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.