Rae Spoon: Looking for “Friends in Low Places” Rae Spoon on why they’re returning to their country roots, the genre’s fraught relationship to marginalized communities, and their queered cover of the class (im)mobility anthem “Friends In Low Places”

@raespoon.bsky.social's latest album, Assigned Country At Birth, drops today.

@tombeedham.bsky.social spoke to the musician about returning to their country roots while reshaping the genre on their own terms.

www.newfeeling.ca/rae-spoon-looking-for-fr...

Yes in My Backyard: Victoria Tom Beedham highlights Victoria's thriving music scene in the latest edition of Yes In My Backyard.

Our 'Yes In My Backyard' series is back with a profile of 'Victoria, BC' from recent transplant @tombeedham.bsky.social as he tours the scene from "hazy guitar pop and feral hardcore to experimental sound art, Indigenous hip-hop, and noise at its breaking point."

www.newfeeling.ca/yes-in-my-ba...

ISSUE 25: TECTONICS This issue's theme traces seismic shifts in music, culture, and identity—where pressure sparks both sound and change.

Our latest issue just dropped!

"elemental forces are constantly revealing the sensuous reality of the massive, vibrational bodies we take for granted in our everyday lives," writes @tombeedham.bsky.social in his Editor's Note.

Check it out here:
https://www.newfeeling.ca/issue-25-tectonics/

Yes in My Backyard: Victoria Tom Beedham highlights Victoria's thriving music scene in the latest edition of Yes In My Backyard.

And, in the latest edition of our “Yes In My Backyard” series, Tom Beedham (@tombeedham.bsky.social) looks at the contemporary music scene in Victoria, BC and the community that surrounds it.

www.newfeeling.ca/yes-in-my-backyard-victoria/

ISSUE 25: TECTONICS This issue's theme traces seismic shifts in music, culture, and identity—where pressure sparks both sound and change.

Our 25th issue, TECTONICS, is now live!
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In this issue, we navigate the complexities of shaky ground, and explore the tensions and possibilities that emerge beneath the ruptures.

https://www.newfeeling.ca/issue-25-tectonics/

Winter waves are melting into spring. Please remove your earmuffs—Musicworks 153 is here! 🎉 🌸

Peaches Is Leading a "Joyful Revolution" of CanCon Theme Parks, Hot Dog Obsessions and Writing for Exclaim! │ Exclaim! The Exclaim Questionnaire

At the end of last year, I spoke with PEACHES for the Exclaim Questionnaire, wherein I learned all about the teaches before Peaches, her dream of a CanCon theme park, and the time she covered the NY New Music Seminar as a short-lived @exclaimdotca.bsky.social contributor

exclaim.ca/music/articl...

A powerful decentralized campaign forced Scotiabank to divest from Israeli arms ⋆ The Breach A major bank sells its shares in Elbit Systems, in one of Canada’s biggest BDS victories to date

Canadian BDS activists just won a historic victory: Scotiabank, once the largest foreign shareholder in Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer, has dropped all its shares in Elbit Systems.

@desaima.bsky.social and Harrison Samphir report on the years-long pressure campaign that led to divestment.

i let myself go to a stadium concert once in a blue moon so right now i'm just trying to navigate my way into hamilton while GO's services are bonked and their website's trip search function is also down 🫠

always interesting to me how worker-owned media is framed as a new thing. there is a deep history here, especially in canada, so @tombeedham.bsky.social, @lesliekenchu.bsky.social and i went long on how @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social's work is connected to the cooperative movement in media and beyond.

the cover of 1783, depicting Aquakultre/Lance Sampson in a photograph

the cover of The Grind's Issue 18

Aquakultre's new album 1783 is out today! @tombeedham.bsky.social reviewed it in our latest What We're Listening To feature in the latest issue of @thegrindto.bsky.social!

28 Jan, 7pm-8pm est. New Feeling hot stove. an open hang with new feeling's leadership. no prep. no pressure. all welcome.

Welcome back, music lovers! We're trying something new in 2026: An (in)frequent open online hang for anyone curious about music journalism, co-ops, or what we’re building at New Feeling. A hot stove of sorts.

A Nation of Tinkerers: A History of Canadian Electronic Music from 1945–1985 · Invisible Publishing From university labs to home-built studios, A Nation of Tinkerers charts the evolution of Canadian electronic music.

hey i wrote a history of electronic music in canada from 1945-1985. it's called A Nation of Tinkerers and it's now available to pre-order through @invisibooks.bsky.social!

invisiblepublishing.com/product/a-na...

2025 has been quite the year for us, so we thought we'd take a look back to reflect on it all ⏪⏪⏪

Anti-Copyright Extremists Spotify and Anna's Archive

dadadrummer.substack.com/p/anti-copyr...

How Toronto’s Concert Venue Landscape Changed in 2025 From the closing of the Dakota Tavern and the Velvet Underground to the launch of Rogers Stadium, the city’s live music scene underwent major changes last year.

NEW: How Toronto’s Concert Venue Landscape Changed in 2025

@tombeedham.bsky.social details the city's big openings, moves, ownership changes and closures.

How Toronto’s Concert Venue Landscape Changed in 2025 From the closing of the Dakota Tavern and the Velvet Underground to the launch of Rogers Stadium, the city’s live music scene underwent major changes last year.

In 2025, Toronto saw the rise of a mega-stadium, new smaller venues opened, landlords did landlord things, monopoly money moved around, beloved haunts closed and spaces rebranded. My round up for @thegrindto.bsky.social:
www.thegrindmag.ca/how-torontos...

a bullseye target next to "5 more signups to reach our goal and 10 to smash it" with a rocket ship breaking out from behind the "smash it" part

We’re this close to our goal! Only 5 new members needed to reach it and 10 to smash it.

Join New Feeling today to support fair pay for Canadian music writers and build a cooperative future for music journalism.

$5/month newfeeling.ca/nfisfive
$55/year newfeeling.ca/nfisfive360

Colorful illustrated promo graphic on a teal background advertising a ‘5th Anniversary Discount!!!’. Large cream speech-bubble shapes hold black text. The middle panel reads: ‘From November 5th to December 31st Our Community Monthly Membership is just $5 / MONTH!’ The lower panel reads: ‘And our Annual Community Membership is just $55 / YEAR! & includes a free copy of our 5th Anniversary Zine (ships 2026).’ On the left bottom corner is a tilted black-and-white zine cover titled ‘NEW FEELING – COLLECTED 2020–2025’ with a halftone image of two hands pressed together. On the right is a blue cartoon dog with a heart-shaped black nose, and simple orange line-drawn flowers decorate the corners.

We’ve made it to five years thanks to the support of our subscribers, who co-own New Feeling with us. To mark our anniversary, you can now join the co-op and support our work for only $5/month, or $55/year.

$5/month newfeeling.ca/nfisfive
$55/year newfeeling.ca/nfisfive360

21st Century Co-op Ecologies Cooperatives have always been more than a business model, they’re an experiment in how we might live, work, and create differently together.

As New Feeling turns 5, we zoom out by surveying the co-ops, solidarity economies, and platform alternatives that make our work possible and show how we can organize differently.

Featuring @flaminghydra.com, @subvert.fm & more!

www.newfeeling.ca/21st-century...

ISSUE 24: ANNIVERSARY On the occasion of our fifth anniversary, New Feeling features editor Tom Beedham considers the historical circumstances that produced the co-op and our place in the growing cooperatively organized la...

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Our 24th issue, ANNIVERSARY, is here!

Five years ago, in the chaos of the pandemic & collapsing music media, we started a co-op. Today we’re still here, organizing for something better.

www.newfeeling.ca/issue-24-ann...

Emma Goldman: The Dispossessed Tom Beedham unpacks the ambiguous utopia of the Vancouver skramz band’s album, "all you are is we."

@tombeedham.bsky.social dove into the big-tent anarchism of Vancouver screamo punks Emma Goldman, interviewing them about their debut full-length 'all you are is we:'

www.newfeeling.ca/emma-goldman...

Sook-Yin Lee and Gong Gong Gong 工工工 Tap into the Universal Language of Music Leslie Ken Chu brought the three artists together in a cross border conversation to talk roots, memory, and connection.

Meanwhile, @lesliekenchu.bsky.social facilitates a conversation between Sook-Yin Lee and Gong Gong Gong 工工工 about their shared Chinese and Canadian roots, and how their work transcends borders.
www.newfeeling.ca/sook-yin-lee...

Emma Goldman: The Dispossessed Tom Beedham unpacks the ambiguous utopia of the Vancouver skramz band’s album, "all you are is we."

It’s been fascinating watching the collaged anarchist speculative fiction of Emma Goldman’s ‘all you are is we’ take off. I spoke with the band about ambiguous utopias and their very busy year
www.newfeeling.ca/emma-goldman...

Step Into Little Stone Crow's World Michael Rancic chats with the Mi'kmaw rapper and producer about turning private experiments into public practice.

@therewasnosound.bsky.social writes about the cyberpunk landscapes of Little Stone Crow’s sci-fi hip hop
www.newfeeling.ca/little-stone...

Sentries: Multifaceted Noise Rock Exploring the world of genre agnostic soundcraft of the Lethbridge band’s album "Gem Of The West."

@danielgwilson.bsky.social checks in on the genre-agnostism of Lethbridge, AB noise rockers Sentries
www.newfeeling.ca/sentries-fea...

“The process is the project” : Egyptian Cotton Arkestra stays rooted in Time and Place The Montreal free jazz ensemble’s debut channels radical improvisation, community care, and unapologetically unscalable intimacy.

@grahamericlatham.bsky.social writes about the playful fury of Montreal’s Egyptian Cotton Arkestra and their “identification with the communitarian ethos of free jazz”
www.newfeeling.ca/egyptian-cot...

Don't Start Another Substack Michael Rancic writes about how platforms like Substack push writers toward individualized survival strategies over solidarity.

@therewasnosound.bsky.social writes about how Substack’s spurious scheme to sell writers and workers the promise of empowerment effectively sequesters them from their colleagues, a shared working environment, and formal safeguards against their own exploitation.
www.newfeeling.ca/dont-start-a...

21st Century Co-op Ecologies Cooperatives have always been more than a business model, they’re an experiment in how we might live, work, and create differently together.

In “21st Century Co-op Ecologies,” @lesliekenchu.bsky.social, @therewasnosound.bsky.social and I survey the flourishing cooperative movement that’s taken shape over the last 5 years, tracing its deeper historical foundations.
www.newfeeling.ca/21st-century...

ISSUE 24: ANNIVERSARY On the occasion of our fifth anniversary, New Feeling features editor Tom Beedham considers the historical circumstances that produced the co-op and our place in the growing cooperatively organized la...

It's @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social's 5-year anniversary, and this is our 24th issue! We tried not to be too navel-gazey about it.

Inside: nostalgic reassessment, stock taking of collective achievements, refocusing our sights.
www.newfeeling.ca/issue-24-ann...