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Matt Tyson @matthewbtyson.bsky.social Filmmaker: docs | industrial | commercial | shorts | features
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was @tysonfilm on Twitts
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in Brooklyn, from NC
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Apple Music
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Simon Raymonde @mrsimonraymonde.bsky.social Musician with a label. Cocteau Twins/Lost Horizons. Producer, mixer. Some non-Cocteaus gig highlights? Playing bass with Midlake, on “The Rat” live with The Walkmen, and playing guitar on tour with Mercury Rev ❤️ Memoir “In One Ear” on Nine Eight Books now.
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An author now I guess??
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The Secret DJ. @thesecretdj.bsky.social
nobhead.
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social
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I have bad dreams and I poop a lot.
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Ellen Peirson-Hagger @ellencph.bsky.social Deputy books and arts editor, the Observer
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Tina Hart @tinietinah.bsky.social 💫 My home office is named Spiceworld 💫
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Lara Baker @larabaker.bsky.social Music biz - Songwriter & Publisher Partnerships @ Spotify. Music Week Women in Music Awards cofounder. AIM Awards creator. Diversity & women in music advocate. She/her.
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Vick Bain @vickbain.bsky.social 'So-called expert' random man on Twitter 😂
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Anna Neale @annanealemusic.bsky.social Singer/Songwriter, Artist, Composer, Musician, Engineer, Producer | Director of Creators Relations at CISAC | Academic. Views are my own. www.annaneale.net
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Music. Tech. Change.
aka Terry Tyldesley / Feral Five
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https://feralfive.bandcamp.com/track/truth-is-the-new-gold
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Music Venue Trust @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social UK registered charity which acts to protect, secure and improve Grassroots Music Venues.
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com UK-based songwriter and broadcaster (b.1950). Rock Against Racism, Glad To Be LGBT+, Sometime DJ on BBC Radio 6 Music https://linktr.ee/tomrobinson
Marc Riley. @marcrileydj.bsky.social WILD DONKEY. BROADCASTER. The Fall 78-83. Not a real Doctor. Met Bowie, Woody and Ronno. Ner ner ner ner ner.
COLOSSAL 🛎️end…
Dave Haslam @davehaslam.bsky.social Hacienda DJ, journalist (Guardian, LRB, etc), writer (recent books about Sylvia Plath, Keith Haring, Picasso). “An exceptional writer” - Olivia Laing.
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alice @alicebrwne.bsky.social 💌 aspiring mob wife / mother nature’s bitch working in museum comms 🏹
words in @polyesterzine @bestfitmusic @gigwise etc.
Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social Benn Jordan / The Flashbulb
••Recording artist | YouTuber | Researcher••
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Andy Edwards @andyedwardsster.bsky.social Music business executive. Artist advisor. Cyclist. Autistic and ADHD. Antiracist.
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Pat Carr / Remote Control @patcarr1.bsky.social Runs www.remotecontrol.agency, working wonderful independent music. London based, cricket lover, BPI counsel member, Ash Co-manager and previously on the board of the mighty Sutton United football club 💛
🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝ @joesparrow.bsky.social terelinck.com | Highly saturated artist; music biz word-vomiter; verbose bullshitter; furtive '93-'99 drum 'n' bass aficionado. Views “Я” mine.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social I scribble a little. Music Ally; The Week Junior; MIPCOM Daily News...
Bill Werde @billwerde.bsky.social Director, Bandier Music Business Program, Syracuse University. Publisher, https://www.fullratenocap.com
Tom Gray @automatom.bsky.social Chair of @IvorsAcademy. Member of Gomez, MU & PRS Council. Director of UK Music. #BrokenRecord founder. A working songwriter and composer (just about).
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PNW'er currently exiled in East Tennessee.
Drift Records @driftrecords.com 🏆 The current best independent record shop in the UK. We've been selling records in Totnes since 1994.
Independent Venue Week UK @ivwuk.bsky.social #IVW25
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Sybil Bell @sybilivw.bsky.social Founder & CEO @ivwuk.bsky.social, @ivcuk.bsky.social (charity) & our boutique marcomms agency @iltsot.bsky.social. My mum, music, dogs, swimming, Hampstead Heath, swimming on Hampstead Heath, cooking, records.
Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social editor/writer
in film, vulture, etc
mostly on ig
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Resident DJ @thelotradio
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Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social Journalist on culture and news, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Ten Sunday Spells for you every week on juderogers.substack.com
John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social Co-founder/Editor of theQuietus
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Anti-Fascist
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Words: Guardian, GQ, IndieWire, MOJO, NME, Quietus, Radio Times, Record Collector, The Standard, Total Film & more.
www.elizabethaubrey.com
JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social Author of Electric Wizards and Off The Ground.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/rb-author/jr-moores
Bylines in The Quietus, Record Collector, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, The Guardian, etc. MD Alternative National Treasure.
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Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social music, sex & culture writer / editor.
first book TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF MAINSTREAM EMO (2000-2013) COMING 2026.
emmagarland.substack.com
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Puja @puja-words.bsky.social Writer | Freelance music & film | Poetry & screenplays | Bridport Prize 2024 shortlisted | Words in The Quietus/Screensphere/ Filmhounds Mag & Ors
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Duncan Seaman @duncanseamanyp.bsky.social Music correspondent for The Yorkshire Post
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/
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Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social You can't start a fire worryin' about your little world falling apart
Jenessa Williams, PhD @jenessawilliams.bsky.social 🎓Music, Fandom & Internet Cultures Postdoctoral Researcher (Stanford University)
✍🏽Music Journalist (DIY, FortyFive, Guardian, NME etc.)
📌 https://jenessawilliams.substack.com
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Gemma Samways @gemsam.bsky.social Bag for life. Words: Evening Standard, Guardian, Dazed, AnOther, Rolling Stone, Crack, L&Q. Commission me: glsamways@gmail.com | She/her
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Emma Swann @emmaswann.com founder diy magazine. music photographer. 
Laura Kelly @laurakaykelly.bsky.social Editor, multimedia journalist, award-winning writer, podcaster. Gig-goer. Feminist. Witchy. 🖤🤘🏻
Jo Kendall @jothekendall.bsky.social Hengemaker, cake eater, uke destroyer, Associate Ed Prog Mag, contrib for Classic Rock, Record Collector and Electronic Sound, lecturer at BIMM London. Mixtape elf, Radio 5 Live-er, infiltrator to Woman's Hour, she/her. More on linktr.ee/jokendall 
Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social Writer, sub-editor, pizza-maker. The Guardian, MOJO, Loose Lips Sink Ships. Books. The good shit. steviechick.com
mary anne hobbs @maryannehobbs.bsky.social wild horse..
BBC 6 Music Sunday 6-8pm
The 6 Mix Friday 11pm
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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
Terry Bezer @terrybeez666.bsky.social Pro Wrestling for WhatCulture
Elisa Bray @elisabray.bsky.social Journalist. Writer. Mother of three. Music lover. Former music editor at The Independent
Manu Ekanayake @manueky.bsky.social Oh God, this is just what we do now, isn't it? Just go from platform to platform like some kind of ongoing Littlest Hobo scenario
Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social Typist.
Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social Writer, music and other things
http://blissout.blogspot.com/
Jon Savage @jonsavage.bsky.social Author, archivist, professor
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/
Ian Wade @wadeywade.bsky.social Writer / DJ / silly sausage
crisps / hullabaloo and custard / pop music is important
1984: The Year Pop Went Queer out now
Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social Write about music & culture & various things for various places, mainly the Guardian. Based in Sheffield. danieldylanwray@gmail.com
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/daniel-dylan-wray
Amanda Farah @amandafarah.bsky.social Woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough.
Your foreign correspondent.
Sometime music writer.
Kombucha socialist.
Pointy dog owner.
Hemmelig dansker.
Popjustice @popjustice.bsky.social Where the skies are blue, this is what we’re gonna do.
The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social Independent Cultural Journalism from Scotland. Free monthly magazine, website, podcasts, and more. DMs not monitored, send us an email.
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Music Ally @musically.com musically.com :) Knowledge and skills for the modern global music business.
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God Is In The TV Zine @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social The music and culture webzine established in Cardiff in 2003. www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk
The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
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thewire.co.uk
self-titled @selftitledmag.bsky.social a blast from the mp3 blog past
altering your algorithm since 2008
edited by @andrew-parks.bsky.social
now available at selftitledmag.substack.com
Billboard @billboardbot.bsky.social *UNOFFICIAL*
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