Raghib @raghibthinks.bsky.social innovator|educator|lover of jazz, art, photography, plants, and architecture|@HowardU alum|exotic olive oil taster|WSET Level 2 Certification
No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social Librarian, nudnik, anti-zionist Jew
Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social Jazz fan, writer, editor, newspaper survivor, riverman.
"There must be some kind of way out of here ..."
OTTAWA
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Detroit Historical Society @detroithistorical.bsky.social Founded in 1921, we manage the Detroit Historical Museum, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, and a collection of 250,000+ incredible artifacts.
>> detroithistorical.org
Geoff Babb @bolderguyst.bsky.social 
Jenny - Records/Vintage Trading Cards @jennifer-jenny777.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 I co-own a record/vintage trading card store inside of The Last Bookstore at 5th & Spring, LA.
https://www.lastbookstorela.com/
Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social Music journalist, historian, archivist, crabby old punk rock lady. Music columnist @ salon.com | writing @ jukeboxgraduate.com
clips @ https://carynrose.contently.com/
She / her | current Detroiter, forever New Yorker, child of the Garden State
Keith 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @oneworld-onelife.bsky.social "So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.” Bede
Inherently skeptical but trying not to be cynical
George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social Only person to play CBGB and write about opera for the FT; "Minimalist Music," "Miles Davis' Bitches Brew," Grove Dictionary, Bandcamp, LoC, &c. Edit Brooklyn Rail music section, kickass newsletter: killyridols.substack.com
venmo.com/George-Grella
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social Author on art and its impacts on national histories. The Modern Art Notes Podcast. Avatarily Bonnard. 🍺🏔️🌲🍄💮📚,📍CVL. https://linktr.ee/tylergreen
Tyler Kepner @tylerkepner.bsky.social Senior MLB writer for The Athletic. Author of “K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches” and “The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series.” Reporter in quarter-zip, episode 787 of "The Simpsons." Immaculate Grid addict.
Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social Research, analysis & grey-skies thinking on labour markets, social security, public finance & equality. Usual disclaimer. Cheap foreign labour 🇮🇪. Profile pic is Takashi Shimura with Toshiro Mifune in Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa, 1949).
Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social Film critic at TIME. I never travel far without a little Big Star. https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
Order THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social Tentatively here. Toronto by way of Montreal. Lapsed academic.
Sound + vision, mainly.
#MDANT
Oh, and @shelley_rohar on that other site
London Jazz Association @londonjazzass.bsky.social Presenters of the London Jazz Festival and the Toboggan Jazz series
Miguel Zenón @miguelzenon.bsky.social Saxophonist, Composer
Grammy Winner,
Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow
Doris Duke Artist Awardee
Faculty at MIT
Roxy Coss @roxycoss.bsky.social Musician
Hendrik Meurkens @hendrikmeurkens.bsky.social New York based jazz harmonica player, vibraphonist, composer. Six albums on Concord Records & Concord Picante plus many more....
Peter Erskine @petererskine.bsky.social Drummer, husband, father, grandfather, photographer, author and retired professor. Otherwise known as Maya Erskine’s dad.
Christian McBride @mcbridesworld.bsky.social I mostly play the bass.
Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social NYC 🇺🇸🇮🇹🎶🏀 Knicks
Court reporter SDNY over 40 years ~ Words matter ~ Music heals
~ Protect the Rule of Law ~ ⚖️
Proud daughter of a WWII Army vet. 💜
~ Dissent is Patriotic ~
@allenlowe.bsky.social @allenlowe.bsky.social 
Jeff Machota @jmachota.bsky.social 
Bradley Wheeler @tenmad.bsky.social Professional Jazz Saxophonist/composer. French speaker and Francophile. Well educated (informed), accumulated a bit of wisdom, friend of Bill.
https://originarts.com/artists/artist.php?Artist_ID=69
Rob Crozier @robcroziermusic.bsky.social I’m a musician/composer based in Ann Arbor, MI
Literati Bookstore @literatibookstore.bsky.social Curing brain rot since 2013.
As seen on NBC News, NPR, etc.
📍Ann Arbor, MI.
LiteratiBookstore.com
David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social Biographer, historian, journalist, professor, grandfather, Detroit born, DC and Madison based. Believer in Smokey Robinson, George Orwell, democracy, freedom of the press,Jim Thorpe, Roberto Clemente. and the Green Bay Packers.
Brandon Burke @thejosephboys.bsky.social Preservation librarian, recorded sound archivist, husband, dad. KC born. LFK/ATX/DC/SF too. Ann Arbor now. Send tacos
Alfred Spatchcock @quiet-desperation.bsky.social Writer of crime novels under another name. This account for my personal interests.
Rustwolf Imari @rustwolf.bsky.social cis he/him, age 32
furry; Touchstone-nominated emerging haiku & senryu poet; pseudo-barista; crate digger for vinyl, CDs & cassettes
singing and dancing through life as best as I can
Hal Espen @halsf.bsky.social Formerly at The New Yorker and Outside, currently in Santa Fe, presently in Seattle and environs. Now listening to on vinyl.
Mark Smotroff @marksmotroff.bsky.social Mostly music including my reviews on Analog Planet and eCoustics.
Music is love...
Robert Christgau @rxgau.bsky.social Rock critic since 1967, ain't stopping now. Consumer Guide reborn at robertchristgau.substack.com. 
Jason Alexander @i-jasonalexander.bsky.social Hi all. It’s really me. I don’t know how to verify on this app. I’m the actor/director/producer/writer/teacher. I’ll try to be interesting. Check my podcast - Really No Really. Wishing you well.
Timothy Weir @tgweir.bsky.social Retired. Writer and community contributor in Evansville Ind. Music, art, travel, positivity.
Kevin Amorim @justlikekevin.bsky.social ➡️Survived the “newsroom without walls” reorg @daytondailynews.com
➡️Kid AME at Ziff Davis’ Inter@ctive Week
➡️Edited and wrote for @newsday.bsky.social across the centuries
➡️Publishing editor (print) @wsj.com
“You be me for a while / And I'll be you”
listening to @living-in-clip.bsky.social when the rhythm changes
so does the dance
Breathe.
Resist.
Be intentional.
Be safe.
Be strong.
Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social "Observations of Deviance has become a Wire deadline weekend staple." The Wire (UK)
David Mittleman
DJ @wfmu.bsky.social
Vinyl collector
Writing @ We Jazz Magazine
https://wfmu.org/playlists/OV
Scott Routenberg @scottroutenberg.bsky.social Award-Winning Jazz Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Orchestrator | Jazz Piano Professor BSU | Symphonic Jazz, Nu Jazz, Pops, Film Music, Game Music | Scott Routenberg Trio | Recording Academy Class of 2026
www.scottroutenberg.com
mjazzg @mjazzg.bsky.social Jazz LPs (not vinyls) and occasionally CDs. Armchair cricket and football supporter(Royals!). Art for art's sake. English Civil Wars and radical history, and elephants
Kohut @kohut.bsky.social rhymes with donut | author, Speaking Out, The Smart Mission, Compelling People — Georgetown U Press, MIT Press, Penguin | lecturer, Columbia | comms whisperer | words + music | Oxford comma | curse of the easily amused | http://www.matthewkohut.com
Shuja Haider @shujaxhaider.bsky.social 
@audreysilver.bsky.social @audreysilver.bsky.social 
Anthony Wilson @ajazzfan2.bsky.social 
Seton Hawkins @setonhawkins.bsky.social Director of Public Programs at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Host of South African Jazz on SiriusXM Real Jazz. Adjunct faculty at Juilliard. Curator of AfricArise record series.
southafricanjazz.org
africarise.bandcamp.com/music
Miles Savus @techdef.bsky.social Born after a hockey game, slept at a jazz festival, grew up in a museum.
Jacob Garchik @jacobgarchik.bsky.social Trombone player, Kronos Quartet arranger, Flatbush house person
Susan Sisko Carter @siskocarter.bsky.social Singer, songwriter, screenwriter, author. Proud member of WGA. Susan's debut novel, The Lyric Hotel, is available now! 
Warren Leight @warrenleight.bsky.social Playwright (Tony Award, Side Man), Showrunner: SVU,CrimIntent,Lights Out,In Treatment(NAACP, Imagen, Peabody Awards). Jazz, Knicks, Mets, WGA, Italy, cooking. Capricorn like you couldn’t tell. 
Bryan Wagner @bwagner.bsky.social Professor and writer working in vernacular expression, popular music, urban studies, legal history, and digital humanities. UC Berkeley.
Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social Authors of “Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race & The Last Century of Queer Life,” publishers of tomandlorenzo.com, podcast: Pop Style Opinionfest. Cosmopolitan mag red carpet correspondents. All skeets are by T unless signed by L.
RussJazz @russjazz.bsky.social Weird old guy - record curator - wine drinker - cook - husband - dad - door knocker for local races - former stage 4 patient - getting kinda old.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social Writer, recovering music critic. 
@jimkull.bsky.social @jimkull.bsky.social 
Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social A website, a newsletter, a record label. All posts by Phil Freeman, co-founder/co-owner. BUY PHYSICAL MUSIC.
Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social Special Correspondent for VANITY FAIR. Author of the Jann Wenner bio that Jann Wenner doesn’t want you to read.
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/
Matana Roberts @matanaroberts.bsky.social i make records and art, love books, and the outdoors…
we talk "arts" over here and world building...
Bryan Vargas @bryanvargas.bsky.social Guitarist to the NYC Global Music Superstars; College Professor; hopelessly Progressive Liberal; proudly Nerdy; Lover of Muppets, Comics, Bikes, Books, Music, & Movies; Native NYer 4life 🇵🇷
IG: @bkbv
https://t.co/8lhCBwpXWZ
Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social Writer. From Washington, NC. Tar Heel. Now based in Bryan, TX. 2019 Guggenheim fellow in nonfiction. Next book about jazz pianist Bill Evans and his wife Ellaine Schultz Evans. samstephenson.org
Bruce Warren @somevelvetblog.bsky.social playing the hits, the misses, the B-sides & deep trx. Go Birds.
philly. tweeter deactivator. resister
Kira Grunenberg @shadowmelody1.bsky.social Music Journalist🎵📰
Words: DownBeat, No Depression, NPR Music, Bluegrass Situation, etc. | Asst. Editor Aromatica Poetica | Writer for Hire📝 | Hot Sauce 🌶️ | Hockey🏒| Puns
ThrowtheDiceAndPlayNice.com
jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social Currently writing ‘A Walk in the Free World: Other Music in Brazil’ • Sonny Rollins Bridge Project https://www.change.org/p/rename-the-williamsburg-bridge-as-the-sonny-rollins-williamsburg-bridge • urban planner • amateur 📍São Paulo
Anthony Dean-Harris @anthonydeanharris.com Writer; artist; radio host of A Smooth Ride (weekdays 2-4pm PST) & content coordinator at Portland's Jazz Radio @kmhd.org; archivist emeritus & co-conspirator at San Antonio's FL!GHT Gallery; he/him; hopefully witty, certainly verbose
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social music and art maker, sporadic writer, teacher.
Roulette_NYC @roulettenyc.bsky.social Roulette’s mission is to support artists creating new and adventurous art in all disciplines by providing them with a venue and resources to realize their creative visions and to build an audience interested in the evolution of experimental art. 
Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social usually in California - currently SF. topics include: jazz, art, photographers. the annoying friend who brings his cocker spaniel everywhere
blogging about photography at
https://bremser.tumblr.com/tagged/notes
Hank Shteamer @darkforcesswing.bsky.social writer, usually about music.
contact: hshteamer.writes@gmail.com
hankshteamer.com- D David Weininger @davidweininger.bsky.social Writer on music
DJ Peter @djpeterde.bsky.social Radio DJ: "The Laughing Clock" (@gtdradio.bsky.social)
WFMU.org/drummer
WVUD.org
Mixcloud.com/DJpeterDE
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. 
Alison Fensterstock @alisonf.bsky.social Teenage werewolf / inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read / fensterstock@gmail.com
Editor of NPR Music’s HOW WOMEN MADE MUSIC (Harper One ‘24) coauthor of a biography of Bunny Matthews (Historic New Orleans Collection Press ‘26)
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/
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
Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social Books (Rebel Rebel; Ashes to Ashes), blogs (64 Quartets; Pushing Ahead of the Dame; Locust St.)
Dave Chisholm @davechisholmcomics.com Rochester, NY. Cartoonist w/ a doctorate in music. Eisner-nominated and Ringo winner. I give readers synesthesia.
IS TED OK? collected edition September 29, 2026!
davechisholmcomics@gmail.com
http://davechisholmcomics.com/links
Anthony Reed @blackpoetics.bsky.social Beautiful to strangers. Writer, critic, and other things.
Black illumination, Black imagination, Black poetics, Black listening.
Most Recent Book: Soundworks: Race, Sound and Poetry in Production http://dukeupress.edu/soundworks
Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social Music critic for Slate, freelance writer/editor/etc in Toronto (and available for work!), author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, founding associate of Trampoline Hall.
Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen @sheribiesen.bsky.social Cinema Professor. Film History. Jazz. Books: Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style. Blackout: World War II & Origins of Film Noir. Film Censorship. Music in the Shadows📚📽️🎷
https://noirbooks.blogspot.com
https://SheriChinenBiesen.blogspot.com
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.
Charles Soule @charlessoule.bsky.social You may know me from having written something you’ve read.
(Lots of Star Wars & Marvel, including LIGHT/TRIALS OF THE JEDI, Daredevil, Wolverine etc. Also my own stuff - THE LUCKY DEVILS, EIGHT BILLION GENIES, UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, SHROUDED COLLEGE…)
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social musician, arts administrator; Quaker, baker, Granite Stater; he/him
"A curmudgeonly joy" — @doodlyroses.com
"Fancy with an element of surprise" — @dalanie.bsky.social
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
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
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!
Todd Bashore @toddbashore.bsky.social Saxophonist, arranger, composer, educator. Director of the Creative Large Ensemble @ Princeton University. Artist-in-Residence @ Temple University. Yanagisawa & Vandoren artist.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com Musician and composer • assoc. professor of music, Skidmore College • “experimental yet still catchy” — New York Times • repost = 👀
willmasonmusic.com
Michael McKean @mjmckean.bsky.social Actor, songwriter, husband, father, reader, listener.