Simon Hattenstone @shattenstone.bsky.social Guardian interviewer/features writer, with a thing for prison and miscarriages of justice (well not a thing for them as such, a thing for writing about them). Proud Mancunian/Salfordian. City fan of some vintage
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Neil Campbell @astralsocialite.bsky.social Astral Social Club, Futurist Bags, you know the score.
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Elijah Gonzalez @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social News Contributor @ Polygon. Formerly: Associate Editor @ The A.V Club, Assistant Editor @ Paste Magazine. Bylines: GameSpot, Game Informer, Fanbyte, The Gamer, Unwinnable, Uppercut Crit, But Why Tho?, etc. TCA member, Rotten Tomato-approved critic. he/him
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LT @laurentousignant.bsky.social Last name pronounced Two-sig-naut, One-sig-naut was taken :(
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The Black Dog @theblackdog.bsky.social We Make Techno
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com celebrating music journalism
+
putting a needle on the cultural wax
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Siavash Amini @capgrasman.bsky.social Releases on Room40 | Hallow Ground | Opal Tapes| Umor Rex | ADR
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Greg Davis @gregdavismusic.bsky.social Electronic musician / Producer aka Asterisk / Record shop owner @ Autumn Records / Vermonter
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Bill MacKay @billdmackay.bsky.social Composer, Songwriter, Guitarist, Musician, Singer, Poet, Writer, Walker, Polyglot
Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social Guitar, etc./Folklore & History of Virginia/Gardener
Manahoac Territory
Born at 353.15 ppm.
Nonesuch Records @nonesuch.com An oasis of artistic excitement (Boston Globe), featuring contemporary classical, jazz, Americana, popular, world, and music theatre.
International Anthem @intlanthem.bsky.social ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ด๐ผ-๐ฏ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ป ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ.
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@lowtheband.bsky.social @lowtheband.bsky.social 
AnalogueTrash @analoguetrash.com AnalogueTrash is a new music blog and typo specialist based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
๐ https://www.analoguetrash.com
AnEarful @anearful.bsky.social Music obsessive, deeply engaged with an omnivorous array of sound. Keep up with it all, including the Discover Music podcast, at my Linktree: linktr.ee/anearful (He/Him)
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
Pulse Emitter @pulseemitter.bsky.social Composer and Synthesist
Daryl Groetsch, aka Pulse Emitter
Salzburg, Austria-based
https://darylgroetsch.com
quiet details @quietdetails.bsky.social a record label where each release is an interpretation of the name
curation and art @fieldswefound.bsky.social
mastering and audio services
quietdetails.com
quietdetails.bandcamp.com
quietdetails.substack.com
linktr.ee/quietdetails
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Joyful Noise @joyfulnoiserecs.bsky.social An independent record label and artistic facilitator for a variety of exploratory musicians. Most posts by Ruby
Supersonic Festival @supersonicfest.bsky.social The UK's premier experimental music festival based in Birmingham.
โSupersonic reasserts itself as the best European festival for new musicโ
- The Quietus
https://linktr.ee/SupersonicFestival
Matt Valentine @childofmicrotones.bsky.social sonic arkitecture / free folk
Rick Brown @brownbattery.bsky.social Music: https://75dollarbill.bandcamp.com
I play crate and blow things
Office worker, proud union member, NYC renter, soon* to be retiree
previously: https://brownoutspassed.bandcamp.com/ and http://www.juliagorton.com/coming-new-products/beat-it-zine-comp
Sahel Sounds @sahelsounds.bsky.social Project and Record Label focused on the Sahel of West Africa via sound, filmmaking, field recordings, cellphone mp3s, and cross cultural experiments
https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/
John Truscinski @jskimegamix.bsky.social Gunn-Truscinski Duo, Glass Band, solo music
@thorharris.bsky.social @thorharris.bsky.social 
:zoviet*france: @zovietfrance.org The analogue glitch in electrical music
This is :zoviet*france: on Bluesky, created and maintained by :zoviet*france:
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
Sleeping Village Reviews @sleepingvillage.bsky.social Nominally a music review website, allegedly reviewing the music that wakes us from slumber.
https://www.sleepingvillagereviews.com/
Important Records @imprec.bsky.social Imprec.com
Record Label
Pre-algorithmic curation since 2001
The character conveyed most often in Important releases isn't style but substance, with a personal and emotional depth that makes the label easy to understand but difficult to explain.
MusicLoveMusic @musiclovemusic.bsky.social London-based music news and reviews website - daily updates
โYou are brutally honest in your opinions and that scares me a little bitโ
www.MusicLoveMusic.com
Treble @treblezine.bsky.social Groundbreaking music, independent media.
https://www.treblezine.com
The Leaf Label @theleaflabel.com Taking the least worst option since 1995.
https://ffm.bio/theleaflabel
Dystopiate777 @dystopiate777.bsky.social Artist, Gamer, Movies, Music dude. weird kinda funny person.
dystopiate.bandcamp.com
cryostasium.bandcamp.com
Pretty Odd Authority @prettyoddauthority.bsky.social A conduit of groovy, kitsch, jazzy, surreal, psychedelic and other weird vibrations on the outer limits of music.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com cannot stress enough that I am not the Train guy. cohost, @whatatimepod.bsky.social
whatatimepod.com
rax โlevon honkersโ 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.
ClickHole @clickhole.bsky.social Because all content deserves to go viral. 
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David Munroe ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ @davidmunroe.bsky.social White, working class and woke fiction writer. 100% Canadian. Flawed characters who know it. So come read entertaining stories about real life. โPacked with humor as well as social and personal insightsย โฆ and it comes with a candid honestyโ โ MBR, Oregon.
Rachel Rose Keller @rachelrosekeller.bsky.social Words in The Onion, Reductress, McSweeney's, the void I scream into
Part time chronic ill-fluencer
Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social Emmy-nominated TV writer and comedian. My new book โGood Game, No Rematchโ is out April 1st. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/ytjvhjsb Email: mikedruckerisdead @ gmail .com
Robert @robertd1.bsky.social (failing) writer; @loudandquiet @thequietus @clash
My extended essays: https://urblindspot.substack.com/
@harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social Writer.
Guardian. The Quietus. Vice. Record Collector.
Author of Monolithic Undertow.
โA walking encyclopaedia of weird shitโ Vice
David Keenan @reversediorama.bsky.social Author
claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social โthe glamorous node of glasgowโ โgrant 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/
Bill Brewster @djhistory.bsky.social DJ, writer, idiot.
Bookings: ryan@thepool-london.com
Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social Freelance writer. Blog about books (https://bookdedications.co.uk & https://livesinlit.com). Co-run @tpfilmclub.bsky.socialโฌ. All links to all bits: https://linktr.ee/wbgooderham
Alex Rigotti @alexrigotti.bsky.social Freelance journalist, ex-Radar Editor @NME.com, words at The Quietus, Clash, Dazed, DIY, DJ Mag and more
www.alexrigotti.com
Zachary Lipez @zacharylipez.bsky.social Editor at large for Creem Magazine. I am in a couple bands with people who are in other, more successful, bands. Like your mom, I have a newsletter. 
Tom Bolton @drtombolton.bsky.social tombolton.co.uk
๐Atomic Albion
๐London's Lost Rivers Vols 1 & 2
๐Vanished City: London's Lost Neighbourhoods
๐Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast
๐Camden Town: Dreams of Another London
โ๏ธTheatre for Plays International
โ๏ธMusic for The Quietus
Barnaby Smith @abarnabyms.bsky.social Writer, editor, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher.
Website: https://barnaby-smith.wixsite.com/home
33 1/3 Oceania book on Crowded House
2nd album released in 2026: https://brigadoon.bandcamp.com/album/everyone-no-one
@clairesawers.bsky.social @clairesawers.bsky.social Freelance journalist in Edinburgh, writing for The Quietus, The Wire, The Times, Big Issue, The List etc
linktr.ee/clairesawers
DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social Rockfort, Concrete Gazebo, Personal Reasons. He/Him
https://www.mixcloud.com/ROCKFORT/
https://thequietus.com/writer/david-mckenna/
https://concretegazebo.bandcamp.com/
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/
Novara Media @novaramedia.com ๐บ ๐ฐ๐๐ฉ People-powered media. https://linktr.ee/novaramedia
Bilge Ebiri @bilgeebiri.bsky.social "I don't expect you to be as depressed as I am, but I don't think your happiness is quite appropriate."
Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social The Gradual Shipwreck
Writer. Books & Music
#MDANT ๐
Programme Director: WORD Christchurch
Views my own
Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose, 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 2026)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027 tbc)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social My mind it ain't so open that anything could crawl right in.
To Nkroachment: Yarbles.
Emma Pollock @emmaspollock.bsky.social Singer, songwriter, musician, transport fan. Member of The Delgados. Brand new album 'Begging The Night To Take Hold' is out now. Order at https://bio.to/EmmaPollock.
Aidan Moffat @aidanjohnmoffat.bsky.social "Flat, out of tune, and rambling like a drunk on a Saturday night."
James Yorkston @jamesyorkston.bsky.social Music and Words www.jamesyorkston.co.uk More likely on Threads x
Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social Plays guitar. Hates fascists. Just confused by life.
Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social Writer, sub-editor, pizza-maker. The Guardian, MOJO, Loose Lips Sink Ships. Books. The good shit. steviechick.com
Emma Swann @emmaswann.com founder diy magazine. music photographer. 
Puja @puja-words.bsky.social Writer | Freelance music & film | Poetry & screenplays | Bridport Prize 2024 shortlisted | Words in The Quietus/Screensphere/ Filmhounds Mag & Ors
Find me on IG: puja_garia.rd
Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social Founder of Drowned in Sound (est. 2000).
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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 Slow Music Movement @theslowmusicmovement.org Disorderly digging in an algorithmic world. Lesser known independent artists & alternative music. Generally lazy & hazy vibes. Check the Substack newsletter, blog, podcast & playlists:
https://www.submithub.com/link/the-slow-music-movement
Pete Selby @peteselby.bsky.social www.newmodernbooks.co.uk
David Ornstein @david-ornstein.bsky.social Football Correspondent, The Athletic
Tim Stillman โญ๏ธโญ๏ธ @tim-stillman.bsky.social โ๐ปabout Arsenal for Arseblog. Arsenal Women Correspondent for Arseblog News and presenter of the Arsenal Women Arsecast. ๐ฃ๏ธ about Arsenal on the Arsenal Vision Podcast. WSL. Falo ๐ต๐น
https://arseblog.news/category/arsenal-women/
Jack Pitt-Brooke @jackpittbrooke.bsky.social Spurs and England for The Athletic. VFTL podcast.
โช@liberopodcast.bsky.socialโฌ
@jackpittbrookeathletic elsewhere
jpittbrooke@theathletic.com
Oliver Kay @oliverkay.bsky.social Senior Football Writer @theathletic.com @theathleticfc.bsky.social
Author of Forever Young: The Story of Adrian Doherty, Football's Lost Genius ๐
Michael Cox @zonal-marking.bsky.social Football/soccer for The Athletic. Posting article links here, but only having arguments on twitter.
Amy Lawrence @amylawrence.bsky.social Football. Music. Words. Labradors. Hopeless optimism.
David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social Human Geographer (retired, sort of);
Interested in national identity, sport, heritage, and many other things
Nick Miller @nickmiller79.bsky.social Staff writer for The Athletic. Book - Who Owns Football? - out now for purchase https://linktr.ee/NickMillerWhoOwnsFootball
Email: nmiller@theathletic.com
@AAllenSport @aallensport.arseblog.com Deputy editor @arseblog.news
Gunnerblog @gunnerblog.bsky.social Covering #Arsenal for @TheAthleticFC. #ArsecastExtra with @arseblog.com. Real name @jamesmcnicholas. LEZ DOO DIS ๐ฅ
Sam Cunningham @samcunningham.bsky.social Sports journalist.
Bylines: The Times, The Guardian, The Observer, Premier League.
Formerly: The i Paper, Daily Mail
E: s.cunningham@live.co.uk
Daniel Storey @danielstorey85.bsky.social Chief Football Writer, The i Paper
Read all my work: https://inews.co.uk/author/daniel-storey