Ned Raggett
In strict terms, Ned Raggett has spent a good chunk of his time over the years working in academic libraries in California and pondering excellent food, among other things. Allegedly he writes things too, as you can see from the evidence gathered herein. After some initial work at the student newspaper of the University of California, Irvine and local area publications, as well as concurrent work DJing at the campus station KUCI, he began his formal journalism efforts in the late 1990s with many reviews for the All Music Guide for almost fifteen years. This led to further work in general for a variety of publications, among them: Pitchfork, the Guardian, The Quietus, Rolling Stone, The Wire, Shfl, Bandcamp Daily, Freaky Trigger, OC Weekly, Nashville Scene, Seattle Weekly, SF Weekly, SF Chronicle, KQED Arts, Vice, Careless Talk Costs Lives, Plan B, Loose Lips Sink Ships, FACT, Red Bull Music Academy, Fake Jazz and probably more than a few things that keep slipping his mind.
He's presented numerous times at the annual Pop Conference, attends shows in San Francisco and beyond as he can, and does his level best to keep up with things on numerous fronts across the Internet and social media, where he can all too easily be found. When not doing this he’s pursuing many other cultural and personal interests, including being a cohost of a long-running podcast, By-the-Bywater, dedicated to exploring the work of J. R. R. Tolkien. Somewhere in the midst of all this he supposedly finds time for sleep, though various counterarguments have been made on the matter.
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List of articles in the library
Review by Ned Raggett, AllMusic.com, 1994
IT'S A HEADCOATS album – anyone expecting anything different or unusual who already knows their work might as well go home. But, as with most ...
Comment by Ned Raggett, Freaky Trigger, 22 July 2001
Concerts in the American sun ...
Charlatans, The (UK), Mercury Rev, New Order, Stereolab: Ten Years After — 1991 Into 2001
Retrospective by Ned Raggett, Freaky Trigger, 22 July 2001
NO, NOT NIRVANA. I could talk about it, but you know, no. ...
Review by Ned Raggett, Freaky Trigger, 22 July 2001
… and Willful Withdrawal in a New Summer of Love ...
Memoir by Ned Raggett, Freaky Trigger, 12 October 2002
…and worrying if there's anything beyond it. ...
Marc Almond: In Search Of The Pleasure Palace
Book Review by Ned Raggett, Freaky Trigger, 27 July 2004
A LITTLE BITTER, a little sweet, that's how he likes his life to be: being a Marc Almond fan has actually been good fun over ...
Soft Cell: Non-Stop Exotic Video Show
Film/DVD/TV Review by Ned Raggett, Freaky Trigger, 10 August 2004
MISERY, COMPLAINTS, self-pity, injustice — the utter joy of Soft Cell's Non-Stop Exotic Video Show, just rereleased for the first time on DVD, lies in ...
Coil, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Wu-Tang Clan: Ol' Dirty Bastard and John Balance, RIP
Obituary by Ned Raggett, Freaky Trigger, 15 November 2004
NOT THAT MUCH connects them in an immediate sense. ...
Review by Ned Raggett, Freaky Trigger, 29 January 2005
YES, IT'S HARDLY out yet or anything, but after the leak on Monday I witnessed what had to be one of the most intense fracturings ...
The Melvins: Melvins: Nude With Boots
Review by Ned Raggett, The Quietus, 20 June 2008
THE BAND that Melvins most resemble is, of course, Sparks. Admittedly Buzz Osbourne and Dale Crover aren't brothers and haven't scored a clutch of epochally ...
Windsor For The Derby: How We Lost
Review by Ned Raggett, The Quietus, 3 July 2008
TAMPA, FLORIDA OUTFIT Windsor for the Derby must occasionally feel like they're rather out of time and place. ...
Mars: Complete Studio Recordings, NYC 1977-1978
Review by Ned Raggett, The Quietus, 11 August 2008
IF EVERY INNOVATION becomes a hidebound reference point then theoretically the work of Mars should be nothing but boring classic rock at this point. ...
Los Campesinos!: Exclamation Proclamation
Interview by Ned Raggett, OC Weekly, 20 August 2009
Welsh rockers Los Campesinos! grow up (quickly) in the spotlight ...
The Church: The Past, Present & Future of The Church: An Interview With Peter Koppes
Interview by Ned Raggett, The Quietus, 7 February 2011
Guitarist and founding member of The Church, Peter Koppes, talks to Ned Raggett about new material, shows at the Sydney Opera house and more ...
Review by Ned Raggett, Pitchfork, 24 February 2012
Since 1990, the Leeds, England-based post-rock group Hood have created a blend of something modern and timeless. This six-disc set is not a full career ...
Interview by Ned Raggett, Pitchfork, 7 August 2012
As the experimental rock duo return with their first new album in 16 years, vocalist Lisa Gerrard talks about the gift and curse of being ...
Def Leppard: 25 Years On: Def Leppard's Hysteria Revisited
Retrospective by Ned Raggett, The Quietus, 2 September 2012
25 years on, our Orange County correspondent Ned Raggett eulogizes the 20 million selling high point in the Leps' career ...
How To Destroy Angels, Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor: Trent Reznor (2012)
Interview by Ned Raggett, Rock's Backpages audio, November 2012
Taking a break from Nine Inch Nails, Reznor talks about his How To Destroy Angels project: making their An Omen EP_ ; how he, Atticus Ross and Mariqueen Maandig work together; how the songs are constructed and recorded; how he manages his different projects, and how he’s kept evolving as an artist.
File format: mp3; file size: 26.2mb, interview length: 27' 15" sound quality: ** (phoner)
Jessica Bailiff: At the Down-turned Jagged Rim of the Sky
Review by Ned Raggett, Pitchfork, 12 November 2012
The Toledo slowcore artist Jessica Bailiff's new solo album, her first since 2006, is suffused with her familiar cool, half-chanted singing and plenty of sonic ...
How To Destroy Angels, Trent Reznor: On The Wing: Trent Reznor On Creativity & How To Destroy Angels
Interview by Ned Raggett, The Quietus, 10 December 2012
With Nine Inch Nails currently on hiatus, Trent Reznor is currently hard at work on new project How To Destroy Angels, whose An Omen_ EP ...
Bryan Ferry, The Bryan Ferry Orchestra: The Bryan Ferry Orchestra: The Jazz Age
Review by Ned Raggett, Pitchfork, 7 February 2013
Reworking his past material as jazz instrumentals, Bryan Ferry's The Jazz Age is a self-consciously 1920s collection, openly meant to evoke Louis Armstrong, early Count ...
Review by Ned Raggett, Pitchfork, 11 July 2013
Late Night Tales, the compilation series that asks artists to create their ultimate "late night" mix, has become an institution. Röyksopp's installment includes a new ...
Review by Ned Raggett, Pitchfork, 13 August 2013
THE CLEAN'S DEBUT full-length, now reissued on vinyl by Captured Tracks with a bonus live EP, came after they'd already been legends for almost a ...
Nine Inch Nails: Hesitation Marks
Review by Ned Raggett, The Quietus, 29 August 2013
"I've beat myself up over the years and I need to try new things, I need to push myself, I need to break the machine, ...
My Bloody Valentine: Control Slips Away: My Bloody Valentine's Isn't Anything Revisited
Review by Ned Raggett, The Quietus, 6 December 2013
My Bloody Valentine's debut album Isn't Anything was always overshadowed by the expensive Loveless. Now, a quarter of a century after its release, Ned Raggett ...
Echo & The Bunnymen: Echo And The Bunnymen: Meteorites
Review by Ned Raggett, The Quietus, 15 May 2014
IAN MCCULLOCH and Will Sergeant know that whatever else, they've got a hell of a legacy — and that may, still, be an unavoidable issue. ...
Inspiral Carpets: Inspiral Carpets
Review by Ned Raggett, The Quietus, 14 October 2014
HAVING FORMALLY reissued their 1987 demo tape Dung 4 earlier in the year, the Inspiral Carpets, on their new self-titled album, almost seem to have ...
Rock drummer Pepper Denny puts down roots and still chases the dream
Interview by Ned Raggett, Nashville Scene, 19 March 2015
In-Between No More ...
Review by Ned Raggett, Pitchfork, 21 April 2015
FOLLOWING 2013'S Change Becomes Us, which re-worked early 1980s song sketches into full songs, Wire feels at first almost strangely normal. ...
Review by Ned Raggett, The Quietus, 29 October 2021
With guests including CHAI, Graham Coxon, and Tove Lo, Duran Duran are clearly still living their best lives on latest album, Future Past ...
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