95% of Greenlanders want to remain part of Denmark, apparently. share.google/ehyJt4RsoxCu...

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Making sure everyone knows that Kate Bush's 1979 Christmas special is available to stream on YouTube and it's VERY worth your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6BP...

OK so It’s Christmas Eve & petitioning Govt might not be front of mind today - but *please* take just 20 secs to sign this, calling for a funded national #climate resilience plan to help protect us all. Just 1700 more needed to get a Govt response! 🤞🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730062

We’re not running out of good ideas, but the tech fetishists who have no ideas other than “but I put a lot of money and emotion into this basket” always do, and their narcissism does not allow them to consider that their failed ideas suck, and the flop sweat is palpable.

A final shoutout of my book for last-minute shoppers… It’s ideal for any music fan this christmas and remains the only major book to dive deep into music post-2010, from Earl Sweatshirt to FKA twigs, from SOPHIE to Oneohtrix Point Never, from Charli XCX to Danny Brown. Link below to grab a copy x

This is fucking awful and as they are reenacting a toxic workplace with no health and safety, appropriate

a reminder I guess

In a very unexpected turn of events, I spent an hour on Friday chatting with Anthony and Victoria about our AOTY and… I don’t hate how it turned out. Talking on camera is v much out of my comfort zone 🫣

Could not be more surprised or delighted. Finally on vinyl! With the B-sides *and* two previously unheard outtakes 🥹

Last group list for this year, and it’s a good one! 🤝🏼 Wrote about the Smerz, Kathryn Joseph, Lido Pimienta, Anna von Hausswolff, Ichiko Aoba and Annahstasia albums, which I love wholeheartedly 🎧✨

Also this one, in which I give some love to the fantastic ‘I remember I forget’ by Yasmine Hamdan 🇱🇧🎧

Another fun list I’m glad to be a part of, though I take no responsibility for the song at no. 1 🎧

Even if you think, incorrectly, that this repulsive technology has any place in mainstream culture, maybe it gives you pause that the worst people in the world are hell bent on making you use it.

Language can translate feelings... but music is another layer": Commissioned to respond to a lost composition from the Holocaust, Hania Rani discovered a personal connection across the decades that bridged classical rigour.

Totally blown away by Anna von Hausswolff and her ICONOCLASTS band tonight in Malmö. Holyyyy shit. Do not miss this tour 🫨

I am once again repping Swedish music on @thelineofbestfit.com with a little write up of Nicole Sabouné’s new Beirut-inspired banger 🇸🇪🇱🇧

The fact there's even the tiniest hint of a debate about whether or not this very obviously racist man who has built his entire career on being a racist is a racist or not. I... I just can't.

Delighted with our #1 (🇸🇪❣️) though I didn’t write about it for this list. I did write entries for 6 other great records though. Some of which you can win as part of the amazing vinyl giveaway, which is so good I am actually fuming I can’t enter it myself!

Barbarians

Can you imagine the TERFs getting a line-up like this (or being able to fill a venue of this size)??? …No, neither can I! 😆 All the best, hottest, and most talented people support #TransRights ✊🏻🏳️‍⚧️💕

Celebrating 20 years of Supernature, Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory join @neverdoneing.bsky.social for a journey through five key songs that tell their story

Tomorrow! at St Matthias Church Doors open at 19:30 Sophia Hansen-Knarhoi on stage at 20:20 @penelopetrappes.bsky.social at 21:10 Tickets available via Dice link.dice.fm/w11ee1de4085

Celebrating 20 years of Supernature with Alison and Will. I had such a cosy chat with Goldfrapp a couple of weeks ago and it’s live on @thelineofbestfit.com now 🎧🖤

One of this year’s hidden gem albums that has something new to discover every time I listen. Glad I finally got around to writing this ✨

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve interviewed Marissa for various publications (6, maybe?) but it’s always a great chat. There’s a scoop in here too about a brand new band she’s a part of… 👀

🪩🕺🏻 here’s a lovely chat I had recently with Sarah Cracknell about five solid gold pop songs, coaching Kylie, and the ‘end’ of Saint Etienne

Win tickets to see Narduwar live in London on 29 November at The Dome! Doot doola doot doo! buff.ly/gg5Z6y1

cool new band alert. (also, my @thelineofbestfit.com debut) www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...

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Some recent pieces from the @southbankcentre.bsky.social Magazine that you might enjoy... Firstly, for this month's long read, @neverdoneing.bsky.social spoke with one of our newest Resident Artists, Alisa Weilerstein about her very musical upbringing and expanding the cello repertoire

I met up with Austra in Toronto recently to chat alter egos, heartbreak and being unhinged ahead of the new album Chin Up Buttercup, out tomorrow 🎈

I also wrote a longish read on the seriously impressive cellist Alisa Weilerstein for Southbank Centre Magazine 💛 Alisa is a Resident Artist for the season and her next performance is on 30th November.

This week’s @thelineofbestfit.com cover story is a deep dive from me into the life and work of bassoonist, composer, and producer Joy Guidry. She’s playing London Jazz Festival on the 19th, at Union Chapel, and it’s gonna be pure bliss 💙

Zohran Mamdani in New York Catherine Connolly in Ireland Rob Jetten in the Netherlands Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly The rise of the far right is not inevitable. If we work together, we can dare to hope.

All of this is so deeply disgusting and wrong.

Every once in a while I feel a little adrift—until I remember to check the extremely normal covers of My Life, My Way, a Japanese gay magazine published from 1977-1982.

Me and my dog took the train to Gothenburg earlier this month to meet Anna von Hausswolff, and today our cover story is live 🖤 ICONOCLASTS out this Friday on @year0001.bsky.social www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...

“Art should be allowed to not always play by the rules”: Swedish musician and composer Anna von Hausswolff found kindred spirits in rebels + disruptors to create her most urgent work yet, she tells @neverdoneing.bsky.social for this week's cover story.

A bit of recent work for the Southbank Centre. Sean’s residency starts there this coming Saturday 🎸

Michelangelo Dying is an AOTY contender for me so I’m thrilled to share this interview with Cate, with a brand new shoot by H.Hawkline ✨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✨

"You have to learn how to put painful things down in a way that's healing and nourishing": In surrendering to heartache, Welsh artist and producer Cate Le Bon has struck a pearly and holistic balance between rupture and renewal, she tells Best Fit for this week's cover feature.

Haven't been on here in a v long while. This post aged like milk as I had to fly back from Japan after just a week when my dog got sick. Same neurological disease as before, leaving him paralysed for almost 3 months. He's finally started to walk again 😍 Excited to get my life back too.

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Trans. Men. Are. Not. A. Gotcha.

Leaving my little Swedish island for a month of backpacking around Asia. It’s been too long a time since I did something like this. Bonus that it’s a research trip, a birthday and a major career milestone all in one.

If you defend this or try and explain this away, you’re a monster and I don’t know how you sleep at night.

I was recently back in my beloved Tallinn for my first ever Tallinn Music Week and had quite a lot to say about it 👀

If you happen to be in Seoul this weekend, Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith's latest Correspondences exhibition opens at the Piknic gallery. I've got a super small part in it, having written some text for the four new site-specific artworks they're presenting 🖤 Life is wild.