CJ Simonson
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Editor-in-Chief at @mgrmagazine | AZ Sports & Music RTs Exclusively | merrygoroundmag @gmail .com
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Here’s Robert Smith talking about why the Cure play for 2.5-3 hour shows every night. Common Robert Smith W tbh
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The most “Dudes Rock” lamp one can own, and now it’s all mine.
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Plenty of things have already happened pop culturally this morning, and yet none of them have or will be as important today as Mantzoukas in this John Wick 3 poster.
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Rewatching this has inspired me to rank all the AV Undercovers, watch this space
Was just talking about Superchunk with
@FranziaMom
and remembered the coolest cover that was ever done on the A.V Undercover thing was bar none Cymbals Eat Guitars covering Detroit Has A Skyline
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Doesn’t matter if you like the artist or hate them, it remains imperative that we call out the use of AI in this fashion as bullshit—we can’t let it be normalized, we shouldn’t let smaller artists see it as appropriate, and from
@mannequinpussy
of all bands, this is disappointing
Hear
@mannequinpussy
's new 'Buffy'-inspired single "Nothing Like" and watch its AI-generated music video
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For the record, no one needs or wants three hours of Billie Eilish right now, but in 20 years? Who knows! Calling it psychotic is dumb
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*MJ LENDERMAN ALERT*
Tonight, he and Karly played a new song called “Rip Torn,” of which he says “like the actor… I like his name because both of those words mean the same thing.”
It did reference MEN IN BLACK.
*THIS HAS BEEN AN MJ LENDERMAN ALERT*
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Holy shit Green Day just called Joe Biden “Genocide Joe” on this Amazon Music livestream
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@googoodolls
@phoebe_bridgers
@maggierogers
@fairfightaction
Cover “Kyoto” now. You owe it to all of us.
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Sorry if I’m behind on not knowing who Kingo is, I had a pretty eventful weekend not on Twitter Dot Com.
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Can’t stop thinking about Green Day’s Tré Cool yelling “Genocide Joe” and then getting tackled by Amazon security like a sketch from THE ERIC ANDRE SHOW, hope it made the broadcast
Holy shit Green Day just called Joe Biden “Genocide Joe” on this Amazon Music livestream
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We keep hearing that the boys are back in town, but what this story presupposes is... what if they aren't...
“The guitar riff is dying out”: New survey suggests the ‘majority’ of music fans believe the riff is on its way out
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Yo
@JessRMcKenna
,
@zachreino
&
@OffBookPod
, someone was bound to start doing at some point so may as well be me
ft
@PFTompkins
&
@mholland85
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This is the best scene of any show of the last twenty years. I would get the exchange tattooed on my back.
Detroiters - Tim Offers Trevor a Job (Repost)
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People booing the superhero trailers before KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON… we’ve never been more back than now.
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The thing about "Cortez the Killer" is that there has never been a bad cover of the song. Built to Spill? A perfect cover. Screaming Females? A perfect cover. Slint? Matthew Sweet? The Church? Do I even have to say it?
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To all the Wedding Reddit threads I combed through that told me not to do disposable cameras because none of them turn out, I'm here to say fuck you, had way more than enough turn out to justify the cost
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Well well well… I don’t think Eric’s father, Mr. Pitchfork, is going to be too pleased with this.
.
@pitchfork
is under fire after one of their employees (
@violet_by_hole
) publicly tweeted that they have a personal vendetta against Miley Cyrus, seemingly explains why they rate all of Miley’s projects low on purpose.
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Not going to have anything eloquent to say I haven't said before, support the truly indie publications so some of them can begin generating enough money to support writers in a more full time capacity. They have things like Patreon's and PayPal links for a reason.
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i’ve fully deluded myself into believing i can afford to make a music magazine and pay my friends to be a part of it everything is happening
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@mrsmith715
@Le_ted
@pattonoswalt
Says the guy who references the number of replies from a specific gender to his post, which is unarguably sadder...
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So, some news:
After five years, our founder and Editor-in-Chief is moving on to a full-time job and greener pastures. Read his final send-off below and give a warm welcome to our new head honcho, CJ Simonson!
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Score and album regardless, cool to see Forged Artifacts and Devil Town shouted out in Pitchfork. Should happen more!
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This is funny for a few reasons, but even if you DO believe that "an artist" "animated" "actual video" of her (which, I certainly don't fully buy that), the idea that people could take away that AI generated it entirely should ALSO scare you! How will you know what is real ever?
FWIW: "AI Generated" is a dismissive & reductive term to what the music video actually is. A real artist spent hours & hours & hours animating over an actual video of me running around & performing the song. Our creative team created a storyline & poured over the process.
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Most played of the years I have per Sp*tify:
2014: “I’m Not Part Of Me” by Cloud Nothings
2015: “Horseshoe Crabs” by Hop Along
2016: “Our Song” by Radiator Hospital
2017: “Enter Entirely” by Cloud Nothings
2018: “Far Away Truths” by Albert Hammond Jr.
(Cont.)
2018 - ice cream and sunscreen by martha
2019 - tunnel by frankie cosmos
2020 - by your hand by los campesinos
2021 - 25! by bomb the music industry
2022 - carrie ends the call by john k. samson
2023 - do it faster by militarie gun
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This is one of the artists who is tagged on the Mannequin Pussy video, by the way!
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I would kill for Lavender, currently voted the best dog I show my girlfriend on the Internet.
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Born at the wrong time to own a house but the right time to own a vintage Doritos Jacket and this Doritos Vodka 🫡
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For every one like on this I’ll just tweet out some random shit—pictures of goats in trees, covers of Springsteen songs, fun facts about sailing ships, you fucking name it, who cares.
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This is all fine and good, but the night he got COVID and we thought he could die was so much more fun.
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He also played a new song about divorce, which will be a SOTY contender in whatever year it is eventually released.
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Yikes lol
More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech.
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Old people fucking LOVED calling Pokémon “Pikachu” in the late 90s. “You wanna go play Pikachu with your friends?” Fuck off, grandma.
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lmao, this sucks
Have fun talking about us today and enjoy the engagement posts. We got work to do to get ready for tour. See ya in the real world. 💋.
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Went as two different Britneys to a weekend after Halloween party tonight and there are some younger people who… do not maybe know the “Oops” music video but did know her IG post with the knifes…
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Been to three beer drinking establishments in Philly this afternoon and Parquet Courts has, without fail, played at each one.
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smashing pumpkins is something an old timey british guy would say about boobs
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Truth Club, Slow Pulp, Softcult… these are all the same band in my mind. And they’re not but they are.
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Modest Mouse are my favorite band of all time, and I would love to never hear any new music from them again, thank you.
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Music Writers / Editors, Take Heed:
A major music video is coming out VERY soon, tomorrow even, and I am featured in it. Please make sure to include in your write ups that it features “Merry-Go-Round Magazine Editor-In-Chief CJ Simonson.”
Thank you.
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Put this on my IG too and it got more likes in an hour than any of my wedding content I posted this summer. In Spuds we trust 🫡
The most “Dudes Rock” lamp one can own, and now it’s all mine.
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@ChapmanU
lol “retire,” didn’t even have the sack to just fire him, would’ve upset too many donors I’m sure
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So hyped for Connor, great to finally see the work he’s been putting into
@craftedsounds
acknowledged by somewhere like Pitchfork. This rules.
An album studded with references to Pittsburgh favorites and ’90s classics
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First I find out bar italia not from Italy... then I find out Mandy, Indiana are not from Indiana... guys I'm scared
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having weirdo burner accounts and cult-esque followers climb into people's years old posts to bully them is certainly one way to beat the emotionally manipulative and asshole allegations, they didn't teach me that strategy when I got a degree in PR but times change I suppose
That one indie artist choosing to make bad PR decisions at every turn for like several months should be case studied, to be honest. It’s stunning to see.
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Well
@remembersports
gave you all “No Going Back” and you all just failed to make it a Billboard Hot 100
#1
so, either acknowledge talent or quit complaining.
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Fave album cover of the ‘10s easily
What's an album you like with a black & white cover?
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I think
@leg_dog
made the album to beat of 2020. It asks some heavy questions that, as many listen to it quarantined away from the world, I found to be particularly profound and apt. Wrote about it here.
"By sheer circumstance
@leg_dog
released an album that’s helping a lot of people with some difficult feelings right now, and MELEE couldn’t be a more appropriate compendium for the end of the world."
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I'm a cauliflower guy now. Wasn't before quarantine, am now. The C, in CJ? It stands for Cauliflower now. Thank you.
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I'm the new Editor-in-Chief of Merry-Go-Round Magazine! Today we turn five! It has been a pretty dizzying month and a half, putting together a team of editors old and new, talking about what MGRM is, figuring out what we want to be. I tried to explain that out in this letter.
Today we turn five! It's been a long, strange journey from a bedroom in a cramped, sweaty Santa Ana apartment to our rebrand as Merry-Go-Round Magazine, but we're incredibly proud of what we've created.
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what if cheekface got a promotion and a huge raise
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imo more albums should be roughly 26-29 minutes, because that's what my commute is most mornings
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Had to take some ~promotional pics~ for MGRM and had to make sure I got one for my haters.
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Happy 30th to one of my favorite albums of all time—an album I also think is better than anything the Pixies put out. Saw them do it in full at FYF ten years ago so to see their doing it again ten years feels uncanny.
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Waxahatchee and Wednesday on back-to-back LA nights, huge for a specific type of guy (me)
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This kinda reporting is why y’all should be supporting
@LATACO
, cause their writers are answering the real questions.
I learned that Johnnie’s Pastrami in Culver City has a taco. So I tried it. It’s basically a hard shell chili cheese taco with lettuce and a ketchup type salsa(?), might actually be ketchup. It wasn’t bad, a bit weird. The taco hard shell split down the middle. Not bad drunk food
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Indie artists are always crying about “steaming numbers this” and “merch cuts that” but they should be keeping their eyes on the prize: developing and securing pinball machines
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Me and the fellas once we’ve got the vaccine, hunting down whatever man hurt Jenn Wasner on the new Flock of Dimes album.
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Happy to announce I was a finalist for this, just months ahead of my 30th birthday. Blessed 🙏
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They're trying to bury this (and the Susan Sarandon dropping, and the Melissa Barrera SCREAM news) all in the zero hour before people log off for a few days starting tonight, and I think that they're misjudging how much time people will have on their hands to post on social media
Earlier this month, Maha Dakhil was removed as co-chief of the motion pictures department at CAA for posting about the genocide happening in Palestine.
She was allowed to remain an agent, especially after Tom Cruise made it known to the agency that he stood by her.
(Source:
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This is most of Orange, CA.
What is this kind of person doing in 2021? Like what are they into?
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Grab that net and catch that beautiful butterfly pal, it’s wedding season!
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For whoever needs it, here is Real Estate covering Weezer with Fred Armisen
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Well, the day is here. I’m proud to announce that I make a brief but memorable turn in the latest
@mo_troper
music video for “The Billy Joel Fanclub” as “tallest Billy Joel mourner ever,” one of my finest roles yet
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Ladies and gentleman, he fucking did it.
Messaged my father (who has a degree in herpetology) about this being the dumbest snake I think I’ve ever seen and he responds “Why do you think that,” implying perhaps there are dumber looking snakes, a thought that will fuel my Saturday.
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On Ted Davis Tuesday nonetheless
"IT’S CALLED DISINTEGRATION LOOPS, ARGUABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT AMBIENT WORK OF OUR GENERATION, I’LL SEND YOU A LINK TO THE 6 LP BOX SET"
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Since this has a strange amount of growing interest, I did actually have quite a few AVU’s on this list!
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You’re in his DMs, I can’t stop drinking wine, I’m scared how much I need wine.
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If I ever become this much of a fucking suck, feel free to put a hit on me.
Why did this woman, Phoebe Bridgers, destroy her guitar on SNL?
I mean, I didn't care much for the song either, but that seemed extra.
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The new
@Ratboysband
album is, I think, easily their best to date? And I say that as a fan who loves a lot of the older material. What they’ve done on this record is bigger and more gripping than anything to date and it’s just tremendous front to back. An AOTY contender imo.
The new
@Ratboysband
album 'The Window' was produced by Chris Walla (
@calculizer
) — hear new single "It's Alive!" and check out their tour dates
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Got to take pics of Arlo Parks on Wednesday, here are a few of my favorites.
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I’ve told this story plenty of other places but when my dad was working in Animal Cruelty, they arrested DMX for, among other things, dog fighting, and through that the county needed somewhere to temporarily hold his two snakes, a ball python and a rattlesnake.
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I can see into the music
@merrygoround
... email and it's funny how many people pitch Ted for other outlets via the MGRM email. Like, hey editor of this specific site... NPR? SPIN? Please?
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Fuck, and now SUCCESSION… what is happening
the month in monoculture (fall out boy also released a song called “kintsugi” this month)
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I genuinely figured that whatever came next for Big Thief would see a natural regression critically regardless of the quality of the music, just because it was already at a fever pitch in 2019. Crazy to see it’s only somehow grown which feels rare.
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Funny to do this with three bands that have all been press darlings at various times
Dear Up-And-Coming Punks
Names like Fucked Up, Mannequin Pussy, and Pissed Jeans might seem funny in the moment but wait until the alt weeklies start rejecting you for reviews and video premiers and we'll see who's laughing
Signed, an elder punk who's learned a thing or two
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Just vibing at 7 years old to this.
your teacher just wheeled this into class 📺
what are you watching? 📼
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