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CJ Simonson

CJ Simonson

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Editor-in-Chief, Merry-Go-Round Magazine

Los Angeles, California

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Total articles 246

  • Steel Wool's Debut EP Offers A Stirring Vision Of Who They Are (And Who They Will Be)

    By CJ Simonson, Ronnie Wood| Merry-Go-Round Magazine Verified 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.

    By CJ Simonson, Ronnie Wood · Merry-Go-Round Magazine

    Apr. 09, 2025

  • Announcing MGRM10: Merry-Go-Round Magazine's 10th Anniversary Shows

    By CJ Simonson| Merry-Go-Round Magazine Verified 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.

    By CJ Simonson · Merry-Go-Round Magazine

    Apr. 07, 2025

  • Steel Wool's Debut EP Offers A Stirring Vision Of Who They Are (And Who They Will Be)

    By CJ Simonson, Ronnie Wood| Merry-Go-Round Magazine Verified 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.

    By CJ Simonson, Ronnie Wood · Merry-Go-Round Magazine

    Apr. 09, 2025

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Merry-Go-Round Magazine

California, Los Angeles, United States