Backseat Mafia @backseatmafia.bsky.social 
Dom Tyer @atangleofwires.bsky.social Punk rock, alt rock and indie music. Occasional writer.
https://open.substack.com/pub/tangleofwires
LOUD WOMEN @loudwomen.org Intersectional feminist music CIC, turning up the volume since 2015. UK, Ireland, Spain, USA, Canada and Aus.
https://linktr.ee/LOUDWOMENClub
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.
I CARE IF YOU LISTEN @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social The leading new music publication in the U.S. dedicated to living composers.
Powered by American Composers Forum
https://icareifyoulisten.com/
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social Music obsessive. Record shop frequenter. Occasional self-elected gatekeeper. Clash Magazine’s vinyl nerd. @justplayed on Twitter, @justplayedvinyl on Threads & IG.
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.
The List @thelistuk.bsky.social Monthly Scottish arts and culture magazine covering #Glasgow & #Edinburgh since 1985.
list.co.uk
No Ripcord @noripcord.bsky.social Honest music criticism since 1999.
Glide Magazine @glidemag.bsky.social #music #film #culture Independent source of music and movie news & reviews since 2003. https://glidemagazine.com/
Ernest Jenning Record Co. @ejrc.bsky.social Record label. General enthusiast.
www.ernestjenning.com
Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Extremely humble legend. Writer of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI, RARE SINGLES, CUDDY, THE OFFING, THE GALLOWS POLE (BBC/Shane Meadows), THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE etc. Books: https://bio.site/benjaminmyers
Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social Music writer (dCS Audio, Electronic Sound, Metro, Uncut). Ex staffer at Melody Maker and Time Out. Coastal dweller. Art, film, books etc. 
Perennial @perennialtheband.bsky.social mod punk rhythm & noise
New England
https://orcd.co/beatscene
12XU @12xurecs.bsky.social record label / mail order / griping 24/7
Water Damage, USA/Mexico, Lewsberg, Voice Imitator, Mope Grooves, Lupo Cittá, Winged Wheel, Blank Hellscape, Chris Brokaw, Weak Signal, Chimers, Gerycz/Powers/Rolin, Borzoi, Rocket 808 and so many more
Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social doctor of apocalypse, now with barbiton lyre
emilypothast.com
Spectrum Culture @spectrumculture.bsky.social Film, music and book reviews. Proudly based in Portland, OR!
www.spectrumculture.com
@athens441.bsky.social @athens441.bsky.social GPB's fab weekly indie music show hosted by JoE Silva ( author of #TheMiniMoogBook )
https://www.athens441.org
Colette Arrand @colettearrand.bsky.social An enigmatic warrior who marches to the beat of her own drum.
Eddie Monkman @eddiemonkman.bsky.social Yorkshire-based journalist. York Press, The Line of Best Fit and News Associates.
Doug Wallen @dougwallen.bsky.social Arts journalist, band booker & broadcaster in Australia https://linktr.ee/dougwallen
Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social A website, a newsletter, a record label. All posts by Phil Freeman, co-founder/co-owner. BUY PHYSICAL MUSIC.
David Glickman @sublimebombast.bsky.social Freelance Music Writer. Stuff at Pitchfork, RA, CREEM, and Bandcamp. Former bookseller at McNally Jackson. 
FLOOD Magazine @floodmagazine.bsky.social FLOOD spans the cultural landscape of music, TV, film, art, travel, and everything in between.
Michael Bonner @michaelbonner.bsky.social Editor UNCUT magazine; heavy duty ultra stabilized
Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com The latest news and more from Rolling Stone magazine and http://RollingStone.com. Got a tip? Share it here: http://rol.st/tips
Progressive Rock Journal @progrockjournal.bsky.social Independent Progressive Rock Webzine
Since 2019: Reviews, Interviews, News and Hidden Rarities in Prog Rock/Metal, Psych, Doom and beyond.
🔗 www.progrockjournal.com
Get Better Records @getbetterrecords.bsky.social Queer/Trans artist run label ⦿ Est. 2009
Located on Tongva & Chumash lands aka Los Angeles ⛓️email hello@getbetterrecords.com⛓️
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com Freelance Music Publicist, SiriusXM Host, Shameless Idealist, I talk about music in the media. Eric@ThatEricAlper.com
Snappstare @snappstare.bsky.social A human with a penchant for writing about and sharing indie music (and art, theatre, puppetry, photography and poetry). Also a nemophilist.
Our Favourite Places @ourfaveplaces.bsky.social A Sheffield culture guide written by in-the-know locals.
https://ourfaveplaces.co.uk
From Eleven Design: https://elevendesign.co.uk.
Organisers of Photomarathon Sheffield: http://photomarathonsheffield.co.uk.
That's Good Enough For Me @tgefm.bsky.social Music news for people who like music.
https://linktr.ee/tgefm
The Invisible College @jjstannard.bsky.social LEARN AKLO with THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE
www.theinvisiblecollegehastings.wordpress.com
www.instagram.com/theinvisiblecollegehastings
www.youtube.com/@theinvisiblecollegehastings
Deputy Editor of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social
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
@loosecanonradio.bsky.social @loosecanonradio.bsky.social 
Hot Press @hotpress.com 
Todd L. Burns @toddlburns.bsky.social Editor
https://toddlburns.substack.com/
Sean Murray @manicdepressean.bsky.social Writes.
Latest piece: The Record in the Window: On The Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed ⬇️
smurray1987.substack.com
Ransom Note @theransomnote.com Music & Culture Website. Record Label. Gatherings. @WatchingTrees
www.theransomnote.com
Twistedsoul @twistedsoul.bsky.social 𝙿𝙴𝚁𝙼𝙴𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚂 𝚆𝙸𝚃𝙷 𝙶𝙾𝙾𝙳 𝙼𝚄𝚂𝙸𝙲.
𝙹𝚘𝚒𝚗 𝚞𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚘𝚗 𝚊 𝚃𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚢 👉 𝙱𝚕𝚞𝚎-𝙸𝚗-𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚗:𝚁𝙰𝙳𝙸𝙾.
twistedsoulmusic.org
http://linktr.ee/Twistedsoul
Now Then magazine @nowthenmag.bsky.social A magazine for #Sheffield by Opus. Local news and culture. Online only (for now). Got a tip-off or want to write? Get in touch.
👉 nowthenmagazine.com
Greg Wetherall @gregwetherall.bsky.social Music + Culture Journalist. Words upon a time: Dazed, Guardian, NME, FT, and more. Lawyer at Gov (Costs Law). Spurs ST holder. Frustrated musician.
www.gregwetherall.co.uk
Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social Freelance Writer.
Dream Smotherer.
London Library Emerging Writer.
Words: Resident Music, The Quietus, Bandcamp etc
https://pacificbeliefs.journoportfolio.com/writing/
Dog Day @dogdaypress.bsky.social dreamers and chancers. home of Dog Day Press and Dog Day Records
info at dogdaypress dot com
https://dogdaypress.com/
https://dogdayrecs.bandcamp.com
Sheffield Folk Guide @sheffieldfolkguide.bsky.social A guide to folk music and dance events in and near Sheffield by @KathyBarnes. Please see www.sheffieldfolkguide.org.uk. A non-commercial information sharing service.
Rob Fitzpatrick @robfitzp.bsky.social I make podcasts - States of Independence is out now! - and music as Ronnie & Clyde. I write things about music and podcasts. A varied diet then. Say hello - soipodBB@gmail.com
WayneAFCarey @wayneafcarey.bsky.social 
Ian Corbridge @iancorbridge.bsky.social A Sheffield lad with a lovely wife, 3 great kids and a passion for the Owls and music. Writer for Louder Than War https://louderthanwar.com/author/ian-corbridge/
ReGen Magazine @regenmag.bsky.social An online publication focusing on industrial, electronic, goth, and other underground alternative music, art, and culture.
ReGenerate Your Mind!
Connect with us: https://linktr.ee/regenmag
Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/regenmagazine
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
Jason P. Woodbury @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social “When you begin a note, it comes from somewhere and keeps going forever…Part of it does, anyway…Nothing is lost. Everything keeps going around.” —W.A. Mathieu
Writer, podcaster, musician.
sound qualities @padlife.bsky.social vinyl person writing about music you need to hear
4eva wading in the Cosmic slop
byline and opinions:plentiful
https://www.clippings.me/sounddqualities
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
HoZac Records & Books @hozacrecordsbooks.bsky.social 
Cruel Nature Records @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social Independent label based in North East England supporting artists world-wide. Purveyors of sonic diversity since 2013
https://linktr.ee/cruelnature
Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social Mostly Lou Reed
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/
Y Selar @selar.cymru Cylchgrawn cerddoriaeth Gymraeg gyfoes https://selar.cymru
PYST @pyst.bsky.social Gwasanaeth dosbarthu a hyrwyddo cerddoriaeth i labeli Cymru / A music distribution and promotion service for independent labels in Wales
Adam Walton @adamthomaswalton.bsky.social Radio human. BBC Introducing in Wales. BBC Radio Wales. Makes music. Writes about music. Loves Ava, Bekki, music, reading, collecting minerals, Wales, cooking, photography, galleries, mooching, Elliott Smith, fountain pens, bric-a-brac, Ghibli, 90's RPG's.
David Owens @davidowensjourno.bsky.social Features editor, Nation Cymru. All the right words not necessarily in the right order. david.owens@nation.cymru
Sodajerker @sodajerker.bsky.social Our award-winning podcast, Sodajerker On Songwriting, features interviews with some of the world's most successful songwriters: http://sodajerker.com/podcast.
Keith Cameron @keithcameron2.bsky.social Contributing Editor, MOJO magazine.
168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers out now. keithcameron.co.uk
David Hutcheon @hutchie.bsky.social Dunoon-Phnom Penh-Sana’a-Kyzyl-Kidal-Tegucigalpa.
Now embarking on Life 3.0
Talkhouse @talkhouse.bsky.social Writing and conversations about music and film, from the people who make them; a home for all of your favorite podcasts.
MAGNET Magazine @magnetmagazine.bsky.social Real Music Alternatives
Established 1993
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.
Bandcamp @bandcamp.com Bandcamp is an online record store and music community where passionate fans connect with and directly support the artists they love.
Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social Writer and mumbler. Haunted Generation, Fortean Times, Electronic Sound, Doctor Who Magazine, Shindig, Mulgrave Audio, Wiffle Lever To Full, Scarred For Life and Summer Winos. Summat to do innit
Camilla Aisa @camillaaisa.bsky.social freelance music scribe (Shindig!, Record Collector), in-house writer/social media manager/publicist @ Independent Project Records, social media manager @ various, bass player, cat lady lured into the dark side (dogs)
Lottie Elton @lottieelton.bsky.social Big Issue reporter
✉️ lottie.elton@bigissue.com
Kathryn Reilly Artificer @kathrynreilly.bsky.social Incessantly nosey writer, editor and artist. Admirer of dogs, Kathy Burke and Self Esteem (amongst others).
A CLOSER LISTEN @acloserlisten.bsky.social dedicated to instrumental and experimental music. info at acloserlisten dot com // Sound Propositions podcast // *Press A*
https://acloserlisten.com/
https://acloserlisten.substack.com
(account managed by @josephsannicandro.bsky.social)
mary anne hobbs @maryannehobbs.bsky.social wild horse..
BBC 6 Music Sunday 6-8pm
The 6 Mix Friday 11pm
https://www.instagram.com/maryannehobbs_
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social yells in the band daddy’s boy // part of flaming hydra // member: tja, iww fju // union YES // another world is possible if we can get it together
pickle darling @pickledarling.bsky.social Father/Daughter Records
NZ press: daria@thelabel.co.nz
US press: andi@terrorbird.com
UK press: liv@onebeatpr.com
Sync Licensing: syncteam@terrorbird.com
NZ booking: anthony@onehundredpercent.nz
Father/Daughter Records @father-daughter.bsky.social ☆ Independent Record Label
☆ Women owned & operated
☆ fatherdaughterrecords.com/store
Fran Carlyon @francarlyon.bandcamp.com lo-fi folk, electronic explorations: linktr.ee/francarlyon
Home Truths out now on YYZ Records: https://yyzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/home-truths
Buffet Lunch @buffetlunchband.bsky.social Edinburgh Band
The New Cue @thenewcue.bsky.social A music newsletter delivered every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning, featuring interviews, recommendations & more. From the former editors of Q. Sign up here and explore our archive here: https://thenewcue.substack.com/
Ted Kessler @tedkessler.bsky.social Former editor of magazines that no longer exist.
Paper Cuts published by White Rabbit http://bit.ly/PaperCutsTK. More recently: To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorised Unauthorised History of Billy Childish
Also, http://thenewcue.substack.com
Rebecca Schiffman @rebeccaschiffman.bsky.social New album “Before the Future” out now (July, 25, 2025) https://lnk.to/beforethefuturealbum
Lost Sound Club & Tapes @lostsoundtapes.com ✏️ Jon Manning aka Malasada. 📼🤙
Celebrating music full of tenderness and passion since 2005.
Sub-underground label.
Seattle, WA → Vancouver, BC
https://linktr.ee/lostsoundtapes
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Katie Kurtz @katiekurtz.bsky.social Proud Friend | Writer | GenXer | Wilderness Flâneuse
WIP: Most Likely to be Forgotten: A Murders Investigation 
Frank Nieto @fdnieto.bsky.social Senior Director of Publicity
Sub Pop + Hardly Art
@subpop.bsky.social
@hardlyart.bsky.social
He/Him. LGBTQIA. Pete's husband. Bamboo's dad. 🇲🇽🏳️🌈
isabella ambrosio @ambrosiowrites.bsky.social a wee 🇮🇪🇺🇸 music journo //
the weekend editor at metal injection //
as seen in: altpress, business insider, clash, diy, kerrang!, louder, new noise, outburn, and more. //
https://isabellawrites.com // ambrosiowrites@gmail.com
Sonic Cathedral @soniccathedral.bsky.social The label that celebrates itself
https://linktr.ee/soniccathedral
Safe Suburban Home Records @safesuburban.bsky.social Indie Record Label - York, UK - https://linktr.ee/safesuburbanhome
Recent Roster - Lone Striker / Publicity Department / LP Gavin / Little Oso / Stuart Pearce / Teenage Tom Petties / LOWMOON / Autocamper / Healees / Cowgirl / Perennial / Oort Clod + more
@janglepophub.bsky.social @janglepophub.bsky.social 
Peter Meeuwsen @petermwsn.bsky.social booking agent based in Berlin
roster: https://puschen.net/roster
soft silly music is meaningful magical
Michael Azerrad @michaelazerrad.bsky.social Author of _The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana_ and _Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991_.
Bylines: the New Yorker, the Yale Review, the New York Times, etc.
Silent Radio @silentradio.bsky.social Music website based in Manchester. Gig guide, interviews, reviews & plenty more. Est. 2009
Welsh Music Prize // Gwobr Gerddoriaeth Gymreig @welshmusicprize.bsky.social Welsh Music Prize - celebrating music from Wales. 6 October 2025 Wales Millenium Centre // Gwobr Gerddoriaeth Gymreig - dathlu cerddoriaeth o Gymru. 6 Hydref, Canolfan Mileniwm .
Submit albums and info // Cyflwynwch albymau a gwybodaeth www.wmp.cymru
Eli @elienis.bsky.social Chasing Sundays. Writing a big book about shoegaze. Podcaster at @endlessscroll.bsky.social. Bylines at Stereogum, Pitchfork, Fader, Billboard, Rolling Stone, etc.
Subscribe to Chasing Sundays: elienis.com
Our Culture @ourculture.bsky.social Home for arts & culture 
Frankie Cosmos @frankiecosmos.bsky.social 
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
brittany spanos 🧿 @ohheybrittany.bsky.social subscribe to BRIT POP on substack
Paul Whitelaw @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social I write about pop culture. Credits include The Scotsman, The Big Issue, Radio Times, Classic Rock, Doctor Who Magazine and BBC Radio Scotland's Afternoons show. Co-creator of the So Disappointed podcast. Black cat enabler.
paulbwhitelaw.blogspot.com