Music writers, journalists, critics
Some of the best people writing about music today
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@grantsharpies.bsky.social
@ryandombal.bsky.social
Founder, editor, and writer at hearingthings.co / @hearingthingsco.bsky.social Formerly at Pitchfork, Blender, Entertainment Weekly, NYou, The Whitman Word
@avparnell.bsky.social
man, I hate playing vampire towns. audio at @vpm.org, words at Paste, FLOOD, etc. send pitches to avparnell dot com (she/they)
@donnacwrites.com
Bestselling nonfiction music book author of BOOK OF MAC (2021) and CRYBABY (2025). SHOULDN'T WE DANCE?, a novelette, coming 2025. Go Phillies. Get CRYBABY: https://bookshop.org/p/books/crybaby-the-artists-who-shaped-emo-rap-donna-claire-chesman/21650174
@anniezaleski.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling Author, “Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs.” 33 1/3 book on Duran Duran’s ‘Rio.’ Other books: Lady Gaga, Harry Styles, Pink, Christmas songs, Cher. Trans + disability rights are human rights. apstudiozaleski@gmail.com; anniez.com.
@michaelazerrad.bsky.social
Author of _The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana_ and _Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991_. Bylines: the New Yorker, the Yale Review, the New York Times, etc.
@missmollymary.bsky.social
music enjoyer, blogger, connoisseur of torani flavoring syrups https://www.ienjoymusic.net/
@bradybricknerwood.bsky.social
writer — New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, NYT, Pitchfork, GQ, etc. writing a novel. bradybricknerwood.com
@nayfunevans.bsky.social
Music journalist + UK garage enjoyer, words in the guardian, p4k, resi advisor, mixmag, bandcamp, crack, the wire, dazed, etc. https://linktr.ee/nayfunevans
@ptoon.bsky.social
Behavioral Scientist x Music Writer x Management ✍🏽: Stereogum | Passion of the Weiss | Vinyl Me, Please | + mgmt: Spoonerism | POW Recordings linktr.ee/ptrewn
@travisshosa.bsky.social
Writer. (They/Them) PR for Rapt, Hectorine, and Jack Goldstein Email me about stuff at tshosa@rantipole.net Bylines at Bandcamp, Pitchfork, The Alternative, Post-Trash, etc. Dis my portfolio: https://muckrack.com/travis-shosa-2/portfolio
@shy.center
✿ la fillette révolutionnaire ✿ cutest music writer ✿ https://www.shy.center/ ✿ https://ko-fi.com/mewcaroon
@jjaeden.bsky.social
words pitchfork, stereogum, paste, dance mag, consequence contact/PR: http://jaedenpinder.com
@brendanmenapace.bsky.social
Writer for places like Spin, Stereogum, Esquire, Vice, Brooklyn Vegan, etc. Got my own thing over at www.snakesandsparklers.com. www.brendanmenapace.com
@ashleybardhan.bsky.social
bulgarian-bengali lady and a scholar🩸 senior writer @gamesradar instagram.com/ashleybardhan 🆎˙⋆✮
@thobbsjourno.bsky.social
culture writer for: guardian, telegraph, dazed, bbc, pow, stereogum, financial times, discogs, mixmag, billboard, bandcamp, lwl, wallpaper, spin, hyphen, new statesman, p4k, wired, time out, crack etc. my work: https://www.clippings.me/users/thobbsjourno
@monrovianprince.bsky.social
@indieheadspod.bsky.social host | moderator on r/indieheads | bylines at pitchfork, paste, merry go round | marketing coordinator @redeyeworldwide.com
@jyergs.bsky.social
Words for Stereogum, Recording Academy, Paste, Treble, & others. Jyergs89 at gmail
@hannahjocelync.bsky.social
They/she 🏳️⚧️ Writing/music/engineering hybrid. Contact me at hannahjocelync@gmail.com
@larisha.bsky.social
'𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢'𝐦 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 — staff writer @ rolling stone larishapaul.contently.com
@bhanujkappal.com
Music critic, chronicler of South Asian counter-culture. (@Stonerjesus on the hellsite)
@wordsbykristin.bsky.social
Senior writer @ Billboard. Covering all things music business and technology. Follow my *free* music tech newsletter Machine Learnings and catch me on other social sites here: https://linktr.ee/wordsbykristin
@hilary-saunders.bsky.social
⟦ writes things ⟧ Managing Editor @NoDepression 🎶 Member of the National Press Club, Society of Professional Journalists, Recording Academy, and board of Folk Alliance International. Rock and roll can save the world. She/ella/זי
@robertham.bsky.social
Owner of superelectricrecs.bsky.social. Producer/host of itsaysherepodcast.bsky.social. Sometime arts/culture journalist. Full-time BoSox apologist. Triple felon emcee minus the melanin.
@vanessakayague.bsky.social
Writing about experimental music at various publications. Blogging at The Road to Sound. Based in NYC.
@bradshoup.bsky.social
@drewberinger.bsky.social
chorus.fm (fka http://AbsolutePunk.net) Senior Contributor / newsletter: Enjoy or Don’t / https://drewberinger.substack.com / bad takes on music & wrestling
@dfelsenthal.bsky.social
Writer of all shapes and sizes at The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, Frieze, the Village Voice, New Republic, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Organizing at Freelance Solidarity Project. he/him and very gay 🇵🇸 danielfelsenthal.com
@willhermes.bsky.social
Writer, music usually. substack.com/@willhermes Contributing Editor @rollingstone.com @nytimes.com Pitchfork @npr.org Books: Love Goes To Buildings On Fire 🔥 Lou Reed: The King of New York 👑 https://linktr.ee/willhermes
@onomy.tax
every crew, every clique, and every posse • trans woman music critic, bylines pitchfork & hearing things & ringer & larb • PhD cand U of Liverpool • newsletter at onomy.tax • writing at onomy.tax/other-writing • she/her
@philipcosores.bsky.social
Senior Director, Editorial and Content Strategy at Uproxx. Writer and Photographer. Philip.cosores@uproxx.com
@nataliesnotinit.bsky.social
I have the oldest Xbox known to man // trans dyke // author of NOISE MUSIC (forthcoming) // writing at Stereogum, Paste Magazine, FLOOD Magazine, Bright Wall/Dark Room, etc. // Takashi Miike fangirl
@gardenerjams.bsky.social
dash lewis // 🎵: gardener - synth & voice // ✍️: pitchfork / bandcamp / stereogum / hearing things / the guardian / resident advisor / super empty / the sun magazine / POW.mag / style weekly / etc 📍richmond, va https://linktr.ee/gardenerjams
@stuberman.bsky.social
Producer at COMMOTION on CBC Radio One; writer for Pitchfork, Stereogum, the Toronto Star; author of THIS BOOK IS BROKEN: A Broken Social Scene Story + TOO MUCH TROUBLE: A Very Oral History of Danko Jones. stubermania.substack.com / hamontlive.substack.com
@kieranpressreyn.bsky.social
editing nobells, writer for pitchfork, GQ, NYT, The Face + more https://www.kieranpressreynolds.com/ / https://www.kprblog.fyi/ born & living in new yorker
@zachkelly.bsky.social
Bylines seen at Pitchfork, Stereogum, SPIN, Billboard, etc. Total idiot. Teaches journalism at a state school. Ezra and Rowan’s dad
@evanryt.bsky.social
Writer. Contributor: Pitchfork. Alum: Radio Milwaukee, WMSE, Shepherd Express. Bylines: NPR, The AV Club, Washington Post, Spin, Stereogum, Paste.
@misterminsoo.bsky.social
@tamarherman.com
Writer. K-pop & ent biz reporter. Author. She/Her. Published in Billboard, NME, Forbes, Variety, & many more. Have a day job, will not be here 24/7 because I love myself more than I love engagement bait. Newsletter: Notesonkpop.com.
@jackprobst.com
writer of sappy personal essays about music, comedy, and film. also writing a book about growing up with a rare bone disorder. it’ll be funny, i swear. ✍️: merry-go-round mag, paste, pitchfork, creem, nme, etc.
@deanvannguyen.bsky.social
Writer. Irish-Vietnamese. Author of Iron Age: The Art of Ghostface Killah (2019) and Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur (May 2025). Agent: Chris Clemans at Janklow Nesbit
@bigugly.bsky.social
water-based sweetheart | pgh city planner by day, indie rock skeptic all other hours citiesbacklines.substack.com
@elienis.bsky.social
Writing a big book about shoegaze. Podcaster at @endlessscroll.bsky.social & Violent Treatment. Bylines at Stereogum, Billboard, Rolling Stone, etc. Former editor at Revolver Magazine. Subscribe to my newsletter: elienis.com
@dbanthony.bsky.social
Current thing: https://formerclarity.com/ Old things: Music Editor at The A.V. Club, The Shape of Punk column at Noisey, bylines at a bunch of other places, No Plus Ones and As You Were podcasts
@naterogers.bsky.social
bylines @ LAT, NYT, Ringer, Stereogum, etc. how about ratt, how about ratt https://www.naterogers.work/writing
@sotoalfred.bsky.social
I write things. Pitchfork. Stereogum. SPIN. Vice Chair of https://bsky.app/profile/floridafilmcritics.bsky.social Space and light and dreams That's what people need.
@mtedder.bsky.social
(He/Him) Words for Rolling Stone, Stereogum, The Ringer, bunch of other places. Managing Editor: Antics (print is back, baby) https://www.anticsmag.com Author: Top Eight: How Myspace Changed Music is available now. https://michaeltedder.com/
@andrewdsacher.bsky.social
editor at @brooklynvegan.bsky.social author at EMO REVIVAL, coming 2026 via @clashbooks.bsky.social https://andrewsacher.com/
@see-saw.fun
punk + rock’n’roll newsletter: https://see-saw.fun/ ex-pitchfork news director, he/they ✍️: NYT, NPR Music, RS, CREEM, Alt Press + more 🎙️ see/saw radio: https://see-saw.fun/see-saw-radio/ 🎙️ punk this week podcast: https://see-saw.fun/tag/podcast/
@kearse.bsky.social
Journalist, critic, and author of novels Liquid Snakes and In the Heat of the Light. Noreasontopretend.com
@marissarmoss.bsky.social
Journalist, mom, Nashvillian, etc. Wrote a book called HER COUNTRY for Holt. Writing one now for Hachette called I'VE BEEN A BAD, BAD GIRL. Don’t Rock The Inbox on substack: https://www.dontrocktheinbox.com
@horsejeans.bsky.social
Writer, podcaster, DJ, music dork, transsexual loudmouth ~ Indieheads podcast ~ she / her
@lrearick.bsky.social
I like cats, books, and bed social @ pitchfork I used to write but then I got tired she/her laurenrearick.com
@cinemasai.bsky.social
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
@jennpelly.bsky.social
journalist, critic, diarist author of The Raincoats (2017) jennpelly.info
@plyons.bsky.social
opinions are like kittens, i'm giving them away patlyons91 at gmail dot com | inbox-infinity.ghost.io | patricklyons.work
@natepatrin.bsky.social
music + popcult + whatnot StP, MN | 47 y/o | he/him | beat weirdo https://www.upress.umn.edu/author/nate-patrin/
@marchogan.bsky.social
Freelance journalist. Bylines: FT, NYT, NPR, etc.; ex-Pitchfork. marchogan at gmail dot com. He/him. I have lived in Iowa since 2009 but wherever you live, there's a chance I lived there at some point too. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-hogan-00b34b1a
@rachelbrods.bsky.social
Music & Culture Writer/Editor. Words: TIME, Stereogum, LA Times, Rolling Stone, more. Copywriting for DISCO.ac. Co-host of TheInSyncPod 🎧 Say hi: Rebrods26@gmail.com https://authory.com/RachelBrodsky
@philipsherburne.bsky.social
Pitchfork / Lapsus Radio / Balmat Substack: http://futurismrestated.substack.com Label: http://balmat.cat Mixes: http://soundcloud.com/psherburne Menorca, Spain
@iancohen.bsky.social
@markrichardson.bsky.social
rock and pop music critic, @wsj, freelance elsewhere • former EIC @pitchfork • markrichardson.org • markrichardson.substack.com
@mirandareinert.bsky.social
blogger and physical media enthusiast | co-host @endlessscroll.bsky.social | editor + design person @portablemodel.bsky.social | she/her aplan.fyi / twoflatpress.com
@simonwilliam.bsky.social
deputy music editor at rolling stone // just my own opinions over here
@ericdharvey.com
prof @GVSU ∙ critic ∙ music and media ∙ Hoosier in Michigan ∙ award-losing author of WHO GOT THE CAMERA?, which Rolling Stone called "approachably erudite" ∙ ericdharvey.com
@jonbern.bsky.social
research editor at rolling stone/writing a book about Justin Townes Earle. he/him https://jonbernsteinwriting.com/
@jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social
"My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary & proper as it is intellectually suspect." —Ellen Willis Aquarium Drunkard & WASTOIDS from Hello Merch | My music project is called JPW.
@marcissist.bsky.social
I write about music and my latest book is “High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape” http://highbiasbook.com/ I am a Nationals & D-backs fanatic.
@passionweiss.bsky.social
it’s regular but it’s not normal | EIC: POW Mag | Founder: P.O.W. Recordings | "Waiting For Britney Spears" out June 10th on MCD/FSG | Long Live Drakeo
@suzy.bsky.social
Retired Florida goth. Award-winning entertainment journalist in LA. Bylines in Vogue + ELLE + Rolling Stone. 🇧🇿🇨🇺🏳️🌈
@stevenhyden.bsky.social
The Ween Of American Rock Critics. Author of six books. My book about BORN IN THE USA is out now. @uproxx culture critic. Host of podcasts living and Dead.
@zachschonfeld.bsky.social
Freelance writer and editor. Contributor to Pitchfork, Paste, Vulture, etc. Author of new book "How Coppola Became Cage." Still sitting in a room. Email: zschonfeld@gmail.com.