Manohla Dargis @manohladargis.bsky.social Old hippie, tree hugger, childless cat lady, lover of animals and some humans, I write about movies for the New York Times. Member of the Times Guild, which is represented by the NewsGuild of New York. Trolls, haters and bigots blocked.
James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social Still being followed by the teenage FBI
Patrick Hoffman @patrick-hoffman.bsky.social Author of FRIENDS HELPING FRIENDS, THE WHITE VAN, EVERY MAN A MENACE, CLEAN HAND.
Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social Media reporter at The New York Times. Signal: benmullin.13
@owen-myers.bsky.social @owen-myers.bsky.social 
Beggars Banquet Records @beggarsbanquetrecs.bsky.social The catalogue department of the Beggars Group of labels. Find us at beggarsbanquetrecords.com + listen to our States Of Independence Podcast at https://pod.link/1836129705
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social We’re not resting until all working people are treated with dignity and respect. We're fighting for economic and racial justice. Join us. #UnionsForAll
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Gothamist @gothamist.com Everything you need to know about New York City. Powered by the WNYC newsroom.
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social New York Times opinion columnist; MSNOW contributor; author.
Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social Vulture TV critic, SOUND OF METAL Criterion author, Peabody Awards juror, usually complaining about something.
https://www.vulture.com/author/roxana-hadadi/
Jackson McHenry @jdmchenry.bsky.social 
Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social @vulture.com writer and editor covering animation, streaming, movies, and TV | die-hard fan of hiking and physical media
“there's lightning in your teeth”
Dan_Lactose_ @danlactose.bsky.social Cardboard accumlulator. Drum machine enthusiast. Bay Native. Linktree.com/danlactose
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
Vulture @vulture.com devouring culture.
machine gun corey @nuclearbbq.bsky.social atlanta based professional poster
New New York Times @nyt-first-said.bsky.social Tweets words when they appear in the New York Times for the first time.
@nyt-said-where.bsky.social for context
maintained by @maxbittker.bsky.social
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/
dave nada @tiolocal.bsky.social Ecuadorian-American DJ/producer based in France. Originator of reggaeton-house genre Moombahton, Baltimore club music pioneer, raised by the DC hardcore punk scene. Anti-speciesist and plant lover. 🔊🌱
olivia horn @olivianhorn.bsky.social another girl in a sweater | writing about music, art
hazel @hazelcills.bsky.social hazelcills.com
MBS @mbellsmith.bsky.social Hyphenate since ‘78
Andrew Kuo @andrewkuostudio.bsky.social Broadway Gallery, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Cookies Hoops and Shrits
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. 
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
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
p milyakov @pavelmilyakov.bsky.social psy x records, NTS, AD93, Incienso
Berlin
buttechno.bandcamp.com
Grouper @yellowelectric.bsky.social OnlySpiders
Scott Lapatine @scott.stereogum.com Founder/Editor-in-Chief, @stereogum.com
jenduende @jenduende.bsky.social Senior editor, The Atlantic. New York Times + Washington Post alum.
2012-13 Nieman fellow. Occasional writer, always a dancer.
Evan Rytlewski @evanryt.bsky.social Writer. Contributor: Pitchfork. Alum: Radio Milwaukee, WMSE, Shepherd Express. Bylines: NPR, The AV Club, Washington Post, Spin, Stereogum, Paste.
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
https://authory.com/RachelBrodsky
Melvin Gibbs @melvingibbs.bsky.social Human Creator: Composer/Musician/Writer
“How Black Music Took Over The World”
Out Now! on Basic Books
Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social Producer at COMMOTION (CBC Radio 1); writer for Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily; author of THIS BOOK IS BROKEN: A Broken Social Scene Story + TOO MUCH TROUBLE: A Very Oral History of Danko Jones; publisher of stubermania.substack.com + hamontlive.substack.com
Matt Korvette @mattkorvette.bsky.social Pissed Jeans lead singer in case you were looking for him
http://yellowgreenred.substack.com
Grant Sharples @grantsharpies.bsky.social Music critic at Paste Magazine • bylines in interview mag, stereogum, uproxx, pitchfork, ringer, nme, etc • grant dot sharples at gmail • he/him • free Palestine 🇵🇸 • KCMO • I’m writing a novel bc it’s never been done before • kingdom hearts apologist
glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social Music, furia.com, everynoise.com, books, soccer, food, civilization, pickleball, technology, music. Bridges.
jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social good ol' grateful deadcast co-host / @wfmu.bsky.social DJ / author of "wasn't that a time" (hachette, 2018), "heads" (hachette, 2016), "big day coming" (gotham, 2012) / jessejarnow.com / heads.social/@bourgwick
@joncoombs.bsky.social @joncoombs.bsky.social 
Hank Shteamer @darkforcesswing.bsky.social writer, usually about music.
contact: hshteamer.writes@gmail.com
hankshteamer.com
Beggars Group @beggarsgroup.bsky.social The Beggars Group is the home of 4AD, Matador Records, Rough Trade Records, XL Recordings and Young.
Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social Editorial Director, Features and Special Projects at WIRED.
Reyhan_harmanci@wired.com
Rob Mitchum @robmitchum.bsky.social Science and music writer. EIC of @kellogginsight.bsky.social.
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
The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
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Visible Cloaks @visiblecloaks.bsky.social www.visiblecloaks.com
www.spencerdoran.com
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
Cat Zhang @catzhang.bsky.social lapsed music critic, culture writer at The Cut / NYMag
I’m not here often but cat.zhang@nymag.com if you need me
@aleitko.bsky.social @aleitko.bsky.social Press w/ Matador Records / Making music w/ Protect-U and Geo Rip
arielle @reallygordon.bsky.social a day late / a buck short
Jon Pareles @jonpareles.bsky.social always listening
Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social Mostly Lou Reed
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/
Pete Swanson @peteswans.bsky.social Possessed by sound. Yellow Swans. Freedom To Spend
Jenni @jennicatherine.bsky.social Just here for BTS photos
Shawn Brackbill @sbrackbill.bsky.social www.shawnbrackbill.com
Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
Board member @freedom.press
Speaker at UTA
Michael Zelenko @mvzelenko.bsky.social Executive Editor, Rest of World
Ric Leichtung @riccie.bsky.social adhoc
they/them
Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social Epistemologist @ NYmag
Writing in NYmag, Pitchfork, Harpers, NPR Music, Rolling Stone, Noisey, FADER, Outline, Pacific Standard, Mother Jones, New York Times, etc.
Co-author of 3x3, an occasional music newsletter: https://threexthree.substack.com/
M. Geddes Gengras @m-geddes.bsky.social not ambient, not new age, but a secret third thing.
https://linktr.ee/gedgengras
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.99 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device)
https://sambiddle.com
Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair
Hard Wax @hardwax.com Record Store
Hyperdub @hyperdub.bsky.social Record Label, South London
www.hyperdub.net
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/hyperdubrecords
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social I'm almost always trying to make the text flow better or reduce the number of words. Music writing in The Wire, Electronic Sound, The Quietus, LRB, elsewhere. slowmotion.blog
Olivia Block @oliviablock.bsky.social Composer, producer of
experimental music, media artist, installations. Currently writing songs about geology, animals.
jenn pelly @jennpelly.bsky.social journalist, critic, diarist
author of The Raincoats (2017)
jennpelly.info
Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social TV critic & union woman @ TIME. Writer & catastrophist @ Brooklyn. Exhausted & bored @ Twitter. Guess I'm here now, too.
Smugglers Way @smugglersway.bsky.social An imprint of Domino Recording Co.
Ela Minus & Nick León
qué les pasó an mis amigos? EP
Dig Aug 7 / 12" Nov 20
Alexis Taylor & Mike Simonetti
I See A Darkness / Perfect Kiss - 12"
Braxe + Falcon / KAS & Joe Goddard / Guedra Guedra / Disiniblud
boomkat.com @boomkat.com Independent music specialist
Jonah Bromwich @jonesieman.bsky.social My book, “Dragon on Centre Street” is out! https://bookshop.org/a/1688/9798893310450
Bill Orcutt @billorcutt.bsky.social Real good typer
Josh Russell @jrussjruss.bsky.social New York City courts reporter, chiefly SDNY, @courthousenews.bsky.social
--- Part Time Punk DJ monthly on The Lot Radio in Brooklyn
-- contact newyork@courthousenews.com
------ signal: jrussjruss.73
https://www.courthousenews.com/author/josh-russell/
Jeremy D. Larson @jeremydlarson.bsky.social deputy director @pitchfork
jeremydlarson.com
Philip Sherburne @philipsherburne.bsky.social Pitchfork / Lapsus Radio / Balmat
Substack: http://futurismrestated.substack.com
Label: http://balmat.cat
Mixes: http://soundcloud.com/psherburne
Menorca, Spain
Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social Your critic and co-listener // ex-Washington Post // reccos/rants/prayers/curses at thefutureisourstomake.substack.com // contact me: christopherpaulrichards at proton dot me
Rachel Handler @rachelhandler.bsky.social features writer @ new york mag/vulture
just here so i don’t get fined
hunter harris @hunterh.bsky.social writes a newsletter called hung up / formerly gossip girl, nymag
Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social Pencil pusher
Sam Hockley-Smith @samhockleysmith.bsky.social Writer and editor. Words in most places but also not some of them.
Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social Writer, music and other things
http://blissout.blogspot.com/
Amy Phillips @amyphillips.bsky.social Former Pitchfork Executive Editor. Mom. No Fun.
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.
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
brian foote @brianfoote.bsky.social kranky, peak oil, conflict of interest, leech, smoke point, foote/dickow, false aralia, FO
Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social rock and pop music critic, @wsj, freelance elsewhere • former EIC @pitchfork • markrichardson.org • markrichardson.substack.com
Marc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Bylines: FT, NYT, NPR, IBM, S&P. Past lives: Pitchfork, SPIN, BusinessWeek. marchogan at gmail dot com. He/him. Iowa since 2009, but ex–NY, IL, MA, AZ, TN; CA native. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-hogan-00b34b1a photo by Erol Reyal