Top Music Substacks

#1 De La Soul

DA.I.S.Y AGE

#2 The Music Lab

We do citizen science to learn how the human mind creates and perceives music.

#3 Vulf

Welcome to Vulf Records.

#4 Starship Casual

Jeff Tweedy shares songs, advice, general musings, and whatnot...

#5 Classic Music Trivia

Revisit the greatest musicians and moments from the decades when you had to hit play and record at the same time if you wanted to download music.

#6 Baby's All Right

What's happening at Baby's this week?

#7 Grimes

#8 Feist’s Newsletter

Music and Musings from Feist

#9 Music Help Desk

Inspiration, Ideas, Facts for the Rap, R&B and Afro Communities

#10 SoundBirth Newsletter

SoundBirth Monthly News & Fresh Music Talents

#11 berlioz

if Matisse made house music.

#12 Talk Back

Join this community where we will share new songs, old demos, live performances, contemplations, declarations and explanations

#13 Yoni Wolf’s Wet Paint

A window into my daily practice of songwriting, demo making, illustrating, song covering, and podcasting.

#14 Flow State

Every weekday, two hours of music that's perfect for working (no vocals).

#15 The Hoosiers

News and announcements from The Hoosiers

#16 The Land That Time Forgot

Official Substack of musician Chuck Prophet

#17 The Ruffian

Ian Leslie picks out the most important, interesting and beautiful signals from the noise.

#18 Future of Forestry | Eric Owyoung

News and updates from Future of Forestry and Eric Owyoung.

#19 RCRDSHP

Your one-stop for all updates about RCRDSHP including new releases, rewards and challenges, and other updates

#20 Afrobeats Intelligence

Afrobeats Intelligence is a weekly newsletter on African music curated by multi-award winning journalist, Joey Akan. It is published every Monday.

#21 The World of Dust-to-Digital

Presenter of music and sound cultures.

#22 Tracy Chapman Online’s Newsletter

a newsletter for Tracy Chapman fans to come together and celebrate the artist we love.

#23 Colin Meloy's Machine Shop

A sporadic journal about song-making and story-writing

#24 Letters from Los Campesinos!

All the latest from LC!, the UK's first and only emo band.

#25 Entering The Lung

Who are Nature?

#26 I Think We're Alone Now

Tegan and Sara talk to each other about music, writing, art and life using voice notes, annotations of lyrics, personal essays, video conversations, and unreleased music.

#27 Kimbra’s Substack

Kimbra talks about life as a musician, waxes poetic on the transcendent, shares voice notes from the vault, watercolours and other musings....

#28 Mick’s Newsletter

Mick

#29 Beats and Business Newsletter

A weekly curated newsletter teaching various how-to topics in music business such as new revenue streams, tech, gear, finance, marketing, health, and so much more!

#30 Sidechain Society

#wearesidechain Sidechain Society is a community created in celebration of beat culture, curated by STLNDRMS

#31 The Line of Best Fit

The leading voice in new music discovery and new perspectives on pop culture from from the biggest independent music website in the world.

#32 I Tried To Reach You

Show announcements, new releases, and musings on life and music from Great Lake Swimmers.

#33 Bazan HQ

This is where we post news about Pedro the Lion and David Bazan's other musical adventures, tour dates, merchandise, conversations, peek behind the scenes and whatever else we can think of.

#34 First Floor

A newsletter about electronic music and the culture / industry that surrounds it.

#35 Reality Shield

"Love Letter" newsletters, huge archive of live show recordings, AMA, pop-up Zoom hangs, guitar tutorials, song demos, monthly rarities giveaways & more. Your brain on Dan Mangan, but like... more and better.

#36 Katie Crutchfield’s Substack

#37 dod Letter

dod Letter es una newsletter personal que publico (casi) semanalmente como algo adicional al contenido generado en dod Magazine. En la dod Letter hablo sobre música, series y cine. Bueno, en realidad, cualquier cosa que me genere cierta curiosidad.

#38 S/FJ

photographs enthusiasms essays speculation interviews conjecture

#39 The Lot Bulletin

Updates from The Lot Radio Station

#40 And It Don't Stop

Robert Christgau's weekly newsletter. Music. Books. Politics. Old Age.

#41 Rawdoggin' Reality

Conform, go crazy, or become an artist. Finally, a place to share my musings, poetry, lyrics, literature and songs, and connect with fellow artists and fans.

#42 Denise Ho - 何韻詩

時光倒流ya-gooblog。

#43 The Antlers

The best place to stay up-to-date about The Antlers and associated projects. Here you’ll find announcements about new music, future shows, and a home for various writings.

#44 HAPPY NEW TEARS by Wesley Eisold

My open journal where I share writing and musings from my life, tours, answer questions, share poems and more. I write about music I've made and the music that's made me, from Cold Cave to American Nightmare, all I love and loathe.

#45 Tone Glow

A newsletter about experimental music both new and old.

#46 Flagging Down the Double E's

Bob Dylan concerts throughout history

#47 Nightcap with Tift Merritt

Songs & stories from the studio of musician & writer Tift Merritt. Nightcap is a travelogue of process & projects in motion.

#48 Letters From Lucas...

If you enjoy a hot take or two, and LOVE music (+ the fucked up business that comes with it)...you're in the right place. Letters sent to your inbox every week! Home of "Lucas Flood Presents," a weekly artist showcase in Los Angeles, at The Hotel Cafe.

#49 Yellow Ostrich

News and writings from Yellow Ostrich

#50 Wild East Radio

Rap crew from Brooklyn.

#51 The New Cue

The World's Greatest Music Newsletter, delivered to your inbox every Monday and Friday mornings.

#52 A Fan's Notes, by Nick Hornby

Music, books, movies, work, football, TV and so on.

#53 Slow Descent Into Radness

We Are Scientists: the essentials and the esoterica; the frolic and the mayhem; the drought and the surge 🥁🪩

#54 Patterns in Repeat

Around and about songwriting and what causes it.

#55 KLOF Magazine Newsletter

KLOF Magazine is an online music & culture mag. Our newsletter features album reviews, interviews, news & more. Premium Subscribers receive exclusive playlists and help to support the work we do.

#56 Kevin Morby's Fam Club

All things Kev Mo

#57 anti social producers club

#58 The Jesea Lee Show

Your weekly dose of what's trending in rock & alternative music.

#59 Wedding MusicLetter

Discover new & trending ceremony & reception music every Wednesday. Grow your music knowledge beyond BPM, danceability, and charts - plan playlists that give goosebumps.

#60 NDY Newsletter

Independent & political music & noise.

#61 Donwill's Amusing Musings

This is a companion piece to my podcast 'The Almanac of Rap'. It's where I may explore some topics deeper, give a few recommendations or just wax poetic about stuff that I don't know how to put anywhere else.

#62 Herb Sundays

Weekly music playlists by curators.

#63 Transitional Technology

Jazz Music; Classical Music; Do the Math

#64 WALTER MARTIN MUSIC

A newsletter for the musically curious

#65 Futurism Restated

A newsletter about electronic and experimental music.

#66 Shiel Feels

I make music constantly and care about a lot of things. This newsletter is the absolutely definitive summary of all or some or none of those things.

#67 The Anchoress Substack

Missives from Welsh multi-instrumentalist and producer Catherine Anne Davies aka The Anchoress

#68 Emily Sprague's Internet Brain

Connectedness to the music and art projects of Emily Sprague via here, the internet. Associated act: Florist.

#69 P.W. Elverum & Sun announcements

This is a mailing list by Phil Elverum, mostly about the music project Mount Eerie, but also about whatever.

#70 Music & Culture

Uncover the latest trends in music and culture and how the two reflect and transform each other.

#71 Anti-Matter

Contemplation and hardcore conversation, delivered straight to your inbox. We believe that hardcore is more than music.

#72 A Wink And A Nod

Essays, sounds, short stories, and imagery from artist and musician, Brandon Boyd.

#73 Drowned in Sound

Music recommendations, industry insights and advice for musicians features in the newsletter from one of the original music blogs, which was established back in 2000.

#74 A Place Where No One Can Find Me

A new Substack by Michael Crow Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger.

#75 Pernice Brothers News & Updates

The latest from Joe & Joyce

#76 Resist Psychic Death

Road stories, songs, poems and other shiny things from the nest of Hurray for the Riff Raff/Alynda Segarra.

#77 George W O'Connor—Figuring it Out on the Fly

Figuring it Out on the Fly

#78 Derrick G-Mail

A newsletter about music, culture and identity, by Derrick Gee.

#79 Allison Moorer: The Autotelic

The Autotelic is where I put it all – writing, singing, anything I dream up — to chronicle and share about this wild, beautiful, and imperfect journey.

#80 ZERO CRED

Electronic mail dispatches from Dan Ozzi, America's Only Music Writer™

#81 Expanding Dan

A newsletter about Steely Dan, featuring original interviews, oral histories, audio stories, themed mixtapes, and more transmissions from the Daniverse

#82 Songs in Four Dimensions

Personal musings and thoughtful teachings from My Brightest Diamond's Shara Nova.

#83 Black Music and Black Muses

Music writing that is not restricted by the demands, wishes, and timelines of the music industry. Writing, not advertising. Love, not a battle of the brands.

#84 Dada Drummer Almanach

Sound, Art, Vegetables

#85 Songletter

We're constantly on the lookout for great music. This is where we store our top discoveries.

#86 MUSIC x

Regular insights about the future of music, media & tech. Team: Bas Grasmayer, Maarten Walraven.

#87 My Favorite Classical Music

Thursday highlights about a classical piece or composer along with Saturday classical picks for a beautiful start to your weekend.

#88 Rich Mail

let's keep in touch

#89 Kirk's Notes

A newsletter about music and other things.

#90 Invest in Music

Where fans become collectors.

#91 Unsound Dispatch

Unsound explores music, sound, and related visual arts, technology and beyond. We organise festivals in Krakow, New York, Adelaide and London, and also run a record label and publishing arm.

#92 The Flowering Jungle Newsletter

A monthly curated newsletter from the desk of Monster Rally giving behind the scenes access to unreleased music, artwork and more. Follow along on Instagram @monster_rally

#93 Cosmic Eagle

Sonics | Thoughts from the Astral Hills of TX by Israel Nash

#94 Bombadil Mailing List

All things about Bombadil

#95 New Bands for Old Heads

New music recommendations for people stuck in the '90s and early 2000s.

#96 Alex Blue | The Songbird

On songwriting, change, and queer motherhood.

#97 Opera Daily

An email that makes you love opera.

#98 LedZepNews

The latest unofficial news about Led Zeppelin and its members, including rumours and official updates.

#99 Iron Man Records Newsletter

Music news, reviews, thoughts and ideas. Published when something happens. Music will find a way. Join us.

#100 Notes On Guitar

the newsletter about getting better