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As Best Fit’s resident semi-Swede, I’m super happy to share this first look at the solo debut by The Knife’s Olof Dreijer 🌺

Happy International Women’s Day! Stream our “Women In Jazz” playlist featuring great female Blue Note artists from across the label’s history: bluenote.lnk.to/WomenInJazz

UK to delay difficult decisions on AI copyright rules Government goes back to drawing board after its proposals triggered backlash from creative industries

When you have a 97% consensus against your preferred outcome, I don't think the answer is "consult harder" www.ft.com/content/e759...

This looks like a lovely attempt to respond to current ugliness, with timeless gorgeousness. Please book and share.

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Fontaines D.C, Kneecap, Nilüfer Yanya and more pledge support to Records For Palestine initiative Records For Palestine has announced two online vinyl raffles to raise funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), with over 200 artists and 27 record labels pledging support through prize donations.

Records For Palestine announce vinyl raffle in support of Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). Over 200 artists and labels have contributed, including Fontaines D.C, Kneecap, Nilüfer Yanya, and more.

And per this report yesterday, it was deliberate:
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Juni Habel: "Whether I like it or not, my feelings are my number one guide" | Interview Juni Habel tells BEST FIT why embracing both playfulness and patience was key to making Evergreen in Your Mind, her third album out in April.

Also for Best Fit, I met with Norwegian artist Juni Habel at the National library in Oslo to chat about her new album Evergreen in Your Mind, coming April 10th

Hildur Guðnadóttir's favourite songs | Interview Ahead of her Barbican performance in March, Hildur Guðnadóttir talks BEST FIT through the songs that have soundtracked her life.

I also had the huge joy of chatting favourite songs with extremely lovely Icelandic musician and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir ahead of her @barbican.bsky.social performance on March 21st.

Always You YouTube video by Isak Danielson - Topic

I had the lovely task recently of writing a bio for Isak Danielson and his gorgeous new single, Always You.

“It reminds me of one of those romantic movies where two people who’ve broken up do come back around to find each other in the end, like The Notebook or One Day,” he says, “only nobody dies.”

Shabaka: "Art isn’t going to heal the world. But still, people have to keep going forward." | Interview Shabaka reveals the inspirations behind his leap into production and new forms of expression on Of The Earth.

Shabaka guides @jayw1023.bsky.social through the creative pillars behind Of The Earth, his latest solo album and first on which he fully spreads his wings as a producer

I’ve worked at the Southbank Centre for over 8 years now.

In that time I’ve become desensitised to mad conversations that wouldn’t happen anywhere else. But in my first few years I noted down ‘overhead’ snippets that would be ridiculous in any other setting.

I’ve just found those notes. Strap in.

A pox upon them!

Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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Watch Throwing Muses' Kristin Hersh play for Best Fit's secret sessions at End of the Road Festival As part of her pop-up show for Best Fit at End of the Road Festival back in September last year, the legendary Kristin Hersh rolled out her take on "The Cuckoo", a classic English folk song from her…

"This is the only lullaby my dad ever sang to me that's not about a guy getting drunk and killing his girlfriend" Watch Throwing Muses' Kristin Hersh play "The Cuckoo" for Best Fit's secret sessions at @endoftheroadfestival.com.

Born in Sweden, baby Emanuel to be deported to Iran - Radio Sweden After a ruling by the Migration Agency, eight month old baby Emanuel, who was born in Sweden, is facing a deportation order to his family's homeland of ...

I still get the odd ‘it’s alright for you living in a lefty paradise’ comment from British friends, so I thought I’d draw attention to the current Swedish policy of deporting an unknown number of children born here even when parents have right to remain.

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Forza!

Peaches' best songs, as chosen by her | Interview Ahead of new album No Lube So Rude, Peaches talks BEST FIT through five of her career bests.

No Lube So Rude out on Friday from the one and only Peaches. If this was a review, I'd give the record 8 out of 10 fruits, but it's not so please enjoy us just chatting instead www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

🥲 Glenn and Elizabeth were absolute sweethearts to talk to. Laughter in Summer out this Friday via @transgressive.bsky.social

Thanks Nadine! So glad you enjoyed it 🫶🏼

100 more names added to @endoftheroadfestival.com lineup - Super Furry Animals, Kurt Vile, Brakes, Lucinda Williams, and more (but the mystery headliner is still a mystery). Check out the full list: buff.ly/ah2rcDz

Bringing Turkish Makam to Electronic Music How producers are using these “compositional building blocks” to create vital new sounds.

"Turkish makam, the compositional 'building blocks' developed over centuries by classical and folk musicians during the Ottoman Empire, has always been at odds with Western music theory. [It's] finally getting its due in the electronic music world …"

Bringing Turkish Makam to Electronic Music:

The best songs by Patty Griffin, as chosen by her | Interview Ahead of the 68th Grammy Awards this weekend, nominee Patty Griffin looks back on five highlights of her 30-year career.

With her recent album Crown of Roses up for a Grammy this weekend and her searing debut turning 30 this spring, Patty Griffin looks back with @neverdoneing.bsky.social on five of the songs she’s most proud of

Jenny Wilson revisits early single “Let My Shoes Lead Me Forward” for new 20-year career retrospective | News Sweden's Jenny Wilson reworks her 2005 single "Let My Shoes Lead Me Forward" for DREAM vs. DREAM, a new 20-year career retrospective.

Swedish art-pop rebel Jenny Wilson is celebrating two decades of her solo career with a new digital-only compilation, DREAM vs. DREAM, compiling her personal favourites

The best songs by Patty Griffin, as chosen by her | Interview Ahead of the 68th Grammy Awards this weekend, nominee Patty Griffin looks back on five highlights of her 30-year career.

Always a joy to chat to this queen. Patty for President. And a third Grammy win this weekend.

Amanda Bergman: "We’re so lost as a collective, spiritually" | Interview Amanda Bergman tells BEST FIT how a search for answers after a terrible accident brought her to a place of realignment.

Swedish singer/songwriter Amanda Bergman tells @neverdoneing.bsky.social how a search for answers after a terrible accident brought her to a place of realignment, as heard on her new album embraced for a second as we die

Amanda Bergman: "We’re so lost as a collective, spiritually" | Interview Amanda Bergman tells BEST FIT how a search for answers after a terrible accident brought her to a place of realignment.

I spoke to musician, farmer and philosophical dreamer Amanda Bergman last week and the interview’s out today, along with her fantastic new album ‘embraced for a second as we die’ 🌺

Denmark vs the US: What Greenland really wants The US president's talk about taking control has come at a time when many on the island are already considering their future

95% of Greenlanders want to remain part of Denmark, apparently.
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Such an impressive debut. I suspect it will be right up your street. Enjoy!