NEW FEELING

COVID is (STILL) a Working Class Issue How the ongoing pandemic continues to profoundly impact working-class musicians and arts workers despite its erasure from the public consciousness.

today is long COVID awareness day, so i'm resharing this piece i wrote last year for @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social about the long term effects COVID is having on music workers in the seventh year of this pandemic.

www.newfeeling.ca/covid-is-sti...

very sick

Connective Tissue: How Punk Archivists in Calgary Preserve the Fabric of Music From the Past Every day, we take care to maintain our bodies, lives, and relationships. Ben Lines extends this same effort to preserving music. When he’s not studying or working part-time, the 21-year-old Calgary resident is running CanadianWasteland.

The average cassette lasts 30 years. Vinyl, might see 100. But the spirit of Calgary's hardcore punk scene? Archivists like Ben Lines and Arif Ansari are making sure it won't be lost to decay.

https://www.newfeeling.ca/connective-tissue-calgary-punk-archivists/

Protest Chants as a Collective Musical Habit Spencer Bridgman traces the history of how chants became a vital part of protest culture. In speaking with union organizers, feminist advocates, and migrant-rights workers, he shines a spotlight on raising our collective voice to bring about change.

"Where there are collectives, there are often chants— whether at a protest, a concert, or a soccer game."

https://www.newfeeling.ca/protest-chants-as-a-collective-musical-habit/

"We are Musicians For Palestine Montréal, a group of Montreal-based musicians and music industry workers, and we’re part of a growing international network of people of conscience who are standing up against this madness." ❤️

www.musiciansforpalestinemontreal.org/bds-statemen...

Are You Listening? The Power of Paying Attention Explored Through Audio Archiving Tia Julien sets out to explore the role music and sound play in the collective experience and eventual memory of this historical moment, in the midst of scarcity, civil unrest, and movement towards re...

Follow writer Tia Julien on a sonic exploration of Toronto, "where tires continue to squeal, and billboards continue to sell us wellness just as nature floods our highways, and supposed leaders sneak in the night to destroy what’s left of our natural world."

www.newfeeling.ca/are-you-list...

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

Sentries' most recent album takes the band’s sound in a slightly more melodic direction with nods to ’90s indie rock, folk, post-rock, and lo-fi mixed in with his signature aggression.

@danielgwilson.bsky.social has the story on this breakout talent.

https://www.newfeeling.ca/sentries-feature/

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.

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 our latest issue, 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.

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

What We’re Listening To From ambient escapes to invigorated hip-hop throwbacks, the musicheads at New Feeling share what’s coming through their headphones…

wrote about two new local records in the latest installment of @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social's "what we're listening to" for @thegrindto.bsky.social

www.thegrindmag.ca/what-were-li...

What We’re Listening To From ambient escapes to invigorated hip-hop throwbacks, the musicheads at New Feeling share what’s coming through their headphones…

You can read it along with all of our other music picks here:
www.thegrindmag.ca/what-were-li...

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!

Tonight!!!

Meeting link:
meet.google.com/tpg-hueh-ckd

Tomorrow!!

What We’re Listening To From ambient escapes to invigorated hip-hop throwbacks, the musicheads at New Feeling share what’s coming through their headphones…

From ambient escapes to invigorated hip-hop throwbacks, spruce up your winter playlist with new picks from the music heads at @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social.

Featuring Aquakulture, Nick Schofield, Chiquita Magic and more.

This is in one week!

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.

come hang!

Meet Real-time meetings by Google. Using your browser, share your video, desktop, and presentations with teammates and customers.

Come meet our members, ask questions, or just talk about all the best music for an hour. No prep. No pressure. All welcome.

January 28th, 7pm-8pm Est.
Meeting link:
meet.google.com/tpg-hueh-ckd

New Feeling is a collective, community project, and these sessions will provide a space for folks to get to know each other, learn about how we might all continue to build NF together, and simply catch up on all the latest in music.

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.

Wax Memory: A Daughter's Journey Through Her Father's Vinyl Collection TikTok user @soundwavesoffwax is documenting the process of listening to her late father’s vinyl collection and shows that collective listening is still very much possible, in myriad forms.

"Jula is building a digital library that doubles as a personal tribute, where memory and discovery go hand in hand."

www.newfeeling.ca/wax-memory-a...

Why I'm Not Writing About DIY Anymore What opportunities are we missing out on by approaching the informal creative environment we call the underground in centralist, individualist terms. Can we really keep talking about DIY and independe...

Why I'm Not Writing About DIY Anymore
www.newfeeling.ca/why-im-not-w...

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

@newfeelingcoop.bsky.social w/ great points on precarity and gig platforms.

"But for things to change, we have to imagine more than hermit crabbing from one platform to the next: we have to resist the ways our work is becoming individualized in the first place."

www.newfeeling.ca/dont-start-a...

DIY Dreams: Winnipeg’s Electronic Underground is Thriving Winnipeg’s promising electronic music scene is one that’s rich with history and a gritty commitment to grassroots organizing.

The piece named on the list is @atomicnumber88.bsky.social 's close look at what makes Winnipeg's electronic music scene tick.

You can read it here:
www.newfeeling.ca/diy-dreams/

Best Canadian Music Writing 2025 Compiled by Del Cowie, our Bibliophonic series editor.

Thanks to Del Cowie and @invisibooks.bsky.social for recognizing our work on their "Best Canadian Music Writing 2025" list.

It always means so much to our small, scrappy publication to be featured alongside legacy media.

invisiblebooks.substack.com/p/best-canad...

Also in this issue:

My recs for places to subscribe:

@see-saw.fun
Don't Rock the Inbox ( @marissarmoss.bsky.social @natalieweiner.bsky.social)
@hearingthingsco.bsky.social
@newfeelingcoop.bsky.social

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today is the last day to join the co-op at a discounted rate!

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

New Feeling A cooperative of music journalists and community enthusiastically covering the sounds across so-called Canada.

Also we discounted memberships to $5/month and $55/year to mark our anniversary. Annual members get a free anniversary anthology zine of what we think is some of our best work.

That discount ends on January 1st! Consider joining the co-op today! Thanks for an incredible 2025!

www.newfeeling.ca