Robert Christgau @rxgau.bsky.social Rock critic since 1967, ain't stopping now. Consumer Guide reborn at robertchristgau.substack.com. 
Daryl Worthington @darylworthington.bsky.social Spool's Out cassette reviews columnist at The Quietus. Sound maker at Beachers. Co-runner of Bezirk tape label. 
Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social The gentle rumble of distant dub thunder.
https://www.rob-chapman.com
Static Sounds Club @staticsoundsclub.bsky.social A music blog focused on shoegaze, psych and post rock.....and anything else I like! Find me here.
https://static-sounds-club.link.cam
Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social Music, travel, books, comics, 20th century pop culture, MKE, bikes, and then some. Happily retired too.
Ben Salmon @bcsalmon.bsky.social bylines at Bandcamp Daily, SPIN, Paste, Aquarium Drunkard, the Portland Mercury and elsewhere. radio show at KPOV 88.9 FM #inBend, Oregon.
Jennifer Kelly @jenpkelly.bsky.social Dusted editor, Aquarium Drunkard, Bandcamp contributor, Knicks fan, sci fi writer
@strangedisciple.bsky.social @strangedisciple.bsky.social Sharing and discussing good music. Generally staying positive here. Eldest millennial. He/Him
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.
Pravda Records @pravdarecords.bandcamp.com Chicago’s longest running indie rock label. Established 1984. www.pravdamusic.com
Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) @alanranta.bsky.social Rants about things, usually music, sometimes for money. Bylines seen in PopMatters, Bandcamp, Georgia Straight and Exclaim! Longtime juror for the Polaris Prize and Juno Awards.
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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.
Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social rock and pop music critic, @wsj, freelance elsewhere • former EIC @pitchfork • markrichardson.org • markrichardson.substack.com
Longreads @longreads.com Sharing and publishing the best longform stories at longreads.com since 2009. Sister site of @atavist.com.
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social Music writer and journalist, a founding editor of Allmusic now freelancer for hire. Bylines at Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Mojo Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and more. Subscribe to my Newsletter: sterlewine.substack.com
Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social Books (Rebel Rebel; Ashes to Ashes), blogs (64 Quartets; Pushing Ahead of the Dame; Locust St.)
Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social the cleveland of reviews of books
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Alana Pockros @apockros.bsky.social engagement & editing at The Nation and Cleveland Review of Books; criticism, essays, and contact info: alanapockros.com
Tusk Is Better @tuskisbetter.bsky.social Tusk Is Better Than Rumours
Music writing at Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily, The Wire, Tone Glow, Tiny Mix Tapes (rip)
Joshua Minsoo Kim @misterminsoo.bsky.social 
Rosy Overdrive @rosyoverdrive.com World-famous music blog rosyoverdrive.com
Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social A @storystudiochicago.bsky.social publication! Editor-in-Chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social
Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. www.publicbooks.org
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social All about books since 1994. Subscribe to our print magazine today.
n+1 @nplusonemag.com n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social Critic @nytimes.com. The kind of girl who goes to a late movie in the middle of the week, I'm crazy. Author of WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES (paperback out now!), SALTY (2022), AFTERGLOW (forthcoming). Teaching at NYU XE.
Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social Culture writer at Slate, published in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, THR, and points south. Member: New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, WGA East
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!
Stereogum @stereogum.com 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉’𝖘 𝖇𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖈 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖌
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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com Bandcamp is an online record store and music community where passionate fans connect with and directly support the artists they love.
Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com only the good shit.
Amanda M Hatfield @robotsvsghosts.bsky.social photographer (of live music + more), visual artist, crazy cat lady, awkward.
former photo editor, social media manager, news, etc at brooklynvegan.
she/her, gay
Robin Hilton @robinpr.bsky.social Sr. Producer and host for Tiny Desks and All Songs Considered at NPRMusic, composer, ruminator, Jayhawk. Rock chalk! (Not Moby)
www.npr.org/allsongs
www.robinhiltonmusic.com
Zara Hedderman @zarahedderman.bsky.social Listens to albums & writes (mostly) & talks (sometimes) about them in The Quietus, Aquarium Drunkard, Northern Transmissions, RTÉ Arena, The IMRO Podcast.
📩: heddermanzara@gmail.com
Newsletter: The Bad Arts
Treble @treblezine.bsky.social Groundbreaking music, independent media.
https://www.treblezine.com
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
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
World Cafe @worldcafe.bsky.social Bringing music discovery to nearly a million listeners on NPR stations nationwide, World Cafe is hosted by Raina Douris with contributing host Stephen Kallao and produced by WXPN in Philadelphia.
WXPN @wxpnfm.bsky.social Where music discovery brings us together!
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raina douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social host & writer of world cafe, heard nationally daily from npr & produced at wxpn // voice on pretty dim wonder & pixar's sodas// formerly cbc // instagram: rahrahraina // friend to all
Exclaim! @exclaimdotca.bsky.social Canada's authority on music, film and comedy. Find us at exclaim.ca
The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social “The most essential music magazine of the contemporary era.” (Forced Exposure)
thewire.co.uk
Under the Radar Magazine @undertheradar.bsky.social The last great American indie rock print magazine left standing. Since 2001. Issue 75, The '90s Issue Part 2 with Pulp and Suede on the covers, is out now. www.undertheradarmag.com
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
jill mapes @jillmapes.bsky.social oh, ya know // co-everything, hearing things
Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social Independent music journalism. No algorithms. We promise.
Hayden Merrick @haydenmerrick.bsky.social Features Editor at The Line of Best Fit. Just peddlin’ sonic truths. London, UK.
https://muckrack.com/hayden-merrick
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
claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social “the glamorous node of glasgow” –grant morrison / writing about music + films @ the wire, the guardian, tribune, the quietus, little white lies, singles jukebox + / big opinions @ overinvested podcast / zines @ everywhere / https://clairebiddles.carrd.co/
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
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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social just play the song, schneebly
📓 associate staff writer Pitchfork
🎙️ co-host Punk This Week
✏️ words at stereogum, npr, rolling stone, vulture, wired, etc. firstname.lastname@gmail.com
Bill Pearis @soundbitesnyc.bsky.social Ousted BrooklynVegan editor, general music nerd; also likes food, film, television, adventures and whatnot
Please don't call me Reg: it's not my name
Resident Advisor @residentadvisor.bsky.social Front left since 2001.
www.ra.co 
The FADER @thefader.bsky.social Look ahead. Instagram: instagram.com/thefader
Mags & merch: shop.thefader.com
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
jenn schiffer 😮💨 @jennschiffer.com human genius
jennschiffer.com
Andy Baio @andy.baio.net The poster formerly known as "waxpancake". I make @Waxy.org and @xoxofest.com. Also: Skittish, Upcoming, Supercut, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter.
WWW: https://waxy.org
Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio
XOXO @xoxofest.com XOXO was an experimental festival for independent artists and creators from the internet.
🌐 xoxofest.com
Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
📍 London
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Are.na @are.na https://are.na
Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social Writer and editor for @Bloomberg @CityLab. Texan. Chili purist.
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💌: kcapps3@bloomberg.net
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Roman Mars @romanmars.bsky.social Creator of 99% Invisible, Trump Con Law, A History of the US in 100 Objects, Power Broker Breakdown- http://99pi.org
TEDTalk on flags w/ over 7M views
NYT Bestseller The 99% Invisible City: http://99pi.org/book
East Bay, CA
Alum: Oberlin, Simon's Rock, UGA
Craig Mod @craigmod.com Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years.
Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!!
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craigmod.com
Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social “Writer" - The New Yorker. “Author” - New York Times. “A fabulous old soul” - Russ & Daughters Instagram account. “Unlikely model” - BBC. My novel “Kaplan’s Plot” is out on Flatiron.
Rachel Syme @rachsyme.bsky.social Writer. Woman about town. Here now, I guess. 
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
Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social 🧡💚💙 A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com
Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social Classics and discoveries from around the world, thematically programmed with special features, on a streaming service brought to you by Criterion.
Fan account ready to be claimed by Criterion.
The Criterion Collection @criterion.bsky.social Since 1984, we’ve dedicated ourselves to gathering and publishing the greatest films from around the world. criterion.com
The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
https://www.theparisreview.org/
https://theparisreview.substack.com/
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
Rob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social robhorning.substack.com
Garbage Day @garbageday.email I'm a newsletter (and sometimes other stuff) about the internet (and sometimes other stuff)
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
Waxy.org @waxy.org Since 2002, hot links and cool takes from Andy Baio aka @andy.baio.net.
WWW: https://waxy.org/
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kottke.org @kottke.org home of fine hypertext products since 1998. https://kottke.org
Dash Lewis // Gardener @gardenerjams.bsky.social dash lewis // 🎵: gardener - synth & voice //
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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
Fat Possum Records @fatpossumrecords.bsky.social we're trying our best
https://linktr.ee/fatpossum
Heavenly Recordings @heavenlyrecordings.bsky.social Independent record label est.1990.
Believe In Magic.
Follow us on Bandcamp for up to the minute news of new releases, restocks and limited editions.
👉 https://heavenlyrecordings.bandcamp.com/.
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The Antlers @theantlers.bsky.social New album Blight out now on Transgressive Records • Peter Silberman + Michael Lerner • https://linktr.ee/theantlers
Third Man Records @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social Record Label • Store • Live Venue • And More…
Hardly Art @hardlyart.bsky.social 
4AD @4ad.com 
Beggars Group @beggarsgroup.bsky.social The Beggars Group is the home of 4AD, Matador Records, Rough Trade Records, XL Recordings and Young.
ASIAN MAN RECORDS @asianmanrecords.bsky.social DIY since 1996-run out of my moms garage in sunny SAN JOSE, CA
KINDNESS/EQUALITY/ANTI RACIST ❤ music, degrassi. AMR is just me. PEACE, mike park
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Death Cab for Cutie @deathcabforcutie.bsky.social New album 'I Built You A Tower' out now on Anti Records. 2026 World Tour on sale now. deathcabforcutie.ffm.to/ibyat
@jagjaguwar.bsky.social @jagjaguwar.bsky.social 
Hatchie @hihatchie.bsky.social New single ‘Lose It Again’ out now 💋
New album ‘Liquorice’ out Nov 7 via Secretly Canadian
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Men I Trust @menitrust.bsky.social Reserved 
Beggars France @beggarsfrance.bsky.social Les labels 4AD, Matador, Rough Trade, XL et Young en France : The Smile, Jamie xx, Big Thief, Fontaines D.C., etc.
https://beggars.fr
@matadorrecords.bsky.social
@4AD.com
Car Seat Headrest Merchandise @carseatmerch.bsky.social Official merchandise account for the band Car Seat Headrest. Account is ran by their merch person, Emily!