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Hayden Merrick

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Features Editor @bestfitmusic | co-host @ Cities to Love Podcast | book editing at OUP | see ya on Bluesky

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Hayden Merrick is a music journalist based in London, and Senior Features Editor at The Line of Best Fit. You can also find his writing on Bandcamp Daily, Loud And Quiet, Paste, FLOOD, and Qobuz.

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Take a Dip in Brighton's DIY Underground

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The year Download Festival saved punk (and vice versa)

The year Download Festival saved punk (and vice versa)

The legendary rock and metal festival expands its USP so that all streams of alternative culture happily jost…

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Unfolding Ailsa Tully’s sound map

Unfolding Ailsa Tully’s sound map

To process her father’s death, Ailsa Tully mined ten years of field recordings and shaped them into a sound m…

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The joyful defiance of Lambrini Girls

The joyful defiance of Lambrini Girls

As Lambrini Girls end 2024 as one of the UK's best live bands, the uncompromising duo share the blueprint for…

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Peel Dream Magazine announce expanded edition of Taurus album

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The release follows the band’s 2024 album Rose Main Reading Room and last year's deluxe edition of Modern Meta Physic, their 2018 debut. The expanded version of Taurus will feature four previously unavailable tracks - “Lot to Tell You”, “Ruins”, and “Fear of the Other” - plus the already released "Blind Faith". Stevens says the song first sparked during the Rose Main Reading Room era. “I decided to put down the pen and didn’t revisit the song until earlier this year,” he said.
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Fionn Regan announces "Berlin, Berlin" album and UK/EU tour

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Regan recorded the 10-track LP in East London in less than a week. It follows O Avalanche, released in 2024. That previous record was inspired by time in Mallorca, while Berlin, Berlin is afterdark and minimal, with references to winter light and night skies. Regan explained in a press statement: “One of the things with the album is I made it fast – super-fast. Five days, maybe six days.
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Keo announce major 2027 headline tour across UK, Europe, and North America

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The run includes 12 dates in the UK and Ireland, 12 in mainland Europe, and 15 in the US and Canada. The hometown show at Brixton Academy is already sold out, as is their smaller run of five dates later this month. Tickets go on general sale on Friday 9 October at 10am. The announcement follows the release of Put A Smile On For Me via Island on 25 September.
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