@thepalaceat4am.bsky.social @thepalaceat4am.bsky.social
Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com Yr blowsy goth auntie. Life without buildings, Whin, Even Sisters & solo. He/him | https://robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com | https://whin.bandcamp.com | https://musicians.today/@rdg_music
Pete Swanson @peteswans.bsky.social Possessed by sound. Yellow Swans. Freedom To Spend
leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social assistant professor, film + modern literature + sound studies | amelia courthouse
Ben Chasny @6organs.bsky.social Guitar in Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire, Rangda, New Bums, et al.
Hey Colossus @heycolossus.bsky.social Est. 2003
https://heycolossus.bandcamp.com
https://heycolossus.wordpress.com
Dog Day @dogdaypress.bsky.social dreamers and chancers. home of Dog Day Press and Dog Day Records
info at dogdaypress dot com
https://dogdaypress.com/
https://dogdayrecs.bandcamp.com
Love All Day @loveallday.bsky.social record label
@upset-the-rhythm.bsky.social @upset-the-rhythm.bsky.social
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
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
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
Simon Tucker @situcker.bsky.social Independent Mental Health Advocate. LFC, music, film. Eat a lot of biscuits. Vegan 🌱 Living sober ODAAT
CRADLE THE INSPIRATION
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
Nyahh Records @nyahhrecords.bsky.social Record label based in Ireland promoting international underground, experimental, folk and DIY music and the connectivity that brings it all together.
Nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com
Slumberland Records @slumberlandrecords.com Pop label with a stubborn streak, since 1989.
🎵 https://slumberlandrecs.bandcamp.com
🔗 https://linktr.ee/slumberlandrecs
JHH @shqippy.bsky.social Theology, Prince, protest music. Opinions my own.
The Declining Winter @thedecliningwinter.bsky.social (Un)popular musical group from West Yorkshire.
https://thedecliningwinter.bandcamp.com/
“emulates Mark Hollis’ godly solo work with a jazz and folk-tinged post rock beauty” Boomkat
Room40 // Lawrence English @room40.bsky.social Lawrence English//Room40 ... vibrating bodies with sound, philosopher of listening.
Critical Listening @criticallistening.bsky.social a podcast about music, technology & culture industry hell from @lizpelly.bsky.social and @peretsky.bsky.social. available wherever you get your podcasts besides the Swedish app.
support us at: patreon.com/criticallistening
Matt Ashton @matthewjashton.bsky.social MUSIC with @theleaflibrary.bsky.social / The Form Group / Sun Drawing / Mirrored Daughters / Basic Design / Sea Glass etc
DESIGN + ILLUSTRATION stuff for sale at https://ashtoninspace.bigcartel.com/
He/him
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.
Matt Sage @mjsage.bsky.social Intermedia Artist + Musician.
http://matthewjsage.com
I'm Gary Suarez of CABBAGES @imgarysuarez.bsky.social Music journo/critic who wrote for every publication you used to read.
CABBAGES is my hip-hop newsletter + rapper movie podcast.
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Laura Cannell @lauracannellmusic.bsky.social Composer | Performer | Producer | Label Boss
Exploring The Spaces Between Ancient & Contemporary Music
"Radical Neo-medieval Musician" THE GUARDIAN
“Music for Our Times” THE WIRE
"Astonishing Recordings” THE QUIETUS
https://brawlrecords.bandcamp.com
𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 @firestations.bsky.social • Starlings of the slipstream • Humble musical servants • New single ‘Beginners’ out now on Lost Map Records • Album ‘International Dust’ coming soon • https://linktr.ee/firestations
Fujiya & Miyagi @fujiyaandmiyagi.bsky.social Musical group based in Brighton & Hove.
Ex-Easter Island Head @eeih.bsky.social Liverpool, UK based ensemble, making music for prepared electric guitar percussion and other instruments
https://exeasterislandhead.bandcamp.com/
"Some of the boldest experiments in British music"
- The Guardian
Alex Rigotti @alexrigotti.bsky.social Freelance journalist, ex-Radar Editor @NME.com, words at The Quietus, Clash, Dazed, DIY, DJ Mag and more
www.alexrigotti.com
@clairesawers.bsky.social @clairesawers.bsky.social Freelance journalist in Edinburgh, writing for The Quietus, The Wire, The Times, Big Issue, The List etc
linktr.ee/clairesawers
Tom Bolton @drtombolton.bsky.social tombolton.co.uk
📖Atomic Albion
📖London's Lost Rivers Vols 1 & 2
📖Vanished City: London's Lost Neighbourhoods
📖Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast
📖Camden Town: Dreams of Another London
✍️Theatre for Plays International
✍️Music for The Quietus
Barnaby Smith @abarnabyms.bsky.social Writer, editor, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher.
Website: https://barnaby-smith.wixsite.com/home
33 1/3 Oceania book on Crowded House
2nd album released in 2026: https://brigadoon.bandcamp.com/album/everyone-no-one
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.
Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social Brighton, East Sussex.
I write about the French equivalent of Krautrock.
25 @ResonanceFM shows: bit.ly/FRSradio
Concrete Science Fiction Riot forthcoming on Strange Attractor
Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social Freelance Writer.
Dream Smotherer.
London Library Emerging Writer.
Words: Resident Music, The Quietus, Bandcamp etc
https://pacificbeliefs.journoportfolio.com/writing/
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/
Penelope Trappes @penelopetrappes.bsky.social artist / animist / pagan ✨🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/penelopetrappes
Silver PR @silverpr.bsky.social Music PR based in London.
🕸️silverpr.com
CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social CAMP FR is a next-level artist residency project, & this is its radio station. One of The Wire's 100 essential online stations!
If you'd like to join our community of show producers, please get in touch: charles@wearefuse.co
https://listen.camp
Aimee Burpee @genovevahooplehead.bsky.social “…a smorgasbord of banality and despair..."
Associate curator, history museum: ceramics, glass, folk art, built environment and landscape, wildlife, sports, and politics. Deadwood aficionado.
#blm #adoptdontshop #goBlue #abolishICE
VIEWS MY OWN. 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇨🇦🇬🇱🔬🌍⚽️
The Leaf Library @theleaflibrary.bsky.social Drone/indie pop band from NE London and beyond. Matt posts.
Links: https://paa.ge/theleaflibrary
New album out now: https://fikarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-rain-strange-seeds
Kristen Gallerneaux @kgallerneaux.bsky.social
Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social aka Max Alper. Composer, sonic arts educator, and audio worker with opinion. “The Nadia Boulanger of Ableton weirdos.”
Founder of @klangacademy.bsky.social.
Co-host @criticallistening.bsky.social. Based in Hudson Valley. peretsky.xyz
theartsdesk @theartsdesk.bsky.social theartsdesk.com - a daily serving of incisive, well-informed arts coverage. Enjoy criticism at its best.
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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social Deputy Editor and folk music columnist at The Quietus // my book Bedsit Land: The Strange Worlds Of Soft Cell is out now // Jacques Cousteau could never get this low
John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social Co-founder/Editor of theQuietus
Co-founder of Acid Horse
Writer/Editor
Anti-Fascist
Listen to Nurse With Wound
https://linktr.ee/jahduran
Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social Write about music & culture & various things for various places, mainly the Guardian. Based in Sheffield. danieldylanwray@gmail.com
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/daniel-dylan-wray
Manu Ekanayake @manueky.bsky.social Oh God, this is just what we do now, isn't it? Just go from platform to platform like some kind of ongoing Littlest Hobo scenario
Arusa Qureshi @arusa.bsky.social Author of Flip the Script (404ink) and words sometimes in the Quietus, NME, Guardian, The Forty-Five etc.
Trustee @ Music Venue Trust & Hen Hoose
https://www.arusaqureshi.com/
Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social music, sex & culture writer / editor.
first book TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF MAINSTREAM EMO (2000-2013) COMING 2026.
emmagarland.substack.com
emmaggarland.com
Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social Journalism, constructive moaning, weird music, telly, LUFC, all the usual shit.
Cal Cashin @calcash.in Mercurial music writer. As seen on @thequietus.com, @sonemic.com, and beyond.
Complete works: calcash.in
Joe Banks @joebankswriter.bsky.social 'Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground' - a MOJO, Uncut, Prog & Shindig book of the year. www.daysoftheunderground.com.
'Rock And Role: The Visionary Songs Of Peter Hammill And Van der Graaf Generator' out now. www.rockandrole.net
Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social I write for The Big Issue about arts and culture and stuff. SE London, via Derby, Cov, N London and Glasgow.
Jeremy Allen @jeres.bsky.social Record Collector, Prog, Electronic Sound, the Quietus, Classic Pop... others.
Author of Relax Baby Be Cool: the Artistry and Audacity of Serge Gainsbourg - out now on Jawbone Press
Will Salmon @evilrobotbill.bsky.social Super falling star. Words at SFX magazine, The Quietus, Wyrd Science, GamesRadar+, and more.
Modern Aviation (@modernaviation.bsky.social here and @musiqueparavion at the other place) doing tapes & that.
Tabletop stuff: unremembered_empire on IG.
Ian Wade @wadeywade.bsky.social Writer / DJ / silly sausage
crisps / hullabaloo and custard / pop music is important
1984: The Year Pop Went Queer out now
Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social Artist & writer. History & art buff. Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Guardian. Observer. Louder than War. WORM, Rotterdam. Leiden. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. 3rd book out March ‘27 https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
Zara Hedderman @zarahedderman.bsky.social Listens to albums & writes (mostly) & talks (sometimes) about them in The Quietus, Aquarium Drunkard, Northern Transmissions, RTÉ Arena, The IMRO Podcast.
📩: heddermanzara@gmail.com
Newsletter: The Bad Arts
Hannah G @hannaheg.bsky.social writer on art, places, relations
~ memory-work ~
editor of nonfiction & experimental lit
Keith Kahn-Harris @keithkahnharris.bsky.social Author. Sociologist. Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Jewish Policy Research and Senior Lecturer at Leo Baeck College but here in a personal capacity. Interested in metal, Jews and much else. https://linktr.ee/keithkahnharris
Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social Composer, performer, writer. FKA Simon Bookish. 🏳️🌈
www.leochadburn.com
leochadburn.bandcamp.com
John Quin @jdquin.bsky.social FRCP. #MDANT Writing sometimes in The Wire, Quietus, ArtReview, The Tablet, 🇮🇪Times, 🏴 National.
Memoir: Dr Quin, Medicine Man. 4 star review @TheTimes.com
New 📕Video. On 📺 Art
Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com For those of you just returning.
https://matthewgneale.com ✨ he/they
Robert Barry @monsterbobby.bsky.social Freelance writer (The Wire, Tribune, Art Review, Mubi Notebook, &c.). Musicker (Far Rainbow, The Pipettes). Reviews Editor at The Quietus. Author of The Music of the Future (Repeater, 2017), Object Lessons: Compact Disc (Bloomsbury, 2020). Idiot.
Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social Biographer of The Cure & Manic Street Preachers
Music critic, ex-Independent/Melody Maker.
Podcaster with Chart Music
History Of Pop lecturer.
DJ at Spellbound
He/Him.
Welsh.
https://linktr.ee/simonprice
JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social Author of Electric Wizards and Off The Ground.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/rb-author/jr-moores
Bylines in The Quietus, Record Collector, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, The Guardian, etc. MD Alternative National Treasure.
Elizabeth Aubrey @aubreywrites.bsky.social Freelance arts & culture journalist / editor / lecturer.
Words: Guardian, GQ, IndieWire, MOJO, NME, Quietus, Radio Times, Record Collector, The Standard, Total Film & more.
www.elizabethaubrey.com
Derek Robertson @derekrocks.bsky.social Writer & editor. ✍🏻 for @guardian, @Independent, @NME, @VICE, @theQuietus, @timeout, @TheFaceMagazine & more.
https://derekrobertson.journoportfolio.com
Kiran Acharya @whoismrbishop.bsky.social 🎬 Eternity, Survival, Dispossession, Honesty
📧 Email community at www.kiranacharya.xyz
📱Enquiries & collaborations at www.kinoflekke.studio
Alex Burrows @alxbrrws.bsky.social
Peter Margasak @pmargasak.bsky.social Listening, writing, and sharing—writing for Bandcamp Daily, the Wire, Chamber Music Magazine and petermargasak.substack.com. Sharing with frequencyfestival-chicago.com
Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social Journalist on culture and news, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Ten Sunday Spells for you every week on juderogers.substack.com
Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social ✍️ music writer: The Wire, The Quietus, Kulturpunkt...
🥼 researcher
🍎 teacher: Academy of Music, Zagreb
⌨️ programmer
🌐 https://antonio.poscic.net
📰 https://researchmusic.blog
Christian Eede @chriseede.bsky.social Permanently tired / editing news stuff @thequietus / freelance stuff elsewhere
Jared mumbles into the void @ouchmonkey.bsky.social "I told him I was a business monkey, Roy"
Ben Graham @bleeding-cheek.bsky.social Writer & arts journalist in East Sussex. Shindig! The Quietus. Author of A Gathering Of Promises, Scatological Alchemy, Amorphous Albion, Pink Floyd Are Fogbound in Paris, etc. Discordian poet. www.bleedingcheek.wordpress.com https://ko-fi.com/bengraham23
Lior Phillips @liorphillips.bsky.social verklempt, mostly.
🌿Author of 33 1/3 South African Popular Music out now everywhere
❤️🔥Currently writing a book about Cher
🖤🇿🇦🪬🧿mother of twins 〰️ music journalist
chicago via cape town
Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
Daryl Worthington @darylworthington.bsky.social Spool's Out cassette reviews columnist at The Quietus. Sound maker at Beachers. Co-runner of Bezirk tape label.
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now.' 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)
lottie brazier @lottiebrazier.bsky.social https://lottiebrazier.com/ instagram: @lottiebrazier
London
https://linktr.ee/Lottiebrazier
Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com Top rollmo’ star. Writer. Media node. Author of the 33 1/3 on George Michael’s Faith. Arsenal. Running. Dartford.
https://matthewhorton.com
Amanda Farah @amandafarah.bsky.social Woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough.
Your foreign correspondent.
Sometime music writer.
Kombucha socialist.
Pointy dog owner.
Hemmelig dansker.
miloš hroch @miloshroch.bsky.social sonic nurse • the wire magazine • the quietus • respekt ❘ media studies at charles university ❘ nadšením nájem nezaplatíš
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
Vanessa Ague @vanessakayague.bsky.social Writing about experimental music at various publications. Blogging at The Road to Sound. Based in NYC.
Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social Typist.
claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social “the glamorous node of glasgow” –grant morrison / writing about music + films @ the wire, the guardian, tribune, the quietus, little white lies, singles jukebox + / big opinions @ overinvested podcast / zines @ everywhere / https://clairebiddles.carrd.co/
Bill Brewster @djhistory.bsky.social DJ, writer, idiot.
Bookings: ryan@thepool-london.com
wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social DJ, producer and professor of musical information.
Contact: wrongtom@gmail.com
Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social Stay afraid, but do it anyway / words: Guardian, Observer, i paper, the Quietus / lecturing: City University / agent: http://blakefriedmann.co.uk/kat-lister / book: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/kat-lister-fragile-bodies-auction-weidenfeld
Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social Freelance writer. Blog about books (https://bookdedications.co.uk & https://livesinlit.com). Co-run @tpfilmclub.bsky.social. All links to all bits: https://linktr.ee/wbgooderham
Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social Writer, sub-editor, pizza-maker. The Guardian, MOJO, Loose Lips Sink Ships. Books. The good shit. steviechick.com
Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social Writer for newspapers and magazines, sleevenotes etc. Two books: Denim and Leather, and The Gospel of the Hold Steady. QPR supporter, hoping always that change really is possible
Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social There is no I in 'Optometry'
https://linktr.ee/augstone
Substack augstone.substack.com
Puja @puja-words.bsky.social Writer | Freelance music & film | Poetry & screenplays | Bridport Prize 2024 shortlisted | Words in The Quietus/Screensphere/ Filmhounds Mag & Ors
Find me on IG: puja_garia.rd
Lisa Jenkins She/Her @lisaannejenkins.bsky.social Disability Inclusion Advocate | Turning Lived Experience into Lasting Impact Speaker & Podcast Guest | Empowering Organisations Through Authentic Storytelling
Matt Anniss @sellbydave.bsky.social Author, journalist, researcher, dance music historian, PhD candidate. Join The Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music’ out now on Velocity Press. www.jointhefuture.net