🎙 James Merendino: Music, Film & The Punk That Defined a Generation

🎞 From SLC Punk to Great Kills, writer/director James Merendino has built a legacy of storytelling where music isn’t just background noise — it’s the heartbeat of rebellion, emotion, and raw truth.

In this episode, Merendino joins host Leigh Pierce to talk about how music and film feed each other, why he writes scripts to playlists, and how the punk ethos continues to shape indie filmmaking today.

They dive deep into everything from the chaotic beauty of the ‘80s Satanic Panic to the cyclical nature of pop-culture paranoia — and why, even in a world gone mad, art remains our last act of rebellion.

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