Doug Wallen @dougwallen.bsky.social Arts journalist, band booker & broadcaster in Australia https://linktr.ee/dougwallen
Tim Burgess @tim-burgess.bsky.social Charlatan, solo artist, producer, DJ, coffee drinker, author & award winning radio presenter. Oh, and a podcaster too
Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social Founder of Drowned in Sound (est. 2000).
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Drowned in Sound | Newsletter & Podcast & Community @drownedinsound.org DiS is one of the original music blogs and online communities, founded back in 2000. Its back as a weekly newsletter about the future of music and as a podcast hosted by founder Sean Adams. ⚓︎ http://drownedinsound.org
Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk Writer/musician/comic. Pratchett biographer.✏️: Guardian, New Statesman, Big Issue, Independent, Radio Times & more. Used to work at Twitter. Always writing a book. NIRVANA — A detailed guide to the band changed everything OUT NOV 30! He/Him 🏳️🌈
Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social Custodian of @musicOMH.com, {blank-or-blank} at The Guardian. Here for musics, (UK) politics, infrastructure geekery, and whatever else.
📍London | Same handle on Zucksites, &c., but meh to those
Discogs @discogsofficial.bsky.social The world's leading music discovery and record collecting platform empowered by a community of obsessed music fans: https://disc.gs/Bluesky
Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social I scribble a little. Music Ally; The Week Junior; MIPCOM Daily News...
Bill Werde @billwerde.bsky.social Director, Bandier Music Business Program, Syracuse University. Publisher, https://www.fullratenocap.com
Record of the Day @recordoftheday.bsky.social In tune. Informed. Indispensable.
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Polyvinyl Records @polyvinyl.bsky.social Polyvinyl is an independent record label founded in the Midwest, 1996.
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Andy Edwards @andyedwardsster.bsky.social Music business executive. Artist advisor. Cyclist. Autistic and ADHD. Antiracist.
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Puja @puja-words.bsky.social Writer | Freelance music & film | Poetry & screenplays | Bridport Prize 2024 shortlisted | Words in The Quietus/Screensphere/ Filmhounds Mag & Ors
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Marc Riley. @marcrileydj.bsky.social WILD DONKEY. BROADCASTER. The Fall 78-83. Not a real Doctor. Met Bowie, Woody and Ronno. Ner ner ner ner ner.
COLOSSAL 🛎️end…
Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com UK-based songwriter and broadcaster (b.1950). Rock Against Racism, Glad To Be LGBT+, Sometime DJ on BBC Radio 6 Music https://linktr.ee/tomrobinson
Electronic Sound @electronicsound.bsky.social The electronic music magazine
Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social Books, film, music, Ipswich Town FC, Clapton CFC, dog dad, charts, data. Opinions my own.
Anna Neale @annanealemusic.bsky.social Singer/Songwriter, Artist, Composer, Musician, Engineer, Producer | Director of Creators Relations at CISAC | Academic. Views are my own. www.annaneale.net
Vick Bain @vickbain.bsky.social 'So-called expert' random man on Twitter 😂
Fervent lefty, founder of @theflistmusic & PhD researcher #womeninmusic
Lara Baker @larabaker.bsky.social Music biz - Songwriter & Publisher Partnerships @ Spotify. Music Week Women in Music Awards cofounder. AIM Awards creator. Diversity & women in music advocate. She/her.
Emma Swann @emmaswann.com founder diy magazine. music photographer. 
Gemma Samways @gemsam.bsky.social Bag for life. Words: Evening Standard, Guardian, Dazed, AnOther, Rolling Stone, Crack, L&Q. Commission me: glsamways@gmail.com | She/her
kate solomon @katiesol.bsky.social freelance culture journalist
Ellen Peirson-Hagger @ellencph.bsky.social Deputy books and arts editor, the Observer
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Jenessa Williams, PhD @jenessawilliams.bsky.social 🎓Music, Fandom & Internet Cultures Postdoctoral Researcher (Stanford University)
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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social 'Rick Moranis' hyperactive bug-eyed son' - a newspaper.
Slimes / Physics / Jurassic Park Dossier / Slugs / That Slade video that repeats the first line
An author now I guess??
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Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social Independent music journalism. No algorithms. We promise.
Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social editor/writer
in film, vulture, etc
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Emma Wilkes @emmabwilkes.bsky.social Curly music journo, proudly sponsored by caffeine / words in Guitar.com, Stereoboard, DIY, Kerrang!, Alternative Press, NME, Revolver, Ticketmaster etc. / she/her / emmabwilkes@gmail.com
Elizabeth Aubrey @aubreywrites.bsky.social Freelance arts & culture journalist / editor / lecturer.
Words: Guardian, GQ, IndieWire, MOJO, NME, Quietus, Radio Times, Record Collector, The Standard, Telegraph, Total Film & more.
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Duncan Seaman @duncanseamanyp.bsky.social Music correspondent for The Yorkshire Post
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EchoesAndDust @echoesanddust.com Album & gig reviews & interviews.
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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
self-titled @selftitledmag.bsky.social a blast from the mp3 blog past
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THE LINE of BEST FIT @thelineofbestfit.com The UK's biggest new music discovery website | Follow our playlist for the best new music - bestf.it/discovery - and say hello AT thelineofbestfit.com
The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social Co-founder/Editor of theQuietus
Co-founder of Acid Horse
Writer/Editor
Anti-Fascist
Listen to Nurse With Wound
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David Emery @de-online.co.uk Music / Tech / Words
Apple Music
Views mine etc.
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WichitaRecs @wichitarecs.bsky.social Record label/mgmt company turning 25 in 2025
Dork @readdork.com DOWN WITH BORING // Music magazine, online radio station, and ‘more’. Find us at readdork.com
Laura Kelly @laurakaykelly.bsky.social Editor, multimedia journalist, award-winning writer, podcaster. Gig-goer. Feminist. Witchy. 🖤🤘🏻
101 Part Time Jobs @101parttimejobspod.bsky.social The awards winning music podcast about bands and their jobs. Episodes every week, hosted by unemployable Giles Bidder
musicOMH @musicomh.com Music/its makers, reviewed, interviewed, featured, mulled over and served up since last century. | Also on Zucksites, &c., but meh.
Editor: @yeoldemother | Deputy Editor: @stevenpj
https://www.musicomh.com
World Cafe @worldcafe.bsky.social Bringing music discovery to nearly a million listeners on NPR stations nationwide, World Cafe is hosted by Raina Douris with contributing host Stephen Kallao and produced by WXPN in Philadelphia.
Punknews @punknews.bsky.social A community-driven website bringing you all the punkest news from across the globe since 1999!
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theneedledrop @afantano.bsky.social The Internet's busiest music nerd. Also a thicc Ⓥegan melon w/ the best teeth. http://linktr.ee/theneedledrop / BOOKING & BIZ: greg.horbal@teamwass.com
UPROXX @uproxx.bsky.social The Culture of Now -- Music. Film. TV. Creativity.
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AnalogueTrash @analoguetrash.com AnalogueTrash is a new music blog and occasional promoter based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
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Treble @treblezine.bsky.social Groundbreaking music, independent media.
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Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social Relapsed music blogger: https://sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/
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HighClouds @highcloudsmag.bsky.social A music blog with a soft spot for the dreamy, ethereal, surreal and forward-thinking. All shades of pop, indie, and beyond. @highcloudsmag on Instagram.
https://linktr.ee/highcloudsmag
Negative White @negativewhite.com Nurturing people‘s passion for music since 2010.
Editor: @janoschtroehler.com
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Tabs Out @tabsout.bsky.social Unfortunately a podcast. We play cassette tapes! Experimental / Noise / Black Metal / Ambient / Weird / Other / etc.
'rambunctious and nerdy' - The New Yorker
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Rosy Overdrive @rosyoverdrive.com World-famous music blog rosyoverdrive.com
Small Albums @smallalbums.bsky.social 🎈🐜 smallalbums.com
It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine @psychedelicbabymag.com Klemen Breznikar is the founder of the independent music magazine It's Psychedelic! Baby Magazine.
Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social Official Blue Sky for the site Raven Sings the Blues
https://www.ravensingstheblues.com/
Curator - Deep In The Valley Festival
The Alternative Nation @thealtnation.com Blog & Podcast championing new music.
Created, Curated & Hosted by Kevin Humphreys
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📻 bombshellradio.com
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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
aowleblog @aowleblog.bsky.social Blog culture, on a été hype en 2010 https://t.co/9BWHMKwPki
NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social A cooperative of music journalists and community enthusiastically covering the sounds across so-called Canada.
newfeeling.ca
EAR>PROTECTION>REQUIRED> @earprotectreq.bsky.social Newcastle upon Tyne based Music Curator.
Protecting your ears from the bland, boring & the uninteresting. Music with a dash of film, art & culture.
https://linktr.ee/earprotectreq
ORGAN MAGAZINE @organmagazine.bsky.social ORGAN, Art, Music, Underculture - words, links, art galleries, bands, radio, albums, ResonanceFM, in print, on walls, on line, since the photocopied zine days of 1986 - www.organthing.com - this feed brought to you by Sean - @seanworrall-01.bsky.social
louderthanwar.com @louderthanwar.bsky.social We believe in the power of Rock 'n' Roll. Louder Than War is a website dedicated to the pop culture wars. All views are our own.
ThisIsTheMusic @thisisthemusic.bsky.social New Music Champion|Podcasts|Music Reviews|Gig Goer|Music Memorabilia| Ahead Of The Curve|
Joyzine @joyzineuk.bsky.social New music & culture: Doing it for the love since 2003
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The Blue Walrus @thebluewalrus.bsky.social Music blogger, unicorn hunter.
https://thebluewalrus.com
Music discovery for @descrier.bsky.social
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Crack Magazine @crackmagazine.bsky.social Listening closely.
Darren Hemmings @mrtrick.bsky.social I run Motive Unknown. Music maker. Gardener. Failed meditator. I also write the Network Notes newsletter: https://networknotes.motiveunknown.com
Album of the Year @aoty.org Only the best music. Discover the best albums of the year.
aoty.org
metacritic @metacritic.com Reviews & Scores from The Best Critics in Film, Music, TV and Games at http://Metacritic.com
PopMatters @popmatters.com Essaying the pop culture that matters since 1999. Independent and women-owned.
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Under the Radar Magazine @undertheradar.bsky.social The last great American indie rock print magazine left standing. Since 2001. Issue 75, The '90s Issue Part 2 with Pulp and Suede on the covers, is out now. www.undertheradarmag.com
LOUD WOMEN @loudwomen.org Intersectional feminist music CIC, turning up the volume since 2015. UK, Ireland, Spain, USA, Canada and Aus.
https://linktr.ee/LOUDWOMENClub
gorilla vs. bear @gorillavsbear.bsky.social instagram.com/gorillavsbear 🪩
record label: luminellerecs.com 💎
The FADER @thefader.bsky.social Look ahead. Instagram: instagram.com/thefader
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Exclaim! @exclaimdotca.bsky.social Canada's authority on music, film and comedy. Find us at exclaim.ca
GoldFlakePaint @goldflakepaint.bsky.social a music blog since 2010 / writing by tom:
https://goldflakepaint.ghost.io/
chunklet.bsky.social @chunklet.bsky.social Avoidant. 
Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com only the good shit.
The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social “The most essential music magazine of the contemporary era.” (Forced Exposure)
thewire.co.uk
Rolling Stone [Unofficial] @rollingstone.com.web.brid.gy Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage
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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
Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social Culture writer at Vulture / New York Magazine, dungeon crawler, Pulitzer nominee, things of that nature
https://www.vulture.com/author/craig-jenkins/
Jon Savage @jonsavage.bsky.social Author, archivist, professor
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
Stones Throw @stonesthrow.bsky.social We make records, based in Los Angeles.
https://www.stonesthrow.com/
Kris @nowspinningkl.bsky.social Further down the vinyl rabbit hole.
Mostly pics of records in action.
Katina Davis @katinadavis.bsky.social She/Her 🏳️🌈 Webstore Coordinator at Paizo✏️ Freelance TTRPG writer & 🇫🇷/🇩🇪 translator 🖌️ Etsy shop owner (https://evergreenphoenixshop.com) 💜 games, puns, music, animals, tattoos, art, nature. 🌲PNW🌲 No AI/NFT. Views are my own. https://katinadavis.carrd.co
Dave @davetl.bsky.social Colorado by way of Minnesota
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Record Store Day @recordstoreday.bsky.social Celebrating the culture of the indie record store 365 days a year, including a giant worldwide party in April.
recordstoreday.com
christopher brooke 🇵🇸 @twrhq.bsky.social Birth. Music. Death.
ex-radio prod/host, lapsed writer, record collecting vinyl saddo, Crohn's, Diverticulitis, Gastroparesis, Fibromyalgia, Abba Zaba.
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Poppyseed @largepoppyseed.bsky.social That one Twitch guy Poppy🍕 He/Him🍸 hybrid Peruvian/Canadian💜 Spinning vinyl🎶 Broadway all day🎵 Fmr Disney CM🐭
Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net Music, audio & vintage computer geek/tofu-eating wokerati.
I run pinkfishmedia.net
Criminal Records in Little Five Points, Atlanta GA @criminalrecordsatl.bsky.social 
Stinkweeds @stinkweeds.com Independent since 1987 - New & Used Music
End of an Ear @endofanear.com A record store in Austin TX est 2005
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Paul Myers @pulmyears.bsky.social Host of the Record Store Day Podcast, author of John Candy: A Life In Comedy, and books about The Kids In The Hall, Todd Rundgren, and more. Canadian Screen Award Winning co-executive producer of Kids In The Hall: Comedy Punks