Alan Pedder
@neverdoneing.bsky.social
Freelance hat stand Writer/features ed @ thelineofbestfit.com Newshound @ theneedledrop.com Mostly found in rural Sweden alanthology.com // 🇸🇪🏳️🌈🐕🇵🇸🇱🇧 (he/him)
Obsessed with the heartwarming story of Sicily’s Ypsigrock festival and lucky enough to get to tell it. What a time, highly recommend x
Ypsigrock thrives on the anti-algorithmic power of once | Review
BEST FIT visits Ypsigrock to find out how a small town in Sicily continues to rewrite the summer festival playbook after nearly 30 years.
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Album of the Day: frances chang, "been thinking bout confession." The artfully frayed and lovely third solo record from frances chang tempers the experimental with the musical.
frances chang, “been thinking bout confession”
The artfully frayed and lovely third solo record from frances chang tempers the experimental with the musical.
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the guy who said he wanted to chair the harvard department of eugenics and race science??? people are signing a letter in support of his right to bully black men to death in pursuit of his dream of eliminating black people entirely?? just making sure i’m reading this right!!
Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 2w agoThere’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
Cute panel selfie after last night’s discussion in Stockholm with Ane Brun, dancer/choreographer Hiroki Ichinose, and filmmaker Elis Lindsten celebrating the launch of the new single “Hold Me” (watch the video, it’s fantastic) and upcoming album I Thought We Were the Same, out November 6 🫨
Röyksopp, Emilie Nicolas and ARY feature on Ane Brun's first record in six years – I Thought We Were the Same – which arrives this November and is led by first single "Hold Me".
Röyksopp, Emilie Nicolas and ARY feature on Ane Brun's first record in six years
Ane Brun's first album of new material in six years, I Thought We Were the Same, arrives this November and is led by first single "Hold Me".
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"It's like my brain expanded or broke open and I got a sense of something very big, something miraculous" Agnes Obel just announced her first album in 6 years, The Meaning of Flowers, so come take an early look behind the themes with me in an in-depth Q&A 🩵
Agnes Obel: “I got a sense of something very big, something miraculous” | Interview
Myth, philosophy, and raw, primal power combine on Agnes Obel's The Meaning of Flowers, as she tells Best Fit.
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The British press is by and large one of the most revolting institutions I’ve ever encountered. They hounded him to death for hate and clicks. He had two kids. F-ing monsters
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 3w agoThis is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
For anyone into earthy, ethereal, slowburning music, lyrics that are more akin to poetry, biophilia, deep ecology, here's my Bandcamp Friday offering. Album out in full one week from today. aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/seedhead Shares hugely appreciated, I changed my name and fell off a few maps 👽
Seedhead, by Avi Engel
9 track album
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Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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The artist formerly known as Emmy the Great talks books and beyond with fellow author-musician Kathryn Williams, and a little help from me 📚🤝
THE LINE of BEST FIT@thelineofbestfit.com · last mo.To mark the release of her memoir My Cantopop Nights, Emma-Lee Moss dives into the brave, new, and slightly muddled world of being an author-musician with Kathryn Williams
My contribution to this list is exactly what most people would expect from me and I am not in the slightest bit sorry 😘🐉 @undented.bsky.social
TND Staff Favorites of 2026 So Far
The writers dive into some of the best albums of the year so far as we do a little midyear check-in.
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Croatia and Bulgaria calling. I’ll be speaking, not singing. See you in Šibenik or Sofia? 👨🏻💻 huge ty to SHIP and SoAlive for the kind invitations 🤝
The Shopify douchebags - funders of True North and Juno News - think only rich people should get to vote. Do you still have the Shop app on your phone? Rectify that right away.
Technically I said ‘hej’ 🇸🇪 but the captions are a little off throughout. Thanks for having me, The Needle Drop 🤝 www.instagram.com/reel/DbMwoA0...
On Room Jhoom, Ali Sethi and Gregory Rogove draw on centuries of South Asian tradition to explore how longing can become a source of transformation, writes @neverdoneing.bsky.social
Ali Sethi & Gregory Rogove: "Longing is a pathway to transcendence. So is exile." | Interview
Ali Sethi and Gregory Rogove talk to Best Fit about Room Jhoom and exploring longing through centuries of South Asian culture.
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Ali Sethi’s new album with Gregory Rogove is a fascinating listen. Read all about Room Jhoom and how it joins the dots between exile, longing, Indian miniature paintings, singing in the birahini tradition, and the magic of repeating yourself 🌀
Ali Sethi & Gregory Rogove: "Longing is a pathway to transcendence. So is exile." | Interview
Ali Sethi and Gregory Rogove talk to Best Fit about Room Jhoom and exploring longing through centuries of South Asian culture.
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Writer's Creative Inspiration
ALT: Writer's Creative Inspiration
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The Anchoress aka Catherine Anne Davies@theanchoress.bsky.social · 2mo agoICYMI, this is the first deep dive feature about the new album, written by the amazingly talented music journalist Alan Pedder. I hope you enjoy… www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...
Gender critical fascists are trying to SLAPP this out of existence. It would be a shame if it gets spread far and wide.
Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · 2mo agoThis list by Amnesty International is 100% accurate. The Gender Critical are terrified of it because it speaks the truth. Keep sharing it. Send it to your MPs. web.archive.org/web/20260709...
It took three very late nights to write this and I gave myself a stye, but loved the process anyhow. Come get super nerdy/analytical with me and @theanchoress.bsky.social 📚 As We Once Were is out August 7!
The Anchoress: “I used to think love was this wild, unsettling catastrophe of extreme emotions meant to make you feel bad.” | Interview
The Anchoress tells Best Fit how her new album As We Once Were deals in the past and how new meanings are revealed when we learn to look back differently.
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Took a look behind the themes of The Endless Dance with Beibei and Hannah and learned so much in the process 🌍🌏🌱🐯💃🏻💃🏻 @hannahpeel.bsky.social @thelineofbestfit.com
Hannah Peel and Beibei Wang: “It’s not a one-night stand and then bye-bye. What we’re doing musically is building up.” | Reference Points interview
Hannah Peel and Beibei Wang talk Best Fit through the key themes and inspirations behind The Endless Dance.
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In @thelineofbestfit.com, Iceland composer @olafurarnalds.bsky.social speaks to Steve Reich on the music that left a profound impact on his life and art, from Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" to Radiohead's “Everything in Its Right Place." www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...
Steve Reich's favourite songs | Interview with Ólafur Arnalds
In conversation with Ólafur Arnalds, the pioneer of minimal music Steve Reich talks through the music that left a mark on his life and work.
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Powerful piece. I hope the people it’s aimed at have the capacity for self-reflection
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2mo agoNow that the government’s persecution of trans people has gone beyond sports and medicine for teens, where are all the people who insisted they weren’t "anti-trans" but just had some “reasonable concerns"? www.readtpa.com/p/reasonable...
I spent an extraordinary couple of hours with Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, the great Sámi singer and activist. This is her story (of combating racism, preserving language, belting out electro-pop floorfillers, and being regularly hauled off by the police): www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...
Ella Marie: "My message is to remember the enemy who got us here in the first place"
Ten years into her career, Sámi activist and pop star Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen tells Rick Burin why joy and militancy must arrive as one package.
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Some exciting news… but first we need a team More info on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/seanin... & Insta www.instagram.com/p/DZj5RCgDlTY/ Please spread the word Apply here: thesounding.org/jobs
Ahead of her orchestral tour as part of Music Beyond Mainstream’s 25th anniversary this summer, Arooj Aftab talks @neverdoneing.bsky.social through the songs that have shaped her www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...
Arooj Aftab's favourite songs | Interview
Ahead of her orchestral tour this month, Arooj Aftab talks Best Fit through the songs that have shaped her.
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With her Some Place Simple album newly reissued, Martina Topley Bird talks @neverdoneing.bsky.social through the five songs she’s most proud of in her career
Martina Topley Bird's best songs, as chosen by her | Interview
With her Some Place Simple album newly reissued, Martina Topley Bird talks Best Fit through the five songs she’s most proud of in her career.
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