Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social work in X-R-A-Y, 3:AM, Granta, n+1, forthcoming in Iowa Review // website jamestaddadcox.com, editor @alwayscrashing.bsky.social // ENNIE award winner, apparently? https://store.possibleworldsgames.com/product/tacklebox
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Shawn Galvin @sgalvin.bsky.social Percussionist, Pittsburgh Symphony | Artist-in-Residence, LSU School of Music | Orchestra Manager, Spoleto Festival USA | shawngalvin.com
nolan smock @nolansmock.bsky.social mostly photos
raleigh, nc 🐸
nolansmock.com
Joe Cothrel @cothrel.bsky.social Culture, tech, public policy and (almost) all things Chicago.
Jil Christensen @jilchristensen.bsky.social CEO/President Day One Relief
Synthesist/freeImprov/Composer
Luke Elliott @lukeelliott.bsky.social artist
https://linkin.bio/lell_iott
Bathysphere Records @bathysphererecords.bsky.social Artist-run submersive ambient experimental record label
https://linktr.ee/bathysphererecords
🎧BATH0017 Dive 2: Sonoluminescence on Limited Edition Vinyl + Tape out now
Ry @youaintryan.bsky.social Erstwhile couch guy, part-time editor at @superempty.bsky.social, and other assorted activities. At the end of the day, just hoping to kick somethin that means somethin.
919//910, NC | https://www.youaintryan.com/
Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com Just my silly little thoughts
https://mattlemay.com
Shadowbox Studio @shadowbox-studio.bsky.social Durham's finest rental photo studio & events venue for cinema and performing art. Keeping it weird since 2015!
Lindsay Metivier @lindsaymetivier.bsky.social Photographer / Gallerist / Educator / Dog Mom
Stacy Wolfson @stacythedancer.bsky.social Artistic Director/choreographer/dancer-The Bipeds
Owner-Bull City Pilates and Massage
Singer-Curtis Eller’s American Circus
The Bipeds @thebipedsdance.bsky.social Dance theatre from Durham, NC
Stacy Wolfson | Choreographer
Curtis Eller | Musical director
http://www.thebipedsdance.com/
Sarah Willets @sarahwillets.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief @indyweek.bsky.social
My Dinner With André 3000 @nosnafus.bsky.social 🇵🇸 • Baker of fruit seed • Proletarian • BLM • Respirator Guy • Surviving Long Covid • aka basmati
Our liberation is intersectional. 🇸🇩
Phil Nugent @philnugent.bsky.social A cool rebel with no friends
Cole Villena @colevillena.bsky.social Tar Heel in Nashville
Ripley @ripleyw.bsky.social
www.ripleywhiteside.com
elemeno @mikomiko.bsky.social matt mcmichaels
Of Note @ofnotemusic.bsky.social Sharing music writing worth reading. Formerly a monthly newsletter (see archives at https://buttondown.com/of_note)
Managed by Justin Anderson-Weber (@jlweber.bsky.social)
Based in Chicago, Illinois.
Nathan Taylor @spngbth.bsky.social Carrboro, NC
https://www.softer-recordings.org
Ben Felton @bnfltn.bsky.social benjamindavidfelton.bandcamp.com
tacomaparknc.com
Felix Obelix (AKA Wendy Spitzer) @felixobelix.bsky.social musician, interdisciplinary artist, avant-popist, collagist, collaborator
Martin @sonicmooks.bsky.social Waiting for the great leap forwards...
(Music Industry Refugee - art, music, film, progressive politics, reading/writing, but please, no arithmetic - thank you!)
he/him/his
https://music-for-insomniacs.ghost.io/
R.L. Bynum @rl-bynum.bsky.social Cover #UNC athletics — mainly men's & women's basketball, football and baseball — for tarheeltribune.com | X: @RL_Bynum | Threads: @r.l.bynum | YouTube: youtube.com/@TarHeelTribune | TikTok: tar.heel.tribune | 53 marathons | Cubs fan
Terrorbird Media @terrorbirdmedia.bsky.social music licensing, publishing, publicity, radio promo, + digital advertising 𓅯
more @ www.terrorbird.com
@hlunapr.bsky.social @hlunapr.bsky.social 
@erictullis.bsky.social @erictullis.bsky.social I'm an NC-based journalist/writer/content specialist, but I'm also somewhat brain boggled.
Iza Wojciechowska @izawoj.bsky.social I’ll be your pen pal. Copy editor and Little Free Library steward. 📚 Durham NC.
@cjvail.bsky.social @cjvail.bsky.social 
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social Writer.
Jonathan Woollen @jonathangrandma.bsky.social French-to-English translation (Ann Scott's SUPERSTARS out April 7) // college dropout // day job in books at FSG // formerly Director of Events at Politics and Prose Bookstore + Music Director at WXYC
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
Entrez Vous @entrez-vous-band.bsky.social Rock’N’Roll
Carrboro North Carolina U.S.A.
entrezvousband.com
https://linktr.ee/entrezvousband
Ethan @ethanclauset.bsky.social Record guy at alldayrecords.com & alldayrecords.bsky.social
Curtis Eller @curtiseller.bsky.social Banjo player || Songwriter || Dancer || Storyteller
https://curtiseller.com
Maureensherbondy @maureensherbondy.bsky.social Poet and fiction writer from NC. The Body Remembers, 2025 (Unsolicited Press).
wxyc @wxyc.org WXYC 89.3 FM is the non-commercial freeform radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
wxyc.org | https://linktr.ee/wxyc
🔊 Livestream: http://audio-mp3.ibiblio.org:8000/wxyc-alt.mp3
requests: @dj.wxyc.org
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Sonic Pie Productions @sonicpienc.bsky.social Concert & festival production, curation, consulting, special event services, P.A., & stage rental. Durham, NC. sonicpieproductions.com
Araya @arayabaker.bsky.social Therapist, columnist, social policy researcher | @hgse @penngse
| published @teenvogue @psychtoday @insidehighered @usatoday | arayabaker.com | they/them |
Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social Author of some books & more, professor, translator, artist+ 🏳️🌈 🖤💚❤️ 🏳️⚧️ (Avatar: c/o I.D. Mag/photo © Mario Sorrenti)
Wake Moody @wakemoody.bsky.social Chapel Hill, NC
He/him
Original music as Wake Moody
Keys, bg vox and occasional production for XOXOK
Jeremy Gordon @jeremygordon.bsky.social My novel SEE FRIENDSHIP is out now, I edit on the culture desk at the Atlantic, my newsletter is at http://jeremygordon.substack.com, and my website is at https://jeremygordon.xyz
efriend @efriend.bsky.social Award-winning independent journalist and audio producer specializing in stories at the intersections of science, history, and nature. Based in North Carolina.
https://efriend.carrd.co/
100% human, never AI
Reid @bluereid.bsky.social He/hims/his/whatever
@schoonermusic on the other platforms.
Comms Director.
Schooner dude http://schoonermusic.com
Sun Studies side http://sunstudi.es
Churchkey Records @churchkeyrecords.com Durham, NC
www.churchkeyrecords.com
Matt Wright @trmw.bsky.social TRMW = The Real Matt Wright = some dude living in the Outer Sunset of San Francisco.
Design eng at Persona, former webdev elder at Square, before that music stuff (IODA, Blitzen Trapper, Matt Wright PR, PDX indie scene class of ‘03).
https://trmw.org
Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social Former contributor to Areo Magazine, currently in Liberal Currents. Feeling good these days. Writes about history, philosophy and international relations. If i’m acting like a jerk tell me to log off! Enjoys 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️perspectives…
m @micdwy.bsky.social beach praxis
michaeladwyer.com
Lena Geller @writingthings.bsky.social staff writer @indyweek.bsky.social
Brooke Darrah Shuman @brookedarrah.bsky.social video journalist formerly More Perfect Union, HuffPost, NBC
lapsed Appalachian <3
@mixeduseraleigh.bsky.social @mixeduseraleigh.bsky.social Raleigh, NC 
Evan Minsker @see-saw.fun “see hyphen saw dot fun,” he/they
punk + rock’n’roll newsletter: https://see-saw.fun/
🎙️ punk this week: https://see-saw.fun/tag/podcast/
🎙️ see/saw radio: https://see-saw.fun/see-saw-radio/
✍️ rolling stone, p4k, hearing things, nyt, npr, creem
Hugh Morris @hwfmorris.bsky.social Writer on music for NYT Guardian Wire Private Eye and more. Digital Editor at @vanmusicmag.bsky.social
Email is hughmorris98@gmail.com
VAN Magazine @vanmusicmag.bsky.social Independent online classical music magazine published weekly in English and German. Strong personalities welcome. www.van-magazine.com
10,000 Hz Records @10000hzrecords.bsky.social A new & used vinyl record shop in downtown Opelika, Alabama. Located at 717A 1st Avenue, but Twit…err…BlueSky is where we come to mostly just complain about rude customers.
Josh Samuels @joshsamuels.bsky.social I stay very still for money and love reading stuff out loud.
Ross White @rosswhite.com Publisher: @bullcitypress.com. Poet: CHARM OFFENSIVE & three chapbooks from Unicorn Press. Professor: UNC #GoHeels. Views my own. Host: @triviaescapepod.com. Goofus. Durham, NC.
> Site: rosswhite.com
INDY Week @indyweek.bsky.social Progressive news, culture, and commentary for Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. | Support local news: http://indyweek.com/support.
Have a story idea? tips@indyweek.com
K @kerry.bsky.social Design/Code/Data. Photography. Music. Woodworking. Cocktails. Electronics. Ceramics. Synths. Linguistics.
Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social writer and culture editor at @indyweek.bsky.social | poetry + fiction sometimes, gchat often | sedwards@indyweek.com | eddysarah.substack.com
Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com Husband. Father. Homemaker. North Carolinian. Parisian.
🐔Katy🐔 @katy-mouse.bsky.social bi. 34. mixed asian southerner. writer and theatre person. masters degree in tech comm. creative producer + writer. cap sun, pisces rising, taurus moon. NC based. i love danmei and queer media tm, rpgs, prestige tv, good writing, + crunchy chunky pixels
Kurt @ Hardcore Gaming 101 @hg101.bsky.social He/him. Now available: Ys and Other Falcom Classics, and Metal Gear/Silent Hill and Other Konami Classics! Buy our books!: https://amzn.to/4czMqP9 Icon by Rusty Shackles. Patreon: http://patreon.com/hg101
Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social Freelance writer & cultural critic with a PhD in ethnomusicology
Host of The Clave Chronicles, a Cuban music podcast
she/her, bilingüe, fat, 🏳️🌈 , Oaktown
Hire me: rmbodenheimer@gmail.com
https://rmbodenheimer.com
Mark Waid Should Be Working Instead @markwaid.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Troubleshooter, Troublemaker
Steven Hyden @stevenhyden.bsky.social The Ween Of American Rock Critics. Author of six books. My book on The Strokes is out 9/8/26. Indiecast dude. Writing at Evil Speakers: https://stevenhyden.substack.com
Otis Hart @spotieotis.bsky.social NPR Music
Jack Probst @jackprobst.com writer of sappy personal essays about music, comedy, and film. also writing a book about growing up with a rare bone disorder. it’ll be funny, i swear.
✍️: merry-go-round mag, paste, pitchfork, creem, nme, etc.
Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social rock and pop music critic, @wsj, freelance elsewhere • former EIC @pitchfork • markrichardson.org • markrichardson.substack.com
Philip Sherburne @philipsherburne.bsky.social Pitchfork / Lapsus Radio / Balmat
Substack: http://futurismrestated.substack.com
Label: http://balmat.cat
Mixes: http://soundcloud.com/psherburne
Menorca, Spain
Nate Patrin 🎧 @natepatrin.bsky.social StP, MN | '77 born | he/him | enthusiast
as in "patron of the arts"
"The music began again and was much improved." -Kurt Vonnegut
'Versions and Subversions: the Cover Songs That Changed Music' out soon
https://www.upress.umn.edu/author/nate-patrin/
Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com prof ∙ critic ∙ music and media ∙ award-losing author of WHO GOT THE CAMERA?, which Rolling Stone called "approachably erudite" ∙ ericdharvey.com
Matthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social Writer of Fluxblog for 20+ years... I heard codes in the melody and heeded the call, so I'm sharing things I know and love with those of my kind http://linktr.ee/fluxblog
maura johnston @maura.bsky.social boston-based writer and journalism instructor at @bostoncollege.bsky.social who has probably been online longer than you. sign up for maura.ghost.io today.
jenn pelly @jennpelly.bsky.social journalist, critic, diarist
author of The Raincoats (2017)
jennpelly.info
Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social Writer, music and other things
http://blissout.blogspot.com/
Ryan Schreiber @ryanschreiberfm.bsky.social The artist formerly known as @ryanpitchfork
Author of WEIRD ERA (Dec 1 via @fsgbooks)
Resident DJ @thelotradio
Writing at ethernet.fm
Merge Records @mergerecords.bsky.social Independent Music since 1989.
https://bio.to/mergerecords
Marc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Bylines: FT, NYT, NPR, IBM, S&P. Past lives: Pitchfork, SPIN, BusinessWeek. marchogan at gmail dot com. He/him. Iowa since 2009, but ex–NY, IL, MA, AZ, TN; CA native. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-hogan-00b34b1a photo by Erol Reyal
Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social Music, comics, assorted grousing, he/him. CURRENT THINGS are Discourse 2000, a 2000AD blog and Popular, about the UK’s No 1 hits. I also waste my time (and maybe yours!) with @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social
https://freakytrigger.co.uk
Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social Music critic for Slate, freelance writer/editor/etc in Toronto (and available for work!), author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, founding associate of Trampoline Hall.
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social Time-lag accumulator. Professor of History at NC State University. I write about church & state in the long eighteenth century Atlantic world.
Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social I make music and help others make the music they want to make. Composer, co-AD of New Amsterdam Records. Western MA based. He/him. Pic drawn by my now-11yo. None of us are free until all of us are free.
Bronwen Dickey @bronwendickey.bsky.social 
Chuck Johnson @chuckjohnsonmusic.bsky.social FREE PALESTINE
Composer/musician
Mastering engineer
https://linktr.ee/chuckjohnsonmusic
Samuel Montgomery-Blinn @montsamu.bsky.social Durham, NC. Amateur radio operator, live sound, open source software and hardware. I read books and talk to my cats. 
clayton purdom @claytonpurdom.bsky.social i wear chains that excite the feds
Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social Writer. From Washington, NC. Tar Heel. Now based in Bryan, TX. 2019 Guggenheim fellow in nonfiction. Next book about jazz pianist Bill Evans and his wife Ellaine Schultz Evans. samstephenson.org
Jeremy D. Larson @jeremydlarson.bsky.social deputy director @pitchfork
jeremydlarson.com
Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social I design & write stories about online society, virtual embodiment and the technocapitalist future. game dev, presenter, consultant et al
Everything is narrative design
mean lesbian 🏳️🌈 she/her
https://linktr.ee/leighalexander
Travis Smith @travis-oliver.bsky.social Author of Zodiac B, a chapbook in cards from Ninepin Press.
www.travisoliversmith.com
Zachary Lipez @zacharylipez.bsky.social Editor at large for Creem Magazine. I am in a couple bands with people who are in other, more successful, bands. Like your mom, I have a newsletter. 
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com The best art publication on Bluesky 🌞 with daily art news and reviews. hyperallergic.com
Kevin Lozano @kevinlozano.bsky.social editor producer at bloomberg's odd lots
Amy Phillips @amyphillips.bsky.social Former Pitchfork Executive Editor. Mom. No Fun.
Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social Novelist, The Last Lilies of Giverny (HarperCollins, 2027) Stories: fiction and journalism. Tattoos: dragons, snakes, firebirds. Punk: Minor Threat, Bad Brains. Book editor. Harper’s, The Oxford American, Guernica, The VQR. Some track and field content.