@jazztoday.bsky.social @jazztoday.bsky.social 
Rob Banes @rsb1213.bsky.social Scientist, artist, educator, chef, fisherman, outdoor enthusiast, bookworm, linguist, peacemaker, volunteer, etc. in no particular order.
Please don't ask because I will not date you, I will not send you money, and I will not be your disciple. Thanks.
Rune Pettersson @nordsound-rune.bsky.social Owner of a small music store, specialized on mainly guitar, basses and guitar/bass gear.
All price levels from custom handmade to mass produced Asian stuff 😉
Kaisa Ruotsalainen @kaisaruotsalainen.bsky.social Violinist playing early music and stuff. At the moment in Helsinki, Finland.
www.kaisaruotsalainen.com
Esa Onttonen @esao.bsky.social ENG: Musician (jazz/improvised music) & doctoral researcher (University of the Arts Helsinki).
FIN: Muusikko (jazz/improvisoitu musiikki) & väitöstutkija (Taideyliopisto).
onttonen.info
See also: @gourmet.band
Ville Niemelä @vsniemela.bsky.social Tubaist, bassist, humanist
@aholanjuhani.bsky.social @aholanjuhani.bsky.social 
Annamaija Saarela @annamaijasa.bsky.social Director, G Livelab Tampere
Annika Mustonen @annikamustonen.bsky.social 
Outi Nieminen @ouhani.bsky.social MA. Musician, music pedagogy, kantele player, basketball fan, green
Pohjolan Ilmari @pohjolanilmari.bsky.social Musical Band, content hater
Ilmari Pohjola - laulu, kitara
Joonas Riippa - basso
Tuomas Timonen - rummut
Juhani Ahola - kitara, taustalaulu
https://tidal.com/artist/3867609?u
Teemu Takanen @teemutakanen.bsky.social 
Janne Tuomi @jannetuomi.bsky.social Drummer/percussionist
Kuntavaaliehdokas Tampere, Vasemmistoliitto
Sami Sippola @alaskanpete.bsky.social Most things haven't worked out.
Hanna Isolammi @hannaisolammi.bsky.social Kirjoittelija, pilkunviilaaja, musiikkitieteilijä.
Jori Huhtala @jorihuhtala.bsky.social Jazz Bassist/Composer/Bandleader 🎸
Photographer 📷
Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮
@anttikujanpaa.bsky.social @anttikujanpaa.bsky.social 
Alban Low @albanlow.bsky.social artist / jazz cover art / sketching and drawing / Director at Sampson Low publishers / radio presenter / naturally curious
Verkomponist Miika @verkomponist.bsky.social Composer|Researcher|Teachier|Performer
Experimental music theatre|Vocal music
www.linktr.ee/verkomponist
Jukka Kääriäinen @jukkka.bsky.social Guitaris/Improviser, Helsinki FI
"Noise? Contemporary? Experimental? Call it what you want, as an audio/physical live spectacle it was riveting to witness ... and will likely prove unlistenable on record." - All About Jazz
https://www.jukkakaariainen.com
@jazzymad.bsky.social @jazzymad.bsky.social 
Kulttuuriblogi Marginaali @marginaali.bsky.social https://kulttuurimarginaali.wordpress.com/
Kulttuuriblogi Marginaalissa taiteentekijät monelta eri taiteenalalta kirjoittavat arvioita itseään kiinnostavista esityksistä, konserteista, näyttelyistä, tapahtumista ja teoksista.
@joonaseinari.bsky.social @joonaseinari.bsky.social Drummer, composer, educator, performer. Food lover and maker. Father of Seela
Jaani Haapasalo @jaanihaapasalo.bsky.social Head of Program, G Livelab Tampere
Musician, Tammela 33100 etc.
Thomas @tradingfours.bsky.social Jazz - audiophile - drums - jazz. No politics please
Xango Music @xangomusic.bsky.social Xango Music is celebrating almost three decades distributing local music from all over the world, trying to make the unavailable available! 
Markus Nordenstreng @markusnordenstreng.bsky.social Musiikintekijä, muusikko
Hanna Nikkanen @hannanik.bsky.social 🪐 Co-founder, environment editor, investigative journalist at Long Play, Finland's leading publisher of slow journalism
🪐 Nonfiction author
🪐 Smalltown person
🪐 Climate, forests, food systems, tech, sea, gardening
🪐 MSc
🪐 Taalintehdas, 🇫🇮
🪐 She/her
Pethaus @pethaus.bsky.social maailman virallinen kulttuurimekka Suomen Tampereen Pispalassa.
Risto Nevanlinna @ristonevanlinna.bsky.social Vihreä kaupunginhallituksen jäsen Espoossa. Kaupunginvaltuutettu, Länsi-Uudenmaan aluevaltuuston varajäsen. Lintuharrastaja, päätoimittaja.
Harri Kuusijärvi @harri6jarvi.bsky.social Accordionist blending electronic innovation with tradition across genres. New album ’Aallot’ out now!
Gilles Peterson @gillespeterson.bsky.social Broadcaster, DJ, Record Label owner
We Jazz @wejazzhelsinki.bsky.social Label, festival, magazine, record shop. Based in Helsinki, FI.
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
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
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, Telegraph, 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 
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 @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 too: 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
Hayley Scott @hayleyscott.bsky.social Writer and promoter based in Manchester
linktr.ee/hayleycscott
Chris Roberts @chrisroberts123.bsky.social 
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
Bernie (allergy pilled) @dhallllc.bsky.social Lapsed artist and recovering curator, music writer for The Quietus, 1/2 of Key Grips on CAMP Radio, 1/2 of Metaphysical Powers 🤷♀️
Stuff here: https://linktr.ee/DHALLLLC
@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 Writing about music, literature, art and cinema. Sometimes poems.
33 1/3 Oceania book on Crowded House: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/crowded-houses-together-alone-9798765105153/.
Album released in 2020: https://brigadoon.bandcamp.com/album/itch-factor
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/
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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