NEW FEELING

NDY & New feeling co-op present SLASH NEED, HRT, Doctor Cement November 15 St Stephen in the Fields $20 Adv 8pm. A Slash Need record release and NEw Feeling Co-op 5 year anniversary celebration

our gorgeous poster for our 5th anniversary celebration and slash need's record release show is finally here!

grab your tickets here:
dice.fm/partner/ndy-...

NDY & New feeling co-op present SLASH NEED, HRT, Doctor Cement November 15 St Stephen in the Fields $20 Adv 8pm. A Slash Need record release and NEw Feeling Co-op 5 year anniversary celebration

our gorgeous poster for our 5th anniversary celebration and slash need's record release show is finally here!

grab your tickets here:
dice.fm/partner/ndy-...

🔴 In two years of war, over 223 Palestinian journalists have been killed in #Gaza in the deadliest period in the history of journalism. As journalists, unionists and, ultimately, humans, we cannot accept that reporters are killed amid indifference, be that in Gaza or elsewhere.

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event poster featuring slash need. NDY gig #882. Saturday November 15, 2025. In Collaboration with New Feeling. St. Stephen-In-the-Field. $20 adv. 8pm. SLASH NEED. HRT. DOCTOR CEMENT.

we're proud to present our 5th anniversary show in toronto with punk promoters Not Dead Yet, featuring SLASH NEED. there will be plenty to celebrate as the event also marks the release of their long-awaited debut album.

tickets & more info here:
link.dice.fm/df434d9b4110

sure! we prioritize working with writers based here just because we're trying to account for the lack of music media overall in canada, but are open to working with other writers, definitely.

pitches can be sent any time, we will probably review what we have by october 6 for consideration for our next issue

Happening this Friday!!! Hope to see u there!

RSVP here:
luma.com/subvert

Anyone in Canada wanna write for one of the countries' coolest online music magazines/co-ops? Well, now is your chance. Hit up @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social with your pitch.

Pitch Us! A Canadian Music Writers Cooperative Pitch Us! New Feeling maintains an up-to-date list of writers that we send out calls for pitches to. If you’re interested in writing for us in the future, add y…

Here's our pitch guide with more info, and a way to sign up to be on our list of freelancers that we reach out to with future calls-for-pitches.

newfeeling.ca/pitch-us/

Got something to say about music? Eager to work cooperatively with like-minded folks? WRITE FOR US. Interdependent. Critical. Cooperative. At New Feeling, We like people-centred stories, and ones that bring attention to community-wide issues. We like stories about artists in so-called Canada outside Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver, and stories that have a point of view. Read other stories we’ve published to get a sense of what we are into. Reported features and artist profiles with 1-2 sources are up to 1500 words and pay $200. Pitch us: newfeelingcoop@gmail.com Pitch guide: https://newfeeling.ca/pitch-us/ NEW FEELING

We're looking to work with more writers based in so-called Canada!

Is that you?

This is a rare open call for pitches.

Please email newfeelingcoop@gmail.com with your ideas. Include “PITCH” in your subject heading, followed by a 10-ish word headline to identify your idea.

What We’re Listening To in September 2025 New Feeling’s music writers share what they’re vibing to — from country covers of gospel classics to dreamy experimental soundscapes.

The latest issue of @thegrindto.bsky.social also includes a fresh round of What We're Listening To from @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social, feat. reviews of Nadah El Shazly, Dianadelirio, Orbital Ensemble, noonjeem, +more from @danielgwilson.bsky.social, @lesliekenchu.bsky.social, Sarah Chodos, and myself

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 Lawnya Vawnya 15 (@lawnyavawnya.bsky.social), sharing some specific proposals to help make arts careers more sustainable:

newfeeling.ca/2025/08/08/2...

Next week we’ll be in Canada 🇨🇦

Sept 25-26: University of Toronto (Workers Governing Technologies)

RSVP: creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/blog/workers...

Sept 26 Toronto: Music + Co-ops social & salon with @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social

RSVP: luma.com/nn6dn7n0

see you there!!!

Let’s talk about a co-operatively owned future for artists and music workers! Join me at the @subvert.fm & @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social Toronto meetup next week to dream about a better way forward together!

An event poster. "Music & Cooperatives Social & Salon" "Join us for an intimate meetup exploring cooperative models in music. A conversation between Subvert and New Feeling about rethinking the relationship between labor and media, and the future of cooperative ownership in music."

Toronto!

Our friends at @subvert.fm are stopping by next week, so we're co-hosting a meet up and chat Friday, September 26th at It's OK*, 6pm-8pm.

DJ Set by @paulch.in

RSVP here:
luma.com/subvert

Toronto (Friday Sept 26)

@subvert.fm 🤝 @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social

This event brings together Subvert and New Feeling for a conversation about the future of worker and artist ownership in music.

Join us. RSVP: luma.com/subvert

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” :

newfeeling.ca/2025/08/08/r...

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

"The burden of making live music safer under #COVID falls overwhelmingly on the shoulders of the disabled & immunocompromised, who are actively building community & resisting their abandonment by public & industry policy that wants to plow ahead without them":

newfeeling.ca/2025/08/08/c...

"The burden of making live music safer under COVID falls overwhelmingly on the shoulders of the disabled and immunocompromised, who are actively building community and resisting their abandonment by public and industry policy that wants to plow ahead without them."

PHENOMENAL article.

a book on a table, its called the dad rock that made me a woman, written by Niko Stratis

I did my best to push back on my book being "trans memoir" as it's about many things, but most of all how my life was formed by labour. I got my first job @ 13. I was a journeyman Glazier @ 21. I wasn't a writer (or a trans) until my 30s. Celebrate Labour Day by reading about labour

🔗: is.gd/E42lih

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

Happy Labour Day! In our latest issue, @therewasnosound.bsky.social wrote about how the ongoing pandemic continues to profoundly impact working-class musicians and arts workers despite its erasure from the public consciousness.

newfeeling.ca/2025/08/08/c...

supporting independent lefty media and leftist journalists is the only way we counteract the flood of garbage spewing from the right, center, and pseudo-left. it sucks we don’t have access to those unlimited money fountains, but we still gotta keep going

STORY CALL - please share

I’m working on a story for @thegrindto.bsky.social and looking to explore how Ontario music venue owners and concert organizers are adapting to Bill 10, which holds landlords and staff criminally liable for drug activity on their properties.

DM or @ me here to connect

Deep Digs: Blaxäm - Kiss My Afro Daniel G. Wilson revisits the Toronto funk rock band's 1998 EP and examines the history of Black-fronted rock bands in the city at the time

The article I was born to write. the time I did a deep dive into the history of Black rock music in Ontario, Canada for @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social . I only wish i had written it earlier while Eric Mercury was alive

newfeeling.ca/2023/08/31/d...

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.

In our latest issue, 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:

newfeeling.ca/2025/08/08/i...

a musician, guitar in hand, kneeling in front of a laptop and pedal board

long before Bugland, we handed @nojoy.bsky.social 's Jasamine White-Gluz a disposable camera and she gave us a window into her lockdown life (ft. cats, nature, Montreal construction cones)

newfeeling.ca/2020/12/27/n...

It pairs well with @therewasnosound.bsky.social’s article regarding the class disparity in the music industry where “many A-list artists & their teams still quietly take extensive precautions” & avoiding mentioning COVID since it’s being written out of touring insurance policies.

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.

Beneath Winnipeg's surface lies a nightlife culture rooted in history and community.

@atomicnumber88.bsky.social spoke w/ indie artist Lana Winterhalt, DJs Elle Fast, Shael, and Solreia, about what makes this overlooked gem of the prairies shine bright.

newfeeling.ca/2025/08/08/d...