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Features Editor at The Line of Best Fit. Just peddlin’ sonic truths. London, UK. https://muckrack.com/hayden-merrick

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Review of Eurosonic Noorderslag 2026: Groningen showcase is holding the centre Reaching its 40-year milestone, the career-making Dutch festival Eurosonic Noorderslag is fighting for a united Europe.

‘A call … that urges us to link arms and face together the existential threats posed to the music industry, to life as we know it’: @haydenmerrick.bsky.social watches 🇺🇦 bands at 🇳🇱’s Eurosonic festival www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/fes...

Yes, that’s Kateryna from Go_A’s solo project

20.01.2026 18:47 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you, David! x

22.11.2025 10:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dummy are basically my favourite active band at this point. So pleased I got to commission and edit Yu An Su’s profile on them, which hits the nail on the head

03.07.2025 10:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wrote about Downloooooaaaad. It was fun but I sneezed a lot

17.06.2025 18:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@taylorruckle.bsky.social is too good at this. And Perennial are also too good at this—a match made in art-punk heaven

03.06.2025 08:09 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Nailed it

05.05.2025 12:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ugh so good

01.05.2025 14:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Review of SHARPE 2025: Bratislava festival bursts ballooning authoritarianism Bratislava’s SHARPE Festival thrives where oppression falters and reminds us that we’re rich where it counts.

Got to visit Bratislava and see the ugliest (coolest) building in the world, hear some amazing music, and be a lil part of something hopeful. Wrote about it. Thanks for having me, Sharpe ❤️

01.05.2025 13:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.

They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.

Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

23.04.2025 13:36 👍 3397 🔁 2808 💬 45 📌 101

Wooo, have fun Alan!! x

22.04.2025 09:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Damn. Very cool

20.04.2025 21:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Divide and conquer *

19.04.2025 21:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for sharing this, Dave. I’m glad you enjoyed. That D&Q story was wild

19.04.2025 21:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Sign the Petition Defend the Internet Archive

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Save the Wayback Machine!

18.04.2025 09:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow. This is a beautiful piece

15.04.2025 20:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@lauramdavid.bsky.social is next-level good

11.04.2025 11:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Had a cool chat with Lottie Malkmus about her new project, Lottie’s, and some other stuff

10.04.2025 13:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Arcade Fire’s Win Butler Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Multiple Women; Frontman Responds Allegations of inappropriate behavior in his life offstage contrast with Butler’s virtuous public reputation. In lengthy comments, the frontman claims his extramarital relationships were consensual.

uncritical coverage of arcade fire supports rape culture. multiple people were abused by win butler whose band is banking on you “forgetting.” @marchogan.bsky.social’s 2022 investigation:

08.04.2025 17:26 👍 251 🔁 86 💬 9 📌 13

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”
—Alex Ovechkin
—Hayden Merrick

05.04.2025 08:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Alex Melton is one of the coolest, kindest, most talented dudes around.

Had such a fascinating chat about the nine most influential songs in his life.

www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...

04.04.2025 11:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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L&Q Weekly Kraftwerk Daft Punk fraud!, angry weekend listening, Jerskin Fendrix raps his own name, experimental music roundup, Rolling Stones cast announced

open.substack.com/pub/loudandq...

04.04.2025 09:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Beautiful, thoughtful writeup by Rachael Pimblett. The Great Grandpa album is wickkedddd

02.04.2025 08:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Momma: “We haven’t really gone above the water yet” | Interview Momma's songwriting duo discuss the dizzying process of making their new album Welcome to My Blue Sky, which makes 2002 sound like 1999.

2022 is the new 1999 for California-via-Brooklyn indie rockers Momma. The songwriting duo talk to BEST FIT about the dizzying process of making their new album, Welcome to My Blue Sky.

31.03.2025 08:53 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

One of my favourite pieces I’ve edited. Kate Ratner knows how it’s done

27.03.2025 17:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tara Hepburn did a beautiful job with this one

25.03.2025 13:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Over the last few weeks we lost The Caldonia in Liverpool, and the Dorothy Pax in Sheffield.

15.03.2025 20:10 👍 16 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
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Why Are There So Many Horse Bands All of a Sudden? From buzzy broncos feeble little horse to folk supergroup Bonny Light Horseman, there seems to be an increasing number of equine-named artists; we investigated this phenomenon.

Dw I got U: floodmagazine.com/134039/why-a...

12.03.2025 08:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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“Yay! Saturday” by Girl Group is messy, joyful girls’ night out The new single by Liverpool band Girl Group reveals a refreshingly DIY, friendship-forward feminist dynamic.

“Yay! Saturday” single sees Liverpool newcomers Girl Group announce their friendship-forward, feminist dynamic, while dragging the audience along for a messy girls’ night out.

07.03.2025 09:38 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Woulda been cool if Zelensky just turned around and said, “yeah well you literally smell like poo.” I think politics needs more of that

05.03.2025 13:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0