Just sent out the newsletter for December: about an hour of new ambient-drone tunes and a few reflections on what we’re talking about when we say “direct action.”

Just sent out the newsletter for December: about an hour of new ambient-drone tunes and a few reflections on what we’re talking about when we say “direct action.”

Who'd a thunk it!? “The logic has been to build more housing and that if we increase the supply, it will lower the price. That’s not at all what we’re seeing...The vacancy rate is increasing and the price isn’t going down at all."

Three favourite records of 2025: Vulture Feather - ‘It Will Be Like Now’ Postcards - ‘Ripe’ Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland - ‘Duvet’

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...

@grahamericlatham.bsky.social profiled Montreal free jazz outfit Egyptian Cotton Arkestra, who revel in the freedom they have making music that's not meant to blow up. www.newfeeling.ca/egyptian-cot...

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The way to read the Canada-Alberta MOU is that Carney is using the Trump effect as political cover to pursue the deregulatory agenda he’s long wanted. I spoke with @naomiaklein.bsky.social who called it a classic example of the shock doctrine.

Green Day Fugazi Stars of the Lid Getatchew Mekuria and the Ex Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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...

@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...

Absolute fkn madness montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...

5. While some places (EU, US etc) use active militarization as deterrence, Canada's geographic location allows it to use slow bureaucratic violence as deterrence. Processing times for many PR streams is now 50 years (!).

I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery? Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!! Here are 5 other things to know:

Made a new mixtape with a healthy dose of jazz-adjacent and post-rock vibes, and wrote a little bit about the unnameability of depression (and a couple of books I loved reading recently) anything-everything.ghost.io/the-fires-th...

Some of you are not seeing history as one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of your feet, and it shows

Made a new mixtape with a healthy dose of jazz-adjacent and post-rock vibes, and wrote a little bit about the unnameability of depression (and a couple of books I loved reading recently) anything-everything.ghost.io/the-fires-th...

New EP from Vulture Feather to end the year and remind me why I still love rock music. Honestly THANK GOD for this band. vulturefeather.bandcamp.com/album/cravin...

« Les rythmes agonaux qui hantent notre système de santé public » Voici la 1ère partie de ma dernière chronique Point de Vue dans l'édition papier @ledevoir.com de cette fin de semaine 🙏🏽 sources: @emilienicolas.bsky.social @iris-recherche.bsky.social @enap.ca ... www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

New Feeling is five years old! To celebrate, we've refreshed our website & we're running a membership discount until the end of the year 🎶 www.newfeeling.ca/new-feeling-...

Wrote a bit about PRAED Orchestra’s latest, ‘The Dictionary of Lost Meanings,’ for A Closer Listen. It’s a pretty wild fusion of Arabic urban pop and big-band free-jazz, and honestly just a thrilling ride. acloserlisten.com/2025/11/01/p... @acloserlisten.bsky.social

“land Palestinians want for a state” is a hell of a way to put it

2 years of genocide. I mourn the dead, and I mourn the living. None of us will ever be the same, none of us should ever be the same.

BREAKING: Three out of four business owners think we need more cops!

Every morning things seem a little more horrific, but sometimes you also get to wake up to an absolutely gorgeous surprise collab from two of your favourite artists working right now. Hallelujah. irisarri.bandcamp.com/track/ausenc... @blackknoll.bsky.social

Every morning things seem a little more horrific, but sometimes you also get to wake up to an absolutely gorgeous surprise collab from two of your favourite artists working right now. Hallelujah. irisarri.bandcamp.com/track/ausenc... @blackknoll.bsky.social

Very grateful for 'Duvet' from Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland, released a few weeks ago by Balmat, just in time for the leaves to turn. Exceedingly gentle, ornately detailed, at once intensely calming and emotionally engaging. Incredible stuff. balmat.bandcamp.com/album/duvet @philipsherburne.bsky.social

Very grateful for 'Duvet' from Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland, released a few weeks ago by Balmat, just in time for the leaves to turn. Exceedingly gentle, ornately detailed, at once intensely calming and emotionally engaging. Incredible stuff. balmat.bandcamp.com/album/duvet @philipsherburne.bsky.social

Wrote a bit for A Closer Listen about 'Light Flowing,' Clare O'Connell's gorgeous collection of (mostly) solo cello pieces released earlier this year by NMC Recordings acloserlisten.com/2025/09/20/c... @acloserlisten.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social

Wrote a bit for A Closer Listen about 'Light Flowing,' Clare O'Connell's gorgeous collection of (mostly) solo cello pieces released earlier this year by NMC Recordings acloserlisten.com/2025/09/20/c... @acloserlisten.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social

Love to see it (so let’s see more!) nomusicforgenocide.net

Toronto comrades: “Our work…makes up the raw material that arts institutions require to function. It is the collective withdrawal of our work, not only its content, that underlies our leverage in forcing institutions to reckon with our demands.” briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

Two police chiefs in Canada are on the boards of a pro-Israel advocacy charity. The president of the Canadian Association of Police is also listed, alongside business and political leaders. Experts and advocates are very concerned. My latest @readthemaple.bsky.social.

this tendency within contemporary liberalism is intimately connected with its aversion to acknowledging past or present colonialism

Loved this excellent primer on the political economic context of the Zionist settler-colonial project in Palestine from @versobooks.bsky.social. It’s succinct but also far-reaching in scope, and could be an amazing resource for groups looking to get on the same page in terms of big-picture analysis.

Why is Palestine a defining fault line of 21st‑century politics? Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler‑colonialism within imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism—not just humanitarian / legal narratives. Officially out & available in paperback & ebook www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

I’ve hated Jacobin since before it was cool

Made a mixtape that's mostly chill ambient/drone, and wrote a bit about how neoliberalism isn't so incompatible with fascism www.mixcloud.com/grahamericla...

you'd either have to have no soul or no brain to characterize the Giller Prize's *hypothetical* demise as a "casualty" in the context of an ongoing genocide archive.is/6OtzL

"It is absurd to suggest that the state – any state – needs a pretext to maim or kill, to arrest or deport." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Made a new mixtape for June – mostly drone, mostly with a cello way out front – and wrote a bit about how neoliberalism is (not) over: anything-everything.ghost.io/old-boss-new...

I wrote about Los Angeles and violence. newrepublic.com/article/1963...

Wrote a bit about experimental cellist Theresa Wong’s stunning new LP, ‘Journey to the Cave of Guanyin,’ for A Closer Listen: acloserlisten.com/2025/05/31/t... @acloserlisten.bsky.social @room40.bsky.social

From our latest issue, CIRCUITRY: @grahamericlatham.bsky.social talks with BIG | BRAVE about taking big creative swings with their latest album, OST, and the community and connections that make such choices possible. newfeeling.ca/2025/04/30/w...

The new Nennen album is finally here!!! 🤩🤩🤩 nennen.bandcamp.com/album/you-re...

Just posted a new mixtape for May, mostly folk-adjacent indie rock this time, including Perfume Genius, Nennen, Jerk With A Bomb, Ethel Cain, Ian William Craig, Tasha and more: www.mixcloud.com/grahamericla...

I wrote a bit about 'frailty' by anthéne for @acloserlisten.bsky.social: "Waves of gentle melody lap against a hazy shore, slow motions describing the dewy stillness of the coastal morning depicted by the cover artwork, or the shifting greys of a cloudy spring sky." acloserlisten.com/2025/05/03/a...

🛠️ BIG | BRAVE built their own instrument from salvaged piano parts for their new album, OST. @grahamericlatham.bsky.social traces their process and how minimalist, craft approaches create listening-forward soundscapes. 🔧 newfeeling.ca/2025/04/30/w...

The amazing New Feeling coop just put out a new issue, in which they let me interview BIG | BRAVE about their new record ‘OST’ and being broke artists in a town that’s falling apart! Check it out: newfeeling.ca/2025/04/30/w...