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ISSUE 23: NIGHTLIFE This issue explores

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Our 23rd issue, NIGHTLIFE, is live!

In it, we explore how the night is a site of struggle, where musicians and arts workers navigate economic precarity, geographic divides, legislative threats, and public health neglect.

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ISSUE 23: NIGHTLIFE This issue explores

The night life ain't no good life, but it's our life. Issue 23 of @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social is all about NIGHTLIFE. 🌃
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art by @therewasnosound.bsky.social!

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What We're Listening To - Summer 2025 Edition From vibrant indie rock to experimental noise, here are the jams that the New Feeling gang is bumpin' this summer.

For our latest partnership with @thegrindto.bsky.social, we wrote about what we’ve been listening to this summer, from the raucous post-punk of Gloin to the gossamer dream pop of Amy Millan:

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COVID Is (Still) A Working Class Issue Michael Rancic goes long on the class-based disparities affecting how musicians navigate COVID in 2025

Five years later, COVID-19 is seemingly something we’ve left in the past. But as @therewasnosound.bsky.social explains, the ongoing pandemic continues to profoundly impact working-class musicians and arts workers despite its erasure from the public consciousness.

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Community Roots on the Rock Rosie Long Decter explores insights from musicians at New Feeling's Lawnya Vawnya panel, “Wired For Sound, Rooted In Community”

Rosie Long Decter (@rosield.bsky.social) reports back from our panel on building artist careers across so-called Canada at @lawnyavawnya.bsky.social 15, sharing some specific proposals to help make arts careers more sustainable:

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Rae Spoon: Looking for “Friends in Low Places” Rae Spoon on on their prodigal return to country music, Calgary roots, strengthening connections amidst rising global fascism, ‘Hyper Country,’ and more

Rae Spoon (@raespoon.bsky.social) tells @tombeedham.bsky.social about 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” :

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In Conversation With Shaunt Raffi Alexia Bréard Anderson chats with the Toronto-based musician, DJ and curator about improvisation, roots and cultivating spaces that acknowledge and engage with political reality.

Alexia Bréard Anderson talks with artist and curator Shaunt Raffi about his Kensington Market venue Tapestry, his roots in politics, and the difference between art and entertainment:

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Winnipeg Nightlife: Cultural Connection on Prairies Aurora Sol digs into Winnipeg's vibrant nightlife, rooted in community and history, where the music thrives in a creative and DIY culture.

Writer @atomicnumber88.bsky.social tours Winnipeg’s promising electronic music scene, one that’s rich with history and a gritty commitment to grassroots organizing.

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Editor's Note - Issue 23: Nightlife Features editor Tom Beedham outlines our latest theme and its role as a platform for resistance and creativity.

Features Editor @tombeedham.bsky.social opens the issue outlining how the NIGHTLIFE theme takes shape, detailing how it provides a necessary platform for resistance and survival and a "perfect stage upon which to begin imagining an alternative future."

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ISSUE 23: NIGHTLIFE This issue explores

🌃🌜✨
Our 23rd issue, NIGHTLIFE, is live!

In it, we explore how the night is a site of struggle, where musicians and arts workers navigate economic precarity, geographic divides, legislative threats, and public health neglect.

newfeeling.ca/issue-23-nig...

Protest Chants As A Collective Musical Habit Spencer Bridgman speaks with activists about the power, technique and tradition of protest chants

"What is more collective than our hearts beating together as we take to the streets to build a better world?"

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Arms Embargo Now! Canada’s secret arms trade with Israel, exposed: This hard-hitting report exposes the damning data—hundreds of shipments, hundreds of thousands of bullets—and the Canadian government’s web of lies tha...

A groundbreaking new report has just revealed a pipeline of hundreds of ongoing arms shipments from Canada to Israel and the government's web of lies over the last 21 months. Read it and act now - we can’t let a single MP off the hook. #ArmsEmbargoNow armsembargonow.ca/report

Protest Chants As A Collective Musical Habit Spencer Bridgman speaks with activists about the power, technique and tradition of protest chants

"What is more collective than our hearts beating together as we take to the streets to build a better world?"

newfeeling.ca/2023/05/09/p...

At 1,000 episodes, Vish Khanna’s Kreative Kontrol culture podcast keeps guests talking Since the show launched in 2013, the Canadian host has earned a reputation for being an engaged interviewer

Wrote about @vishkhanna.bsky.social's KREATIVE KONTROL reaching 1000 episodes, & how he's built+sustained a podcast that treats both guests and listeners with care

With insights from @katebeaton.bsky.social, @youvechanged.bsky.social & Fugazi's Brendan Canty www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

A Thousand Episodes Deep, Vish Khanna Is Still In Kontrol Ian MacKaye, U.S. Girls, and Cadence Weapon discuss Khanna and 'Kreative Kontrol,' his essential interview podcast.

Happy 1000th episode to @vishkhanna.bsky.social's Kreative Kontrol, which has filled the alt-weekly void by creating a space where rising artists are put on the same pedestal as your indie-rock heroes. Here's a great retrospective by @chrisdeville.bsky.social: www.stereogum.com/2316920/vish...

METALLIC CONVICTIONS Extreme metal is a style and subculture unlike any other. Daniel G. Wilson examines its anticonsumerist, rebellious and collective underpinnings.

"It is through tight-knit support networks of passionate artists and fans that [extreme metal] has been able to survive, evolve, and thrive despite the indifference it faces from the wider music industry" - @danielgwilson.bsky.social

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a great thread/essay on why pulling your music from Spotify and/or unsubscribing is a necessary step in imagining a different world.

Thanks to our friends @revueababord.bsky.social @harbingermedia.bsky.social, @breachmedia.ca, @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social, @therovermedia.bsky.social, Maisonneuve magazine, CKUT 90.3FM and Habibti Please for last weekend's amazing @unrigged.bsky.social and Suoni Per il Popolo panel 💕

What We’re Listening To From spooky surf-rock to a Persian family epic, New Feeling shares what’s on their playlist this summer.

Our pals at @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social share what they’re listening to right now.

Summer Festival Guide Summer means dancing on the beach, moshing in a field, and venue-hopping down Dundas Street. Here are some of the music festivals in and around Toronto we’ve got our eyes on.

It’s summer music festival season, and @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social has you covered with the best of the non-corporate festivals in and around Toronto.

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Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was initiated in 2004 to contribute to the struggle for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality. It advocates for a b...

We strongly encourage all music, arts, and media organizations to support PACBI’s principles and take action to help end violence against Palestinians and the destruction of Palestinian culture.

You can read more about PACBI and the Palestinian Boycott National Committee at: bdsmovement.net/pacbi.

As an independent outlet operating in so-called Canada, we reject this pattern of coverage and commit to the PACBI principles.

We've watched as major media outlets in Canada work to manufacture consent for Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine and violent targeting of the Palestinian people, all the while conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism.

While our publishing focuses on music here, we know that struggles for liberation extend across borders, and are committed to supporting movements for justice globally, including Palestinian resistance.

New Feeling’s mission is to cover the sounds and stories of music across the country/occupied Indigenous lands that constitute Canada.

Amidst some of the most deadly days in Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, as journalists and truth-tellers documenting violence against Palestinians are targeted and killed, we commit to the PACBI principles with the aim of pushing back on the complicity of our industry in this genocide.

a banner that reads "New Feeling / PACBI" in the palesintnian flag's colours, featuring the keffiyeh fishnet pattern

New Feeling is proud to sign on to support and endorse the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), in solidarity with the people of Palestine and their fight for liberation from Israeli occupation and genocide.

Find our full statement here: newfeeling.ca/pacbi/

blurbed some festivals for @thegrindto.bsky.social's Summer Festival Guide with my @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social pals