ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social enunciating the catastrophe
Room40 // Lawrence English @room40.bsky.social Lawrence English//Room40 ... vibrating bodies with sound, philosopher of listening.
Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein’s tweets, articles, clips and podcasts on Bluesky.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
@peredovitch.bsky.social @peredovitch.bsky.social (Mostly) music, opera, literature, translation, Europe, in French and/or English.
@max-lx.bsky.social @max-lx.bsky.social sound & weird media studies; music & anti-fascism
Important Records @imprec.bsky.social Imprec.com
Record Label
Pre-algorithmic curation since 2001
The character conveyed most often in Important releases isn't style but substance, with a personal and emotional depth that makes the label easy to understand but difficult to explain.
Matthew L. Feldman @feldmattman.bsky.social Curious, ever-searching artistic administrator, and lover of all things that give us light and elevate us. 
The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social “The most essential music magazine of the contemporary era.” (Forced Exposure)
thewire.co.uk
Philip Clark @musicclerk.bsky.social Author-journalist (Prospect, NYRB, Spectator, The Wire); Brubeck biographer; new book “Sound and the City" 2027, White Rabbit & Hachette; Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award Winner, 2022.
Info: curtisbrown.co.uk/client/philip-clark
Oxford/London
Jim Buhler @jimbuhler.bsky.social Professor of music theory, working on film music and virtual instruments.
Author: Hearing the Movies & Theories of the Soundtrack.
Pronouns: he/him
Matthew Vest @noiselibrarian.bsky.social Music librarian. Making noise about new music, open access, social justice and higher education. General Editor, Contemporary Music Score Collection.
Andrea Fowler @andreafowler13.bsky.social UW-Madison. St. Louis and #LFC. Wife to Brad. Parent of a cool human. Views are mine. Looking for ways to use my musicology degrees while working in administration.
🌩️👀 aY9HAsMCBt96
Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social Classical music and opera journalist. Blogs at irontongue.blogspot.com. Alto, martial artist. Former tech writer. Music, books, politics, food, public health. Cis, queer, Jewish. I instablock men who follow only women's accounts.
Lisa Cooper Vest @paniliso.bsky.social Associate Professor of Musicology at USC
Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social Musicologist, editor of really big books, player of assorted string instruments, retired Jeopardy! champion; opinions are my own, not my employer’s
lawrence @ldunn.bsky.social well-adjusted musician
https://linktr.ee/l_dunn1
Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social Librettist, lyricist, poet, scholar, teacher. Writing operas about kickass women and nb folks. Runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive (sfsma.org). Autistic. Disabled. Alphabetize under Leonard. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org
Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.com Professes music theory & tech, head of Musical Arts Learning Lab at UDayton 🏳️⚧️🎾🎛️🎻🎹
SEX SOUNDS (open access): https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045193/sex-sounds/
Executive Director
@lgbtqmusicstudygroup.com
Danielle Fosler-Lussier @dfosler.bsky.social Director, Imagined Futures initiative at Ohio State, for grad students finding rewarding careers in many lines of work. Musicology, global history, diplomatic history, women's history. She/her. Opinions my own. Repost ≠ endorsement.
Armando Bayolo @armandobayolo.bsky.social St. Louis based Puerto Rican composer/conductor in the diaspora. Lecturer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. All opinions my own. Atheist. Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger. he/him
www.armandobayolo.com No DMs w/o permission.
ted gordon @tedgordon.bsky.social music person, here for memes & synths, asst. prof at CUNY grad center & baruch college. opinions my own, etc. etc.
Sarah Hill @hillgower.bsky.social Oakland native, siaradwr Cymraeg, relapsed oboist. Co-ordinating Editor of Popular Music. Prof of Popular Music and Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford.
Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social Third-most well-known composer named 'Schumann' - scholar, music writer, working parent, and "less-prestigious faculty" - based in southeast Michigan - founder of #beansky - TBTL Ten
Gabrielle Cornish @gcornish91.bsky.social Soviet historian and aficionado of bleeps and bloops. Assistant Professor of Musicology at UW-Madison. Lover of all things Slavic and sonic. Views my own, not my employer’s.
Read some words: www.gabriellecornish.com
Hugh Morris @hwfmorris.bsky.social Writer on music for NYT Guardian Wire Private Eye and more. Digital Editor at @vanmusicmag.bsky.social
Email is hughmorris98@gmail.com
abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social sensitive comrade | taga ilog hanggang dagat
cultural history of the atomic bomb and nuclear age, screen media, opera
views my own etc. etc.
VAN Magazine @vanmusicmag.bsky.social Independent online classical music magazine published weekly in English and German. Strong personalities welcome. www.van-magazine.com
Eric Drott @ericdrott.bsky.social 
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social musicologist (associate prof, Temple U), Philadelphia’s 36th leading SEPTA Route 2 busfluencer. wrote a book about operetta. she/her.
K2S0'Hara (hypernarcoleptic) @oharawe.bsky.social Music theory prof interested in too many things, and too many sports teams. Currently writing about Amy Beach and video game music (not at same time). Midwesterner stranded in the Mid-Atlantic. Swim dad, happiest in/on water.
Siv B. Lie @sivblie.bsky.social I work in anthropology/music studies! sivblie.com
Brian Miller @bmllr.net Music theorist, UMich lecturer teaching about computing, music, and other things. Interested in intellectual history, style, semiotics, greyhounds, and tennis
Will Yager @willyager.bsky.social playing and teaching double bass
📍Iowa
www.willyager.com
Elaine Kelly @elainekelly.bsky.social Music historian @University of Edinburgh | East Germany, 2nd-3rd World musical relations, cultural diplomacy
Current book project: Music and Anti-Imperial Solidarity: East Germany and the Third World
Victor Szabo @victorszabo.bsky.social music prof researching underground DJing, author of Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music’s Psychedelic Past (Oxford 2023), electronic music DJ as Vicky Vicky Vicky, avid eater 🐈🌈✨
https://www.soundcloud.com/icvicvicvicvi/
Landon Palmer @landonpalmer.bsky.social historian of film, media, popular music | wrote a book about rock stars in movies and writing another about Motown movies | he/him | opinions are mine, do not represent my employer, and seek not to curtail any tide's roll
Kirsten Carithers @kcarithers.bsky.social Musicologist/ music historian: labor, gaming, technology, economics, gender, sound studies, experimentalism. Associate prof at Uni of Louisville. Views my own. Interpretive Labor (OUP, 2025)
Vanessa Ague @vanessakayague.bsky.social Writing about experimental music at various publications. Blogging at The Road to Sound. Based in NYC.
Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish. 
Peter Margasak @pmargasak.bsky.social Listening, writing, and sharing—writing for Bandcamp Daily, the Wire, Chamber Music Magazine and petermargasak.substack.com. Sharing with frequencyfestival-chicago.com
Alex Ring Gray @thisisalexgray.bsky.social Composer / producer / multimedia
Co-founder @CmntxRecords.bandcamp.com
Technical Director @ Infrasound Ensemble
Music Assistant @PhilipGlass.bsky.social
alexringgray.com
Matthew Guerrieri @sohothedog.bsky.social Composer, pianist, writer. Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. He/him.
Music Research Annual @mrajournal.bsky.social Music Research Annual is an open-access journal devoted to review essays that span the full breadth of music research across the humanities, social sciences, and beyond. Published by @mmap.bsky.social
https://musicresearchannual.org 
lazz kinnamon @lazz.bsky.social interdisciplinary studies prof. at University of Arizona
working on trans and queer reappraisals of 20th century feminisms, the significance of Consciousness Raising, and feminist marxisms.
Kaleb E. Goldschmitt @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social Popular music scholar and music department chair at Wellesley College. Neuroqueer. I wear a mask for a reason. Falo português. תיקון עולם 🏳️⚧️🚴😷
Rob Deemer @robdeemer.bsky.social Composition professor & Chair of Theatre & Dance at SUNY Fredonia, Director/Founder of the Institute for Composer Diversity (www.composerdiversity.com)
Dan DiPiero @dandipiero.bsky.social Musician, writer, and teacher.
Site | http://dandipiero.com
Substack | http://dandipiero.substack.com
Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl | https://press.umich.edu/Books/B/Big-Feelings2
Re-Tiredprof @re-tiredprof.bsky.social Retired
Cellist
Cancer survivor
Sleepy
Griffin Candey @griffincandey.bsky.social composer—Michigan boy—sentient cloud of cartoon noises—Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory at Tennessee Tech
Alison Mero @alisonmero.bsky.social Director of Clemson University Press. PhD in musicology. Big fan of university presses, classical music, kids, cats, and dinosaurs.
Andrew Dell'Antonio @dellantonio.bsky.social ADHD music scholar at U TX Austin - #UDL - #Neurodiversity - #Accessibility
he/him/his
https://adellantonio.com
https://sites.utexas.edu/rigorouslycompassionate/
Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social I make music and help others make the music they want to make. Composer, co-AD of New Amsterdam Records. Western MA based. He/him. Pic drawn by my now-11yo. None of us are free until all of us are free.
Anastasia Tsioulcas @anastasiat.bsky.social Knight-Wallace Fellow at UMichigan 24-25. Culture correspondent at NPR, music critic at the New York Times. ah-nah-STAH-zee-ah tsee-OOL-kahs/Αναστασία Τσιούλκα(ς)/اناستازيا تسيولكاس
Abby @abbyshupe.bsky.social I’m an academic studying commemoration of 9/11 and the GWOT.
Open water & masters swimming. Sighthounds.
Originally from IN.
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social A LIVING REMEDY, a New York Times Notable Book • ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW, National Book Critics Circle finalist • words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
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.
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Kate Storey @katestorey.bsky.social Features Director at Rolling Stone + New York Times bestselling author of “White House by the Sea”
maura johnston @maura.bsky.social boston-based writer and journalism instructor at @bostoncollege.bsky.social who has probably been online longer than you. sign up for maura.ghost.io today.
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social your favorite musicologist’s favorite musicologist.✨
music/cultural historian at the University of Florida🐊, Tar Heel bred, professional social media haver. is always on brand, & the brand (🇬🇧) is strong 😉
she/her 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/imanimosley
jenn pelly @jennpelly.bsky.social journalist, critic, diarist
author of The Raincoats (2017)
jennpelly.info
Charles Eppley @charleseppley.bsky.social Thinking about sound, disability, and technology at Arizona State University. Faculty Lead, Disability Studies B.A.
charleseppley.com
Carrie @carrieat.bsky.social 
liz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social writer in nyc, author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, co-host of @criticallistening.bsky.social
lizpelly.info
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Alex Cowan @alexcowan.bsky.social Musicologist, UChicago. British/American. Guitar hoarder. Writing on music and eugenics. Ask me about my transatlantic accent.
Lauron J. Kehrer @lauronkehrer.bsky.social Associate Prof of Ethno/Musicology. Author of Queer Voices In Hip Hop. lauronkehrer.com #FirstGen academic. They/Them. All opinions mine.
Doug Shadle @dougshadle.bsky.social Musicologist 
Dr. Music Theory Augmented @musictheoryaug.bsky.social Music Theorologist™️ in the streets
Memelord in the sheets
I guess we’re all here to escape from the tweetz
Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social Musicologist, writer, half of Red Vespa, author of The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word and the forthcoming Clubwomen Activists and the Making of American Music. Posts in no way associated with my employer.
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com Music theory prof, timbre, the Yamaha DX7, 80s, pop music, teaching, cats, food, crosswords, complaining about NYT Spelling Bee, knitting. DC area. she/her
Phil Gentry @pmgentry.bsky.social musicologist at the University of Delaware, citizen of West Philly.
Current:
•McCarthyism in the Music Industry, 1945-1960
•Performance and History in the Semiquincentennial
Past:
•What Will I Be: American Music and Cold War Identity (Oxford, 2017).
Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com Musician and composer • assoc. professor of music, Skidmore College • “experimental yet still catchy” — New York Times • repost = 👀
willmasonmusic.com
Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social author of Assimilate + books on TMBG + Laurie Anderson
professor @ Ithaca College / NYU / U. Florida / William & Mary
singer of the band Seeming
ex-ThouShaltNot
https://linktr.ee/salexanderreed
Megan MacDonald @cmeganmac.bsky.social Musicologist, Twin Mom, ED of the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social Matmos guy with my husband @lordchiefjustice / English professor at Hopkins / also known as The Soft Pink Truth.
Jean-Thomas Tremblay @jttremblay.bsky.social assoc. prof of english at york | coauthor of negative life: the cinema of extinction (northwestern) | author of breathing aesthetics (duke) | https://jeanthomastremblay.carrd.co/
Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social Music theorist, early music specialist, mezzo soprano, feminist, yogi, hiker. Into equitable pedagogy. Author of Hearing Homophony (OUP 2020: http://bit.ly/341RhmB). She/her/hers.
Elliott H. Powell @ehphd.bsky.social Professor, UMN American Studies// I study race, sex(uality), & pop music // Author of *Sounds from the Other Side* (winner of the IASPM-US Guthrie & AMS Brett awards) // he/him
leon @leyawn.bsky.social i'm leon
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social editor & scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Writing a 33 1/3 on The Breeders. Bylines all over, views could only be mine lol. its-her-factory.com
Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social Writer, recovering music critic. 
Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack. 
Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social Retired classical music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Co-constructor, Out of Left Field cryptic crossword. pacificaisle.substack.com. He/him
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social Academic in Hove.
Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social I teach music, modernism, psychoanalysis @ University of Chicago, direct Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, and am mostly unconscious. Stuff: http://bit.ly/3JMupgJ
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️