Nick with the ‘MCA on the cover of Midnight Marauders’ avatar @bridgemusicbunker.bsky.social Here comes that sound again
Assistant @assistant.bandcamp.com Jonathan tweeting. Assistant make lovely jangle pop from Brighton: Felt/Yo La Tengo/Stereolab etc. CERTAIN MEMORIES is our masterpiece; our new single is FLOWERS. Fanzines available; radio show Sundays 7pm on Untidy Radio.
Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social Author of Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane (Spring 2026) Pre-order it here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/andy-beta/cosmic-music/9780306836169/
Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social See link below for Manson book!
American Studies, UMass Boston
Current Project- “Boston Sounds, 1974-1999” @fsu_UMB
🇵🇸
Books on Black-Jewish relations (Right to Sing the Blues and Leo Frank), 9/11 and Manson.
skyhorsepublishing.com/9781628728941/…
A Journey of Giraffes 🇬🇱 @ajogmusic.bsky.social “AAAaaaah, the French!”
🏳️⚧️ trans rights are human rights
https://ajourneyofgiraffesswc.bandcamp.com/music
Oren Levine @ohljazz.com I write songs and play jazz piano.
2023 ASCAP Foundation Bergman Lyric Awardee.
Based in St Croix USVI
Look for a new edition of #TunesOnTuesday (almost) every week!
Dandy Boy Records @dandyboyrecords.bsky.social Oakland based indie label.
Dandyboyrecords.com
vish khanna @vishkhanna.bsky.social Host/Producer: Kreative Kontrol with Vish Khanna
Writer
Dad, husband 🍕🏀
https://linktr.ee/vishkhanna
Justin Anderson-Weber @jlweber.bsky.social I write Of Note, a monthly newsletter about music writing worth reading. https://buttondown.com/of_note
A man of many paths that somehow all led to biscuits, music, sports, and writing. Chicago-based after stints in DC, NC, and CO.
Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org Physical record archive of Country, Bluegrass, and Country Gospel music. Started in Kansas now in Cleveland.
Radio Host at Dollar Country and NTS Live.
Browse the archive and listen to the shows:
dollarcountry.org
tl;dr: rare country vinyl collector
Cardigan Enthusiast @cardiganenthusiast.bsky.social Cardigans, cats, baseball, bikes, music.
I work from home and on work days I post the first record I listen to that day.
Black Cheesebürder #MDANT Band Naming Expert @blackcheeseburger.bsky.social "Silence gets us nowhere, sarcasm gets us there and quicker"
Never been to Minneapolis or Glasgow
Once ordered 2 hot dogs in Paris
Former mower of Conway Twitty's lawn
Followed by @goldstar571.bsky.social
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com The official Bluesky account of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. youtube.com/lastweektonight
CoverStars @coverstars1.bsky.social Tar Heel, Cubs fan, former college basketball player, neighbor-lover, food enthusiast, music and vinyl junkie with a morning earworm, Springsteen devotee, pro-democracy, orphan on God's highway, and giver of fucks about an Oxford comma...
#MusicSky #CBB
Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social Producer at COMMOTION (CBC Radio 1); writer for Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily; author of THIS BOOK IS BROKEN: A Broken Social Scene Story + TOO MUCH TROUBLE: A Very Oral History of Danko Jones; publisher of stubermania.substack.com + hamontlive.substack.com
Leaving Records @leavingrecords.bsky.social 
Erin Osmon @erinosmon.bsky.social Music journalist, critic, author. Teach @ USC. Album notes. Other things. New book about heartland rock due next year via W.W. Norton. Hoosier waving hi in LA.
Hank Shteamer @darkforcesswing.bsky.social writer, usually about music.
contact: hshteamer.writes@gmail.com
hankshteamer.com
gorilla vs. bear @gorillavsbear.bsky.social instagram.com/gorillavsbear 🪩
record label: luminellerecs.com 💎
Ryan Dombal @ryandombal.bsky.social Founder, editor, and writer at hearingthings.co / @hearingthingsco.bsky.social
Formerly at Pitchfork, Blender, Entertainment Weekly, NYou, The Whitman Word
Will Hermes @willhermes.bsky.social Writer, music usually. Substack: https://newmusicoldmusic.substack.com/ Contributing Editor @rollingstone.com @nytimes.com @pitchfork.com @npr.org Books: Love Goes To Buildings On Fire 🔥 Lou Reed: The King of New York 👑 https://linktr.ee/willhermes
Stephen Thompson @idislikestephen.bsky.social NPR Music writer, yakker; Pop Culture Happy Hour and New Music Friday host; long-ago A.V. Club editor and Onion copy editor; snack-eater; dad.
https://www.npr.org/people/5244882/stephen-thompson
The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
Help support independent cultural journalism & get perks by becoming a tQ subscriber here: https://steadyhq.com/thequietus
Nathan Evans Fox @nathanevansfox.bsky.social Picker grinner shidder
he/him
David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social dad, writer, web dev, mixtapes https://www.mixcloud.com/OptimisticUnderground/
https://buymeacoffee.com/funkentechno
Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social Writer, host. WAIT A SECOND POD, X-RAY VISION, THE OFFICIAL GAME OF THRONES HOTD, KOTSK POD
Portland Trail Blazers @trailblazers.bsky.social PNW hoops since 1970.
Michael King @michaeljking.bsky.social Dressy Bessy 🎸, Lines of Drift 🎸, Zealot 🥁
Denver, CO musician, baker, barista, luddite, etc. mvskoke he/him
Music: https://linktr.ee/potentialmusic
@janglepophub.bsky.social @janglepophub.bsky.social 
R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social Band from Athens, GA, 1980-2011, made music, lasts forever.
Meritorio Records @meritoriorec.bsky.social Indie record label & music publisher.
Jangle pop, indie rock, fuzzy guitars.
Check out our latest news:
https://lnk.bio/meritorio
Visit our webstore:
https://www.meritoriorec.com/
Subscribe to our Newsletter:
https://meritoriorec.substack.com/
Prism Shores @prismshores.bsky.social Softest Attack out now via Meritorio Records and Having Fun
https://linktr.ee/prismshores
They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social Official. Our LP The World is To Dig is here. Multi-night stands right now in Milwaukee Madison Kansas City St Paul Minneapolis Austin Dallas Houston Washington DC / NEW YEARS EVENTS in Montclair and New Haven! www TMBG com for detes and tickets.
Hare @trailhare.bsky.social East Coast trail runner. Arsenal. Heady Music
Marie Geist, Baby Guitar Hero @mariepgeist.bsky.social Full-time student of Japanese language; sometimes translator for hire. Dale Cooper's imaginary girlfriend; electronic music nerd. Land back. ACAB includes SWERFs and TERFs. Why TF was Link banned again?
AuDHD. She/her/彼女
𝕱𝖗𝖊𝖊 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙 𝕽𝖊𝖈𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖘 @freedirtrecords.bsky.social American roots music, spoken word, & more. Makin' a living, not a killing since 2006. No root🌳 No fruit🍎
AI 🤖 free music ™
Nathan Evans Fox's Hillbilly Hymn is OUT NOW❤️🔥
Bob Mehr @bobmehr.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author, 'Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements.' 2X Grammy winner (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Dead Man's Pop). Reissue producer. Words for NYT, MOJO, Gannett.
Very Late Relics @verylaterelics.bsky.social hazy saxophone & keyboard sounds
hear the album, buy the cassette.
linktr.ee/verylaterelics
🌈 Portland/Sewanee💧
UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social
JOEMUGGS.UK
--
Like Icarus ascending on beautiful foolish arms
I have bad dreams and I poop a lot.
#MDANT
bassmidstopsandtherest.substack.com
joemuggs.substack.com
theartsdesk.com
mixcloud.com/joemuggs
rovr.live/#/curator/joe-muggs
etc
Mike Schiller @schillermaphone.bsky.social fix your hearts or die. kc by way of buffalo.
Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social Minimal and often abstract music - from grime to gugak, American primitivism to Japanese ambient - presented with minimal and often abstract cyanotype artwork.
https://bluetapes.bandcamp.com
𝕊𝕖𝕒𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕕 𝕠𝕗 𝔹𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕪 @seawindofbattery.bsky.social Releases with WarHen Records • Eiderdown Records • Island House Recordings 🚀
DJ for CAMP Radio 📻 'Battery Operated' • bi-monthly on Thursdays – 3pm EST/9pm CEST
Be good, be kind & show love 💕
https://linktr.ee/seawindofbattery
it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social toronto designer + game dev + Appalachian folk musician from central pennsylvania. they/them/any. ui/ux @ caves of qud
make a living not a killing
J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social Songwriter and music enjoyer.
Latest album: "Turned Around"
Host/Producer of Brokedown Radio & Brokedown Pod (ret.)
formerly ATrowj on the tweets
Links: https://rowjimmy.net/links
On Mastodon at:
https://shakedown.social/@rowjimmy
Virginia, USA
Super-Electric Records @superelectricrecs.bsky.social A humble record shop specializing in post-punk, experimental, jazz, and indie. 2732 NE MLK Blvd Portland OR. Tues - Sun noon - 6pm. 
John Robertson @jrr1234.bsky.social Librarian and musician. Lover of books, bourbon, beer, cycling, and SFF
George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social Only person to play CBGB and write about opera for the FT; "Minimalist Music," "Miles Davis' Bitches Brew," Grove Dictionary, Bandcamp, LoC, &c. Edit Brooklyn Rail music section, kickass newsletter: killyridols.substack.com
venmo.com/George-Grella
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social Your honor, I submit that we’re not dealing with a credible witness. He has already testified that he is the eggman. Now he’s reversed himself and claims to be the walrus.
Live Music Canada 🇨🇦 @livemusiccda.bsky.social Connecting Canadian Audiences With Artists All Across The Country, Simply Because We Love It! #IndependentNotForProfit
Jen Powers @jenpowers.bsky.social 
Dying For Bad Music @dying4badmusic.bsky.social Rural Gospel, AmPrim, Outsider Folk, Drum'n'Bass
Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social The Strategic Tape Reserve, based in the Penedès region of Catalonia, is a fully independent organization dedicated to the responsible dissemination of ferric cassette materials.
Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social Portland, Oregon
jazz and avant garde | the beauty of the mundane
mom of two boys | cat woman | enthusiast
I love finding records and listening to them 🖤
https://bandcamp.com/lunaonthegrass
Inner Islands @innerislands.bsky.social Record label est. 2010 / Grounding, finding center, following the feel / Portland, OR
https://innerislands.com- K kendraplex @kendraplex.bsky.social http://kendraplex.xyz
Jerry David DeCicca @jerrydaviddecicca.bsky.social The Original Unlikely Optimist- CARDIAC COUNTRY out on 4/28 via Sophomore Lounge vinyl/digital
Sahel Sounds @sahelsounds.bsky.social Project and Record Label focused on the Sahel of West Africa via sound, filmmaking, field recordings, cellphone mp3s, and cross cultural experiments
https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/
Josh Medina @joshmedina.bsky.social dronebone
Slim Hiney @timdaggerboy.bsky.social Mostly music…..or would that be moistly?
Aadam Jacobs Collection Project @ajc-project.bsky.social A collective of music enthusiasts working to convert the audio recordings of Aadam Jacobs to digital format and upload to the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs
Feed to shows - https://bsky.app/profile/ajcproject.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Andy Cush @cushac.bsky.social musician, writer, editor
Ezra Brooks @ezbrooks.bsky.social I love music, movies, mystery stories, and food from around the world.
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com Music for a broken concrete utopia.
He/him
https://warringtonruncorn.com/
Out Of Your Head Records @ooyhrecords.bsky.social An artist-run Richmond-based record label dedicated to creative music and original visual art in limited runs.
Brendan Menapace @brendanmenapace.bsky.social Writer for places like Spin, Stereogum, Esquire, Paste, Vice, Brooklyn Vegan, etc. Got my own thing over at www.snakesandsparklers.com.
www.brendanmenapace.com
annie parnell 👽 @avparnell.bsky.social man, I hate playing vampire towns. nashville via rva. audience editor, music/film/books/sports writer & resident goth at @nashvillescene.com 🥀 Music City Film Critics Association member. words: Paste, FLOOD, etc. (she/they)
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Hotham Sound @hothamsound.bsky.social Limited edition cassette releases of experimental electronic music from the pacific northwest, 2015-present.
hothamsoundrecordings.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/hotham_sound/
Alex Silver @halfvivid.bsky.social Folk music experimentalist and French teacher. Portland, Maine area.
https://halfvividsongs.com
https://alexsilver.bandcamp.com/
Debacle Records @debaclerecords.bandcamp.com Seattle Record Label, Est. 2003
https://linktr.ee/debaclerecords
for sync & licensing contact gavin@syncsmith.com
distro: http://thebusinessanacortes.com
Anything Bagel @anything-bagel.bsky.social artist run record label out of butte, mt
🥯 we love music! 🥯
Anythingbagel.bandcamp.com
💌anythingbagelemail@gmail.com
Mariel Buckley @marielbuckley.bsky.social Songwriter, singer, showers regularly.
Appalshop @appalshop.bsky.social Making art and media in the mountains since 1969.
Press inquiries to press@appalshop.org.
linktr.ee/appalshop
www.appalshop.org
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social A good guy.
@milkedband.bsky.social @milkedband.bsky.social milked.bandcamp.com
Ted Davis @tddvsss.bsky.social Making vibey dance music under the alias DJ STEPDAD
Also writing about strange sounds and working essentially every job in the music industry
[NYC]
Outside The Spotlight @outsidethespotlight.org Outside The Spotlight is a series of jazz and improvised music events in Lexington, KY. We give a home to artists making music that doesn't fit with commercial sensibilities and build an environment where artists and audience can interact more directly.
The Other Side of Life @theothersideoflife.bsky.social 9/19 BITCHIN BAJAS, ELI WINTER & TYLER DAMON at B-Side
9/24 TASHI DORJI, FLANGER MAGAZINE at MaybeIt'sFate
10/9 AARON DILLOWAY, ED SUNSPOT at B-Side
11/15 MAGIC TUBER STRINGBAND, MAN EATER at MaybeIt'sFate
Info, tix: https://the-other-side-of-life.com/
Mike McGonigal @mikemcgonigal.bsky.social Writer, editor. Detroit, 56. Maggot Brain-Yeti-Chemical Imbalance. Buked & Scorned gospel radio show + many comps. Writing gospel history book for MCD/FSG.
editaurus @davesegal.bsky.social Contributor to The Wire, The Stranger, SPIN, The Tonearm; formerly Pitchfork, Discogs / world-unfamous DJ Veins / Made in Detroit https://www.discogs.com/seller/veins/profile
The Vinyl Cut @vinylcut.net vinylcut.net | Vinyl news & in-depth reviews
Michael J. Kane @michaeljkane.bsky.social Posts: personal capacity. PSY/open science, working memory, attn, mindwandering (also edu; skepticism). Living well with #Tourette. (Also am/was ProfessorPowerPop on Xitter.) Art: Miles Johnston; Haring 
I Heart Noise @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com Ripping Off Brian Eno Since 2008
Screw AI, Lets Go DIY / pro Weird Al
Logo by Kirk Markarian (Neuro No Neuro)
ihrtn.net
iheartnoise.bandcamp.com
Boston / Mass Ave and beyond
hello.iheartnoise@gmail.com for all the submissions/demos/what have you
International Anthem @intlanthem.bsky.social 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗴𝗼-𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮.
𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗧𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥.
massage (the band) @massagetheband.bsky.social 
Rockom Sockom NoBots @rockom.bsky.social Boston -->> Portland (16yrs).
Politics, music, culture, things PDX, bots and some TTRPG.
Portland, OR feed on Graze: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fgnkp5yb6fuvxsqpqpnan46u/feed/tstpdx
Austin L. Ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social writer • How I'd Fix Atlanta, Mailchimp, Defector, McSweeney’s, Atlas Obscura, Rolling Stone, Welcome to Hell World, Creative Loafing, Oxford American, First We Feast, Paste, so many others
ATL is my home
http://austinlouisray.com is my work's home
Tom Humphrey @thumphreypdx.bsky.social Backroad to Nowhere, xray.fm radio show. History, tradition, vanguard, new/old sounds. Portland, OR. Sundays, 6-7pm PT 91.1 / 107.1
@tflatley.bsky.social @tflatley.bsky.social 
1800benparrish @1800benparrish.bsky.social The man behind the emails at Jamboree Mgmt
ben at jamboreemgmt dot com
Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online The Wild West Begins Where Your Body Ends
Perennial @perennialtheband.bsky.social mod punk rhythm & noise
New England
https://orcd.co/beatscene
Ureterocele @ureterocele.bsky.social A musician living in Tokyo. A bass player. Dark-experimental. Many of my posts are translated from Japanese into English using DeepL. Bsky since Feb 7, 2024.
My Music→ https://linktr.ee/ureterocele
Andrew Sacher @andrewdsacher.bsky.social longtime music journalist, ex-BrooklynVegan, author of EMO REVIVAL (@clashbooks.bsky.social)
Order my book: https://lnk.bio/emorevivalbook
My Substack: https://andrewsacher.substack.com/
Need a band bio? Ask me: https://andrewsacher.com/contact.html
Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social World’s tallest living artist ✨
baltimore, md ✨
sleeve @djsleeve.bsky.social DJ, solar designer, record nerd, pastry chef, RPG/boardgames. All opinions are solely my own.
solace @solace.music Simple design with a modern crypto touch
Chris Royalty @chrisroyalty.bsky.social Aux Meadows (guitar/production).
Instrumental trio from Oakland CA, blending country traditions, new age sonics, and pastoral psychedelia.
https://auxmeadows.bandcamp.com/album/draw-near