Writing on Punk
A partial list of music journalists, academics, and independent researchers who write or have written about punk (music, history, politics, subculture, art, zines, etc). Contact punkademic if you want to be added!
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@punkademic.bsky.social
@jrdarchivist.bsky.social
Archivist, musician, curator, writer, DJ on WOWD My book, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, D.C.", is out 10/1 and available to pre-order: https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Keep-Your-Ear-to-the-Ground
@rothkowoofed.bsky.social
@carynrose.bsky.social
Music journalist, historian, archivist, crabby old punk rock lady. WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS, UTP 2022 Springsteen newsletter @ https://www.radio-nowhere.com/ clips @ https://carynrose.contently.com/ She / her
@authenticdmckee.bsky.social
Philosophy teacher and writer. Author of ANARCHIST ATHEIST PUNK ROCK TEACHER and AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY: AN ETHICAL JUSTIFICATION OF ANARCHISM. Punk bassist- Strangely Shaped by Fathers, Bullet of Diplomacy, Academy Morticians https://bio.site/authenticdmckee
@drfstewart.bsky.social
Sociologist of Religion: punk rock and anarchist subcultures; sXe punk; sound, music and orality; identity in Northern Ireland; sociology of disability; religion and popular culture. Implicit Religion.
@carolinemoore.bsky.social
Author of Punk Rock Entrepreneur and the upcoming Burnout Revolution. Designer, photographer, amateur violinist. Posting my doodle a day project here. South of Pittsburgh. www.hellocarolinemoore.com
@dawsonbarrett.bsky.social
Historian // author of THE DEFIANT (post ‘60s US politics/protest) and TEENAGE REBELS (teen activism history, for teens) & co-author of PUNKS IN PEORIA (DIY in a small town) // "Picking up where Zinn left off..." (trying anyway!) // dawsonbarrett.com
@simonreynolds.bsky.social
Writer, music and other things http://blissout.blogspot.com/
@georgemckay.bsky.social
Professor of Media Studies. I write about popular music, festival, disability, jazz, peace, protest, gardening, + Oxford Handbook of...Punk Rock in 2025. Charcot Marie Tooth. I play music: double bass, bands (jazz, folk)
@robertbentley.bsky.social
German Chancellor Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation living in Berlin and researching punks and right-wing extremism | Host: Archiv der Jugendkulturen
@sacag.bsky.social
My dog Khali, comics, and punk rock. I am the author of Songs About Chocolate and Girls Substack, where every week I write about 90s punk records in alphabetical order. There’s a link below. https://songsaboutchocolate.substack.com
@egveitikkje.bsky.social
English professor丨slow cyclist 丨aging punk rocker 丨leftist丨sports fan: Bengals, Cavs, Yankees, Canadiens丨 wanna-be Scandinavian丨skeptic丨English, Norsk, & Français
@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/
@awasteofredmeat.bsky.social
“Noise guy” in Nottingham via Milwaukee. Ex-FTAM Productions, amongst other things. Also an education researcher. “Learning Through Noise” available in the not too far future from Palgrave MacMillan. http://peterjwoods.com https://linktr.ee/PeterJWoods
@jennpelly.bsky.social
journalist, critic, diarist author of The Raincoats (2017) jennpelly.info
@lizpelly.bsky.social
journalist, critic, nyu adjunct // "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" is out January 7, 2025 (One Signal Publishers) lizpelly.info/book
@joegross.bsky.social
Writer/journalist/editor/filmmaker. @NYTimes, @Rollingstone, @texasmonthly, @texashighways etc. Everything interests me. Venmo @Joe-Gross-65. Big tsundoku.
@larrylivermore.bsky.social
Author of Spy Rock Memories and How To Ru(i)n A Record Label. Montreal Anglophone striving to become adept (or at least less inept) in français and 中文.
@oliversheppard.bsky.social
“The earth is a tomb, the gaudy sky a vault, we but walking corpses." —Mary Shelley, 𝘖𝘯 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 (1824)
@spencerbeswick.bsky.social
Historian of anarchism and the left in the Americas with a PhD from Cornell University
@transform6789.bsky.social
political analyst & independent scholar. Author of “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins & Afterlife of James Mason's ‘Siege’” (Routledge, 2024) www.patreon.com/spencersunshine
@cbertsch.bsky.social
Culture Editor for The Battleground EU, specializing in popular music and film. I teach when I can and even when I can’t. I also love cooking, photography, and tennis. And especially cats and reptiles.
@jschalit.bsky.social
Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief @ The Battleground • I24News • Ex-EURACTIV, France 24 & Tikkun • Akashic Books, NYU Press & Pluto Press.
@dansinker.com
I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
@fanucci.bsky.social
Papa. WebDev. Music. Baseball. Travel. In a world where everyone is right, I go left 🏴☠️
@katejewell.bsky.social
Historian at Fitchburg State. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio (UNC Press) out now! https://linktr.ee/katherinejewell
@dahlbergsears.bsky.social
PhD in Punk Stuff, Tokyo dweller, ethno/musicology, folklore, and anthropology Punk/alt. musics in Japan he/him
@brianfauteux.bsky.social
Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board. Music in Orbit coming soon: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper
@davidjustice.bsky.social
Historian & educator of US pop culture and diplomacy. First-gen. Husband & dog dad. Music & film aficionado. Not the baseball player.
@dandipiero.bsky.social
Musician, writer, teacher. Books on improvisation and queer-feminist indie rock. Site: http://dandipiero.com Substack: http://dandipiero.substack.com Big Feelings book: https://press.umich.edu/Books/B/Big-Feelings2
@thesaramarcus.bsky.social
Professor of English, writing about US literature, sound, political disappointment. I also wrote a book about Riot Grrrl. http://saramarcus.com https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674248656
@belushimcc.bsky.social
Musician, bass and drums, and amateur political satirist IT support specialist. Gaming. tabletop and video Check out my various music projects. Never Ender, Fields of Saturn, and White Lotus Incident
@razorcake.bsky.social
The first & only official non-profit DIY punk rock magazine in America. You're not alone. Over twenty years of bringing punk straight to your door. And newsprint all over your fingers. Subscribe today! Razorcake.org
@modernistwitch.bsky.social
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
@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
@zacharylipez.bsky.social
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.
@mollytie.bsky.social
Ex UK Editor Punktuation Mag Author of upcoming book "Rebel Grrrls- The Story of Women and Punk" Blog series: Punk Rock Philosophy and Only Punk Can Save the World 🌎 https://punkrockphilosophy.com/
@punkademic.bsky.social
Professor | Dad | Noisemaker | Half-Steeler | Pro-Luddite | Books - One Less Car: Bicycling & the Politics of Automobility, Punkademics, The NFL: Critical & Cultural Perspectives | Views are mine alone, not Penn State’s | https://linktr.ee/punkademic