Archive of Contemporary Music @arcmusicny.bsky.social Largest collection of popular music in the world. The ARChive of Contemporary Music is a not-for-profit music library and archive located in New York City. Join us: arcmusic.org.
Rob Tannenbaum @robt.bsky.social Writer, but who isn’t? Currently producing a four-CD box set of CBGB bands 1974-1984, and working on a documentary about a band you’ve never heard of.
@allyce223.bsky.social @allyce223.bsky.social 
Mike Diver @mikediver.bsky.social Mostly works in marketing. Mostly.
Author of gaming books including Aliens: The Video Games, the first complete history of Alien/s games, available now.
#saintsfc- B byron coley @byroncoley.bsky.social western mass-based writer, archivist & poseur
Nicholas Wroe @nicholaswroe.bsky.social Former writer and editor on the Guardian Review now freelancing. Arts & books. Comms for Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra. Swansea City FC. Bikes.
MOJO Magazine @mojomagazine.bsky.social Music of substance.
mojo4music.com
new modern books @newmodernbooks.bsky.social passions, pastimes and popular culture
www.newmodernbooks.co.uk
Ira Robbins / Trouser Press Books @irarobbins.bsky.social Trouser Press, Trouser Press Books, journalist, novelist, critic, editor, currently catless, red diaper baby, lifetime New Yorker
https://www.hopp.bio/tpbooks
Tim Riley @timrileyauthor.bsky.social @wbur @npr @LAReviewofBooks @wers889 @ecjrn
the riley rock report:
then visits now
https://rileyrockreport.substack.com
https://timrileyauthor.com author page
Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social Cultural critic. Author. Coined "Afrofuturism." Theorized "culture jamming." Antifascist AF. Editor/writing coach for hire: https://coaching.markdery.com/. Read me: https://www.markdery.com/articles/
Buffalo Tom Official @buffalotomband.bsky.social Founded in 1986. Still a band, yes. buffalotom.com
Phil Alexander @philalexander.bsky.social Creative Director at Echo Velvet among other things…
I like records…
Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social Writer for newspapers and magazines, sleevenotes etc. Two books: Denim and Leather, and The Gospel of the Hold Steady. QPR supporter, hoping always that change really is possible
Carl Magnus Palm @carlmagnuspalm.bsky.social Author, researcher, lecturer. Mostly on ABBA. Author of award-winning ABBA – The Complete Recording Sessions; biography Bright Lights Dark Shadows – The Definitive Biography Of ABBA, and many more books.
Yep Roc Records @yeproc.bsky.social Artist-driven record label, est. 1997
John Mendelssohn (you / your) @johnmendelssohn.bsky.social I am a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Sarcasm.I reside on the southwestern tip of London, where I compose songs, take long walks along the Thames, and write six essays every week for johnmendelssohn.substack.com, to which please subscribe.
Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern.bsky.social author, biography of justin townes earle
senior research editor at rolling stone
he/him
https://jonbernsteinwriting.com/
John L. Walters @johnlwalters.bsky.social Writer, composer, editor, musician, record producer.
Hue And Cry @hueandcry.bsky.social Brothers who make music together
Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social Currently - Luke Haines and Peter Buck. Black Box Recorder. Minus 5 (when called into service) Swell Maps (occasionally)
Formerley - The Auteurs,
Writes a bit, paints a bit. Strums guitar.
siân pattenden @sian-superman.bsky.social stuff
Republic Media @republicmedia.bsky.social UK based promotions company working mainly in the music industry www.republicmedia.net/
Rick Clark @rickclark.bsky.social Creative: including Music Supervisor (Dark Winds, Greenleaf, Hell On Wheels, Hap & Leonard), Writer, Songwriter, Producer, and host of WYXR-FM weekly show, Air-Conditioned. Music, Movies/TV, Books, Photography, Travel, anti-trump, No porn, marketing, DMs
Ken Tucker @kentucker.bsky.social Music critic NPR's Fresh Air. Book, TV, movie critic: EW, New York Times, Village Voice, Rolling Stone, New York Mag, etc
David Cantwell @cantkill.bsky.social Music critic. Husband. Dog Lover. Author of “The Running Kind: Listening to Merle Haggard.” Cofounder No Fences Review. Midwesterner
ZE Books @ze-books.bsky.social Publishing extraordinary literary and visual works by groundbreaking writers, artists, musicians, and thinkers from around the world. Founded in 2019 by Michael Zilkha. zebooks.com
Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social Guy in Buffalo Tom. Author, Leon Russell, Rolling Stones, & 2025: The Cars: Let the Stories Be Told. https://linktr.ee/billjanovitz
Michael A. Gonzales @magonzales.bsky.social Born and raised in Harlem, Michael A. Gonzales has been anointed "the hip-hop Chester Himes" by Miles Marshall Lewis. He's published true-crime essays at CrimeReads, and short stories in Ellery Queen and Rock & a Hard Place.
--art by Tony Stella
Debra Geddes @debrageddes.bsky.social Music PR - Great Northern PR
London + Liverpool 🐕🐕
The Giddy Carousel of Pop @giddypoppod.bsky.social A Smash Hits appreciation podcast. Follow us on your podcast app of choice.
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.
Louder Than Words Festival @lthanwordsfest.bsky.social The UK’s biggest #MusicLitFest. Books, Music, In Conversations, Panel Discussions, Performances, Socialising & more!
14-16 November, 2025. Manchester.
Guy Osborn @guyosborn.bsky.social Co-Artistic Director at The Soho Poly, www.sohopoly.co.uk
Academic at the University of Westminster, https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/osborn-guy
Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure, the only gong that matters 
Bill Brewster @djhistory.bsky.social DJ, writer, idiot.
Bookings: ryan@thepool-london.com
Michael Goldberg @mgoldbergthewriter.bsky.social Writer & photographer & editor. Founded Addicted To Noise, the first online music magazine. Senior writer and west coast music editor at Rolling Stone for a decade. Latest book: “Jukebox: Photographs 1967 - 2023” which can be ordered from HoZac Records.
James Lilford @jameslilford.bsky.social Editorial director, New Modern
Graeme Thomson @graemethomson.bsky.social Writes books. In Another World: The Four Seasons of Talk Talk out now.
Also: Under The Ivy; Small Hours; Themes For Great Cities &tc.
Web: www.graemethomson.net
Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club @rnrbook-club.bsky.social We host great author events and have a podcast called Music Maps @musicmaps.bsky.social
https://rocknrollbookclub.co.uk/
Walthamstow, London and beyond…
Luke Bainbridge @lukebainbridge.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author and ghostwriter. Festival organiser and consultant. Dad to Ava and Edie.
Cocteau Twins Official @cocteauofficial.bsky.social Official bluesky page for Cocteau Twins
The Bangles @thebangles.bsky.social Founded by Susanna Hoffs and sisters Vicki and Debbi Peterson, The Bangles are best known for chart-topping 80's hits including Eternal Flame, Walk Like An Egyptian, Manic Monday, and Hazy Shade of Winter ~ www.thebangles.com
Jeff Tamarkin @jefftamarkin.bsky.social Freelance writer/editor specializing in rock, jazz and other music. Proud lifelong liberal. No MAGA/Repubs. Husband of Caroline (with a C!) Leavitt. Dad of Max. No posts or profile=block. No DM unless I know you. Resist Trump!
Tony Burke @tonyburke62.bsky.social COO and co-founder at @gladcloudinsta ; Engineer, Serial Entrepreneur/Co-Founder, Experienced CXO, Musician, Science Nut!
Del Cowie @delcowie.bsky.social Writer @hiphopevolution ,This Is Pop (Netflix)/Black Community Mixtapes (Prime Video) /Black Life (CBC) /Bibliophonic editor @invisibooks
Nick Watt @nickwatt61.bsky.social Content and digital marketer. Spent 20+ years in the music business, 12 at the NME. Former EMEA editor of cmo.com. I help run the Walthamstow Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club https://rocknrollbookclub.co.uk/
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
Pick A Disc: A Music Podcast @pickadisc.bsky.social A music podcast where the guest nominates an album to talk about for whatever reason they want to.
Hosted by: @mattjlatham.bsky.social
Part of: We Dig Music Podcast Network.
https://linktr.ee/pickadisc
Email: pickadisc@gmail.com
Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social Contributing Editor at Monocle, host of Monocle Radio's The Foreign Desk and The Daily. Author of four scandalously under-rated books.
Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social Writer, sub-editor, pizza-maker. The Guardian, MOJO, Loose Lips Sink Ships. Books. The good shit. steviechick.com
@iangittins.bsky.social @iangittins.bsky.social Writer, bluffer, friendly ghost. iangittins.com
Graham Parker @grahampar.bsky.social Superannuated scribbler
Drowned in Sound | Newsletter & Podcast & Community @drownedinsound.org DiS is one of the original music blogs and online communities, founded back in 2000. Its back as a weekly newsletter about the future of music and as a podcast hosted by founder Sean Adams. ⚓︎ http://drownedinsound.org
Penny Kiley @pennykiley.bsky.social Oxford-based writer and editor. Former music journo. Autistic. Memoir 'Atypical Girl' published by Polygon. https://linktr.ee/pennykiley
The Loft @theloftuk.bsky.social Creation Records legends release their brand new album on Tapete Records and touring again in 2026. Tickets and all things Loft: https://orcd.co/the-loft
Reeves Gabrels @reevesgabrels.bsky.social Musician. 🎸 The Cure, David Bowie, solo. Genre-free improv with Gabrels, Kane, Parker Wells trio 2024-2026. Susan Gabrels assists with this skyline. 🦋 @thecure.com
Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social Biographer of The Cure & Manic Street Preachers
Music critic, ex-Independent/Melody Maker.
Podcaster with Chart Music
History Of Pop lecturer.
DJ at Spellbound
He/Him.
Welsh.
https://linktr.ee/simonprice
Stuart Bailie @stubailie.bsky.social Author: The Song is Nearly Over (2025), Terri Hooley: 75 Revolutions (2023), Trouble Songs (2018) and 75 Van Songs (2020).
Music journalist. Editor, Dig With It. Ex NME.
https://stuartbailie.bandcamp.com/
Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social Audiohead. Video refusenik. Formerly BBC/SE/Guardian/News UK. The man in the hills. Nice with the blah blah blah.
Justin Tunstall @woodworser.bsky.social Birder, cheese fiend. 
Gillian Gaar @gilliangaarwriter.bsky.social Writer and thinker. Author of numerous books. Senior Editor at legendary NW music paper The Rocket. #HawaiiOnMyMind
Book of the moment...World Domination: The Sub Pop Records Story
Wesley Doyle @wesleydoylewrites.bsky.social Writer of stuff for The Quietus and Record Collector.
Author of Conform to Deform, the Weird & Wonderful World of Some Bizzare.
Substack: The Dancing Architect.
linktr.ee/wesleydoyle
Karen Schlosberg @karenschlosberg.bsky.social 
@markleviton.bsky.social @markleviton.bsky.social 
Sam Sutherland @samsuth.bsky.social Recovering ink-stained wretch turned “content” creator, vinyl junkie, cat wrangler, former Dem PCO, and accidental tourist on the trail to the Singularity…
Bryan Wagner @bwagner.bsky.social Professor and writer working in vernacular expression, popular music, urban studies, legal history, and digital humanities. UC Berkeley.
ImmaLetYouFinish... Podcast @immaletyoufinish.bsky.social Music industry survivors Courtney Anderson & Amy Linden talk pop culture, drop science & suffer no fools.
https://linktr.ee/ImmaLetYouFinish
“Randall📀Roberts” @liledit.bsky.social Writer/Editor/DJ. In Sheep’s Clothing Hi-Fi, EIC of Mizzou. Past: LA Times critic/editor; LA Weekly; retail vinyl buyer; delivery boy. I develop & implement integrated marketing techniques to actualize long-term strategic goals. https://linktr.ee/LilEdit
Ted Fox @tedfox5446.bsky.social Of course, I'm a Democrat. Happily retired. Winter sojourner. E-bike fan. Rocks and minerals nerd. Big Hungry Boy. I used to be a writer.
www.apollobook.com
Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social Guardian Saturday production editor; RocknRollSoul co-founder; lapsed pop writer; youthful radio pirate; ex-kids’ footie coach; home brewer; playlist creator; and volunteer conservationist. Repository of old shite here … https://medium.com/@martinhorsfield
Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social Football schmootball; Robert Bresson; Milton Nascimento; Dreyer; Debussy; Sun Ra; Can.
Record Collector, Shindig! Through The Crack In The Wall: The Secret History of Josef K (Jawbone).
Coming 2026 - The Clientele (J-Card)
Stupefaction / Tim B. @stupefaction.bsky.social 🍌 Fooled by the melody, reminded by the words. Sha-la-la, man. Archiving = arcmusic.org. Never not “working”. 🦊🦊
Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social Founder of Drowned in Sound (est. 2000).
Get music recommendations and ponderings in your inbox 📨 drownedinsound.org 🦋 follow @drownedinsound.org
Greg McKevitt @grzegster.bsky.social Hello https://www.bbc.com/culture/author/greg-mckevitt
Mark Pringle @markopringbat.bsky.social Co-founder and chief archivist at music journalism history site Rock’s Backpages (www.rocksbackpages.com), former third of Heather Small’s first band, Hot House - on Spotify! - and lifelong centrist dad socialist.
Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social Books, film, music, Ipswich Town FC, Clapton CFC, dog dad, charts, data. Opinions my own.
Kick Out The Jams @kickoutthejams.bsky.social Indie music promoter curating and promoting live music mainly in London, Brighton and the Southeast http://linktr.ee/kickoutthejams
David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social Writer. Mr Agreeable in a previous life. Author of, among others, Fear Of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen (Zero) and Different Times: A History Of British Comedy (Faber)
Don Armstrong @don-armstrong.bsky.social Independent scholar and author of The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason (Bloomsbury, 2024). 
Robin Turner @robinturner.bsky.social Wrote books about The Chemical Brothers and Heavenly Recordings, does PR for some of rock and / or roll's finest, part owns The Social. Now writing weekly newsletters about life with and after a brain tumour: https://acloudablossom.substack.com/
Nick Amies @nickamies.bsky.social Journalist of all trades - master of some; novelist, screenwriter, music fanatic, podcaster, all-round questioning human being. Opinions are my own - so blame me.
Dusty Miller @dustyish.bsky.social Books, music, films, art, more books. Independent PR.
www.dustymillerpr.com
The Bablers @thebablers.bsky.social “In short, if you like The Beatles (band & solo), The Traveling Wilburys, ELO, or Tom Petty - LIKE THE FIRST TIME is an album to check out.”
– @WoNoMagazine🎶
🎧 Listen now: orcd.co/bablers-ltft 🇫🇮
@bigstirrecords.bsky.social #NewMusic #pop #poprock
Terry Staunton @terrystaunton.bsky.social Freelance writer (music, film, TV, football), most frequently for Record Collector, Radio Times, Uncut and When Saturday Comes - but I'll do it for you too, if you pay me.
Ed Masley @edmasley.bsky.social I write about music for The Arizona Republic/azcentral.com. I’m also the primary songwriter for a band called The Breakup Society. And if you’re wondering what album is so good I never skip a track, I never skip a track on any album. It’s a journey.
Nick DeRiso @nickderiso.bsky.social Author of 'Journey: Worlds Apart,' Amazon best-selling rock band + pop artist biography. Next: Exploring Bob Dylan and the Band. 17th Ward, New Orleans. www.nickderiso.com
Past Daily @pastdaily.bsky.social Past Daily is the alter-ego of Gordon Skene who has The Gordon Skene Sound Collection - a Sound Archive. Writer - two-time Grammy nominee - history geek - Past Daily is a daily Magazine of the arcane and the essential - https://pastdaily.com/ - come visit.
Burke Gerstenschlager @bleaktheology.bsky.social Finishing “Tears in Their Eyes: Joy Division as Theological Lamentation”. Former academic book editor. Religion & culture writer. Kierkegaardian. Antifascist. UT Austin Classics BA. YDS MDiv. Lutherpalian. Your post-punk counterweight to joy in Brooklyn.
Matthew Jenkin @matthewjenkin.bsky.social Personal finance journalist at Which? Money
Mogens Olesen @mogensolesen.bsky.social Associate Prof, U. of Copenhagen. Research and write about digital media culture, mostly in relation to sport, fandom and education. Slightly nerdy about Liverpool FC and music.
C86 Show @davidc86.bsky.social 
Tracks of Our Years @tracksofouryears.bsky.social Exploring the soundtracks of our lives, one special year at a time. Hosts Paul Laird & Nick Amies deep dive into the music that shaped their memories.
A Mild Mannered Army Podcast.
Phil Mershon @returnoninitiative.bsky.social Honcho at Return On Initiative
The Fence @thefence.bsky.social Facts, features, fiction, etc. Buy a subscription to the UK's Only Magazine here: https://www.the-fence.com/shop/
Jim Merlis @jimmerlis.bsky.social Publicist to the stars. Former third basemen of the Jacksonville Suns. Currator of the Alan Hale Jr and Sr film festival.
Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social Lady scholar. Woman who writes.