Author, filmmaker, book dealer. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
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bylines @ LAT, NYT, Ringer, Stereogum, etc.
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Soon: The Atlantic. Before: WaPo and Slate. Still the proprietor of http://hedswillroll.tumblr.com.
philly menace no longer in mpls. still here for the internet’s butts. they/them, very gay, too online. #Rstats
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writer @compulsiongames.bsky.social, music critic @thenation.com, playing characters on @funcityventures.bsky.social
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Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine. Book: TWO WHEELS GOOD: THE HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE BICYCLE. http://www.jody-rosen.com
Max Alper. Composer, sonic arts educator, and audio worker with opinion. “The Nadia Boulanger of Ableton weirdos.” Proud CUNY alum. Facilitator of Group Critique Fight Club. Co-host @criticallistening.bsky.social. Based in Hudson Valley. peretsky.xyz
Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Writer. Teacher. Musician. Country Soul. Why Bushwick Bill Matters. Pro wrestling coming soon. No Fences Review. Wisconsin and Southern. Disabled and disorderly. He/him.
forever trying to escape my own light cone. he/him
This is the Bluesky account for Humthrush.com, a site run by Mosi Reeves.
She/her. NYT-bestselling, Hugo-finalist authoress of RINGMASTER and TRUE BELIEVER. Upcoming: @beckbook.com. Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social. Co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net. Creator of @oocmags.bsky.social. pfp by Deeny.
Music critic. Husband. Dog Lover. Author of “The Running Kind: Listening to Merle Haggard.” Cofounder No Fences Review. Midwesterner
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A record label. Purveyors of the underground since 2009.
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I help run @flaminghydra.com and its writer-owned parent cooperative, the Brick House.
Digital ownership rights, archives, libraries, fun, and press freedom are things I love.
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Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
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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.
Music, comics, assorted grousing, he/him. CURRENT THINGS are Discourse 2000, a 2000AD blog and Popular, about the UK’s No 1 hits. I also waste my time (and maybe yours!) with @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.com
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Words. Ideas. Culture. Shenanigans.
#MusicSermon, CDI @ NYU, BMAC
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staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and online media council rep @wgaeast.bsky.social. nitishpahwa.73 on Signal. words also in NYT, LARB, and POW Magazine. he/him. blurry visionary, blue-pill mercenary
I write Of Note, a monthly newsletter about music writing worth reading. https://buttondown.com/of_note
A man of many paths that somehow all led to biscuits, music, sports, and writing. Chicago-based after stints in DC, NC, and CO.
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
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Flagging Down the Double E's Dylan newsletter, Cover Me covers blog, 3 books (Pledging My Time, Cover Me, Leonard Cohen 33 1/3).
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Official Blue Sky for the site Raven Sings the Blues
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Curator - Deep In The Valley Festival
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Music and film writer. Seattle Film Critics Society president and Northwest Film Forum board member. Unions: SAG-AFTRA and IBEW Local 46. Past/present contributor: KCMU/KEXP, KUOW, Rock & Roll Globe, Seattle Film Blog, The Stranger, and Video Librarian.
Writer. Musician. https://soundcloud.com/needy-beast
The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
Texan. Editor in Chief, @thebarbedwire.com. Words in Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, Slate, The Daily Beast, Texas Monthly, Texas Observer etc
For Texas tips, email: olivia@thebarbedwire.com
Co-founder of Aftermath, a worker-owned site about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him
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Independent, Worker-Owned TTRPG Journalism | Subscribe to us at rascal.news
James Beard Award-nominated writer and editor // Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing // Queens, NY // she/her // jayasaxena.com
Writer and editor. Late of "Game Theory With Bomani Jones" on HBO, Mother Jones (no relation), HuffPost, Slate, Gawker Media, Deadspin, etc. Subscribe to @flaminghydra.com. Email: tcraggs22@gmail.com.
Writing on books, movies, the arts: NYT Magazine, Baffler, Washington Post, Atlantic, Liberties, Commonweal, Mubi, Paris Review, Nation, etc. robjrub@gmail.com
Books (Rebel Rebel; Ashes to Ashes), blogs (64 Quartets; Pushing Ahead of the Dame; Locust St.)
Writer/journalist/editor/filmmaker. @NYTimes, @Rollingstone, @texasmonthly, @texashighways etc. Everything interests me. Venmo @Joe-Gross-65. Big tsundoku.
Writer, editor, cofounder @coyotemedia.org
Erstwhile arts / culture / music editor @ KQED, SF Chronicle, various beloved & defunct alt-weeklies
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Film critic/writer at The Pitch, Paste, Sojourners, rogerebert.com, others. Author of FILMS FOR ALL SEASONS: https://tinyurl.com/5n8hre5e
Dusted editor, Aquarium Drunkard, Bandcamp contributor, Knicks fan, sci fi writer
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Education, research and advocacy for musicians.
Label manager of Bikini Kill Records, bass player of Hurry Up. Honk if you like dogs.
PNW'er currently exiled in East Tennessee.
writer, thinker, amateur cheesemonger. host of @pilotprincesstrash.bsky.social | senior producer for ministry of ideas | former npr, gbh, wbur, wxyc, dth. https://nicktheandersen.com
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Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
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https://craigsilverman.ca
A Baltimore based illustrator, designer, and senior art director. Working at the Body Art Alliance/freelance. Former AD of the music blog Portals (RIP).
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The Beggars Group is the home of 4AD, Matador Records, Rough Trade Records, XL Recordings and Young.
NORMAL GOSSIP dowager queen, Defector Media, books and shit
Journalist for Le Monde in English. September gurl, musician and sewist. Words and photos in NYT, JSTOR Daily, Atlas Obscura, Yes! Magazine, Wired and more.
www.hannahsteinkopf-frank.com
Creeping socialist. Premature anti-rockist. Oldest living Racket editor. Saving my labor for insane reading. Subscribe to Racket, or at least read it. https://racketmn.com/author/keith-harris
Music journo/critic who wrote for every publication you used to read.
CABBAGES is my hip-hop newsletter + rapper movie podcast.
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1/2 of 2dopemarks | writer/music journalist | houstonian | bun b's verse on "murder" is among the greatest strings of words ever put together in history.
Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
Critic and Essayist, New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://linktr.ee/angelicabastien
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.
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Writer, music usually. https://newmusicoldmusic.substack.com/ Contributing Editor @rollingstone.com @nytimes.com @pitchfork.com @npr.org Books: Love Goes To Buildings On Fire 🔥 Lou Reed: The King of New York 👑 https://linktr.ee/willhermes
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author of The Raincoats (2017)
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“When you begin a note, it comes from somewhere and keeps going forever…Part of it does, anyway…Nothing is lost. Everything keeps going around.” —W.A. Mathieu
Writer, podcaster, musician.
it’s regular but it’s not normal | EIC: POW Mag | Founder: P.O.W. Recordings | "Waiting For Britney Spears" out now on MCD/FSG | Long Live Drakeo
labor journalist & author. big on metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
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My novel SEE FRIENDSHIP is out now, I edit on the culture desk at the Atlantic, my newsletter is at http://jeremygordon.substack.com, and my website is at https://jeremygordon.xyz
They/He/Dyl. Idiotic rap/film writer. founder/writer/editor @hearingthingsco.bsky.social Host of the #ReelNotes podcast. Walkin' on water for tips. Never on schedule but always on time. #invoiceboyz
Founder/Editor-in-Chief @Pitchfork (1996-2019)
My new music playlist is What's Good.
Founder, editor, and writer at hearingthings.co / @hearingthingsco.bsky.social
Formerly at Pitchfork, Blender, Entertainment Weekly, NYou, The Whitman Word
I play guitar and write songs and teach.
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Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Untitled gay cultural history (2026). Freelance: T, New York, etc. A long time ago: EW, Grantland, younger.
yells in the band daddy’s boy // part of flaming hydra // member: tja, iww fju, opeiu l1010 // union YES // another world is possible if we can get it together
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.
Legacy of '80s college rock, alternative, indie | Host of Sirius XM's 'Dark Wave' — 10 p.m.-1 a.m. EST Sundays on 1st Wave (Ch. 33) | slicingupeyeballs.com
Listens to albums & writes (mostly) & talks (sometimes) about them in The Quietus, Aquarium Drunkard, Northern Transmissions, RTÉ Arena, The IMRO Podcast.
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Chicago indie label. Est. 2016. Artist owned. www.bio.to/sooper
Freelance Music Writer. Stuff at Pitchfork, RA, CREEM, and Bandcamp. Former bookseller at McNally Jackson.
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