Life of the Record @lifeoftherecord.bsky.social classic albums, told by the people who made them.
Simon Abrams @simonsaybrams.bsky.social Film Critic at Roger Ebert dot com, New York Times, New Yorker, Hollywood Reporter, Village Voice, The Wrap, Vanity Fair, and so on. Author of THE NORTHMAN: A CALL TO THE GODS (Insight Editions). Alt weekly kid. Let the monkey drive.
Ben @mrbenjm.bsky.social Film 🎞️ : horror 🕸 , sci-fi 🛸 , cult 📽️ , everything interesting!
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/mrbenjm/
Likes plants 🪴 and books 📘 too!
UK 🌍
Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social See link below for Manson book!
American Studies, UMass Boston
Current Project- “Boston Sounds, 1974-1999” @fsu_UMB
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Books on Black-Jewish relations (Right to Sing the Blues and Leo Frank), 9/11 and Manson.
skyhorsepublishing.com/9781628728941/…
Matthew J Levine @mjl2003.bsky.social Father, Vancouver Islander, Baseball fan, fan of music that hasn't aged well, Trivia/Quiz person
Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social Chief film critic, Variety. Beneath this glassy surface, a world of gliding monsters.
Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social Film Editor at @avclub.com
Video Game Movie Expert
Southerner in Chicago
Monica Castillo @mcastimovies.bsky.social The A.V. Club film critic, programmer, dancer, dog person.
Nick J Mascisaurus Rex Sr. @bridgemusicbunker.bsky.social Here comes that sound again
🎥 Kathy 🍁 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social Music and film writer. Northwest Film Forum board member and former Seattle Film Critics Society president. Unions: SAG-AFTRA and IBEW. Past/present contributor: KCMU/KEXP, KUOW, Rock and Roll Globe, Seattle Film Blog, The Stranger, and Video Librarian.
bonanos @bonanos.bsky.social My walk-up song was “Third Uncle” ⚾️
Andrew Latten @wouldiwantsky.bsky.social 
Vasant Ramamurthy @vasantr.bsky.social 
Get Tickets for the Dance @tixforthedance.bsky.social “Peace and love to drive my car, baby you’re my Ringo Starr, twistin the radio dial, ah, too far”
Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social Music teacher. High Five. Half of microtonal rock duo Body Breaks. Member of Quinton Barnes' Black Noise Ensemble. Suns fan. Montrealer.
IG: @mattlegroulx
All of my music is at: https://phonautographrecords.bandcamp.com
Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social Einstein disguised as Robin Hood
(Former Classicist, now mostly watching movies)
spuffyduds @spuffyduds.bsky.social Writing as Kellum Jeffries for romance and Kelly Dalton for horror. She/her, cis, bi. Fuck terfs. Writer, librarian, knitter, beginning weightlifter. Will watch anything with spaceships and/or vampires. So much fanfic on AO3. Heck yeah RVA.
Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social Writer, birder, teacher, generalist. Author of THE VERB 'TO BIRD', ALONG THOSE LINES, THE AMAZING Q, etc. Tar Heel Born and Honorary Substitute Legionnaire. he/him. guitar/keyboards/vocals.
Lars Gotrich @totalvibration.bsky.social Series editor for Tiny Desk at NPR Music. World's Okayist Guitarist. #FreeDC. Mixtapes, tea and whatnot: https://www.vikingschoice.org
Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social Vulture TV critic, SOUND OF METAL Criterion author, Peabody Awards juror, usually complaining about something.
https://www.vulture.com/author/roxana-hadadi/
Room40 // Lawrence English @room40.bsky.social Lawrence English//Room40 ... vibrating bodies with sound, philosopher of listening.
Fulcrum Arts @fulcrumarts.org Championing creative and critical thinkers at the intersection of art and science to provoke positive social change
Scott Seward @skotrok.bsky.social Scott Seward owns a store. Lives in a small town. Writes. Watches the boob tube. Tries not to hate. 
Daniel Susla @dsusla.bsky.social Music | Made in WV, Bloomington, Brooklyn, Berlin, LA
John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social Co-founder/Editor of theQuietus
Co-founder of Acid Horse
Writer/Editor
Anti-Fascist
Listen to Nurse With Wound
https://linktr.ee/jahduran
@chrisryan77.bsky.social @chrisryan77.bsky.social 
Evan LeVine @evanlevine.bsky.social Writer, Producer, Satirist, Performance Artist, Jersey Boy, Marathoner, Record Collector, Rib-Hadda, Mets Fan, Saint Who Rules With Extensive Magnanimity.
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
Daniel James Leith @danthecritic.bsky.social Music Writer. Check out my blog: danthecritic.weebly.com
Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social Independent music journalism. No algorithms. We promise.
Hank Shteamer @darkforcesswing.bsky.social writer, usually about music.
contact: hshteamer.writes@gmail.com
hankshteamer.com
Rick Porter @rickporter.bsky.social Work: TV business editor at The Hollywood Reporter, proprietor of thedatastream.tv. Not work: Chicagoland resident and enthusiast. Signal: rwp.07
Sean Fennessey @seanfennessey.bsky.social Host, The Big Picture • Watch and Listen: https://tinyurl.com/2f3tkx89 • Writer, Projections • Subscribe: https://tinyurl.com/4xexb4wt • See you at the movies
Christian Finnegan @christianfinnegan.bsky.social Comedian?
Watch my albums, read my specials, listen to my newsletter.
Linktr.ee/christfinnegan
Country Universe @countryuniverse.net The longest-running country music blog (f. 08.2004).
www.countryuniverse.net
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social critic @vulture
Esther Zuckerman @ezwrites.bsky.social writer, etc.
estherzuckermanwrites.com
Ben Travers @bentravers.bsky.social IndieWire Critic & Deputy Editor, TV • TCA Member • Formerly of a Few Podcasts • He/Him • Ann Dowd calls me “honey” (and don't tell me if she calls everyone that).
Myles McNutt @memles.bsky.social Media Scholar at Old Dominion University and Editor-in-Chief of TV criticism newsletter Episodic Medium
Claire McNear @clairemcnear.bsky.social culture writer | wrote a book about Jeopardy! | geist that could've been polter along with zeit
STARLOG Da7e Gonzales @da7e.com Founder - Fighting In The War Room podcast
Podcaster - The STARLOG Podcast, A STORM OF SPOILERS and Da7e and Neil's Pop Culture Adventure.
Author- MCU: REIGN OF MARVEL STUDIOS (Out Now!) and POTTER (in the future)
Abolish ICE.
Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social Knight Professor of Journalism and Media Ethics at Washington&Lee U. Critic at Large, NPR. Blerd. Drummer. Author: Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation. Substack: Switching Codes
Nic Brown @nicbrown.bsky.social Ageing music obsessive: from drum & bass to death metal via hip-hop, jazz and Terminal Cheesecake.
Ezra Brooks @ezbrooks.bsky.social I love music, movies, mystery stories, and food from around the world.
Keith Phipps @kphipps3000.bsky.social Movies, etc. for GQ, Vulture, Ringer and more. Co-host Next Picture Show. With @scotttobias.bsky.social I write The Reveal: http://thereveal.film. Author of AGE OF CAGE. He/Him
Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social Minimal and often abstract music - from grime to gugak, American primitivism to Japanese ambient - presented with minimal and often abstract cyanotype artwork.
https://bluetapes.bandcamp.com
Chris Molanphy @cmolanphy.bsky.social Chart analyst/pop critic. Host of podcast #HitParadePod. Writer of Slate's #WhylsThisSongNo1? Author of book #OldTownRoad. Feet on the ground, reaching for the stars. (Pronouns—he/him/his.)
Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social editor/writer
in film, vulture, etc
mostly on ig
Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social Owner of superelectricrecs.bsky.social. Person behind isthisrealpdx.com. Full-time BoSox apologist. Even the name says fun
Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com Sr. Entertainment Editor at Consequence, LAist/AirTalk TV critic, writer of other stuff. I like space battles, videos of cats, old-school funk, and the Oxford comma. She/her. First novel on sale now: http://robot-boyfriend.com
Angie Han @ajhan.bsky.social critic @ The Hollywood Reporter
backup human to 2 cats @ home
West Hollywood, CA
Joanna Robinson @jowrotethis.bsky.social Writer and podcaster at the @ringer • one of Cameron Crowe’s Uncool • taller than you think • author of MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios for W. W. Norton
Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social A dog wearing glasses? I’ve seen that before
Ann Arbor, MI
Peoples Pop Polls: BLACK POP 1986-1989 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social The Peoples Pop Polls, run by Tom Ewing. Congratulations to BLACKSTREET ft QUEEN PEN, winner of the 1996 poll! Currently open polls: https://peoples-pop.com/2025/10/24/currently-open-polls/ NEXT: Black Pop History 86-89 - Nominations 26th September!
Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social Will die on niche hills, windows always open.
Libraries, archives, preservation, art, turtles, Chicago, bricks, the desert.
Black Vines @epicharmus.bsky.social Exhausting veteran of 30 years' worth of internet. I still invented liveblogging.
DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social hi dere. I write code, sing, and talk all kinds of nonsense
Rob Mitchum @robmitchum.bsky.social Science and music writer. EIC of @kellogginsight.bsky.social.
Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social West coast editor for New York Mag's Vulture. (Middle-aged) child of television. Allen Ludden superfan. YouTube archaeologist.
liz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social writer in nyc, author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, co-host of @criticallistening.bsky.social
lizpelly.info
jenn pelly @jennpelly.bsky.social journalist, critic, diarist
author of The Raincoats (2017)
jennpelly.info
Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com Writer/critic/researcher/musician in DC. Fiction lotsa places. Writing a road trip novel and a book for DUP “Singles” about “Party in the USA.” mikebarthelauthor.com
Making music as APOPHRA https://apophra.bandcamp.com/
Inkoo Kang @inkookang.bsky.social Television critic at The New Yorker. Pronounced in-goo. Get updates from me: https://inkoo.substack.com/ | https://linktr.ee/inkookang
Justin W. Cornell @justinwcornell.bsky.social 
Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social He/him. TV Critic, author. Now searchable on Tubi. I am not Alan Sepinwall III.
https://whatsalanwatching.com
Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social Chief Television Critic, The Hollywood Reporter. General social media dabbler.
Most of my content/writing/word-spewing can be found here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/e/the-fien-print/
Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social A mix for every year of recorded sound.
Find out more at centuriesofsound.com
Support the show at patreon.com/centuriesofsound
Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social Critic, editor, darling | RogerEbert, The Playlist, Paste Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, Inverse, Chron, Letterboxd Journal, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe | CFCA
Also on Letterboxd and Twitter: @isaacfeldberg
sara “THE RED SACRAMENT” hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social books: THE RED SACRAMENT, my debut novel, is out now!
Also costume design: ACD/shopper on The Off Weeks, Law and Order: SVU, Law and Order: Organized Crime, Monsterland & more!
USA 829 IATSE, lit rep Isabel Kaufman. she/her
soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social culture writer. contributing @defector.bsky.social. in my humble opinion: my so-called life (ecw, 2016). new book in the works (liveright/norton). sorayaroberts.com
James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social Still being followed by the teenage FBI
tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com data scientist studying how kids learn to speak, dad, jump roper, bayesian, husband to @amandawalrus.bsky.social, tjmahr.com, Madison, WI
David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social Chief Film Critic at http://RollingStone.com. Obsessive. Compulsive. Disorderly. President of the Chishu Ryu Fan Club. NYFCC, NSFC, NSFW.
Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com Keep circulating the tapes.
https://www.jasondashbailey.com/
YIPPEE KI-YAY Book: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/yippee-ki-yay_9781419783753/
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC podcast: pod.link/1274489817
Letterboxd @jasondashbailey
Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social The co-host of Mousterpiece Melodies, a podcast about the songs of Disney movies.
Email me at mousterpiececinema@gmail.com.
The Best Album of 2001 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social The Best Album of 2001 is Wilco, YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT. Coming soon: 1988!
Bracket: https://challonge.com/bestalbumof2001
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/kentmbeeson.
Managed by @kentmbeeson.bsky.social
Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social I.A.F.S. // I.N.F.E.
A website, a newsletter, a record label. All posts by Phil Freeman, co-founder/co-owner. BUY PHYSICAL MUSIC.
j̠͇̩̳̈͗̃ṩ̐́͛p̾̓́̎̚ @mookieproof.bsky.social Enchanted, the reader follows j̠͇̩̳̈͗̃ṩ̐́͛p̾̓́̎̚ through a midsummer's night in which tales of seduction interweave and oscillate between the sublime, comic, and passion to be seen, for whom life is a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and joy
Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social Official Blue Sky for the site Raven Sings the Blues
https://www.ravensingstheblues.com/
Curator - Deep In The Valley Festival
Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social Dallas-based writer. Subscribe to America's oldest and only country music newsletter, Don't Rock The Inbox: www.dontrocktheinbox.com
natalie.l.weiner at gmail
Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com Writer. Only work gets done here. Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen. Beneath the gold, the bitter steel. Our revenge will be the laughter of our children. I will not betray my soul. Fix your hearts or die. Tiocfaidh ár lá
brad @bradshoup.bsky.social 
Robert Takahashi Novak @robert.takahashinovak.com 
Yann Novak @yannnovak.com └ Queer Artist, Composer & Technologist
└ Housefather at @dragonseyerecordings.com
└ Preservationist at @substratum.digital
└ Developer at @3n.design
└ 💍 to @robert.takahashinovak.com
📍Los Angeles, CA
🏳️🌈
https://www.yannnovak.com
Ben Telfer @simplepartial.bsky.social Beardy goofball from Aotearoa. Cat parent. Bi. Leftist. Comms + marketing professional by trade. Interested in music, film, speculative fiction, burritos, David Bowie, video games and graphics novels. He/him. 
Digits @digitsmusic.bsky.social Electronic pop music in Toronto/Tkaronto. New single featuring Edith Frost out now: https://linktr.ee/digitsmusic
Ben Loeffler @benloeffler.bsky.social +/- another platform. We’ll see how this goes.
Architect, Seattle
Realm of Dusk @realm-of-dusk.bsky.social Both types of music: extreme computer and Edition of Contemporary.
You'll love my neo-rockist agenda.
Realm of Dusk album out now:
https://blastedgorse.bandcamp.com/album/iii
FKA connect_icut.
Jill Tennent @jilltennent.bsky.social 
Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social "Elegante y muy cabrona."
I labor at the word factory for Bloomberg Citylab, NYRB, The Atlantic, Alta, Fresh Air, KCRW, NYT and others.
https://c-monster.org
https://linktr.ee/Cmonstah
sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com writer/DJ/dad (he/him) 📍 Highland Park, Los Angeles
live on the radio:
🪩 OPEN BORDERS at MOCA Geffen (next: 10/15 1-3p PT)
📡 kchungradio.org
🎧 mixcloud.com/sam3k
Jennifer Kelly @jenpkelly.bsky.social Dusted editor, Aquarium Drunkard, Bandcamp contributor, Knicks fan, sci fi writer
J T. Ramsay @jtramsay.bsky.social A woofer in tweeter's clothing. Once and future music critic. Bylines: Dusted and beyond. PHL & DTW, forever.
David Cantwell @cantkill.bsky.social Music critic. Husband. Dog Lover. Author of “The Running Kind: Listening to Merle Haggard.” Cofounder No Fences Review. Midwesterner
Charles Hughes @charleshughes2.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Musician. Country Soul. Why Bushwick Bill Matters. Pro wrestling coming soon. No Fences Review. Wisconsin and Southern. Disabled and disorderly. He/him.
brian foote @brianfoote.bsky.social kranky, peak oil, conflict of interest, leech, smoke point, foote/dickow, false aralia, FO
J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social Xicana writer/editor. She/her/ella. Editor Hell Gate (hellgatenyc.com), cofounder Hearing Things (hearingthings.co), Vaquera forthcoming on Penguin Books, etc
Tony Fettuccine™ @baconfat.bsky.social Has it never been explained to you that self-pity undermines sarcasm?
TAFKA @bcfnt on twitter