I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.

Had a great time on CBC's #Commotion this a.m. talkin' Neil Young, Benson Boone, Sabrina Carpenter, & the death of the Viletones' Steven Leckie w/ @rosield.bsky.social, @vishkhanna.bsky.social, & @elamin.bsky.social! Catch the extended mix on your podcast app later today. www.cbc.ca/arts/commotion

We're co-presenting five stacked shows at this year's Suoni Per Il Popolo festival in Montreal! To celebrate our 5th anniversary, we're also offering a subscription deal - $5/month with proof of a ticket to one of these gigs! Tickets & lineup here: suoniperilpopolo.org

Good @rosield.bsky.social roundup of Canadian music festivals that have recently shut down or gone public about their struggles: ca.billboard.com/business/tou...

i love my n+1 subscription! hits harder in print!

Our NEA grant was canceled. Here’s a letter from our development director about what’s happening.

Hello! Starting this summer I will be the new EIC at Maisonneuve, as @nourabinakhoul.bsky.social heads to Shanghai to work on her second novel. Thanks to Nour and Jen Varkonyi for bringing me on board - and if you're interested in writing for the mag, let's chat :) maisonneuve.org/news/2025/05...

🟩🟩🟦🟦🟨🟨 🧵➿🔌 Our 22nd issue, CIRCUITRY, is here! newfeeling.ca/issue-22-cir... 🎨by @tombeedham.bsky.social and @therewasnosound.bsky.social

Rosie Long Decter (@rosield.bsky.social) profiled Rock Camp Montreal, where girls, non-binary, and gender-non-conforming youth form bands, write music, and perform live, and "where the broader aim is to provide education in grassroots feminist arts and politics." newfeeling.ca/2024/05/31/t...

The slope isn't slippery; the frog isn't gradually getting boiled. Within its first hundred days the Trump administration has openly asserted the right/ power to seize and imprison anyone— including political dissidents, including citizens— and deprive them of any legal recourse at all. 5/

Cindy Lee’s Diamond Jubilee turns one today 💎 Revisit @rosield.bsky.social ‘s essay on the 21st c masterpiece, reading it through the lens of Mark Fisher’s hauntology, from our reviews issue: newfeeling.ca/2025/01/23/a...

They are rounding up the students. Anyone acting like this isn’t a 4 alarm fire is deluded.

it is so unfortunate that musicians have to simp for attention on the apps now to have a career like it's actively making me like music less... all our musical heroes got to have mystique and an air of cool and today's indie kids are doing tiktok dances for 12 year olds.....

hard to believe covid-19 pandemic began five years ago and hard to wrap my head around how much it has remade the world

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.

#NEW: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre — the largest queer theatre company in the world — has endorsed a cultural boycott of Israel, along with 17 other Canadian performing arts orgs. “There is no queer liberation without the liberation of Palestine." www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

If Canada wants to lean all in on their Made in Canada bullshit they should bring back CBC Radio 3

I'm looking to interview some L.A.-based musicians or engineers/producers/etc who lost instruments or gear in the wildfires. If you're willing to chat for a magazine story, please DM or email me. Thank you.

i have no data to quantify this but just vibes wise it seems like popular indie rock has circled back around from the women-led late 2010s (mitski, michelle, phoebe etc.) to 'dudes rock' in a funny parallel of the late 90s to early 2000s... (lilith fair fare to the strokes/killers/monkeys)...

i was so resistant to the cameron winter album but that shit is unfortunately rly good ... i am a heavy metal man......

"At the core of this book is the question: Are Ontarians better off today than when the Ford government first came to power? In nearly all cases, the answer is unequivocally no." Great overview of Ford govt's legacy to date in @readthemaple.bsky.social: www.readthemaple.com/doug-fords-g...

re-watching the white lotus season 1 and turns out it's actually about how we could have prevented the incel/maga-ification of gen z boys by taking away their phones and giving them beach

I was shown a letter from one grantee who was specifically flagged for non-compliance because their grant application includes the term "racial equity." They must now literally certify they are not doing any racial equity-related work. Crazy, totalitarian, racist conduct by the feds right now.

boycotts are annoying and inconvenient and disruptive and they work!!! grateful for the writers who stuck to their principles while so many were hand-wringing over what would happen to 'canadian literature'

#Breaking: Giller Foundation ends its decades-long partnership with Scotiabank

Each biased piece of coverage has chipped away at the legitimacy of gender-affirming care—and built a top-of-mind fear and discomfort surrounding transness in a population that in all likelihood scarcely thought of trans people at all a mere decade ago.   xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

the average salary for canadian live music industry workers is just $31,000, according to a new first-of-its-kind report: ca.billboard.com/business/tou...

a public service announcement

new twigs is good but moratorium on art by women comparing themselves to dogs plz... the Woof Abject has been mined at this point...

i love when 'my heart will go on' is playing in the montreal cineplex bathroom

grab a pot of coffee and get cozy for this one. @rosield.bsky.social with a landscape painting of an essay on cindy lee and the persistence of memory bsky.app/profile/rosi...

i have an essay on cindy lee's diamond jubilee in the new issue of @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social, reading the album through the lens of mark fisher's work on hauntology. it's a long one, linking grain elevators to the perennial death of rock music. always dreaming: newfeeling.ca/2025/01/23/a...

We have a new issue out today! 🦋 Issue 21 features an essay on Cindy Lee’s ‘Diamond Jubilee’ and hauntology; a live review of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s performance on the night of the U.S. election; and a fresh batch of 11 capsule album reviews: newfeeling.ca/issue-21-rev...

My deep dive into the streamers' pushback on mandated Canadian content payments - a policy battle with major implications for Canadian & Indigenous music ca.billboard.com/business/str...

I'm quoted in this (very thorough!) article on Canadian content and streaming platforms, arguing that major streaming companies should absolutely pay into Canadian content development and that the ad campaigns by the Digital Media Association are incredibly misleading.

"Canada’s New Feeling Co-op is one of the most interesting models of co-op music writing that currently exists." Huge ty to the excellent @lizpelly.bsky.social for this shoutout in her interview with @joshokane.bsky.social about her new book, Mood Machine! www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...

Ceasefire, then Palestinian liberation.

This is so depressing. It's like we've learned nothing from the American election...

I saw that Liberal sources had told Global News they felt Trudeau had pulled the party “too far to the left” and they seemed to think that was the problem with his leadership If that’s the takeaway the Liberals are going with, they are incredibly boned

how do i find fun on this platform ...

"Scapegoating queer and trans people is one of the earliest signs in, and is a key page out of, the authoritarian playbook." @journodale.bsky.social in @xtramagazine.com on what to watch out for in Canada: xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

Big thanks to Del and the incredible work he does every year putting this list together. We're honoured to have our work featured four times! Congrats to @sarahchodos.bsky.social, @lesliekenchu.bsky.social, @rosield.bsky.social, Laura Stanley, and all the writers recognized here.

Another year is coming to an end, which can only mean one thing: A new iteration of Bibliophonic editor Del Cowie’s annual Best Canadian Music Writing list. Chime in with your favourites in the comments! (@delcowie.bsky.social‬) invisiblepublishing.com/2024/12/31/b...

great piece in @therovermedia.bsky.social from this fall about safe consumption sites - the manufactured panic about these sites has been infuriating to watch this year. classic conservative violence masquerading as problem-solving. therover.ca/the-devastat...

"It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process."

wrote about cindy lee, tate mcrae, dorothea paas, caribou, bambii and many more for this list: ca.billboard.com/music/the-25...

Brian Jordan Alvarez made it big this fall with his FX series ​‘English Teacher.​’ He brought his friends along with him — except one, Jon Ebeling, who says that Alvarez assaulted him​ on the set of ‘Caleb Gallo.’ www.vulture.com/article/bria...

a little good news for the montreal music scene - i spoke with the founders of the now-closed diving bell venue about their plans for a new space & and what montreal nightlife needs: ca.billboard.com/montreal-mus...

open tiktok see mtl influencer going viral with video about my former local thrift store closing shop feel a million years old close tiktok