Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
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marat ingeldeev @maratingeldeev.bsky.social + music journalist, critic & researcher
+ texts & projects in the link below
https://linktr.ee/maratingeldeev
Tom Robinson @marsdenmouse.bsky.social “I don't particularly like the person singing on this L.P. That said, I marvel at his guts.”
Music, Books, etc.
World of Echo @worldofechomusic.bsky.social amateur & non-amateur music | 46 cheshire street, london, e2 6eh | mon-thurs 12:00 - 17:00 | fri & sat 12:00 - 18:00 | sun 12:00-16:00 | website open 24/7
Subvert @subvert.fm Subvert is a music platform owned and controlled by a co-op of over 25,000 members. We are now LIVE.
www.subvert.fm
Paul Sherratt @globaljukeboxer.bsky.social
Staying curious
@residenceproject.bsky.social @residenceproject.bsky.social A space to explore, create and collaborate.
residenceproject.bandcamp.com
Once were Longform Editions.
Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social We make documentaries and audio art for radio, podcasts and public spaces.
Our free archive of more than 900 documentaries is available at -
www.fallingtree.co.uk
Bernardo Oliveira @bernieoak.bsky.social QTV Selo
https://linktr.ee/qtvselo
https://materialmaterial.blogspot.com/
What good are notebooks? @whatgoodrnotebooks.bsky.social Go with vibes, but the vibes include a lot of stuff about films/movies, music (see photo but also fluent in UK dance 87-96 plus jungle, hardcore, breaks, and yes pop! and prog! and krautrock!). And motorsport, and STEM, and digital, and the news.
aremoteviewer @anewlinerelated.bsky.social Remote Viewer/Hood. All that kind of loser stuff during the 90/00s indie wars. City Centre Offices, Domino, Slumberland etc but now essentially just in the waiting room for God’s waiting room.
https://anewlinerelated.bandcamp.com/album/crewe-away-ep
@jonmarsha.bsky.social @jonmarsha.bsky.social 
The Jazz Tome @thejazztome.info A jazz fan since hearing Blues & The Abstract Truth in 2004, I search for 60+ year old ephemera so you can read while you listen.
Visit https://thejazztome.info for 600+ albums of liner notes & reviews, ad/paywall free.
Ran by @grogg.bsky.social in PDX
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor.
Free newsletter at mariepphillips.substack.com
Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social Illustrator, Printmaker and Arts Facilitator.
Portfolio - https://matpringle.co.uk
Shop - https://matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/
Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social NYT bestselling and BSFA & Scribe award-winning writer. Cardassia’s resident anarchist. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. Chiefest and greatest of calamities.
https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
RJJNY @rjjny.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@RJJNY
hector heathcote @thehipkido.bsky.social dj since 1968..i was there..or thereabouts..a kinda zelig of the zeitgeist lol
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
Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer.
Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin, (Little Toller)
cowsarejustfood @cowsarejustfood.bsky.social stupid name mostly vegan. scottish. will (re)post lou reed, dogs on album covers, and jazz bagpipe.
http://letterboxd.com/cowsarejustfood
http://cowsarejustfood.bandcamp.com
MsPierson @bosleypierson.bsky.social Nom de plume
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social Writer of stuff, often quite odd. (Both me and the stuff.) Owned by a cat.
Stratford East @stratfordeast.com Telling stories since 1884.
Up next: BLOODSPORT
🎫 www.stratfordeast.com/
M@ @mattfromlondon.bsky.social London explorer. Chief pilot of Londonist: Time Machine, a Substack about London History. Follow for lots of geeky observations about London.
AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social audio sculptress 🔊 poetess
AGF: poemproducer.com
music: https://agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com
haltung: https://rec-on.org
list: https://antyegreie.com
curation #hailuotoorganum
#freequ
mstdn https://systerserver.town/@poemproducer
DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social Rockfort, Concrete Gazebo, Personal Reasons. He/Him
https://www.mixcloud.com/ROCKFORT/
https://thequietus.com/writer/david-mckenna/
https://concretegazebo.bandcamp.com/
Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social Musician, writer, after school program worker. Debut novella Brocken Spectre forthcoming from Galileo Press. he/him
Music: http://subsumed.bandcamp.com
Drone/noise/ambient duo active from 2014-2016: http://inneraether.bandcamp.com
Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social Reporter at @chronicle.com, music nerd, lotsa other kinds of nerd too. Half of @essentialpod.bsky.social and all of @vgplusrecs.bsky.social. He/him
@raymondmacd.bsky.social @raymondmacd.bsky.social 
Prolapse @prolapseband.bsky.social Music group formed in Leicester but now spread all over the place.
New album ‘I Wonder When They’re Going to Destroy Your Face’ out now.
https://linktr.ee/prolapse
Brian Turner @bturneroverdrive.bsky.social Radio creator, friend of goats and gangs of ducks. brianturnershow.com, GM eastvillageradio.com
East Village Radio @eastvillageradio.bsky.social Broadcasting New York City live to the world from our street level booth on 1st. Ave. 
Silver Threads @silver-threads.bsky.social Music label from @jo-johnson.bsky.social
ST03 available – Spells For Warding Off Evil by Plant43
ST02 available – If Not Now, When by Raica
ST01 sold out – Alterations Vol One by Jo Johnson
linktr.ee/silver.threads.label
Shawn Bell @bellnet.bsky.social Retired curriculum designer and interactive media arts educator. Composer, applying complexity science, a-life research and computational creativity to generative and interactive music systems.
Matt @chewn-zine-matt.bsky.social Sounds, drawing, nonsense. CHEWn zine. he/they.
Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social TV Critic and Broadcaster. Must Watch + Remember Me? podcast. My book "OUT NOW" is out in September. Dyslexic / Autistic.
GONKCAST - An Autechre Podcast @gonkcast.bsky.social GONKCAST. An Autechre Podcast. Join us as we work our way through the music of English electronic duo, Autechre—album by album, EP by EP.
Listen here: linktr.ee/gonkcastpod
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Field Recordings @fieldrecordings.bsky.social A podcast where audio-makers stand silently in fields (or things that could be broadly interpreted as fields).
https://fieldrecordings.xyz/
Ernst Karel @sesamecircuits.bsky.social electroacoustic noise / sonic ethnography / Expedition Content (w Veronika Kusumaryati, 2020); 47 Gates (w Bhob Rainey, Erstwhile Records 2024) / Local Locations (KWMR) / https://ek.klingt.org
Signal Hill @signalhillfm.bsky.social A new audio magazine. Issue One out now! signalhill.fm.
Samanth Subramanian @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social Words in the Guardian, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and others. Books on fish, Sri Lanka, and JBS Haldane. Newsletter: http://samanth.substack.com
Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social Music, architecture, photography, design etc. Sharing my concert photos taken in Birmingham in 81/82 (hence the name). Plus other stuff I've hoarded
Michael Shallcross @michaelshallcross.bsky.social Wrote a book about G.K. Chesterton and literary modernism. Now working in uni admin, but still doing research - see pinned thread for info on my current project, 'Inscribing Pandemonium'. Also posting about music, culture, politics, random nonsense.
Lucrecia Dalt @lucreciadalt.bsky.social everything will be miraculously linked
Bleep43 @bleep43.bsky.social Bleep43 - Corsica Studios Closing Series: 3pm to 10pm, 28th February 2026.
https://ra.co/events/2306974
Electronic music events by Bea Brennan, Dan Bean, Plant43, Jo Johnson, Ali Wade and...
http://www.bleep43.com
Tim Rutherford-Johnson @purlis.bsky.social Listener, CFer, wordmonger. Written books about new music; trying to write one about Schubert.
https://johnsonsrambler.wordpress.com/about/
Substack here: http://purlis.substack.com- R Adam Harper @rougesfoam.bsky.social Musicology, music lecturer at University of Oxford etc (more soon...)
TUFT ZONG @tuftzong.bsky.social 
okkyung lee (이옥경) @okkyunglee.bsky.social noise + others…
Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social Books (Rebel Rebel; Ashes to Ashes), blogs (64 Quartets; Pushing Ahead of the Dame; Locust St.)
Richard Baker @rchrdbkr.bsky.social Composer based in Ceredigion, Wales, UK. Research Fellow @guildhallschool.bsky.social. Weithiau yn Gymraeg.
Profile photo: Claire Shovelton
Artist website: https://rchrdbkr.com/
Flash Strap @flashstrap.bsky.social Artist & host of the Explorers Room on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio. Evan Crankshaw is my name. www.evancrankshaw.com
Geoff @asgardroot.bsky.social Record collector (jazz, folk, experimental, metal) travel, nature, walking, birds, fish & other little miracles.
Geography graduate (mostly ecology).
Fluent Spanish.
Writer for Aquarium Drunkard and previously Zero Tolerance Magazine.
Tatti Persson @tattipersson.bsky.social Bibliotekarie
Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com only the good shit.- K kendraplex @kendraplex.bsky.social http://kendraplex.xyz
Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social Owner of superelectricrecs.bsky.social. Person behind isthisrealpdx.com. Full-time BoSox apologist. Even the name says fun
Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social Author & photographer Luke Agbaimoni's project capturing stations & stops on the London Underground tube map.
Tubemapper.com
💰 Book,Prints & Calendars
✉ luke@tubemapper.com
DM for info
Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social Guitar, pedal steel, microphones, computers.
Dr Sarah Brand @sarahgailbrand.bsky.social *Trombonist
*Music Therapist in forensic
mental health services
*Absolute Shower
📍Kent, UK.
Recordings of experimental improvised music:
https://sarahgailbrand.bandcamp.com
When nothing goes right, go left.
Join a union.
Bo Diddley Beat @bodiddleybeat.bsky.social Shave, Haircut, Bit, Bit.
G @grassi.bsky.social Easily distracted
Art & Music
Organise and programme Boundaries Fest
www.boundariesfest.com
The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social Enjoy The Observer journalism in print every Sunday, and digitally, seven days a week 🗞️
Subscribe now at Observer.co.uk/subscribe
Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music out now from Repeater Books / shipley.al@gmail.com / https://repeaterbooks.com/product/tough-breaks-the-story-of-baltimore-club-music/ /
http://westernblot.bandcamp.com
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social Writes about cult and horror movies, makes electronic music as M.L. Deathman.
🌱🪴📺 🪷🌳 Rob Young ✨ @polyalbion.bsky.social Writer (Electric Eden, The Magic Box, etc). Father of teenagers. Walker of Labradors.
➖️ ➖️ ➖️ kompania identeco & c.i.z. recordings ➖️ ➖️ ➖️ @ciz-ki.bsky.social ➖️ ➖️ ➖️ ➖️ ➖️ ➖️ ➖️ ➖️ ➖️ ➖️ ➖️ ➖️
j. (ankoraŭ) ĉi tie 🔘 saluton
k.i. & c.i.z. ⛓️💥 https://tiny.cc/8gyw001
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WCFF @workingclassfilm.bsky.social A new festival celebrating Working Class film makers, 8-10th May 2026, The Showroom, Paternoster Row, Sheffield.
Finlay Shakespeare @finlayshakespeare.bsky.social Electronic music nerd. Synthesizer bod.
Records on Editions Mego, Alter, Superpang and GOTO.
Shenanigans with Future Sound Systems, GOTO, BPoOT, Sound Lab UK, The Remainder.
Ramon Bauer @rayndom.bsky.social 
@arglaaa.bsky.social @arglaaa.bsky.social 
General Magic ∞ @cigamlareneg.bsky.social sonic manoeuvres since 1994 by @arglaaa.bsky.social and @rayndom.bsky.social
National Railway Museum @railwaymuseum.bsky.social 
Old School Punk Librarian @kennethf62.bsky.social Music, books, travel, art, LGBTQIA+ Pride, food, movies, tattoos, Antifa, library stuff, etc. Proud New Jerseyan. He/him, queer as the proverbial $3 bill. Taken; not here to flirt. This is an LGBTQ+ friendly space. Trans rights are human rights! 🏳️⚧️
Tom Backström @tomofsvenskfinland.bsky.social □ FKA Musta kirahvi on Twitter
■ Design & such by Tom Backström
■ DM or e-mail <tom (a) mustakirahvi • net> for assignments
□ For musical hobbies, check @Erikoisdance.bsky.social
nicol @nicolnicol.bsky.social sound & performance
writing & recording
https://nicolnicol.com
(they etc.)
hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social The UK's largest international festival of new and experimental music.
hcmf// 2026: 20-29 November
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm- H HumbleRodentia @humblerodentia.bsky.social Free Palestine. Music (african, jazz, reggae, punk, funk/soul/disco, krautrock etc) primarily on vinyl records. New Jersey Devils, sports in general. Environment, urbanism, government.
Buy records from me:
https://www.discogs.com/seller/HumbleRodentia
Matt Spendlove @mattspendlove.bsky.social https://mattspendlove.com/
https://deepassignmentsldn.substack.com
Julian Simpson @juliansimpson.bsky.social Writer-director. Aldrich Kemp, Lovecraft Investigations etc.
Married to @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social
Main site: https://www.cartoongravity.com/
Pete Selby @peteselby.bsky.social www.newmodernbooks.co.uk
new modern books @newmodernbooks.bsky.social passions, pastimes and popular culture
www.newmodernbooks.co.uk
Ian Plenderleith @plenderleithian.bsky.social Football writer and retired rogue referee. Latest book: 'The Last Amateur', published by halcyonpublishing.co.uk.
Tom Faber @tomfaber91.bsky.social Writing on culture and technology for Guardian, Financial Times, New York Times etc
https://tom-faber.journoportfolio.com
ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social http://www.icporchestra.com
Amsterdam's Instant Composers Pool Orchestra: 58 years of putting sticks in the spokes of all wheels.
Ian Epps @ianepps.bsky.social Friend to the cause.
Milisuthando - out now on Criterion Coll. 2025
Recent releases
https://ianepps.bandcamp.com/album/the-reservoir-the-beauty-of-sorrow
+
ianepps.bandcamp.com/album/cave-of-the-eye
+
https://frostilabel.bandcamp.com/album/the-guise-of
Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social Writer, researcher, editor, failed model. N17. Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene out now: https://tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pendas-fen-scene-by-scene
Pato Pato Pato @fakenodj.net Urban soul, lost in the country. Ex label mgmt, hopelessly into arts, dabbled in advertising, self-released my own music on 12" 🎶 no awards, but music video screened at film festivals, yay 🎬 Deutsch. English. Italiano. 日本語。
Stereolabgroop @stereolabgroop.bsky.social A groop
April Clare Welsh @aprilclarewelsh.bsky.social Freelance writer of things plus dreamweaver
Mark Pritchard @mpproductions.bsky.social 'Tall Tales' my debut collaborative album with @thomyorke.wastehq.social
Releasing 9th May 2025 on @warprecords.bsky.social
https://markpritchard.warp.net/subscribe
https://linktr.ee/Pritch
https://markpritchard.warp.net/
Nick Storring @nickstorring.bsky.social Toronto
composer/ musician
publicist / founder, Riparian Media
he/him
"Mirante" (LP/CD/DL) out now from @wearebusybodies.bsky.social
https://www.nickstorring.ca
https://nickstorring.bandcamp.com
https://www.riparianacoustics.ca
Miles Ellingham @milesellingham.bsky.social Senior Writer: @theobserveruk.bsky.social
Contributing Editor: Dispatch Media
Work in: The New York Times, Financial Times, Prospect, The New Statesman, Rolling Stone etc -
miles ellingham(at)gmail(dot)com
📖 @rcwlitagency
Carl Craig - Ride or Die @carlcraignet.bsky.social Time is a suggestion
Grammy nominated
I don’t play weddings or bar mitzvahs
Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social Screenwriter and director: 'Mum & Dad', 'Dead Mine'. Writer of dark fiction. Co-Director of Mayhem Film Festival @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social. Nottingham, UK. https://linktr.ee/StevenSheil
Creator of @adrianchills.bsky.social
Resident Advisor @residentadvisor.bsky.social Front left since 2001.
www.ra.co