TV host and rock DJ, Pinfield is considered a taste-maker by music industry heavyweights and rock stars alike.

Parker Posey is an actress known for her roles in Christopher Guest movies like Party Girl, Broken English, Woody Allen’s Irrational Man, Best in Show, and Waiting for Guffman. Posey first broke into Hollywood with her iconic role in Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused.

One of the nation's most notable music critics, Ann Powers has been writing for The Record, NPR's blog about finding, making, buying, sharing and talking about music, since April 2011. Powers served as chief pop music critic at the Los Angeles Timesfrom 2006 until she joined NPR; prior to the Los Angeles Times, she was senior critic at Blender, a pop critic at The New York Times, and a senior editor at The Village Voice. The co-author of Tori Amos’ New York Times bestselling memoir, she won the 42nd annual ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 2010.

Elvis Presley is one of the most influential pop culture figures of the 20th century. Often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", Elvis’ commanding voice and charismatic stage presence unleashed a musical and cultural revolution that changed the world forever. Over the course of his career, Elvis was nominated for 14 Grammy Awards (3 wins), sold over 1 billion records world-wide, received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and was named One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation by the United States Jaycees. In addition to his musical accolades, Elvis starred in 33 films and made numerous television appearances. Today Elvis continues to inspire musicians, fashion designers, and social influencers and captivate audiences around the world.

Jessica Radloff is the West Coast Editor of Glamour.

After graduating from The Juilliard School with a Bachelor degree and Master of Music, Arianna performed as a professional violinist at top venues around the world, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Berlin’s Philharmonie, Boston Symphony Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Blue Note jazz club, and so on. Her writing on music and culture has appeared in outlets such as The Washington Post, Slate, and Bustle.

Lynette Rice has been a senior writer and editor-at-large for Entertainment Weekly since 1999, where she writes about all things pop culture related. She currently hosts “Outlander Live!” on“The Awardist” for Sirius XM. She has 26k Twitter followers and lives in Los Angeles, CA.

A multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning music producer, songwriter, and member of Chic, Rodgers has written and produced for Madonna, David Bowie, Diana Ross, Duran Duran, Cyndi Lauper, Peter Gabriel, Sheena Easton, Jeff Beck, and Mick Jagger, among many others and is a 2014 Grammy Award winner for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for "Get Lucky."

DJ, songwriter, and record producer Mark Ronson has won seven Grammy Awards, including two for his eleven-times platinum single “Uptown Funk” featuring Bruno Mars. In 2019, he received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for the song “Shallow,” which he wrote with Lady Gaga for the film A Star is Born. Mark has collaborated with Amy Winehouse, Miley Cyrus, and Adele, among numerous other artists.

A novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, Rudnick has written three books and frequently writes for The New Yorker. His articles and essays have also appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and Spy. His screenplays include InandOut and Addams Family Values, and his plays include I Hate Hamlet. Using the pseudonym Libby Gelman-Waxner, Rudnick wrote film criticism for Premiere magazine.

Creator, co-producer, co-writer and star of the sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer, comedian and actress Schumer won a Peabody Award and was nominated for seven Primetime Emmy Awards, winning for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series, in 2015. Schumer also wrote, starred in, and produced the Judd Apatow directed movie Trainwreck in 2015.

Erich Schwartzel is an entertainment reporter at the Wall Street Journal’s Los Angeles bureau, where he covers all the major studios and theater chains and focuses on the growing entanglement of China and Hollywood. Before moving west, he spent several years covering fracking in Appalachia for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; his investigative work there won the Scripps Howard Award for Environmental Reporting.

Anchal is a 29 year old British Indian beauty blogger and influencer with 100k followers on Instagram, close to 200k subscribers on YouTube with 19m views of her videos on this platform. Her podcast 'What would the Aunties Say?' is the inspiration for her first book.

Mark Seliger was Rolling Stone’s Chief Photographer from 1992-2002,where he shot over 150 covers. Seliger now shoots frequently for Vanity Fair, Italian Vogue, and many other magazines; he also shoots advertising work for Adidas, Levi’s, Netflix, and many more. Seliger is the recipient of such esteemed awards as the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, Lucie Award, Clio Grand Prix, Cannes Lions Grand Prix, among others; his photographs are part of the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Tom Selleck is an actor and producer best known for his roles as Thomas Magnum on the original Magnum P.I. television series, Dr. Richard Burke, Monica’s older boyfriend on Friends, and NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan on the hit crime drama Blue Bloods. He has also made numerous films including Three Men and A Baby, in which he played Peter Mitchell, The Closer, and Mr. Baseball.

Amber Share is an illustrator and hand lettering artist whose work is inspired by her love of the outdoors and her dry and often punny sense of humor. She is best known for her Subpar Parks series, which juxtaposes beautiful illustrations of National Parks alongside hand-lettered text of their negative reviews, and her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, NPR,The Boston Globe and O Magazine.

Jack Shoulder and Mark Small are the curators of MuseumBums, a celebration of butts in fine art and beyond. Jack has worked in heritage education to make the past come to life for children of all ages for organisations like the British Museum, the V&A and English Heritage. Mark’s background is in archives; researching, cataloguing and making history accessible for those interested in what came before. They were both brought up on a diet of museums, castles, cathedrals and galleries and now do their best to encourage everyone else to visit them.

Academy Award nominee for Best Actress, Sidibe made her acting debut in the film Precious. Since then, she has appeared in hits such as The Big C and American Horror Story. She can currently be seen in the role of Becky on Empire.

Kate Sidley is a seven-time Emmy nominated comedy writer and performer based out of New York City. Kate is a writer and digital content producer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She wrote for the 2017 Emmy Awards and her work can be found in publications such as The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and Reductress. Before joining the Late Show, Kate was a contributing writer for A Prairie Home Companion and Someecards and was a finalist in the 2015 NBC Late Night Writers Workshop. She is a co-founder of Sea Tea Improv in Hartford, CT and a proud returned Peace Corps volunteer.

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Sylvie Simmons is a widely regarded writer and rock historian. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Times, The Guardian, The Mirror, Rolling Stone, The Independent, The Radio Times, Harp, Blender, San Francisco Chronicle, Americana, and MOJO. Simmons has appeared in several radio, television, and film documentaries and has written a number of liner notes for artists ranging from David Bowie to Emmylou Harris, Leonard Cohen to the Red Hot Chili Peppers; she is a recipient of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award.

Switched on Pop is a podcast on the Vox Media Podcast Network analyzing contemporary pop music. It has been listed as a top music podcast by NPR, The Guardian, Buzzfeed, Forbes, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, AV Club, and Chicago Reader. Switched on Pop has been cited, and its creators Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan have appeared as experts, in The Atlantic, VICE, Houston Press, Fuse, The Stranger, OZY, Portland Mercury, and Billboard.

Jack Shoulder and Mark Small are the curators of MuseumBums, a celebration of butts in fine art and beyond. Jack has worked in heritage education to make the past come to life for children of all ages for organisations like the British Museum, the V&A and English Heritage. Mark’s background is in archives; researching, cataloguing and making history accessible for those interested in what came before. They were both brought up on a diet of museums, castles, cathedrals and galleries and now do their best to encourage everyone else to visit them.

Tim Sommer is a veteran rock journalist who has written for Rolling Stone, Billboard, Spin, Washington Post and the Observer. He discovered Hootie and the Blowfish while at Atlantic Records.

Barry Sonnenfeld is a film and television director. Among his film credits are the three Men in Black movies; the two Addamms Family movies; Get Shorty. For television he has directed and produced Pushing Daisies and A Series of Unfortunate Events among many others.

Ashley Spencer is an entertainment writer and reporter whose work regularly appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vulture, VICE, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, and elsewhere.

Comedian, director, and producer, Steinberg guest-hosted the Johnny Carson show 130 times, more than anyone else, and has directed countless episodes of Golden Girls, Friends, Seinfeld, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Matt Sullivan is an award-winning journalist who has worked for Esquire, The New York Times, the Atlantic, The Guardian and, most recently, as Managing Editor of Bleacher Report.

John Szwed was director of the Center for Jazz Studies and is a former professor of Music and Jazz Studies at Columbia University in New York; he is also the former John M. Musser Professor of Anthropology, African American Studies, and Film Studies at Yale University. He has authored or edited eighteen books and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post,TheVillage Voice, and many other publications. He has received fellowships from the John M. Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has produced several recordings and has appeared in a number of documentaries and television specials; as a jazz musician, he played the bass and trombone professionally for over a decade.

Founder of the blog The Unmumsy Mum, Turner writes a column for Exeter Life magazine and has won MAD Blog Awards for Best Baby Blog and Best Writer.

Gabrielle Union is an actress and activist. Currently she stars as the titular character in the critically acclaimed drama Being Mary Jane on BET. She is an outspoken activist for women’s reproductive health and victims of sexual assault. She lives in Miami, Florida.

Academy Award nominated writer and actress, Vardalos is best known for her films My Big Fat Greek Wedding, My Life in Ruins, and for her work as co-writer with Tom Hanks for Larry Crowne.

Meg Vondriska is a writer and social media manager best known for the creation of the gone-viral Twitter account @MenWriteWomen. Originally from rural Wisconsin, she currently resides in Austin, TX.

Martha Wainwright is an internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter based in Montreal. She is the daughter of folk legends Loudon Wainwright and Kate McGarrigle and the sister of Rufus Wainwright.

A producer on the eight-time Emmy Award winning animated show Family Guy, Evan Waite has written for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, NBC’s Sunnyside, Comedy Central’s The President Show, Adult Swim’s Three Busy Debras, Amazon’s Fairfax, and Kevin Hart’s Guide to Black History. In the print humor world, he contributes frequently to The Onion, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and the New Yorker’s “Shouts and Murmurs” section.

Elijah Wald has been a folk blues guitarist since childhood and a writer for more than thirty years, and his work has appeared in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, TheTower Pulse, Songlines, Sing Out, Living Blues, and The Boston Globe, where he served as world music critic throughout the 1990s. He won a Grammy in 2002 for his album notes for The Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Box, and has produced several albums and recorded two of his own. He has taught blues history at UCLA and lectured widely on American, Mexican, and world music.

Lead singer of 5-time Grammy Award-winning girl-group TLC, Watkins is also the national spokesperson for sickle cell disease.

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BriAnne Wills is a fashion and beauty photographer in New York. Her work has been published in Teen Vogue, Nylon, Spin, Italian Vogue, and ELLE, and her clients include Refinery29, Wildfang, Milk Makeup, Buxom Cosmetics, Maybelline, Shiseido, and The Coveteur.BriAnne has also produced social media content for Meow Mix, Persil Pro Clean, and Fresh Step, and shot the ad campaign for a new cat food company called Smalls (think of it as Blue Apron for cats), created by the former director of marketing for Thinx, the start-up that makes period-proof underwear.

Casey Wilson is an actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer known for Happy Endings, Saturday Night Live, Marry Me, Gone Girl, Showtime’s Black Monday, and HBO’s series Mrs. Fletcher, as well as her popular podcast Bitch Sesh.

TV writer, playwright, and bestselling author, Zweibel was an original Saturday Night Live writer. Zweibel has won multiple Emmy, Writers Guild of America, and TV Critics awards as well as the Writer’s Guild East Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in television and the stage, which includes It’s The Garry Shandling Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and 700 Sundays with Billy Crystal.

Co-founders of Someecards.com, Brook Lundy and Duncan Mitchell both worked in advertising before launching their business.