Music Critics
Hip once-young gunslingers. Writers and recommenders and bile pumpers and starmakers. You can call them gatekeepers and legends and both can be true.
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@yeoldemother.bsky.social
Custodian of @musicOMH.com, {blank-or-blank} at The Guardian. Here for musics, (UK) politics, infrastructure geekery, and whatever else. 📍London | Same handle on Zucksites, &c., but meh to those
@iancohen.bsky.social
@amandafarah.bsky.social
Woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough. Your foreign correspondent. Sometime music writer. Kombucha socialist. Pointy dog owner. Hemmelig dansker.
@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
@wadeywade.bsky.social
Writer / DJ / crisps / pop music is important 1984: The Year Pop Went Queer out now
@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/
@drownedinsound.bsky.social
Founder of Drowned in Sound (est. 2000). Manager of musicians including Charlotte Church and The Anchoress. Get music recommendations and ponderings in your inbox 📨 drownedinsound.org 🦋 follow @drownedinsound.org Part of the @mvtfwd.bsky.social team
@simonreynolds.bsky.social
Writer, music and other things http://blissout.blogspot.com/
@luketurner.bsky.social
Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
@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
@elisabray.bsky.social
Journalist. Writer. Mother of three. Music lover. Former music editor at The Independent
@terrybeez666.bsky.social
Pro Wrestling and Music for Screen Rant. Substack for New Music. Do no harm. Take no shit. 🎙️ @alternativemusicpodcast
@rocksbackpages.bsky.social
www.rocksbackpages.com The world's largest archive of music journalism: 55,000+ classic articles and audio interviews by pop's finest writers, spanning 60 years across all genres. New edition and newsletter every Friday.
@annkpowers.bsky.social
I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL.
@steviechick.bsky.social
Writer, sub-editor, pizza-maker. The Guardian, MOJO, Loose Lips Sink Ships. Books. The good shit. steviechick.com
@andyvonpip.bsky.social
Internationally published Photographer, freelance Journalist, Under The Radar Pleased to Meet You Editor https://muckrack.com/andy-von-pip-journalism http://linktr.ee/vonpip http://bit.ly/NUJFREELANCE Photographer For Zuma Press / 02 Academy inhouse
@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
@laurakaykelly.bsky.social
Freelance multimedia journalist, award-winning writer, podcaster. Gig-goer. Feminist. SAY Women board. Witchy. 🖤🤘🏻
@emmabwilkes.bsky.social
Curly music journo, proudly sponsored by caffeine / words in Guitar.com, Stereoboard, DIY, Kerrang!, Alternative Press, NME, Revolver, Ticketmaster etc. / she/her / emmabwilkes@gmail.com
@gemsam.bsky.social
Bag for life. Words: Evening Standard, Guardian, Dazed, AnOther, Rolling Stone, Crack, L&Q. Commission me: glsamways@gmail.com | She/her
@jenessawilliams.bsky.social
🎓Music Fandom & Online Participatory Cultures Academic ✍🏽Music Journalist (DIY, FortyFive, Guardian, NME etc.) 📌 https://jenessawilliams.substack.com
@ladymissbarton.bsky.social
You can't start a fire worryin' about your little world falling apart
@duncanseamanyp.bsky.social
Music correspondent for The Yorkshire Post https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/ MDANT 🏅
@puja-words.bsky.social
Writer | Freelance music & film | Fiction & CNF sometimes | Bridport Prize 2024 shortlisted | Words in The Quietus/Screensphere/ Filmhounds Mag & Ors | Lawyer | Brummie Londoner
@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 emmaggarland.com
@lucyjford.bsky.social
what the hell sure writer & yapper for hire british gq, teen vogue, time, netflix tudum, nme┆daily host @ magic at the musicals┆ex-senior celeb gal at bauer media 💌 lucyfordwrites@gmail.com
@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.
@aubreywrites.bsky.social
Freelance arts & culture journalist / editor / lecturer. Words: Guardian, GQ, IndieWire, NME, Quietus, Radio Times, Record Collector, The Standard, Telegraph, Total Film & more. Online and features editor, Something About Rocks www.elizabethaubrey.com
@jahduran.bsky.social
Co-founder/Editor of theQuietus Co-founder of Acid Horse Writer/Editor Anti-Fascist Emile thanks you
@juderogers.bsky.social
Journalist @guardian @obsnewreview @newstatesman, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Music, culture, books, people 🤓
@ryanschreiber.bsky.social
Founder/Editor-in-Chief @Pitchfork (1996-2019) My new music playlist is What's Good.
@maura.bsky.social
boston-based writer and journalism instructor at @bostoncollege.bsky.social who has probably been online longer than you.
@jillkrajewski.bsky.social
culture writer in film, vulture, etc bifurious jillkrajewski.com
@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