De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca Interrogate power. Highlight truth. We are a non-profit, journalist-owned co-operative in British Columbia, Canada.
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Musicworks @musicworksmag.bsky.social Nonprofit Canadian print publication + CD recording, exploring innovative music and sound from many places and perspectives.
For curious ears since 1978. @musicworksmag
The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social Toronto's current affairs & culture print mag. FREE in 30 TTC subway stations, and 300 other GTA locations.
thegrindmag.ca
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Take Aim Media @takeaimmedia.bsky.social Canada’s leading full-suite media relations and music marketing firm.
Take aim. We’ll get you there.
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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
william @basrelief.info making music @ basrelief.info
working @topshelfrecords.com
Thanya iyer @tbirdthanyaiyer.bsky.social Thanya T-bird blue skying life
Amazon Syren @amazonsyren.bsky.social Unusually Tall.
Queer, leather femme. Poet, pagan, glamazon, and kitchen witch. Not-so-secretly a sea monster. (She/Her)
https://allisonlarmstrong.wixsite.com/writer
Tara-Michelle Ziniuk @tmziniuk.bsky.social Editor, writer, media-maker, parent.
Past lives in activism and community radio.
Likes: menus, comics, lists, farmers markets, good poetry, bad TV.
By day: managing editor @ Xtra Magazine
nour abi-nakhoul @nourabinakhoul.bsky.social Supplication out on PRH now. Short fiction in the Walrus, Hazlitt. EIC at Maisonneuve.
Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social Aging drag queen, former Canadian football star, recent queer media linchpin, forgetful historian and decent Malay cook • he/him • gordonbowness.com
Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social Writer, editor,publisher, creative funding expert in Brooklyn. Editor of ABSOLUTE PLEASURE. Previously @feministpress & @kickstarter. She/they 🌈📚
https://margotatwell.com/
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman @josie.zone Josephine Riesman. NYT-bestselling US-born immigrant living in Portugal. Books: RINGMASTER; TRUE BELIEVER; and on Oct. 6, @beckbook.com. Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social. Co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net. Profile image is Julianne Moore.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Sonic Unyon @sonicunyon.com Canadian indie record label & artist management, festival promoter, venue operator, and community partner in Hamilton, ON.
sonicunyon.com | sonicunyonshop.com
Amber Goodwyn @ambergoodwyn.bsky.social Poetry | Music | Film | Etc.
ambergoodwyn.com
Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social Political correspondent @zeteo.com
Any tips or info you’d like to share?
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Prem@zeteonews.com
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social Emmy-winning journalist and
senior culture editor @wired.com | VICE News final girl (RIP) | tips: manisha_krishnan@wired.com or mkrishnan.79 on Signal
Tim Ellis 🍁 @djdynamic.ca He/him. Fighter, writer, work-all-nighter. Ace. Sewer Socialist. Raver. ADHD. Toronto. Organizer, not organized. #HappyHardcore keeps me going. Democracy first and always. Canada strong. Skeets are my own and do not reflect my employer's views.
Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com Environment and climate journalist | Editor in Chief at @nationalobserver.com | Work in The Globe and Mail, The Narwhal, The Guardian | www.jameswsthomson.com
Lisa Whittington-Hill @lisawhitt.bsky.social This Magazine Publisher. Words in Longreads, The Walrus, Catapult, Hazlitt and more. Author of Girls, Interrupted: How Pop Culture Is Failing Women and a 33 1/3 on Beauty and the Beat by The Go-Go's.
Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social PME-ART
The Air Contains Honey Sings Quotes
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Polyamorous Love Song
Rich and Poor
Authenticity is a Feeling
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
Digits @digitsmusic.bsky.social Electronic pop music in Toronto/Tkaronto. New single featuring Edith Frost out now: https://linktr.ee/digitsmusic
Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt.
Not a space for the cynical and snide.
Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social writer
📕 miss may does not exist: the life and work of elaine may, hollywood's hidden genius (2024)
📘 cassavetes & rowlands (2028ish)
editor @ bright wall/dark room
prev: video @ conde nast (conde union 4ever)
Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com prof ∙ critic ∙ music and media ∙ Hoosier in Michigan ∙ dead serious, take flicks and don’t smile ∙ award-losing author of WHO GOT THE CAMERA?, which Rolling Stone called "approachably erudite" ∙ ericdharvey.com
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
jae holzman @jael.bsky.social hi, i write about climate change and renewable energy. i also play music sometimes. some secret third thing.
sasha @sashatymoshenko.bsky.social tinyurl.com/cequisepasse
Riley @sunblinding.bsky.social In the stacks or in the sticks.
alicia clara @aliciaclara.bsky.social songstress in montreal!
RAF @didoslament.bsky.social Lieber Blutwurst als traurig 
Music Votes Canada @musicvotescanada.bsky.social We are a coalition of musicians, music industry folks and music fans who want a Canada for *all of us*. We all do well when we ALL do well. We need to Stop Poilievre.
Michael Cloud Duguay @michaelcduguay.bsky.social composer, producer, collaborator
watch that ends the night record || scions || bunny hollo
Tyler Andere @tylerandere.bsky.social 👨🏾💻work @topshelfrecords.com
formerly @ father/daughter records + portals
~ hit me up + send me tunes: tyler@topshelfrecords.com
letterboxd 🎥: https://boxd.it/1duKf
based in austin, tx
he/him
RANGE Magazine @readrange.bsky.social Real life music publication — P/T Pavement fan account
✨ https://readrange.com/
Adam White @someparty.ca I write the Some Party newsletter on Canadian punk/garage/psych/etc music. Polaris Music Prize juror.
https://www.someparty.ca
Alison Christoff @alisonchristoff.substack.com Bass in Callejera, Vocals in Pigmale Brains | Host of Local Music Shapes Culture podcast | Your voice is worth hearing, babe | Indianapolis.
https://beacons.page/alisonchristoff
s. e. smith @sesmith.lol that person with the peaches
national magazine award-winning culture critic & writer for hire
🌿 @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder
🐈⬛ 📖 ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES out now!
🖋️ get your grief advice on @allmydeadcats.com
✉️ sesmith at realsesmith.com
Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com bitch kraken / texan / she/her / 📍atx / 😎 blocking out the haters w @reproaction.bsky.social / co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com
📰 homewiththearmadillo.blog
📧 (secure) grimesandrea at proton dot me
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AJ @snarkyspice.bsky.social Rabble rousing recently minted Chicagoan. Founding Writer of laborpainsmedia.com and Co-founder of The Flytrap.
Subscribe: theflytrap.beehiiv.com
Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social Features Editor & Immigration Reporter @prismreports.org | co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com | tina@prismreports.org
Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social Cofounder of The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social
Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches
Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy
Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum
Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road
Christine Grimaldi (she/her) @yourombudsmom.bsky.social Writer: Lit Nonfic—publish or represent me!
Journalist: Abortions—help me fund them!
Co-founder: @theflytrapmedia.com
Podcast: @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social
Parent: 👧🏼 and 🐰
Mother: Fucker
Media: Don
https://linktr.ee/yourombudsmom
Christine Grimaldi (she/her) @chgrimaldi.bsky.social I’m winding down this account. Please follow me at @yourombudsmom.bsky.social for all things me!
nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social Doctor in Women's Studies | Writer, researcher, reporter | Co-founder of The Flytrap | she/her | hire me: nicolefroio@gmail.com | tip me on Signal: nicolefroio.57 | anarcho-feminist | Free Palestine
Evette Dionne (Mostly on Threads) @freeblackgirl.bsky.social OG Black feminist journalist and editor • Award-winning author of WEIGHTLESS and LAWC • Cofounder @theflytrapmedia.com • Helping incarcerated journalists with @empowermentave.bsky.social • Forever putting on for Black + queer folks • Next: ✍🏾 NO GIVING IN
The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
🔗 theflytrapmedia.com
Richard Trapunski @trapunski.bsky.social National Editor, Billboard Canada
Mac Cameron @mackenziecmrn.bsky.social cohost at big in canada clips at front burner
Music Declares Emergency Canada @musicdeclarescan.bsky.social 
Michael Tedder @mtedder.bsky.social (He/Him) Words for Rolling Stone, Stereogum, The Ringer, bunch of other places.
Managing Editor: Antics (print is back, baby) https://www.anticsmag.com
Author: Top Eight: How Myspace Changed Music is available now.
https://michaeltedder.com/ 
Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net For 20 years, Mondoweiss has covered the powers that sustain Israeli apartheid – and how people resist it, from Palestine to the U.S.
Banner: Palestinian children with a donkey cart on the beach in Gaza before the Israeli genocide.
https://mondoweiss.net
Ann Decter @anndec.bsky.social Feminist settler, writer, advocate. All posts my own. Pacifist and prairie raised.
Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Author. Nigellavangelist. Pedant about civic literacy and Star Wars/Trek. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
Em Moore @emmoore.bsky.social Editor at Punknews
Polaris Music Prize Juror
Freelance writer, editor, and podcaster
Canadian punk
She/they
https://linktr.ee/emcmoore?fbc
UMAW @umaw.bsky.social UMAW is a 501(c)(4) member-led advocacy group committed to organizing music workers to create a more just music industry, and to join with other workers in the struggle for a better society.
Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize + Peabody award-winning journalist http://instagram.com/_connie_walker Nehiyaw from Okanese
Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com it's "see-sa"
hot takes bureau chief @thenarwhal.ca
writer @thewalrus.ca
adjunct prof @ubcjournalism.bsky.social
journalist, nêhiyaw, mom, roller skater
she/her ✌️michellecyca.com
Invisible Books @invisibooks.bsky.social We make books.
Emma Arkell @emmaarkell.bsky.social Journalist and member of @defactomedia.ca // formerly the Labour Reporter @pressprogress.ca // words and photos in Chatelaine, Jacobin, The Tyee, Xtra etc.
paisley conrad @pslycnrd.bsky.social phd candidate @ concordia // waste+poetry // managing editor @mmodernity.bsky.social
Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social Postdoc at UofT, 20th C literature and science, viruses, evolutionary theory, deconstruction, libraryofbabel.info. Author: Natural Lection (http://bit.ly/495ZCJD), Virality Vitality (https://sunypress.edu/Books/V/Virality-Vitality)
dij @dijahsb.bsky.social some rapper. they/them
Noel Ransome @noelransome.bsky.social Writer | @VICE (RIP) alum | Form Canadian Press @CdnPressArts | Words @WIRED @ebertvoices @globeandmail @variety @complex etc
email ✉️: noel@noelransome.com
www.noelransome.com
Backxwash @backxwash.bsky.social Album 2025
https://linktr.ee/backxwash
annalise @casualpasta.bsky.social https://annalisedomenighini.com/
sarah macdonald @sarahsmacdonald.bsky.social professionally: editor, culture writer. personally: basketball sicko. past: vice, cbc. writing a novel. 🪐
https://www.sarahsmacdonald.com
Brian Fallon @thebrianfallon.bsky.social Sing you a song, dance you a dance.
Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social Culture writer at Vulture / New York Magazine, dungeon crawler, Pulitzer nominee, things of that nature
https://www.vulture.com/author/craig-jenkins/
Anna Iovine @annaroseiovine.bsky.social associate features editor at mashable
https://www.annaiovine.com/
Simon Vozick-Levinson @simonwilliam.bsky.social deputy music editor at rolling stone // just my own opinions over here
Sarah Marian Seltzer @sarahmseltzer.bsky.social My debut novel about music and love THE SINGER SISTERS (Flatiron) is available at a bookstore near you. 🎶 📖
I edit at feminist quarterly Lilith Magazine. ✊
I am a tired NYC mom and probably need some coffee right now… ☕️
Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social Film Critic at CTV's Your Morning.
Pop Culture Columnist at CBC Radio.
Contributor: The Guardian, The Globe & Mail and more.
Mindy Furano @mindyfurano.bsky.social Furano, Mindy
www.mindyfurano.com
guelph’s finest poster @nordicshrew.bsky.social i was too controversial for the other websites so now i'm here. if you see any of my posts without likes it's because they are too controversial.
Anna Fitzpatrick @bananafitz.bsky.social It’s me, Anna. Not for everyone. Read Good Girl (Flying Books), or don’t.
anne t. donahue @annetdonahue.bsky.social writer and yapper
she/her
Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social Apparently I’m doing this now. 
𝔰𝔥𝔲𝔯𝔞 @shura.gg “i got too sad for my friends” out now ⚔️
https://linktr.ee/shura
quinn hills 🏳️⚧️ @quinnhills.bsky.social she/her, 36. My album IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is out now
Film Critic. UMAW member. BLM. Free Palestine. Fuck transphobes. Land back everywhere.
quinnhills.net
angie jaime @angiejaime.bsky.social writer as seen in Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, VICE, I-D and more.
🔜 Novel in Progress | George RR Martin Fellow
🔗 angiejaime.com
kristy yummy coochie 🇯🇲 @adrierising.bsky.social chaotic good. co-host of #pagesandprejudice pod. editor of i hate my job. sex/work writer. portrait photographer. chronically just like other girls. hot take generator.
adrie [at] adrierose [dot] link
🌐: adrierose.link/adrierising
Paul Chin • 陈保罗 @paulch.in 🇭🇰🇯🇲🇰🇾
Artist.
PROFESSIONAL - EP out now! 🐍🧿✨
@sanzuwu.group
Free them all 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇨🇩🇸🇩🇭🇹
🔗 https://paul.komi.io
Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social Writer of Men to Avoid in Art and Life, and other books in the Art and Life series. Not a genius. nicoletersigni.com
The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social 電子音楽家 parked illegally at the intersection of art & technology 🎛🔊🎶🔻✌️🫠
💌 SUPPORT MY WORK: https://ko-fi.com/janusrose
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Suzy Exposito @suzy.bsky.social Retired Florida goth. Award-winning entertainment journalist in LA. Bylines in Vogue + ELLE + Rolling Stone. 🇧🇿🇨🇺🏳️🌈
Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social Chicago Reader music writer
imleor.carrd.co
Elly Belle (they/them) @literelly.bsky.social 
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
Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author, “Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs.” Newest book: "Stevie Nicks in 50 Songs." Others on Duran Duran, Lady Gaga, Xmas songs, Cher. Trans + disability rights are human rights. apstudiozaleski@gmail.com; anniez.com.
Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social Co-Host of You Are Good and The OC, Again. Manager for folks in the arts. Bewildered person. Picture taker. Zine-maker (High Occulture). Activist. Into being.
Mark Yarm @markyarm.bsky.social Exec ed, features & special projects, PCMag ❤️🔥 adjunct, Columbia Journalism School ❤️🔥 bylines: the New Yorker, NYT Mag, Flaming Hydra, etc. ❤️🔥 author, EVERYBODY LOVES OUR TOWN ❤️🔥 markyarm@gmail.com; Signal: markyarm.99 ❤️🔥 https://markyarm.journoportfolio.com
Maggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social Twitter’s Maggie Serota. Writer. Frequent podcast guest.
maggieserota@substack.com
Nea “Dracula” Ching @thegaychingy.bsky.social aka Chingy. Writer & Critic seen at Roger Ebert, Vulture, Them, Mel Magazine, VICE, MTV News. Filmmaker
sonicreducerpuertorico @joannanewsum41.bsky.social ivan - nyc 🗽cbgb’s 🎸 foodie 🍔 dead boys fanatic
meredith balkus @meredithbalkus.bsky.social writer | nerd | cat mom | motorcyclist
now: words at netflix + freelance + possibly a book
then: vice, thrillist, st. martin’s press
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
Josh Billinson @jbillinson.bsky.social I do the skeets for @semafor.com
@davidgrossman.bsky.social @davidgrossman.bsky.social