Eilon Paz
Founder, Creative Director & Photographer
Based in Brooklyn, NY, his work has appeared in worldwide publications such as The New York Times, Rolling Stone Magazine, The Guardian, and Monocle among others.
David Ma
Editor & Contributing Writer
Veteran music journalist and editor with over two decades of published work. Bylines: Billboard, Vibe, NPR, Wax Poetics, Rolling Stone, Okayplayer, and others.
Christine Renée
Contributing Writer
Christine Renée is a sonic force who moonlights as a music writer. A record collector since the 1990s, she is known for establishing NY’s Lot Radio as a first resident DJ. Currently residing in Europe, she uses sound as a modality in her energy-healing work.
Dan Epstein
Contributing Writer
Dan Epstein is an award-winning journalist and author who has covered music, pop culture and baseball for over three decades.
Kevin Foakes
Contributing Writer
Kevin Foakes has been involved with the multi-producer DJ Food project on Ninja Tune for 30 years. He published his first book in 2022, Wheels of Light, about psychedelic light show projection wheels.
Danny Veeken
Contributing Writer
Danny Veekens is a freelance music journalist based in Amsterdam. He writes for Wax Poetics, Bandcamp Daily, We Jazz Magazine and Tracklib among other publications. He runs his own label Rucksack Records, and curates music for Sonos Radio and Kollekt.fm. Photo by Tijmen de Nooy.
Deb Grant
Contributing Writer
Deb Grant is a Dublin-born DJ, broadcaster and writer. She has spent over 20 years hunting for records around the world and is known for her eclectic live sets, her monthly music column for the Big Issue and her daily radio show on BBC Radio 6 Music with Tom Ravenscroft, New Music Fix Daily.
Carter Van Pelt
Contributing Writer
Carter Van Pelt is a DJ, event promoter, writer, curator, and record collector who has championed Jamaican music for more than three decades.
Cherrystones
Contributing Writer
Cherrystones is a multi faceted being working in and around music. As a musician he has made bespoke pieces for fashion sportswear campaigns for companies such as Adidas, Stone Island & YMC. As a compiler he has documented many unsung and obscure artists via his respected & revered global compilations such as Rocks, Hidden Charms & Critical Mass 1 & 2.
Shira Shvadron
Contributing Writer
Shira Shvadron is an interdisciplinary tech lead with expertise in motion capture, video, animation, and sound. Shira is also a key figure in the vinyl scene, particularly with her deep connections to music from East and Central Africa.
Barbie Bertisch
Contributing Writer
Barbie Bertisch has been DJing since 2014. She co-founded Love Injection Fanzine in 2015 with fellow DJ Paul Raffaele, a New York music and culture fanzine. She currently splits her time between consulting, music production, writing, DJing and record collecting. Photo by Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr.
Dom Servini
Contributing Writer
Dom Servini is a co-owner of the Wah Wah 45s record label. As a music journalist, he was the singles editor for jazz bible Straight No Chaser from 2003. Dom hosts his own weekly radio show on Jazz FM, as well as the Wah Wah 45s Radio show on Soho Radio which won the Mixcloud Best International Funk & Soul Radio Show in recent years.
Nate LeBlanc
Contributing Writer
Nate LeBlanc is a music writer, record collector, San Jose, California resident and co-host of the long-running hip-hop podcast Dad Bod Rap Pod.
Anton Spice
Contributing Writer
Anton Spice is a writer and editor based in London, UK. His work has been published in the Guardian, Frieze, Wax Poetics and Electronic Sound. He was the founding editor of The Vinyl Factory magazine. Photo by Robin Christian.
Oliver Wang
Contributing Writer
Oliver Wang is a professor of sociology at CSU-Long Beach. He’s a regular writer on music, arts and culture for outlets including NPR's All Things Considered, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, and KCET’s Artbound.
Robbie Busch
Contributing Writer
Aka McBoing Boing is an internationally recognized DJ/producer and has a renowned collection of over 50,000 records. He's a magazine writer/photographer, comic book artist, and co-authored the best selling Taschen book Rock Covers. He's also the owner of Head Sounds Records in Brooklyn, NY.
Christine Potaris
Contributing Writer
Based in São Paulo, Brazil, Christine Potaris is a writer, screenwriter, and music curator with a passion for storytelling. Her work extends into artistic direction and live show production, collaborating with artists like Grace Jones, Yasiin Bey, Marcos Valle, and Archie Shepp.
Amir Egozy
Contributing Writer
Amir is a DJ and creative director from Tel Aviv, now based in NYC. He has broadcast on radio for almost two decades, worked as a music journalist and editor, ran an independent label, and consulted artists, brands, and filmmakers and currently busy as Port Sa'id NYC's creative manager.
