Tom Beedham

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!

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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

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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

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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
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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...

How Canadian Artists Brought Cultural Boycotts of Israel to the Mainstream Boycotts of Israel and institutions supportive of the occupation of Palestine were a fringe activity just a couple years ago. But artists across the country have made them impossible to ignore.

Despite fierce political opposition, cultural boycotts of Israel and institutions complicit in the occupation of Palestine have gone mainstream.

I spoke to some organizers in the arts about how we got here, and what's next for the movement.

Today!

After The Gold Rush: Wonderhorse Reviewed When non-profit arts collective Something Shows reaches out to New Feeling and offers to fly someone from the co-op out to review Wonderhorse, it sounds like an invitation to break spells and witness ...

Then, just before it plunged into half a year of darkness, Yukon fest Wonderhorse invited us out to cover its answer to the territory's "very top-down and Whitehorse-centric" funding administration and decision-making www.newfeeling.ca/after-the-go...

Family Values: Lawnya Vawnya Reviewed Asking audiences again and again to examine the branches of their relations and follow them to the connective canopies of larger networks, the kind of change Lawnya Vawnya asked for in this year's pro...

in 2022, Ford dropped indoor mask mandates and experts warned ON testing was catching ~10% of COVID cases. I figured fests were off the table. So when St. John’s NL festival @lawnyavawnya.bsky.social reached out, I jumped at a chance to escape to the Atlantic Bubble
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Joseph Shabason and André Ethier Come Out of The Kitchen With Fresh Pepper Fresh Pepper provides a summit for service and music workers alike, toasting their interdependencies and challenging the conditions they bump against with metaphor-rich vignettes.

Shortly after we ran this, a new TO alt mag reached out re: reprinting it abridged in their first issue. Eventually, @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social partnered with @thegrindto.bsky.social; we contribute regular music content to their arts section, incl. concert listings
www.newfeeling.ca/joseph-shaba...

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

anyone have resources they can share re: best practices for transcribing broken english?

Group Chat: Ariane Roy; A La Una & Kimmortal Welcome to New Feeling's Group Chat. In this feature, we invite a panel of writers to give their takes on two songs selected by our editorial team, with the goal of offering a variety of perspectives ...

Another recurring feature, Group Chat was a kaleidoscopic response to the single authoritative voice, letting readers parse a variety of critical takes in the same space, and hopefully, develop their own relationship to the work in the process.
www.newfeeling.ca/group-chat-a...

Talking ‘bout my generational investment: Why the federal budget fails to meet the moment - CCPA Budget 2025 featured talk of “generational investments” and proclaimed a headline number of $1 trillion in combined new public and private investment over five years. Yet no one seems particularly ins...

Despite all the talk of “generational investments” in budget 2025, no one seems particularly inspired by this budget or its investment plan. Where’s the moon shot, the national project(s) that Canadians can rally behind? By @marclee.bsky.social #Budget2025
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...