Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
2004: The Year Indie Rock Broke @2004pod.bsky.social A deep dive, documentary-style podcast about indie music from the early 2000s.
Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social World’s tallest living artist ✨
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Colette Arrand @colettearrand.bsky.social An enigmatic warrior who marches to the beat of her own drum.
Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social I write things. Pitchfork. Stereogum. SPIN. Vice Chair of Florida Film Critics Circle.
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Dan Reilly @danreilly.bsky.social Journalist and whatnot. Written a lot of things about a lot of things for a lot of places. Also work in TV. I endure the Mets. The dog’s name is Walter. https://www.clippings.me/danreilly11
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Jasper Wang @jaspercwang.bsky.social Business guy at @defector.com
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Rob Harvilla @harvilla.bsky.social Host of 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90S: THE 2000S, old guy at THE RINGER, tentative embracer of new social-media platforms
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
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.
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Nate Rogers @naterogers.bsky.social ungainfully employed. bylines @ LAT, NYT, NY Mag, Ringer, Stereogum, etc.
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Jonathan L. Fischer @jonfischer.bsky.social Senior editor at The Atlantic (arts x politics, and much more) and proprietor of http://hedswillroll.tumblr.com.
bijan @bijan.bsky.social
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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine. Book: TWO WHEELS GOOD: THE HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE BICYCLE. Home: Brooklyn, NY. http://www.jody-rosen.com
Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social aka Max Alper. Composer, sonic arts educator, and audio worker with opinion. “The Nadia Boulanger of Ableton weirdos.”
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Co-host @criticallistening.bsky.social. Based in Hudson Valley. peretsky.xyz
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Charles Hughes @charleshughes2.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Musician. Country Soul. Why Bushwick Bill Matters. Pro wrestling coming soon. No Fences Review. Wisconsin and Southern. Disabled and disorderly. He/him.
neither local nor real @jamessocol.com forever trying to escape my own light cone. he/him
Mosi Reeves @humthrush.bsky.social This is the Bluesky account for Humthrush.com, a site run by Mosi Reeves.
Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone Authoress. Books: RINGMASTER (NYT bestseller), TRUE BELIEVER (Hugo finalist), and @beckbook.com (out Oct. 6). Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social and co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net.
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David Cantwell @cantkill.bsky.social Music critic. Husband. Dog Lover. Author of “The Running Kind: Listening to Merle Haggard.” Cofounder No Fences Review. Midwesterner
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
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Fire Talk @firetalkrecs.bsky.social A record label. Purveyors of the underground since 2009.
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com I help run @flaminghydra.com and the Brick House Cooperative.
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
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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. 
Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social Music, comics, assorted grousing, he/him. CURRENT THINGS are Discourse 2000, a 2000AD blog and Popular, about the UK’s No 1 hits. I also waste my time (and maybe yours!) with @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social
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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social Words. Ideas. Culture. Shenanigans.
#MusicSermon, CDI @ NYU, BMAC
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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.
Justin Anderson-Weber @jlweber.bsky.social I write Of Note, a monthly newsletter about music writing worth reading. https://buttondown.com/of_note
A man of many paths that somehow all led to biscuits, music, sports, and writing. Chicago-based after stints in DC, NC, and CO.
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.
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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social Flagging Down the Double E's Dylan newsletter, Cover Me covers blog, 3 books (Pledging My Time, Cover Me, Leonard Cohen 33 1/3).
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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
Stereogum @stereogum.com 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉’𝖘 𝖇𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖈 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖌
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🎥 Kathy 🍁 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social Music and film writer. Northwest Film Forum board member and former Seattle Film Critics Society president. Unions: SAG-AFTRA and IBEW. Past/present contributor: KCMU/KEXP, KUOW, Rock and Roll Globe, Seattle Film Blog, The Stranger, and Video Librarian.
Adam Moerder @adammoerder.bsky.social Writer. Musician. https://soundcloud.com/needy-beast
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social Independent journalist. Words in Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, Slate, The Daily Beast, Texas Monthly etc. My debut novel “Something’s Wrong With The Girls“ will be published by Rare Bird.
Wanna work together? oliviamesser@protonmail.com
@ienjoymusic.net @ienjoymusic.net 
Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social Co-founder of Aftermath, a worker-owned site about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him
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Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing
Queens, NY
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@alexsuskind.bsky.social @alexsuskind.bsky.social news director, pitchfork
Tommy Craggs @tcraggs22.bsky.social Writer and editor. Late of "Game Theory With Bomani Jones" on HBO, Mother Jones (no relation), HuffPost, Slate, Gawker Media, Deadspin, etc. Subscribe to @flaminghydra.com. Email: tcraggs22@gmail.com. 
Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social Writing on books, movies, the arts: NYT Magazine, Baffler, Washington Post, Atlantic, Liberties, Commonweal, Mubi, Paris Review, Nation, etc. robjrub@gmail.com
Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social Books (Rebel Rebel; Ashes to Ashes), blogs (64 Quartets; Pushing Ahead of the Dame; Locust St.)
The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social Writer/journalist/editor/filmmaker. @NYTimes, @Rollingstone, @texasmonthly, @texashighways etc. Everything interests me. Venmo @Joe-Gross-65. Big tsundoku.
Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social Writer, editor, cofounder @coyotemedia.org. Erstwhile culture editor @ KQED, SF Chronicle, various beloved & defunct alt-weeklies
emmasilvers.com
Abby Olcese @abbyolcese.bsky.social Film critic/writer at The Pitch, Paste, Sojourners, rogerebert.com, others. Author of FILMS FOR ALL SEASONS: https://tinyurl.com/5n8hre5e
Jennifer Kelly @jenpkelly.bsky.social Dusted editor, Aquarium Drunkard, Bandcamp contributor, Knicks fan, sci fi writer
chris walla, ,, @calculizer.bsky.social he him / musician / record producer / death cab for cutie, '97 - '14 / http://chriswalla.com
Future of Music Coalition @futureofmusic.bsky.social Education, research and advocacy for musicians.
Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social Label manager of Bikini Kill Records, bass player of Hurry Up, Immigration things over at Unbreaking.org. Honk if you like dogs.
PNW'er currently exiled in East Tennessee.
nick andersen @nicktheandersen.com writer, thinker, amateur cheesemonger. host of @pilotprincesstrash.bsky.social | senior producer for ministry of ideas | former npr, gbh, wbur, wxyc, dth. https://nicktheandersen.com
Joseph Patel @jazzbeezy.bsky.social Bay-raised, Brooklyn-living | Academy Award-winning filmmaker 🏆🏆 | Producer, SUMMER OF SOUL & SLY LIVES! w/ Questlove | Director, Dilla Time |🎬🌊🏀✊🏽🔊| Free 🇵🇸
Talkhouse @talkhouse.bsky.social Writing and conversations about music and film, from the people who make them; a home for all of your favorite podcasts.
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
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Ghostly @ghostlyint.bsky.social Ghostly.com
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
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Laurent Hrybyk @laurenthrybyk.bsky.social A Baltimore based illustrator, designer, and senior art director. Working at the Body Art Alliance/freelance. Former AD of the music blog Portals (RIP).
🌐 http://laurenthrybyk.com
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Beggars Group @beggarsgroup.bsky.social The Beggars Group is the home of 4AD, Matador Records, Rough Trade Records, XL Recordings and Young.
Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social Defector, normal gossip, novels, etc
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Hannah Steinkopf-Frank @hsteinkopffrank.bsky.social Journalist for Le Monde in English. September gurl, musician and sewist. Words and photos in NYT, JSTOR Daily, Atlas Obscura, Yes! Magazine, Wired and more.
www.hannahsteinkopf-frank.com
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
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Scott Lapatine @scott.stereogum.com Founder/Editor-in-Chief, @stereogum.com
the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social “senior” “writer” @wired.com
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Brandon Caldwell @brandoc.bsky.social 1/2 of 2dopemarks | writer/music journalist | houstonian | bun b's verse on "murder" is among the greatest strings of words ever put together in history.
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social writer. critic. essayist. on staff at New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://angelicabastien.com/
https://angelicabastien.substack.com
UMAW @umaw.bsky.social UMAW is a 501(c)(4) member-led advocacy group committed to organizing music workers to create a more just music industry, and to join with other workers in the struggle for a better society.
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
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molly mary o'brien @missmollymary.bsky.social music enjoyer, blogger, connoisseur of torani flavoring syrups
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hazel @hazelcills.bsky.social hazelcills.com
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
Kieran Press-Reynolds @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social editing nobells, writer for pitchfork, GQ, NYT, The Face + more
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