𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖙 @yogurttowne.bsky.social editor in chief @pastemagazine.bsky.social
Microfilm @microfilm.bsky.social 20SOMETHING: HISTORY and SINGLES, our 2 new compilations, out now. Link below
Electronic music duo from Portland, OR.
"Brash beats meet prismatic melodies & vocals like bubblegum pop thrown in a blender." - Billboard
https://microfilm.bandcamp.com/
Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social I write things. Pitchfork. Stereogum. SPIN. Vice Chair of Florida Film Critics Circle.
Space and light and dreams
That's what people need.
Andrew Holter @andrewholter.bsky.social Writer, historian, andrewholter.com. Editor of Going Around: Selected Journalism by Murray Kempton (Seven Stories Press).
'Stackin at substack.com/@andrewholter
Alexis Gunderson @alexiskg.bsky.social Freelance TV critic and organizer with the National Writers Union / Freelance Solidarity Project | Public library comms 📚 | she/her
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Gene Seymour @geneseymour.bsky.social Writer, Jazz geek, Professional Spectator 
Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social author of SEARCHES, THIS IS SALVAGED, & THE IMMORTAL KING RAO. pulitzer finalist. journalist. mentor at the lighthouse writers workshop's book project. contact me: dm, signal (@vauhinivara.82), or my website (vauhinivara.com).
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social writer / artist
Shelby Switzer @somethingwithwords.bsky.social Writer | Baltimore | they/them
2024 Lambda Literary Fellow
shelbyswitzer.com
Nino McQuown @allsoils.bsky.social 
Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
Madison Swart @madisonswart.bsky.social freelance photojournalist reporting live from nyc! work featured in: NBC, NY Times, The Washington Post, CNN, TIME, Politico, The Cut, Reuters, The Gothamist, Huff Post, Democracy Now! they/she. work lives mainly on instagram: madisonswart
naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social Artist, Auntie, Bear, BIPOC, Educator, Enby, Fat, Femme. Aspiring cranky crone.They/Them. Archive/shambles/home at www.naylandblake.net I love it when you make things.
D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
liz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social writer in nyc, author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, co-host of @criticallistening.bsky.social
lizpelly.info
Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social rock and pop music critic, @wsj, freelance elsewhere • former EIC @pitchfork • markrichardson.org • markrichardson.substack.com
@owen-myers.bsky.social @owen-myers.bsky.social 
@midtownyc.bsky.social @midtownyc.bsky.social 
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.
Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social Guitar, etc./Folklore & History of Virginia/Gardener
Manahoac Territory
Born at 353.15 ppm.
Baffler United @bafflerunited.bsky.social The organized staff of The Baffler. Workers United New York New Jersey Regional Joint Board
bafflerunited@proton.me
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English (modernism/poetry) at ULethbridge, critic (often in The Nation), ghostwriter of Tár On Tár
sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social vintage seller, art curator | @harpersbazaarus @nymag.com @wmagazine.com.web.brid.gy @interviewmag @marthaliving past Table of the Elements record label, Album 88, Criminal Records, Wuxtry Records, Deitch Projects. words: @burnaway.org nyc->athens ga
Bernard Welt @bernardwelt.bsky.social Poetry, dreams, movies, all kinds of writing, popular art, sex, men.
The enemy of your enemy.
Shannon Cosgrove @seeshannon.bsky.social 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 / 𝙿𝚁 / 𝙽𝚈
Martin Johnson @martinvjohnson.bsky.social Writer, mostly jazz criticism, but I've also written on cinema and NBA. Cheesemonger too.
Megan O'Grady @meganeogrady.bsky.social Critic, professor, author of HOW IT FEELS TO BE ALIVE: ENCOUNTERS WITH ART AND OUR SELVES, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux April 2026 https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374613327/howitfeelstobealive/
https://www.nytimes.com/by/megan-o-grady,
@rdturtle.bsky.social @rdturtle.bsky.social 
Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social Owner of superelectricrecs.bsky.social. Person behind isthisrealpdx.com. Full-time BoSox apologist. Even the name says fun
@juliafelsenthal.bsky.social @juliafelsenthal.bsky.social 
Robin Cembalest @rcembalest.bsky.social Journalist, educator, Instagrammer, former ARTnews editor, SVA faculty. I teach writing and career skills to art professionals. Find my upcoming free workshops at RobinCembalest.com!
Bush Tetras @bushtetras.bsky.social NYC Rhythm & Paranoia since 1979 🍎 🌃
Jenny Xu @jennyxu.bsky.social editing @ atria and @wspbooks.bsky.social
Wharf Cat Records @wharfcatrecords.bsky.social www.wharfcatrecords.com
Independent Record Label: Holy Motors, Drop Nineteens, Dougie Poole, Bambara, Open Head, Dougie Poole, Lily K, Gong GG, Bush Tetras, La Peste +
Douglas McLennan @ajdoug.bsky.social ArtsJournal editor. AI, tech, journalism, arts (not in that order)
Scott Lapatine @scott.stereogum.com Founder/Editor-in-Chief, @stereogum.com
Bradley Morgan @bradleymorgan.bsky.social Author of “Frank Zappa’s America” (LSU Press, ‘25); “U2: Until the End of the World” (Gemini, ‘25); & “U2’s The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America” (Backbeat, ‘21). Interviewer for the New Books Network. Music film fest director for CHIRP Radio
Amin Ghaziani @aminghaziani.bsky.social Sociologist. Co-editor of Contexts. Author of Long Live Queer Nightlife (Princeton). www.aminghaziani.net 
Ed Halter @edhalter.bsky.social Writer on film and other things, half of Light Industry, Brooklyn
@lightindustry.bsky.social
linktr.ee/edhalter
Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
pjmaciak.substack.com
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social Writer of fiction, memoir, biography, translation and poetry. Husband calls me Spitfire. Oy!
The Ohio State University Press @ohiostatepress.bsky.social We publish great books and journals across literary and cultural studies. Our Mad Creek imprint is home to expansive, fresh, and invigorating literary and graphic works, and Trillium publishes books about Ohio and the Midwest. www.ohiostatepress.org
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]
Matthew Ismael Ruiz @porican.bsky.social writer/editor/producer
Stephen Deusner @stephendeusner.bsky.social www.stephendeusner.com
Tom Avis @hivemindtom.bsky.social Emailing people about the bands
Rob Ewing @robewing.bsky.social SF Bay Area musician. Director of the Jazzschool in Berkeley, CA. Always happy to chop it up about music theory and jazz records. Here’s one of my records: https://robewing.bandcamp.com/album/these-lines
Jason P. Woodbury @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social “When you begin a note, it comes from somewhere and keeps going forever…Part of it does, anyway…Nothing is lost. Everything keeps going around.” —W.A. Mathieu
Writer, podcaster, musician.
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.
Patrick Lyons @plyons.bsky.social opinions are like kittens, i'm giving them away patlyons91 at gmail dot com | inbox-infinity.ghost.io | patricklyons.work
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.
katy the kyng @katythekyng.bsky.social I play guitar and write songs and teach.
KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social from the author of POETRY IS QUEER, SHE, + THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF
FAIRY (OUT NOW) @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
palimpsestpress.ca/books/fairy-kirby/
kirbyfairy.ca
itsakirby.bandcamp.com
substack.com/@itsakirby
Publisher @knifeforkbook.bsky.social
Greg Wharton @gregwharton.bsky.social Tattooed cat-loving tree-hugging vegetarian queer feral witch. He/him. Co-creator of Mother Maggie's, Body Conjure, and Suspect Thoughts Press.
Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social writer, editor, educator, musician
www.andrewmarzoni.com
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
Andy Cush @cushac.bsky.social musician, writer, editor
Hector A. Silva @hasilva.bsky.social Co-founder of Chromatic PR + Manager of Angelo De Augustine // Mexicano-Colombiano-Americano
https://www.chromaticpr.com/
D. A. Denison @daveadenison.bsky.social Writer at Large for The Baffler mag. Based in Massachusetts. Once a young reporter at The Texas Observer. Latest work on Texas politics and #populism here:
https://thebaffler.com/civilifications/low-t-for-texas-denison
Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social Staff writer @prospect.org. Send tips: wwimbish at prospect dot org & Signal at wwimbish.07.
Co-writing the daily newsletter for @majorityreport.bsky.social.
Proud member of The NewsGuild.
Lauren Lipsay @laurenlipsay.bsky.social LA via NY • nomakeupmakeup.com
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
Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001.
🔗 bryanwaterman.org
Missing me here search the WFMU comments board.
richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com Author of THE LONG HALLWAY, a gay memoir about death | New York Foundation for the Arts and MacDowell Fellow in Nonfiction | National Book Critics Circle Member | 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
http://richardscottlarson.com
Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social Editor at Columbia University Press. I acquire in Film and Media Studies, Journalism, and Literary Studies. Opinions my own. 
Daniel Kane @dkanepoetry.bsky.social Living in Copenhagen, working in Uppsala. European editor for Textual Practice, associate editor for Studia Neophilologica.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/love-joe/9780231203425
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/do-you-have-a-band/9780231162975/
Judy Miller Silverman @judymotormouth.bsky.social Boss at Motormouthmedia.com
Stage 3b Breast Cancer Survivor
Always Goth
Mortified Leftie
Only here to complain and annoy
Jeremy Lybarger @jeremylybarger.bsky.social Editing prose @ Poetry magazine + Poetry Foundation // Writer // Working on Midnight Tremor: The Life and Art of Roger Brown // www.jeremylybarger.com
The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social The Shipman Agency offers complete literary services to writers at all stages of their careers: event booking, independent publicity, mss consultations, The Work Room. #KnicksinFive. she/her https://www.theshipmanagency.com/
Freelance Solidarity Project @fspnwu.bsky.social The Freelance Solidarity Project fights to raise labor standards for digital media workers across our industry. Part of @nwu.org
next level hattie lindert @hatlindert.bsky.social writer editor etceterer
hl@ra.co
Ben Cardew @bencardew.bsky.social Music writing / music podcasting / who knows?
linenoise.substack.com/
soundcloud.com/line-noise-podcast
Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social Writer, Toronto. Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker (Simon & Schuster, 2022) https://www.jason-mcbride.com/
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
Pete Tosiello @tosiello.bsky.social it might sound wack but it was dope at the time
Tausif @tausifnoor.bsky.social splendid wonder 
Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social "Elegante y muy cabrona."
I labor at the word factory for Bloomberg Citylab, NYRB, The Atlantic, Alta, Fresh Air, KCRW, NYT and others.
https://c-monster.org
https://linktr.ee/Cmonstah
filip from start-track.com @filip.start-track.com music blog / substack / cassette label / Youtube channel / playlister / bandcamp lover / run by filip zemcik / start-track.com / since 2011 https://start-track.sbmt.to/
P.S.: We ran Z Tapes / based in Bratislava, Slovakia
Caryl Espinoza Jaen @homocigarettes.bsky.social Editor, reporter and nonfiction writer
colin drohan @colindrohan.bsky.social my daughter says hello (she is a pug named Martha)
James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice)
novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel)
editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle
agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
WV native
still living in 1986
jamestatehill.com
Verediex - Queer NSFW Art 🔞 @verediex.bsky.social 🌈 Queer/Bi Naarm/Melbourne based artist, DM for commission info ✏️
(Mostly gay art posts, some Pokémon / random thoughts / selfies 😅 sorry)
Check out my Instagram of the same name @Verediex 📸
Buy my art: www.redbubble.com/people/verediex
Matana Roberts @matanaroberts.bsky.social i make records and art, love books, and the outdoors…
we talk "arts" over here and world building...
David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social poet, editor, writer, CCNY MFA teacher, culture worker. He/him
John Birdsall @johnbirdsall.bsky.social Food writer, author of the forthcoming book WHAT IS QUEER FOOD? HOW WE SERVED A REVOLUTION (Norton, June 2025) Tucson AZ
Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out now from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!⚡🌷SOCIAL DISTANCING out March 2027 from Semiotext(e)💐 ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK out Fall 2027 from Haymarket 🌸 https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/
Angelo Parodi @avparodi.bsky.social Teacher, believer in social justice, lover of film, music & literature.
“The world is the shadow of a transient, blue dream.” Miyazawa Kenji
Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social Writer, reader, office potato. Author of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest. Lambda Award Finalist. NY Times Editors' Choice. Real human. No, really.
richardmirabellawriter.com
Insta: @rpmirabella
JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social Writer, editor, sometime teacher. Union work. Fights for queer, Palestinian and all human rights. Stubborn verbs: shake, drink, chop, eat (was restaurant critic and “food writer” for ages). https://www.artsjournal.com/outthere/
Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social Deputy digital editor, BBC Science Focus magazine
Joshua Hebburn @joshuahebburn.bsky.social Radiologist @XRAY
https://joshuahebburn.wordpress.com/
Laura Marsh @lauramarsh.bsky.social Literary Editor, The New Republic
Amy Brady, PhD @amybrady.bsky.social Writing a book about maps | Wrote a book called, Ice: FROM MIXED DRINKS TO SKATING RINKS—A COOL HISTORY OF A HOT COMMODITY | historian & journalist | Newsletter: "Library of Wonders": https://libraryofwonders.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-library