Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social Professor of African American and Public History @TSUedu | Coordinator of the North Nashville Heritage Project | Historic Preservationist | Author | Foodie | Dude with a Camera | Wanderer | Memory Keeper
Website: learothawilliamsphd.com
Will Groff @willgroff.bsky.social Legendary woman of country and journalist w/ bylines at WSJ, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, etc
willgroff.com
Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
She//Her
linktr.ee/nikostratis- B byron coley @byroncoley.bsky.social western mass-based writer, archivist & poseur
Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social Historian of media, pop culture, and the Middle East; senior lecturer @dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
Cam @drcampatterson.bsky.social Husband, father, doctor, music freak, fly fisher, member of acclaimed indie band Fox Green, in approximately that order.
Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of Popular Music at University of California, Riverside
PREPROGRAMMED: HOW ELECTRONIC PRESETS CHANGED MUSIC AND MEDIA, out Sept. ‘26: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/preprogrammed/paper
Social histories of music, sound, technology, & media
Ghazi Al-Mulaifi @boomdiwan.bsky.social Musician, Applied Ethnomusicologist, Professor
NYC-Q8-Abu Dhabi
IG: boom.diwan 
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
David Hesmondhalgh @hesmondthing.bsky.social Professor of Media, Music and Culture at University of Leeds; Town Councillor in Yorkshire (Green Party); Fellow of the British Academy; lover of music, film, poetry, football, walking, churches; over-user of semi-colons
Dr. Jadey O'Regan @hellodrjadey.bsky.social Doctor of pop and Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. IASPM-ANZ Chair.
Emily Gale @sentimentemily.bsky.social Pop scholar. Writer. Educator. “Music is life, and life is not a business” (Iggy Pop).
de Lacey @delaceymusic.bsky.social DJ. Pianist. Writer. Assistant Professor.
La Marr Jurelle Bruce @afromantic.bsky.social troublemaker, lovemaker, philosopher, fever dreamer, afromancer, black studies prof @uofmaryland, fellow @stanford. i'll teach you how to go mad without losing your mind. ✊🏾🌈
https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-to-go-mad-without-losing-your-mind
Chris Mohr @chrismphl.bsky.social Quaker staff person and volunteer, plus various other things, in Philly. #NJOK. Central Jersey is real!
Sara Sherr @sarasherr.bsky.social Karaoke host, DJ, dog lover
Shanté Paradigm @shanteparadigm.bsky.social ❤️🖤💚 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Brooklynite. Dog parent. Buddhist. Travel. TV. Comics. City & Nature.
Charles Sharp @charlessharp.bsky.social musician, musicologist, etc.
Pete Arden @petearden.bsky.social Startup advisor, former tech/gaming exec, movie lover, overseas traveler, rugby, D&D 🏳️🌈
Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social Musicologist, writer, movie lover, part-time sewist.
Leonard Nevarez @leonardnevarez.bsky.social Vassar professor, urban sociologist, music lifer, Hudson Valley resident, dad
Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social Immmersive music seminars involving travel, led by Ned Sublette. No website, DM for details. Reposts appreciated. 
Joe Levy @joelevy.bsky.social Writer, editor, podhost. Also sometimes the guy who said that thing on that show.
https://linktr.ee/realjoelevy
Robert Christgau @rxgau.bsky.social Rock critic since 1967, ain't stopping now. Consumer Guide reborn at robertchristgau.substack.com. 
Amy Frishkey @mimifrickies.bsky.social cat parent, ethnomusicologist at UT San Antonio, introvert, perpetually off and on the middle-path tightrope, nerd for early Split Enz
Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social Social media professor + expert
Writing ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET SCANDAL + PARASOCIAL
Repp’d by Aevitas Creative Management
Thoughts mine
Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen
Website • jessicaholmes.phd
Music at the Margins of Sense • https://press.umich.edu/Books/M/Music-at-the-Margins-of-Sense
Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social music listening, films, media, communication, cultural studies
Ken Tucker @kentucker.bsky.social Music critic NPR's Fresh Air. Book, TV, movie critic: EW, New York Times, Village Voice, Rolling Stone, New York Mag, etc
Stef__Sound @stefsound.bsky.social Stefanie Alisch, Sound System Epistemologies, Kuduro, Mazurka, Pleasure Politics, Broken Beat, Groove. https://www.musikundmedien.hu-berlin.de/de/musikwissenschaft/sound-system-epistemologies-dfg
Ashawnta Jackson @heyjackson.bsky.social Writer and record collector. Author of SOUL-FOLK (Bloomsbury) and a forthcoming book on Black-owned record labels (WW Norton, 2027)
www.heyjackson.net
New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media @soundmusicmedia.bsky.social Official account for Bloomsbury’s New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media book series.
IASPM @iaspmofficial.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the The International Association for the Study of Popular Music
https://www.iaspm.net/
Chi Chi Thalken @scratched-vinyl.bsky.social Writing about independent hip hop, with occasional thoughts about food, sports, cats, books, and politics. Librarian.
Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social Creeping socialist. Premature anti-rockist. Oldest living Racket editor. Saving my labor for insane reading. Subscribe to Racket, or at least read it. https://racketmn.com/author/keith-harris
Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social I care about ideas doing work in the world
Professional humanist and book editing person
Seeking to enter by the narrow gate.
Religion | History | Indigeneity | Music | Sport
MN born NC by choice
Always #GDTBATH | #DurhamNC #BullCity
Jim Farber @jimfarbermusic.bsky.social I've been praising and panning music for scores of outlets for over 30 years now.
📧 jim@jimfarbermusic.com
@jonathanflatley.bsky.social @jonathanflatley.bsky.social 
dreamhampton @dreamhampton.bsky.social from Detroit
Aaron Cohen @aaroncohenchicago.bsky.social Author of "Amazing Grace" (33 1/3; Bloomsbury), "Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power" (University of Chicago Press) and co-author of Ramsey Lewis' memoir, "Gentleman Of Jazz: A Life In Music" (Blackstone)
L.A. Kauffman @lakauffman.bsky.social Veteran organizer, writer. She/her. Books: DIRECT ACTION and HOW TO READ A PROTEST. Occasional newsletter: DETOUR AMERICA lakauffman.substack.com
Stephen Deusner @stephendeusner.bsky.social www.stephendeusner.com
Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social Former NYT music critic, contributor to the WSJ, Washington Post and other, co-author The McCartney Legacy series. 
Neda Ulaby @ulabeast.bsky.social Cultural trawler most recently for NPR. Midwestern bohemian currently in Ypsilanti. Owned by sighthounds. Signal: ulabeast.70
Manohla Dargis @manohladargis.bsky.social Old hippie, tree hugger, childless cat lady, lover of animals and some humans, I write about movies for the New York Times. Member of the Times Guild, which is represented by the NewsGuild of New York. Trolls, haters and bigots blocked.
Michael Tedder @mtedder.bsky.social (He/Him) Words for Rolling Stone, Stereogum, The Ringer, bunch of other places.
Managing Editor: Antics (print is back, baby) https://www.anticsmag.com
Author: Top Eight: How Myspace Changed Music is available now.
https://michaeltedder.com/ 
Stefano Morello @veritas44.bsky.social Digital Humanities / Transnational American Studies / Pop Culture
www.stefanomorello.com
Tim Byron @timbyron.bsky.social Author (with Jadey O’Regan) of ‘Hooks In Popular Music’ (Palgrave Macmillan). Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Wollongong. Band director, Smooth Sailing Yacht Rock Party.
alexandra boutros @alexandraboutros.bsky.social associate prof | communication and cultural studies | wilfrid laurier university | pop culture | pop music | critical race theory | media, religion, and identity |
Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
European popular music and politics, global music histories, queer/trans studies.
Writing a book on #Eurovision.
🏳️🌈 • Neurodivergent • First gen • he/him
https://tinylink.net/GacOA
@abbananafish.bsky.social @abbananafish.bsky.social 
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
J T. Ramsay @jtramsay.bsky.social A woofer in tweeter's clothing. Once and future music critic. Bylines: Dusted and beyond. PHL & DTW, forever.
Michael Goldberg @mgoldbergthewriter.bsky.social Writer & photographer & editor. Founded Addicted To Noise, the first online music magazine. Senior writer and west coast music editor at Rolling Stone for a decade. Latest book: “Jukebox: Photographs 1967 - 2023” which can be ordered from HoZac Records.
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/
Matt Brennan @profmattbrennan.bsky.social Professor of Popular Music at University of Glasgow. My book 'Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit' (Oxford University Press) is out now: linksta.cc/@mattbrennan
Jennifer Waits @spinningindie.bsky.social Musings about college radio, pop culture, and audio culture by Jennifer Waits
Chuck Eddy @chuckeddytor.bsky.social I write about stuff (books = Stairway to Hell, Accidental Evolution of R&R, R&R Always Forgets, Terminated for Reasons of Taste.) Here's where I mostly write now:
https://chuckeddy.substack.com/
Jeff Salamon @jeffsalamon.bsky.social Father, husband, jack of some trades, executive editor at Texas Monthly. (Opinions don't necessarily reflect those of my employer.)
Tim Appelo @timappelo.bsky.social Film/TV editor/writer, past at: Hollywood Reporter,EW,The Nation, LAT,NYT,got Bezos to buy IMDb, taught him Beatles lore. Amazon's last human homepage editor, launch editor, what's now Prime Video.
Ira Robbins / Trouser Press Books @irarobbins.bsky.social Trouser Press, Trouser Press Books, journalist, novelist, critic, editor, currently catless, red diaper baby, lifetime New Yorker
https://www.hopp.bio/tpbooks
Will Hermes @willhermes.bsky.social Writer, music usually. Substack: https://newmusicoldmusic.substack.com/ Contributing Editor @rollingstone.com @nytimes.com @pitchfork.com @npr.org Books: Love Goes To Buildings On Fire 🔥 Lou Reed: The King of New York 👑 https://linktr.ee/willhermes
Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social Historian, SUNY Brockport
Editor, The Carryall thecarryall.org
Cultural criticism, culturerover.net
The Republic of Rock (OUP, 2013), republicofrock.net
Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net
Union, uupinfo.org
More, michaeljkramer.net
Ryan Dombal @ryandombal.bsky.social Founder, editor, and writer at hearingthings.co / @hearingthingsco.bsky.social
Formerly at Pitchfork, Blender, Entertainment Weekly, NYou, The Whitman Word
Dr. Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. @drefajr.bsky.social Chicanx-Cubanx Scholar, Writer, Joteria Studies, Sound, LA, Oral History, Pop Culture. Associate Professor and Chair, Dept of Chicana & Chicano Studies, CSU Fullerton; from North Hollywood; Water sign, stickers, sequins.
Joanne Garde-Hansen @joannegh.bsky.social Media and Memory and Water and Women and Ageing and AI
@leedsunimedia.bsky.social
@JoanneGH on other platforms
http://linkedin.com/in/jo-garde-hansen-aa99a231
Book on protestmemory here!
Megan Gallagher @megangallagher.bsky.social political theorist, (very) novice potter, and dog enthusiast
writing a book about consent
views my own
Devon Powers @devonjp.bsky.social Professor at University of Michigan. Metafuturist. Music nerd. Karaoke enthusiast. Fun at meetings, boring at parties.
Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social Scholar and maker of activist media; fake and real; digital and material. Working in and about AIDS, (long) COVID, queer, trans, anti-racist and feminist media. Trying to act on my commitments to non-Zionism, the climate, and my union, PSC-CUNY.
Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social Sound scholar. Author. Subscribe to Phantom Power, a podcast + newsletter about sound at mackhagood.com.
Bill Pearis @soundbitesnyc.bsky.social Ousted BrooklynVegan editor, general music nerd; also likes food, film, television, adventures and whatnot
Please don't call me Reg: it's not my name
Ryan Schreiber @ryanschreiberfm.bsky.social The artist formerly known as @ryanpitchfork
Author of WEIRD ERA (Dec 1 via @fsgbooks)
Resident DJ @thelotradio
Writing at ethernet.fm
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
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
Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social Journalist & writer on music/film/TV/art/books/sports (recent vintage: NYT Arts & Leisure, Blank Forms; ye olde late 20th century: Village Voice, SPIN). Detroit expat, Brooklyn zookeeper.
http://www.mikerubinbooty.com/writing
Sasha Frere-Jones @sashafrerejones.bsky.social https://n.sashafrerejones.com/archive/writing-about-2025/
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)
@utzm.bsky.social @utzm.bsky.social 
Ben Schafer @bschafer714.bsky.social Editor of books
Scott Saul @scottsaul.bsky.social Often can be found reading, writing, professing (@ UC Berkeley), and listening to music. Author, Becoming Richard Pryor.
Jon Savage @jonsavage.bsky.social Author, archivist, professor
Jeff Gage @thejeffgage.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Critic. Writings in Rolling Stone, GQ, Esquire, Washington Post and more.
https://thejeffgage.com/
sarah @moveablejaw.bsky.social Leo sun, Aquarius rising, Taurus moon, personal account #FreePalestine
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/
Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social Associate professor of musicology at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Former saxophone player, always philosophy reader, currently popular music fan (and more). 
Jessica Teague @jes-tea.bsky.social Author of ‘Sound Recording Technology and American Literature’ (Cambridge UP) * American Book Award Winner * Jazz fan * Book nerd * English Prof in Las Vegas
www.drjessicateague.com
Sound & Music SIG @soundmusicscms.bsky.social The Sound and Music Studies scholarly interest group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
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.
@tombreihan.bsky.social @tombreihan.bsky.social 
Steve Haruch 오용찬 @steveharuch.bsky.social writer, editor, senior producer @nashvillebanner.bsky.social | 📚 Greetings From New Nashville + People Only Die of Love in Movies | words & audio at NYT, Atlantic, NPR, et al | steveharuch.com | Signal: sharuch.90 | wearenorthnashville.org
Peter L'Official @elapostrophe.bsky.social director of american & indigenous studies program @ bard college | author, *urban legends: the south bronx in representation & ruin* | sometimes editor @ european review of books
Kimberly Mack @drkimberlymack.bsky.social Memoirist. Music Critic. English Professor. Food and wine enthusiast. #binders
Craig Marks @craigmarks.bsky.social Music editor and writer. Brooklyn-to-L.A. transplant. Co-author of "I Want My MTV." Watch way too much Britbox.
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.
Joseph M. Thompson @jmthompson.bsky.social 
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