100+ Musicians and Bands that use Twitter

In the past few weeks I’ve taken over responsibility of our Twitter account from Craig with the goal of networking with as many people as possible in our industry whether it’s bands, t-shirt bloggers, designers, and web celebrities. Thankfully there are quite a few lists of designers, and t-shirt bloggers who are on twitter and there are even great utilities like Mr Tweet that help you find friends to follow in your industry. The one list I have yet to see (and maybe it’s cause I just didn’t look hard enough.) Is a list of bands that actively participate in Twitter. This is my attempt to list all the ones I have found so far:

The Glitch Mob
16Volt
CombiChrist
Words Now Heard – Also known as Chris from Merchspin
Bella Morte
Henry Rollins
Genitorturers
Dizmas
Sean from Harvey Danger
Atomic Love Bombs
Seven Day Sonnet
Bloc Party
Jimmy Eat World
Colin of The Decemberists
Jeff Finley
John Roderick
Band of Horses
Brian Eno
Andrew Bird
Bjork
Bonde Do Role
The Cardinals
Questo of the Roots
Kristin Hersh
Shaquille O’Neal – That guy from Shazaam, the genie.
Coldplay
Common
Rivers Cuomo
Dananananaykroyd
Duke Special
Snoop Dogg
Funeral For A Friend
Josh Haden
Hadouken
Calvin Harris
Imogen Heap
Tay Zonday
Hot Hot Heat
Dave Matthews
Muse
Oasis
Amanda Palmer (The Dresden Dolls)
Pearl Jam
Jack Penate
Peter, Bjorn and John
The Raconteurs
My Brightest Diamond
Q-tip
Jay Reatard
Trent Reznor
Soulwax
Britney Spears
Regina Spektor
Guy Sebastiam
Sonic Youth
The Streets
Willie Nelson
The Subways
The Teenagers
Ani Difranco
Tokyo Police Club
Timbaland
Jason from Mates Of State
Roger McGuinn / Lead singer of The Byrds
Tom Waits
Lil Wayne
Weezer
Patrick Wilson
The Wombats
We Are The Physics
Broken Records
Nick Cave
Roots Manuva
Kanye West
Boom Bip
Robert Smith (The Cure)
AC/DC
Erykah Badu
Lily Allen
Port O’Brien
Ghostface Killah
Gnarls Barkley
Bondo do Role
Chris T-T
MC Hammer
Ocean Reid
Jonathan Coulton
D.A. of Chester French
Manchester Orchestra
Cathi Bruns
Razorlight
Air Traffic
Beastie Boys
Mos Def
Sean Lennon
Sigur Ros
Panic at the Disco
Interpol
Death Cab For Cutie
Anberlin
Bad Religion
Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear
Dave Allen of Gang Of Four
Ben Kweller
John Vanderslice
Ingrid Michaelson
Wendy and Lisa
Yoko Ono
John Tesh
Soulja Boy
The Cab

Thanks to these guys for helping with the list:

• Musicians you should follow on twitter, and some you shouldn’t
• Gen from Genitorturers

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15 comments “awaiting immediate, obnoxious rebuttal”

1. Susan says:

   February 4, 2009 at 12:36 pm

   http://twitter.com/julianvelard

   Great new artist you should really check out!
2. bryan Irrera says:

   February 4, 2009 at 6:23 pm

   http://twitter.com/jillsobule
3. @fairwavemedia says:

   February 4, 2009 at 9:59 pm

   http://www.twitter.com/KirkWhalum

   8-time Grammy nominated jazz musician
4. Randy Garcia says:

   February 4, 2009 at 10:16 pm

   Then there’s my little band, Chachi!

   http://twitter.com/chachitheband
5. Rex Roof says:

   February 4, 2009 at 10:56 pm

   mike doughty:
   http://twitter.com/MikeDoughtyYeah

   singer/songwriter and ex frontman for Soul Coughing
6. Brian Bufalo says:

   February 4, 2009 at 11:48 pm

   https://twitter.com/tayswift

   Taylor Swift is on too…and now I sound gay.
7. Robin says:

   February 13, 2009 at 8:29 pm

   http://twitter.com/MauraMauraMaura
   Maura Kennedy (from The Kennedy’s)
8. Gabriel says:

   February 15, 2009 at 10:02 pm

   Here is a list that I am managing that covers over 1000 artists, record labels, radio stations and music bloggers using Twitter. It keeps growing everyday as people join Twitter and they get added to the list.

   Link: http://tra.kz/v

   Thanks.
9. Zach Totz says:

   March 18, 2009 at 12:17 am

   http://twitter.com/paulandstorm
10. Five Day Jobs That Can Help You Launch A Music Career - Assault Blog says:

    March 25, 2009 at 1:27 am

    [...] that everyone’s on the Twitter bandwagon, you can find literally hundreds of other musicians, and music journalists that are within reach of 140 character message or [...]
11. In Isolation says:

    April 8, 2009 at 9:41 am

    You can find tons more Indie bands by using the latest Twitter hashtag search phenomenon devised by @InIsolation: ‘Follow An Indie Band Wednesday’ – http://tinyurl.com/faibwed
12. cj says:

    April 22, 2009 at 5:55 am

    And how about a great rock’n'roll band http://twitter.com/60secondsilence
13. jay williams says:

    July 11, 2009 at 6:22 am

    Anyone remember Sunna? They were quite big around 2000/1, had 2 hits Power Struggle + I’m Not Trading and cool album One Minute Science. Well they’re back! And on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/sunna2009 and /iansunna (Ian MacLaren, guitarist)
14. jay williams says:

    July 11, 2009 at 6:22 am

    http://www.twitter.com/iansunna
15. robbie says:

    August 10, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    http://www.twitter.com/allenrobot

    Allen ROBOT Van Wert