Ioan Marc Jones @ioanmarcjones.bsky.social Writer in The Guardian, BBC, The Times, The FT, The Independent, Spectator, McSweeney's, New England Review, etc. He/Him.
Commissions: ioanmarcjones@proton.me
@jazznature.bsky.social @jazznature.bsky.social Jazz saxophonist and composer, university professor and lifelong environmental activist and climate warrior (armchair variety). Voraciously informed and ready to help protect nature
David Windham @davidwindham.com I hit up the bsky to dole out 💙s for fifteen minutes sprints every so often. Bio: something else - https://davidwindham.com
Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social Composer, Percussionist
Assistant Professor of Music @ Bard College
www.sarah-hennies.com
Glyphguy @glyphguy.bsky.social all at once
Craig Fehrman @craigfehrman.bsky.social Author of This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis and Clark
Evan Kindley @evankindley.bsky.social "The New York School: Poetry, Art, and Friendship in Midcentury Manhattan" forthcoming from Knopf, March 2027 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737462/th
Felix van der Goot @guidodumez.bsky.social It was dark as i drove the point home
Ira Rigaud 🇭🇹 🇺🇸 @irarigaud.bsky.social Joel 2:12: Yet even now...
Oak Park, IL (raised in Randallstown, MD)
Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social Musician, Sparrowtail Teas purveyor, Tai Chi instructor, fun dad, pro-democracy, pro-environment, 🚫AI, 🚫crypto. No DMs unless we are already homies!
My website that focuses on the first thing:
https://daveheumann.com
Rivers of Suggestion @youngweather.bsky.social car parts, bottles, and cutlery, and whatever I find lying around
Ableton Education Team // Producer
in Atlanta :: (he/him) :: music at youngweather.bandcamp.com
My new LP Partial Views: youngweather.bandcamp.com
Andy McGlashen @amcglashen.bsky.social Senior Editor at Audubon magazine. Michigander in Chicago. He/him.
r @fourfiveandseven.bsky.social Order muppet in Pittsburgh. I play in a bunch of bands and I ride a bike around.
Mostly skeets about music, Pgh, urbanism, lefty stuff, bad jokes, nice things I see, and my cat
Andrew Purcell @andrewpurcell.bsky.social Journalist turned human rights activist, creative project enthusiast, runner, father of two boys, exhausted shell of a man.
Of Note @ofnotemusic.bsky.social Sharing music writing worth reading. Formerly a monthly newsletter (see archives at https://buttondown.com/of_note)
Managed by Justin Anderson-Weber (@jlweber.bsky.social)
Based in Chicago, Illinois.
Gina Dalfonzo @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social Author, "The Screen & the Mirror," "Dorothy & Jack," "The Gospel in Dickens," & "One by One." I'm at https://dearstrangethings.substack.com/ and https://dickensblog.com. Beethoven fan, skating fan, Army brat, Pope Leo-quoting Protestant. #TCMParty #MST3K
Amy Dickinson @askingamy.bsky.social "Ask Amy" advice columnist, NPR Wait Wait Don't Tell Me panelist, literacy advocate, NYT bestselling author, and proprietor of the Freeville Free Library. Author of the One Good Thing newsletter on Substack
Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social
Historian, Canadian, Philadelphian. Higher ed, urban🚲, books, cats, hockey. At Penn's CETLI; teach South Asia & Hist Sci/Med/Tech.
Disappointing people since 1972.
Barry Walters @barrywalters.bsky.social I'm the author of Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music 1969-2000, which Viking published on May 12. barrywalterswriter.com
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
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
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social Reader, writer, and librarian. Author of George & Lizzie: A Novel; the Book Lust series, and The Writer's Library (with Jeff Schwager)
Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social Dictionary ambassador, Merriam-Webster.
Forthcoming book:
"By Definition: The Surprising History of the English Dictionary"
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250347589/bydefinition/
Gabriel Roth @gabrielroth.bsky.social Shampoo for my real friends
People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com Mom 'n pop bookshop in downtown Takoma Park, MD. New books, hot zines, and Sunday storytimes. We're DC City Paper's Best Bookstore of 2026, 2025 and 2024. 👍 See upcoming events and membership options here: https://wfr.bio/peoplesbook
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social Cinéaste maudit. Educator. Dad of 2. Quinquagenarian. Man of Appetites. Film writer. UCLA '94, M.F.A. '99. 2nd gen native Angeleno. Pro-union. Anti-fascist. Clearly not the actor from NICKEL BOYS. He/Him.
Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social Pop culture obsessive, (no longer) stuck in retail. I talk about movies and music and sports
sometimes He/him
Scott Seward @skotrok.bsky.social Scott Seward owns a store. Lives in a small town. Writes. Watches the boob tube. Tries not to hate. 
Althea Legaspi @althea.bsky.social Senior West Coast Editor @ Rolling Stone
Jonathan Woollen @jonathangrandma.bsky.social French-to-English translation (Ann Scott's SUPERSTARS out April 7) // college dropout // day job in books at FSG // formerly Director of Events at Politics and Prose Bookstore + Music Director at WXYC
James McNair @jamesmcnairwrites.bsky.social Slightly under / over word count since 1994. Writes for MOJO, Prog and Classic Rock. Previous stints at The Independent, Q, and as a trainee baker. Whitley Bay transplant via Glasgow, East Kilbride and London.
Christian G. Appy @chrisappy.bsky.social I'm a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and founding director of the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy. Our website is eipad.org. I've published three books about the Vietnam War.
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social Time-lag accumulator. Professor of History at NC State University. I write about church & state in the long eighteenth century Atlantic world.
Alan Scherstuhl @alansch.bsky.social Editor/writer hanging in there, thinking abt books and jazz. PW, NYT, Sci-Am, elsewhere on occasion.
Rhiannon @aywarhiannon.bsky.social free palestine. 5-4 podcast. popular cradle podcast. seen some shit.
Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social History's most successful legal podcaster, co-host of 5-4 pod. He/Him @fivefourpod.bsky.social
Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social Semi-educated guesser. Unknown genre. LANDLINE: jaybabcock.substack.com Past: Arthur Magazine co-founder/editor. babcock dot jay at gmail dot com
Benjamin Hart @benjaminhart.bsky.social Writer/editor at New York Magazine.
Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social
"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com Musician and composer • assoc. professor of music, Skidmore College • “experimental yet still catchy” — New York Times • repost = 👀
willmasonmusic.com
David King @cityplanning.bsky.social Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Arizona State University
I study transport, land use, local governance.
Cityplanning.01 on signal.
Four freedoms.
Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uFu5Z2YAAAAJ&hl=en
Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social Hunter High, WPRB, alt-weeklies, Spin Alternative Record Guide, Pop Conference, and professing. Top 40 Democracy. Songbooks, Hound Dog, Oxford Handbook of Pop Music
Lauren Doyle Owens @ldoyleowens.bsky.social Fiction writer and bleeding heart liberal. Author of The Other Side of Everything (S&S). Mother through adoption. #woolfer
https://www.laurendoyleowens.com/
Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social Author, Journalist, Critic, Filmmaker.
Books: “Jazz from Detroit”; “Destiny: 100 Years of Music, Magic, and Community at Orchestra Hall in Detroit.”
Film: “The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit.”
Former Detroit Free Press arts reporter/critic, 1995-2016
David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social Host of the Between the Covers podcast & Crafting with Ursula series, co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing.
Podcast: https://milkweed.org/between-the-covers
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
Elizabeth Harper @cadaverformosus.bsky.social Relic fan, lighting designer by night.
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com Reporter at ICIJ.org and author. GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY is out in paperback Sept. 2026.
Signal: jacobsilverman.99
www.jacobsilverman.com
https://linktr.ee/gildedrage
Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social Comedian. The Field Trip and They're Coming to Get You podcasts. It’s satire.
Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social Author of Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane (Spring 2026) Pre-order it here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/andy-beta/cosmic-music/9780306836169/
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social AI can't throw things at billionaires, but you have free will.
WV/AZ. Bird enthusiast, pigeon defender, servant of cats and two dogs. He/Him
Angry a lot but I think at the right people.
Have a great blog community: https://www.balloon-juice.com
David Glenn @actsinds.bsky.social Nurse.
The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon.
Our new book, "Life After Cars" is out now.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com/
https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social Writer/movie rat. EIC and Senior Film Critic, Boston Hassle. Film columnist, Cambridge Day. Member: BSFC, OFCS, BOFCA. 🍅-approved. He/him.
https://bostonhassle.com/author/oscargoff/
https://www.cambridgeday.com/author/oscar-goff/
W. David Marx @wdavidmarx.bsky.social Author of Blank Space, Ametora, and Status and Culture. Newsletter at http://culture.ghost.io. Tokyo, Japan.
Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social Here and there.
Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social She/her. Interests: art films, cult films, vintage television, video art, late night radio, backlisted books, dharma bums, suburban anomie, field recordings, found footage, lost futures, words, sounds, you.
Reeves Gabrels @reevesgabrels.bsky.social Musician. 🎸 The Cure, David Bowie, solo. Genre-free improv with Gabrels, Kane, Parker Wells trio 2024-2026. Susan Gabrels assists with this skyline. 🦋 @thecure.com
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.
The Booked On Rock Podcast @bookedonrock.bsky.social Stories behind the greatest artists, albums, and songs in classic rock from authors who wrote about them and those who were there when it happened!
Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social Ocean waves...ocean waves
Bandcamp @bandcamp.com Bandcamp is an online record store and music community where passionate fans connect with and directly support the artists they love.
Michael Kerns @makerns.bsky.social I’m an editor, and some other stuff too. Senior Publisher at Bloomsbury.
Bob Mayer @bobmayer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author in multiple genres. West Point grad. Special Forces disabled veteran. Science & empathy over ignorance & hate. 1 day at a time. Be nice. Bronx born, now on Maggie's Farm www.bobmayer.com
Tim McDermott @thebombshelter.bsky.social Public defender, former owner of Scooter’s Records in Hermosa Beach, KXLU dj since 1988. The Bomb Shelter airs Fridays from 8-9 pm PDT on 88.9 FM in Los Angeles and kxlu.com.
Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social Writer, director.
NYC / London
Katie Heindl @wtevs.bsky.social basketballfeelings.com
NBA TV, The Association
Writer: NYT Magazine, SLAM, Rolling Stone, Ringer, The Believer, Yahoo Sports, SB, NBA dot com, Dime, VICE, few more.
Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social https://www.robmillerwriting.com/
Author. Cofounder Bloodshot Records. DJ at Miller’s Cave.
Exploring the murky recesses of roots music:
Streaming at radioharborcountry.org
Sat: 4 to 5 PM & Sun: 9 to 10pm (Eastern)
Chicago via Detroit
Jack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social #Author: THE NAZI & THE PSYCHIATRIST (adapted to movie NUREMBERG). Coming: THE CASE OF THE AUTOGRAPHED CORPSE. #Writer of DAMN #HISTORY newsletter. Bookstore: https://bookshop.org/shop/el-hai
Joyce Linehan @ashmont.bsky.social Bureaucrat. Lover of Mercy (the virtue and the dog). Bostonian. Student at The Flying University. No Kings except Elvis. Neon by DJ Roberts. https://joycelinehan.substack.com/
Ķay, Queen [of plan] B @kaytheory.bsky.social Not to be confused with quesadilla.
I like to listen to the radio. Chicago resident, Baltimore roots. Occ therapist, assistive tech, specialist in computer access. Ahimsa.. but at times IWAMFW.
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Bill Orcutt @billorcutt.bsky.social Real good typer
Max Weiss @maxthegirl.bsky.social Editor of Baltimore magazine, film and pop culture critic, cellist, enemy of dangling modifiers.
Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social Producer, All In with Chris Hayes.
Your affable newsroom curmudgeon.
Ex-Floridian. Catskill climber. Philly fan.
Go Navy. Beat Army.
matthew j.x. malady @mjxm.bsky.social Earnest and appreciative human being. I write things sometimes. Check me out @NewYorker @Slate @Awl @NYTmag etc. matthewjxmalady at gmail.
R.J. Anderson @rjandersonwrites.com Player Valuation Specialist for the Washington Nationals | Past: Staff writer for CBS Sports, Baseball Prospectus, FanGraphs
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
Andy Cush @cushac.bsky.social musician, writer, editor
Sweeping Views @sweepingviews.bsky.social Executive* Producer/Host of Uber Glue, Spraypaint Victory, & Adolescent Subtle Sounds (Sat 10pm-2am) & EP/Host/DJ The Ambient Hour Sun 9am/11pm www.jempradio.com | Field Recordings|Creative Writing|Audio & Light Arts| Work Drugs #1 fan| *Sarcasm 
Thierry @tcote.bsky.social I lecture about political science, social media and media & politics @ York University, I used to write a lot about music but I don’t so much anymore. I still watch too much tennis. He/him.
Jeff Chang @zentronix.bsky.social Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America (Mariner) - watermirrorecho.net
Notes from the Edge + Edge of Reason
Can't Stop Won't Stop • Who We Be • We Gon' Be Alright
Marie (same one) @marieberd.bsky.social 
Reagan Arthur @reaganart.bsky.social Here to read and deliver firm opinions about books, music, tennis, grammar, and I suppose also the news. Launching new imprint, Cardinal, 9/25
chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social DC bureau chief, The Nation. Former EIC, The Baffler and the New Republic. Powertown flaneur
Hank Shteamer @darkforcesswing.bsky.social writer, usually about music.
contact: hshteamer.writes@gmail.com
hankshteamer.com
S @vidiot.bsky.social Video wrangler, journo, cocktailian, flâneur, shutterbug, quizzer, semi-pro New Yorker, fitful writer, cognitive diffident.
"Tired and emotional." (Opinions solely mine. Reposts/likes ≠ endorsements, sillypants.) He/him.
t. kendal mintcake @mintcaketime.bsky.social todd rundgren enthusiast
Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social Sports editor @thenation Edge of Sports TV at http://youtube.com/therealnews Host of the Edge of Sports Podcast. Co-host of WPFW's The Collision.
Steve McPherson @steventurous.bsky.social writer // guitar teacher at sarah jane’s music school // guitarist for big trouble, 120 mins band // nice cooker // picking the wrong line since 1976 // that's just unconscious knowledge
getinbigtrouble.com
Len Damico @lendami.co area dad • CEO of Delaware, LLC • Penn State made • Trans Refuge Now
Mike Daley @mikedaleymusic.bsky.social Toronto-based musicologist, musician, educator, event producer. Ph.D ethnomusicology. Yorkville: How a Coffeehouse Music Scene Rewrote Popular Music due for release with Sutherland House Press Sept. 2026. mikedaleymusic.com
Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social NYT bestselling and BSFA & Scribe award-winning writer. Cardassia’s resident anarchist. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. Chiefest and greatest of calamities.
https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social Lammy award winning author. Novels: BEINGS (🛸📚💌); ALL MY MOTHER'S LOVERS (💀🚗🌈). Co-editor of the anthology HERE FOR ALL THE REASONS: Why We Watch The Bachelor🌹.
https://linktr.ee/ilanaslightly
Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social Not a real doctor; real worm. I've done radio for kids for a weirdly long time (sparetherock.com). Not your lawyer, but maybe your amusement park law prof. Wrote a book: RecreationAndRisk.com (Carolina Academic Press). He/him; my views only.
St. Paul.- B byron coley @byroncoley.bsky.social western mass-based writer, archivist & poseur