Nagler & The Fragiles - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

It's our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring The Fragiles' '90s indebted noise rock album SING THE HEAT OF THE SUN and Morgan Nagler's star-studded yet understated album I’VE GOT NOTHING TO LOSE, AND I’M LOSING IT!

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Every Gender Deserves Better Heroes Than SUPERGIRL - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

SUPERGIRL is just as passive and unengaged as its protagonist. This isn’t going to work anymore. Superhero movies need to reach the point where they’re kitschy and deeply personal statements from the ...

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Interview: Born At Midnite Send You to ETERNAL BAM NATION - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

Born At Midnite's Amery Sandford and David Carriere sit down to discuss the new album ETERNAL BAM NATION, their love of Ween, Newfoundland spoons, and more!

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Interview: La Sécurité Are Keeping Themselves Busy - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

Éliane Viens-Synnott and Melissa Di Menna, of Montreal art punk project La Sécurité, discuss embracing a French Canadian identity, sussing out tempo, and their latest album BINGO!

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Numbing the Pain To Survive a JACKASS Marathon - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

Were the JACKASS films meant to be marathoned? It was a point of thought and discussion at American Cinematheque's presentation of all the films, an exercise in endurance to say the least.

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Bandcamp Pick: G.U.N. - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

It's our Bandcamp Pick of the Week, featuring the vintage hardcore stylings of Nashville punk band G.U.N. and their latest EP, DEATH DEALER.

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2006, I Love You - Merry-Go-Round Magazine

2006, we love you. A cinephile origin story of sorts, Film Editor Kevin Cookman dives into 20 years of NACHO LIBRE, the looming presence of Dick Cheney, seeking representation both on screen and at th...

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