Working Girls Press @workinggirlspress.bsky.social independent publisher of sex worker art and writings | founded by Molly B. Simmons and Emily Marie Passos Duffy
campsite.bio/workinggirlspress
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social Columnist @pghcitypaper.com | freelance writer covering the sex industry | CA native, Pittsburgh local | bookworm | good food, strong coffee & shameless naps
Feminist Press @feministpress.bsky.social Lit since 1970
Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social The international source for book publishing and bookselling news, reviews, and information.
publishersweekly.com
Sara Innamorato @innamo.bsky.social Here for a good time, not a long time, but the good time is building an Allegheny County for all.
Call me ACE.
Bodega Pop @bodegapop.bsky.social Poet, cartoonist, music blogger, host of Bodega Pop on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio
Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social Teaches Early Modern Drama at Cardiff Uni. Writing a book about Mucedorus. Will probably post music when I don’t know what to say. he/him. New OWC Cymbeline: https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/cymbeline-9780192882868?cc=gb&lang=en&
Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social author of “Allen Ginsberg: Material Wealth”and “Listen Whitey! Sounds of Black Power” and “Did It! Jerry Rubin”
- reissue producer / liner note writer for
Fire Records
Langston Collin Wilkins @langstonwilkins.bsky.social Folklorist and Professor
www.langstonwilkins.com
Zeth Lundy @zethlundy.bsky.social Writer, DISGRACELAND podcast
Showrunner, HOLLYWOODLAND podcast
Dr Martha Bayless, PhD @tenthcentury.bsky.social Folklorist, flâneuse. The rest is history.
Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social Writer, sub-editor, pizza-maker. The Guardian, MOJO, Loose Lips Sink Ships. Books. The good shit. steviechick.com
Dr. Laina Dawes @lainad.bsky.social Post-Doctoral scholar @CWRU. Music Critic. Metalhead. Author, "What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal: https://www.amazon.com/What-Are-You-Doing-Here/dp/1935950053
Jeff Chang @zentronix.bsky.social Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America (Mariner) - watermirrorecho.net
Notes from the Edge + Edge of Reason
Can't Stop Won't Stop • Who We Be • We Gon' Be Alright
D.L. Chandler @dlchandler123.bsky.social Journalist/Editor. Hip-Hop, NBA (Let's Go WIZARDS), MMA, & cocktail hobbyist/studier in that order. Born in DC, Raised in PG. Notable mumbo sauce expert. An actual writer, not an activist. Originator of "Black & Elegant."
Litsa Dremousis @litsadremousis.bsky.social ALTITUDE SICKNESS (Future Tense Books). Upcoming: A EULOGY FOR THE LIVING. Left WaPo b/c of Bezos. The Blvr, Esquire, Flare Lit Mag, McSwy's, NPR, NY Mag, NYT, Pictura Journal, P&W, PW, The Rumpus, Short Beasts, et al. #pwME https://litsadremousis.com
Brooklyn White-Grier @brooklynrwhite.bsky.social Senior staff writer @ The New York Times Wirecutter. Mom. Diana Ross enthusiast.
Michael A. Gonzales @magonzales.bsky.social Born and raised in Harlem, Michael A. Gonzales has been anointed "the hip-hop Chester Himes" by Miles Marshall Lewis. He's published true-crime essays at CrimeReads, and short stories in Ellery Queen and Rock & a Hard Place.
--art by Tony Stella
Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social professor; writer; black feminist; mother; cookie monster; WBB fan; editorial director of @feministstudies.bsky.social
Valorie Thomas PhD @diasporicvertigo.bsky.social Americanist, Afrofuturist, Literature, film. Recovering academic. Shocked, outraged, in no way surprised. We kept telling you #DecolonizeIt.
brittany spanos 🧿 @ohheybrittany.bsky.social subscribe to BRIT POP on substack
Jon Pareles @jonpareles.bsky.social always listening
Neil McCormick @neil-mccormick.bsky.social Telegraph music critic. Author. Opinionated hack. Failed rock star. 
Gretchen Larsen @kiwigretchen.bsky.social critical consumer researcher // sound and art // books, books, and more books // photography
Martin Liut @liutmartin.bsky.social Girando en y alrededor de la música. Profe en la UNQ y la UBA. https://linktr.ee/elpaisdelascanciones Donde comprar, reseñas y extractos de "El país de las canciones. De Charly y Evita a María Becerra y Trueno". Editado por Gourmet musical.
Anders Liljedahl @liljedahl.bsky.social Musicologist, black metal nerd, music video scholar, joyous ex academic. 
Maciek Smółka @macieksmolka.bsky.social Popular music researcher. Assistant professor of American studies at Jagiellonian Uni. Studying popular culture for a living. Gaming for fun. Posting in English and Polish. He/him.
The Sound of a City is out now: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1369553
Shayna M. Silverstein @shaynamsilverstein.bsky.social Academic working across performance studies, music studies, dance studies, and the SWANA region/MENA studies-- particularly Syria. Based in Chicago. Mom, partner, avid ⛷️⚽️🎻🍚⛰️🏇🏼
Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social I write about music & my latest book is “High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape” http://highbiasbook.com/ I host the Music Book Podcast. I am a Nationals & D-backs fanatic. DON'T USE AI.
Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social See link below for Manson book!
American Studies, UMass Boston
Current Project- “Boston Sounds, 1974-1999” @fsu_UMB
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Books on Black-Jewish relations (Right to Sing the Blues and Leo Frank), 9/11 and Manson.
skyhorsepublishing.com/9781628728941/…
Nikki A. Greene @drnikkigreene.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Art History @ Wellesley
drnikkigreene.com
✨Grime, Glitter & Glass: The Body & the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art (Duke UP, 2024) ✨
https://www.dukeupress.edu/grime-glitter-and-glass
Columbia College Chicago @columbiachi.bsky.social Columbia College Chicago is a college for creatives located in the heart the city's Cultural Mile. We inspire and empower our community to Shape Whats Next.
Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social Chicago Reader music writer
imleor.carrd.co
Country Universe @countryuniverse.net The longest-running country music blog (f. 08.2004).
www.countryuniverse.net
Erin MacLeod @touchofallright.bsky.social I teach teens about lit and theory. Also, Polaris Prize jury foreperson, working on M&E, coms, español, français and sleeping. Settler In Montréal. https://www.youtube.com/@ErinExplainsStuff
David Suisman @dsuisman.bsky.social Author of INSTRUMENT OF WAR: MUSIC AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA'S SOLDIERS (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024) and SELLING SOUNDS: THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION IN AMERICAN MUSIC (Harvard Univ. Press, 2009). History professor. Occasional WFMU DJ. davidsuisman.net
Will Groff @willgroff.bsky.social Legendary woman of country and journalist w/ bylines at WSJ, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, etc
willgroff.com
Kyle Barnett @kylebarnett.bsky.social Media studies professor. Participant observer. Itinerant Hoosier. Author, Record Cultures (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2020). Faculty adviser/occasional DJ, Bellarmine Radio.
https://www.kylesbarnett.org/
Dr. Monique Charles @neake81.bsky.social #DRMC- The #BrainyBrawnyBeautiful Assistant Prof. living #ThatBlackademicLife. #SoundTherapist, #Cardologer #Reverend #bawdybuilderpro🥇#BambooEarrings
Norma Coates @nocoates.bsky.social American expat who escaped to Canada in 2005 when " it couldn't get any worse." Popular music and media scholar, professor, mom. I don’t reply to unsolicited DM’s.
Matthew Fiander @mattfiander.bsky.social Author, editor, RINGING IN YOUR EARS (Main Street Rag, 2023)
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.
Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social Epistemologist @ NYmag
Writing in NYmag, Pitchfork, Harpers, NPR Music, Rolling Stone, Noisey, FADER, Outline, Pacific Standard, Mother Jones, New York Times, etc.
Co-author of 3x3, an occasional music newsletter: https://threexthree.substack.com/
Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social 🎙️/ ✍🏾 : NPR’s POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR
📖: WANNABE: RECKONINGS WITH THE POP CULTURE THAT SHAPES ME: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris
https://linktr.ee/aishaharris
Stefan Fatsis @stefanfatsis.bsky.social Author: Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
Also: Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, Wild & Outside
Ex: Hang Up and Listen, WSJ, NPR, AP, Daily Pennsylvanian, Pel Mel
Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social Books and culture columnist for Slate
Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social Cultural critic. Author. Coined "Afrofuturism." Theorized "culture jamming." Antifascist AF. Editor/writing coach for hire: https://coaching.markdery.com/. Read me: https://www.markdery.com/articles/
David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social NPR media guy
Author, Murdoch’s World
Jack Hamilton @jackhamilton.bsky.social Professor of American Studies and Media Studies at the University of Virginia and pop critic for Slate magazine. Author of JUST AROUND MIDNIGHT: ROCK AND ROLL AND THE RACIAL IMAGINATION 
Dan @hosstito.com https://hosstito.com/
Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social Mayor of the Pittsburgh music scene. HellbenderVinyl.com, Misra Records, and more- A @artofthespectator.bsky.social @artofthespectator.bsky.social
Sloane Spencer @sloanespencer.bsky.social •The Gen X sleep podcast SleepWithRockStars.com
•The low key, high taste music chat DiveBarMusicClub.com
•WTH am I thinking MommaRunsAnUltra.com
•CountryFriedRock.com returns
Subscribe/follow on Apple, Spotify, YouTube.
She/Her
Adam Bradley @adambradley.bsky.social Professor of English & African American Studies @ UCLA, founding Director of the RAP Lab, writer at large @ NYT's T Magazine, author of some books. Lives in LA.
Holly Kruse @hollykruse.bsky.social Media studies
–Gender & tech (Polity https://t.ly/LhLoK)
–Synth-pop (Bloomsbury https://t.ly/IUZHv)
–Networks & horse racing (MIT Press ebook https://t.ly/CJvI2)
–Music scenes (Peter Lang https://t.ly/aI__X)
Irish setters+horse+rescue dog. Iowan 4ever
DJ Soul Sister @djsoulsister.bsky.social Academic nonconformista DJ artist who lives a life of musicology, archives, vinyl crate digging, Black history, popular music studies, pop culture, P-Funk, DC go-go, disco, New Orleans, fun, and Virgo power. Music-obsessed Blerds unite. djsoulsister.com
SteveFromPittsburgh @stevepittsburgh.bsky.social Pittsburgh's Premiere Power Broker 
Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social Literature, songwriting, counterculture, 35mm photography. Assoc Prof of German Studies at Emory U.
Feral House / Process @feralhouse.bsky.social We publish non-fiction books focused on micro-history, pop culture, occult, high-weirdness, unique memoirs, and more. We explore the dark and musty corners of culture and tell stories of forgotten creators and thinkers. (Posts by Christina.)
Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social Mostly Lou Reed
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/
Maria T 🌹⛸🎸🍕🏄🏼♀️✨ @thisismari.at Hot well-dressed woman with opinions on music, figure skating, surfing, pizza, etc. Here to hang with pals. I block early, often. Please leave me alone if I'm not following you.
She/Her/Philadelphian
Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
Cashew @cashewspell.bsky.social bs in pgh ❤️🔥
sean s. n. murphy @seansnmurphy.ca (he/him) • editorial @ black press media
hello@seansnmurphy.ca • vancouver, bc
Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and Council Member for Online Media @wgaeast.bsky.social. words also in NYT, LARB, Brooklyn Magazine, Complex, and POW Mag. he/him. nitishpahwa.73 on Signal. if it's major, hit me on my pager.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com anarchist warlord arbitration consultant. drummer in tragic lovers. writes WORK IS FOUR LETTERS, poster emeritus for NORMAL MEN. don't be a dick.
https://golikehellmachine.com
https://tragiclovers.bandcamp.com
paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social I live in pittsburgh and like it. wrote a book about conservative populism. have spent the last 15 years studying the right.
go arsenal! I like gin.
Book: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817321093/i-the-people/
jason kucsma @iamjasonk.bsky.social Midwest in my bones. Family in my heart. Public libraries on my brain. Proud director of a National medal award-winning public library.
GareSud @garesud.eurosky.social Middle-aged raver // too old to be new, too new to be a classic // Acidcommunisme // linktr.ee/GareSud
Liz Felix @lizfelix.bsky.social Pittsburgh. Program Director at 91.3 WYEP. Music, native plants/birds/nature stuff. Secretly Italian. My views don’t represent my employer’s views, as I’m a human being with my own thoughts n’at. No fascism.
She/her
Rasmus Riegels @riegels.bsky.social PhD student at Lund University, researching how developments of media has affected techno.
Jason Schneider Media @jasonschneidermedia.com Canadian music PR company. @AmericanaFest member.
Author of seven books including The City Knows: A Novel + That Gun In Your Hand: the Strange Saga of 'Hey Joe' and Popular Music's History of Violence
Purchase links: lnk.bio/JasonSchneiderBooks
Light in the Attic @lightintheattic.bsky.social Reissue label with a bluesky account
Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social Assistant Professor of American Studies at UNC. UCLA PhD. Views my own.
https://www.amandamariemartinez.com
Charles Hughes @charleshughes2.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Musician. Country Soul. Why Bushwick Bill Matters. Pro wrestling coming soon. No Fences Review. Wisconsin and Southern. Disabled and disorderly. He/him.
Jorge N. Leal, Ph.D. @jorgenleal.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History UC Riverside
Mexican American History | Latinx Cultural Expressions | US & SoCal Historian
| LÁ 90s Youth Cultures y lo que salga esta semana...
https://www.jorgenicolasleal.com/
Jada Watson @datajada.bsky.social phd in musicology, m. in information science, associate prof of dh @UO_ESIS.
pi of www.SongData.ca
Antonia Randolph @baldwinvidal.myatproto.social Black queer feminist jawn. And how. She/They pronouns.
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.
Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author, “Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs.” Newest book: "Stevie Nicks in 50 Songs." Others on Duran Duran, Lady Gaga, Xmas songs, Cher. Trans + disability rights are human rights. apstudiozaleski@gmail.com; anniez.com.
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social Historian, Author of Living in a DAISY Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made. Also writing book on history of the Left in Midwest.
https://austincmccoy.com/
https://austincmccoy.substack.com/
Karen Tongson @inlandemperor.bsky.social Author of NORMPORN, WHY KAREN CARPENTER MATTERS, and RELOCATIONS. Food motivated. Expert Homosexual. Prof by day. Cohost of The Art of Grief and The Gaymazing Race podcasts, formerly of Waiting to X-Hale. #Gaylor curious.
ACFC ⚽️ & Dodgers ⚾️ 
Jon Freeman @thejonfreeman.bsky.social Lovable idiot. Probably writing words somewhere. Music, books, food/booze, exercise, general goofiness. Queer and southern, based in Nashville. He/him
Nadine Hubbs @dean17.bsky.social UMich prof. Books: ‘The Queer Composition of America‘s Sound,‘ ‘Rednecks, Queers, & Country Music,’ ‘Uncharted Country.’ Now writing ’Border Sounds & Buckaroos: The Mexican History of Country Music.’ 🦋 ‘Queer Jolene’ video @ http://youtu.be/4MQLx_AVjuU
David Cantwell @cantkill.bsky.social Music critic. Husband. Dog Lover. Author of “The Running Kind: Listening to Merle Haggard.” Cofounder No Fences Review. Midwesterner
Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social Music writer and journalist, a founding editor of Allmusic now freelancer for hire. Bylines at Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Mojo Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and more. Subscribe to my Newsletter: sterlewine.substack.com
Greg Reish @greish01.bsky.social Musician/Musicologist/Producer. Semi-retired academic living in Mexico. Opinions mine.
Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social Author, TEDx speaker, music historian, staff writer at PopMatters 🏳️🌈
linktr.ee/joshfriedberg
joshfrmusic.substack.com
Nancy Riley @nancypr.bsky.social (Ethno)Music(ology), music-y stuff, academia things, stuff my students say, Nashville/Belmont, aspiring carillonneur, sports-y things (mostly of the UK & UGA varieties)
Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social Dallas-based writer. Subscribe to America's oldest and only country music newsletter, Don't Rock The Inbox: www.dontrocktheinbox.com
natalie.l.weiner at gmail
AthensMusicJunkie @athensmusicjunkie.com Writing in circles. Music. Cats. Video games. Books. Muppets.
“Some Townie”
athensmusicjunkie.com
Oliver Wang @owang.bsky.social Arts & culture writer, sociology professor, disk junkie. Curator of the forthcoming "Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community."
Chris Molanphy @cmolanphy.bsky.social Chart analyst/pop critic. Host of podcast #HitParadePod. Writer of Slate's #WhylsThisSongNo1? Author of book #OldTownRoad. Feet on the ground, reaching for the stars. (Pronouns—he/him/his.)
Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine. Book: TWO WHEELS GOOD: THE HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE BICYCLE. Home: Brooklyn, NY. http://www.jody-rosen.com
Jacob Kopcienski @jkopcienski.bsky.social (He/They) Queer Music, Performance, Organizing.
Assistant Prof. Musicology, App State.
Writer, I Care if You Listen.
Baker of Pizza, Archive Rat, Enthusiastic Interlocutor.
Kimberly Mack @drkimberlymack.bsky.social Memoirist. Music Critic. English Professor. Food and wine enthusiast. #binders
Joseph M. Thompson @jmthompson.bsky.social 
Morgan Lewin Campos @mlewincampos.bsky.social Independent ethnomusicologist and historian of music: romantic composers; Latinx folk; political/human rights/queerness activism in modern pop. Anti-Zionist Jew.
Proud native. Poet. AskHistorians mod & podcast host. They/she 🏳️🌈🍉
Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social Host: UNPLUGGED REVISITED (MTV Unplugged podcast) | Writer * Bylines: Rolling Stone, No Depression, Grammys, etc. | PhD: Georgia State University (Diss: The Black Press) | R.E.M. Lifer | will.c.hodge@gmail.com
CHI via ATL
Podcast: https://shorturl.at/XVdoR