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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

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...

i think my favourite piece from this year would have to be the one i wrote for @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social about how musicians are navigating COVID (and long COVID) in 2025.

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

If you want to support independent Canadian music journalism, consider becoming a member

we're currently in the midst of a membership drive, which will help us continue doing this work. we're also incredibly close to meeting our goal!

consider joining as member of the co-op and together we can build a future for music beyond platforms.

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real writers and editors can guide you toward new sounds, scenes, and styles.

the latest issue of @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social features profiles of a bunch of artists we're excited about and you should be too:

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

In a new issue of @thegrindto.bsky.social music reviews from @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social, comics from @hausofdecline.bsky.social and more

Find it at more than 300 locations around the GTA and at thegrindmag.ca 🔶️

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

A new article that I wrote for @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social 's anniversary issue is out. A little profile on a western Canadian noise rock band. Check it out.

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.

I had the pleasure of interviewing dear friends and comrades Egyptian Cotton Arkestra about their new LP 'Time and Place' for @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social's latest 'Anniversary' issue

www.newfeeling.ca/egyptian-cot...

i probably won't make any friends with this one but maybe think twice before you start a substack? i went long on how that's only making things worse for journalists trying to find footing in these precarious times.

“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.

There is a lovely write-up / interview with me and my ECA compatriots in @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social 's latest issue. Check it out here: www.newfeeling.ca/egyptian-cot...

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...

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...

@newfeelingcoop.bsky.social is celebrating 5 years in operation. It also coincides with my tenth year working as a music journalist/culture writer (time sure does go by quick). Check out the articles me and my colleagues wrote for the issue.

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

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

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.

@lesliekenchu.bsky.social brought together Sook-Yin Lee and Gong Gong Gong 工工工 for a conversation about music and arts scenes in Hong Kong and China and music as a universal language:

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."

@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...

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 talked with Mi’kmaw rapper Little Stone Crow about their album Dives Underwater, which imagines the small community of Sunset Valley as a gleaming metropolis:

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 interviewed ‘Gem of the West’ Kim Elliot, aka Sentries, about his boundary-pushing and genre agnostic approach to loud music:

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.

As much as we're looking back, we're also looking ahead. This issue features short profiles of emerging acts working towards better futures.

First up, @grahamericlatham.bsky.social profiled Montreal free jazz outfit Egyptian Cotton Arkestra:

www.newfeeling.ca/egyptian-cot...

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...

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

What if instead of “going solo” on Substack, we rebuilt newsrooms together?

@therewasnosound.bsky.social digs into platformized journalism and talks with Pivot co-op’s Paolo Mirello about how their solidarity co-op model offers another way.

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

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...

🗓️🥳🎂
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...

we've got quite a lot featured in the current issue of @thegrindto.bsky.social, especially in the gift guide where i recommend professional earplugs for shows and @nikostratis.com' excellent memoir.

latest issue cover

"what we're listening to" including Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Kadouza, Shad and more.

toronno! there's a new issue of @thegrindto.bsky.social out, which means more music coverage from us, including show listings, contributions to the annual gift guide, and "what we're listening to"! check it out online and across the city. www.thegrindmag.ca

yesterday @lizpelly.bsky.social joined us to kick off @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social's AGM and it was such an honour. i remember the excitement and validation everyone felt to see our co-op's name in the pages of Mood Machine when it came out, and last night's chat was equally affirming.

Today!

Here's how to register:
a) if you're a New Feeling co-op member, check your email for the RSVP link.
b) if you're a member of the public, you can buy a $10 ticket to the virtual event here:

www.eventbrite.com/e/new-feelin...

Reminder our AGM with special guest @lizpelly.bsky.social is coming up in 2 days!