stevie fka popcorngate @stevierml.bsky.social music video director / founder of Bops & Flops / cohost Citypill undergound pop showcase 
disco busquets @waiworinao.bsky.social microhouse enthusiast, bad at skateboarding / making music / DJing / social media bios
i upload mostly obscure house and techno tracks here: https://www.youtube.com/@solongyouth
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Ted McClelland @tedmcclelland.bsky.social Father of Lark, Birch and Rose. Author of Chorus of the Union. Contributing Editor, Chicago magazine
patrick @redford.bsky.social i write for defector
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence. Occasionally: hate movements and conspiracism.
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Juan E Rodríguez @juanerodriguez.bsky.social Metadata: NBCU. Contributor: Apple Music, Big Takeover, and more. Co-run No Ripcord in my free time. Baseball lurker.
The People's 32nd @peoples32nd.bsky.social Building a grassroots, progressive political movement in Chicago's 32nd ward and beyond!
Housing | Transit | Equality | Education | Environment | Democracy
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BP @firesdie.bsky.social From Chicago.
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com Hugo nominated writer of Last War in Albion, Neoreaction a Basilisk, and TARDIS Eruditorum. Anarcho-occultist. The girl your mother lacked the imagination to warn you about.
Indieheads Podcast @indieheadspod.bsky.social The official Bluesky of the Indieheads Podcast.
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pxt @paulxt.bsky.social who do you know here
Susana Polo 🔜 NYCC @susanapolo.bsky.social She/her. Formerly senior entertainment writer and editor at Polygon. Founded The Mary Sue Dot Com way back in 2011. Writer/editor. For contact and more, check out: https://susanapolo.com/
Scott Aukerman @scottaukerman.bsky.social Host of Comedy Bang! Bang!
Co-creator / director Between Two Ferns
Former writer of The Astonishing Spider-Man 😢
CBBWorld.com
Davis @blackgoogle.bsky.social 32.
wordsmith.
WHY? Footclan founding father.
UDABABY nigglet.
dorchesterbully.bandcamp.com
Mukqs @mukqs.bsky.social Maxwell Allison. I make music under the name Mukqs, play in the band Good Willsmith, co-run the label Hausu Mountain, and run the netlabel Blorpus Editions
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
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ock sportello @ocksportello.bsky.social humble blogger
www.neverhungover.club
Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
tayler @billdifferen.bsky.social billdifferen.blogspot.com
just posting moosic that i like on here 👍
Joshua Minsoo Kim @misterminsoo.bsky.social 
AUgetoffmygold @augetoffmygold.bsky.social It's not something that I say in jest
drew millard @tonyhawk.bsky.social i’d rather be driving a titleist
i write the blog Media Events
https://media-events.ghost.io/
Corey Atad @coreyatad.com Toronto-based freelance writer @ The Star, GQ, Defector, The Baffler, Gawker, Esquire, Hazlitt. Air Bud admirer. Favourite cheese: Gouda. coreyatad@gmail.com / www.coreyatad.com
Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social editor @ Remap // editor @ Crossplay // pr: patrick@remapradio.com and patrick@crossplay.news // tips: patrick.klepek@protonmail.com // signal: 224-707-1561
trev @trevsmith.bsky.social 
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
Albert Burneko @albertburneko.bsky.social Defector dot com
jerry cowgill @jerrycowgill.bsky.social talent buyer in chicago for metro & gman tavern. i used to write about music too, maybe i will again someday
shows: jerry@metrochicago.com
words: geraldcowgill@gmail.com
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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
sheldon @jiggyraps.bsky.social editor, npr music; writer all over
previously: the new yorker, pitchfork
author, changes: an oral history of tupac shakur
sheldonpearce.com
andrejgee @andrejgee.bsky.social writer | beatmaker
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com prof ∙ critic ∙ music and media ∙ Hoosier in Michigan ∙ dead serious, take flicks and don’t smile ∙ award-losing author of WHO GOT THE CAMERA?, which Rolling Stone called "approachably erudite" ∙ ericdharvey.com
Nate Patrin 🎧 @natepatrin.bsky.social StP, MN | '77 born | he/him | enthusiast
as in "patron of the arts"
"The music began again and was much improved." -Kurt Vonnegut
'Versions and Subversions: the Cover Songs That Changed Music' out soon
https://www.upress.umn.edu/author/nate-patrin/
Netscape @netscape.bsky.social Pleasure to have in class.
Listen to @marvelousdeath.com
Any/All Pronouns
Narrative Designer: Nimrod Campbell and the Laboratory of Yakub
Dreamboat Branny 🦢 @bransonreese.bsky.social swanboy.com
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social yells in the band daddy’s boy // part of flaming hydra // member: tja, iww fju // union YES // another world is possible if we can get it together
Steven Hyden @stevenhyden.bsky.social The Ween Of American Rock Critics. Author of six books. My book on The Strokes is out 9/8/26. Indiecast dude. Writing at Evil Speakers: https://stevenhyden.substack.com
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
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. 
Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social Film/TV writer. Co-host: The Next Picture Show podcast. Author of The Reveal newsletter (thereveal.film) with Keith Phipps. I got a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome.
Keith Phipps @kphipps3000.bsky.social Movies, etc. for GQ, Vulture, Ringer and more. Co-host Next Picture Show. With @scotttobias.bsky.social I write The Reveal: http://thereveal.film. Author of AGE OF CAGE. He/Him
🧢 @abebeame.bsky.social Rap & Bluesky. abebeame74@gmail.com
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/
Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social Freelance writer and editor. Contributor to Pitchfork, Paste, Vulture, The Guardian, etc. Author of two books. Still sitting in a room. Email: zschonfeld@gmail.com.
Dash Lewis // Gardener @gardenerjams.bsky.social dash lewis // 🎵: gardener - synth & voice //
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Eric Renner Brown @erbrown.bsky.social editing @ billboard
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
Rachel Brodsky @rachelbrods.bsky.social Music & Culture Writer/Editor. Words: TIME, Stereogum, LA Times, Rolling Stone, more. Copywriting for DISCO.ac. Co-host of TheInSyncPod 🎧 Say hi: Rebrods26@gmail.com
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Jacqueline Codiga (DJ horse jeans) @horsejeans.bsky.social Writer, sometimes podcaster, DJ, general music and movies dork, transsexual loudmouth ~ (she / her)
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
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.
Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and Council Member for Online Media @wgaeast.bsky.social. words also in NYT, LARB, Brooklyn Magazine, Complex, and POW Mag. he/him. nitishpahwa.73 on Signal. if it's major, hit me on my pager.
Donna-Claire - Author @donnacwrites.com Bestselling music book author of BOOK OF MAC (2021) and CRYBABY (2025).
SHOULDN'T WE DANCE?, a novelette, is out now.
Writes about sad things and board games.
Pranav Trewn @ptoon.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist x Music Writer x Management
✍🏽: Stereogum | Passion of the Weiss | Vinyl Me, Please | +
mgmt: Spoonerism | POW Recordings
linktr.ee/ptrewn
@timmhotep.bsky.social @timmhotep.bsky.social Subject To Change
Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social rock and pop music critic, @wsj, freelance elsewhere • former EIC @pitchfork • markrichardson.org • markrichardson.substack.com
Scott Lapatine @scott.stereogum.com Founder/Editor-in-Chief, @stereogum.com
thomas hobbs @thobbsjourno.bsky.social culture writer for: guardian, telegraph, dazed, bbc, pow, stereogum, financial times, discogs, mixmag, billboard, bandcamp, lwl, wallpaper, spin, hyphen, new statesman, p4k, wired, time out, crack etc.
my work: https://www.clippings.me/users/thobbsjourno
portable model magazine @portablemodel.bsky.social portable model is a twice yearly music magazine brought to you by the fine folks at two flat press | issue 2 coming january 2025
abby jones @abbyfjones.bsky.social !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! abby@stereogum.com
Chris DeVille @chrisdeville.bsky.social Managing Editor, @stereogum.com
Posting indie nostalgia at @suchgreatheights.bsky.social
Buy my debut book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, out now via St. Martin's Press: https://read.macmillan.com/lp/such-great-heights-9781250363381/
keegan @franziamom.bsky.social writer, guitars in Camp Trash
Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture. knotopoulos@businessinsider.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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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social Defector.com. SFGate.com. Six books. I’m just here for a good time.
Signal: @drewmagary84
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
Ashley Feinberg @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social 
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur. https://www.robertloerzel.com/
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social Culture Editor at Defector
Salem Collo-Julin @hollohulo.bsky.social Writer/editor/talker/host | she/they | 📨 scollojulin@gmail | dogs and cats living together | #Chicago
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Alex V. Hernandez @avhndz.bsky.social Bird Law Scholar.
Chicago journalist.
@loyolachicago.bsky.social Prof.
Co-founder @borderlessmag.bsky.social.
Alum @rooseveltu.bsky.social.
Opinions = Mine.
RTs ≠ Es.
✶✶✶✶ > Everything.
Adam Rhodes @byadamrhodes.bsky.social Deeply unserious person writing about serious things | award-winning investigative journalist writing about queer people & the legal system | nonbinary menace & belligerently queer | Chicago is home | DMs are off the record. More at adamrhodeswrites.com
josh terry @joshterry.bsky.social chicago-based writer. newsletter producer at wttw news (@wttw.bsky.social). i also run the music and culture blog no expectations. ex: vice, chicago tribune, etc. tips, email: joshhowardterry@gmail.com
https://www.noexpectations.fyi
fran hoepfner @franhoepfner.bsky.social i am just here to post my blogs // senior news writer for vulture
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
emily north @north0fnorth.tgirl.gay idle vaporings of a mind diseased🏳️⚧️
she // chicago🔄nyc
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/robin/
whet moser @whetmoser.com newsletters @ nyt. ex qz, chicago mag, chicago reader. i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a janitor
Son Raw @sonraw.bsky.social Music Writer, Beatmaker, Modular Synthesist, DJ, Cynic
MTLien
Alder Andre Vasquez, Political Account @andrefor40th.bsky.social 40th Ward Alder / Father / Spouse / Chair of Immigration Committee / Chair of Progressive Caucus/ Vice Chair of Latino Caucus / Organizer / Problem Solver / Chicagoan until Chicago ends.
Alderman Matt Martin @aldermanmattmartin.bsky.social 47th Ward Alderman.
aldermanmartin.com
Sooper Records @sooperrecords.bsky.social Chicago indie label. Est. 2016. Artist owned. www.bio.to/sooper
rich jones @richjonesmusic.bsky.social Critically acclaimed life enthusiast - music, food, pot #MikalForever
https://linktr.ee/richjonesmusic
david drake @somanyshrimp.bsky.social Isil.club, ddrake.Substack.com
One Punch-In Man @cinemasai.bsky.social They/He/Dyl. Idiotic rap/film writer. founder/writer/editor @hearingthingsco.bsky.social Host of the #ReelNotes podcast. Walkin' on water for tips. Never on schedule but always on time. #invoiceboyz
micco caporale @juggaloreporter.bsky.social ✾ wicked clown of journalism | staff @chicagoreader.com ☻ mcaporale@chicagoreader.com ❁ signal: juggaloreporter.69 ✾ https://linktr.ee/juggaloreporter
Gwen Ihnat @gwenemarie.bsky.social Arts & Culture Editor at Block Club Chicago. ex-WBBMNewsradio, AV Club/Takeout. Twins/puppy mom. Opinions my own. Chicago for life. she/her Pitch me at gwen@blockclubchi.org
Philip Montoro @pmontoro.bsky.social Chicago Reader music editor and unionist, amateur drummer, persistent cook. Signal: pmontoro.04
he/him/y'all
pmontoro@chicagoreader.com