This is tomorrow!!!

We had to reschedule last week's Reading Group due to illness, but we've picked out a new date and hope you can make it! Registration is free and open to all. We'll send you the reading and a link to the meeting once you've registered. Hope to see you there!

Reminder that I am hosting this reading group focused on International metal next week for @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social . Aggressive music is a passion of mine. This is especially true for such music made by people outside if the Anglo-American and British spheres. Sign up if you are interested

And if you're looking for new tunes, check out What We're Listening To for an album roundup featuring Narcy, Mecha Maiko, Paste, Hiroki Tanaka, Siyahkal and Dead Bob. @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social

We had to reschedule last week's Reading Group due to illness, but we've picked out a new date and hope you can make it! Registration is free and open to all. We'll send you the reading and a link to the meeting once you've registered. Hope to see you there!

Looking for some fresh tunes? Here are six Canadian albums the @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social are listening to this spring, including Narcy, Mecha Maiko, Hiroki Tanaka and more.

Monstrosa is creating the kind of music space they didn’t have growing up: one that’s queer, open about mental health, and built on mutual support. Adele Lukusa has the story: https://www.newfeeling.ca/embracing-your-inner-monster-with-monstrosa/

Our first Reading Group in over a year is happening in exactly one week! May 19th, 7pm ET. This discussion of the World Metal chapter from Ian Christe's history of heavy metal will be led by @danielgwilson.bsky.social and take place on Google Meet. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Our first Reading Group in over a year is happening in exactly one week! May 19th, 7pm ET. This discussion of the World Metal chapter from Ian Christe's history of heavy metal will be led by @danielgwilson.bsky.social and take place on Google Meet. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Congrats to our friends Subvert on their launch today!

Gonna be leading a talk/reading group talking about international metal. Stoked

After more than a year away Reading Group is back! In two weeks time, @danielgwilson.bsky.social will be leading a virtual discussion around a chapter from Ian Christe's Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal. Registration link below.

so glad we're doing these again! my first piece of advice to any writer is to read! @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social takes that seriously and invites our community to come read and sharpen our critical skills with us. registration is free and the discussion takes place virtually. more info:

After more than a year away Reading Group is back! In two weeks time, @danielgwilson.bsky.social will be leading a virtual discussion around a chapter from Ian Christe's Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal. Registration link below.

You love to see a new journalism co-op here in "Canada." Follow and support these fine folks! Welcome to the fold, @defacto-ca.bsky.social !

here's a thread of some of @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social's labour-related stories for this may day

Happy International Workers' Day!!!

@tiaalandra.bsky.social has been doing some incredibly creative work with the co-op. here she patches together lyrics from different artists to create a conversation "told through borrowed lines." it's a smart comment on creativity in the face of AI and we were so happy to publish it:

In an age where mechanized thinking and corporate interests converge to devalue labour, Tia Julien explores the ways artists are using their art to find connection and reinforce the human element in the creative work. www.newfeeling.ca/mind-the-gap...

There's another worker-owned media outlet launching, we absolutely love to see it. Welcome to the fold, @weareravenous.com! www.weareravenous.com

Montreal!! Thursday!!

"A beautiful coincidence is that our word for doctoring translates to 'singing heavy songs.'"

Across the Blackfoot Confederacy, heavy music has become a conduit for release and repair. Reid Blakley traces how community-led festivals in Canada and the US are transforming pain into connection, mentorship, and healing. https://www.newfeeling.ca/singing-heavy-songs/

Across the Blackfoot Confederacy, heavy music has become a conduit for release and repair. Reid Blakley traces how community-led festivals in Canada and the US are transforming pain into connection, mentorship, and healing. https://www.newfeeling.ca/singing-heavy-songs/

@raespoon.bsky.social's latest album, Assigned Country At Birth, drops today. @tombeedham.bsky.social spoke to the musician about returning to their country roots while reshaping the genre on their own terms. https://www.newfeeling.ca/rae-spoon-looking-for-friends-in-low-places/

The boycott of the Giller Prize is over, as all three demands have successfully been met Reporting from @rdassaly.bsky.social for @thegrindto.bsky.social here: www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-e... Campaign statement here: www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-succ...

For @thegrindto.bsky.social, Laura Stanley spoke with The Ratskin Family Band, the self-proclaimed “first and only drag country band in the world,” ahead of their sold-out single release show tonight. https://www.thegrindmag.ca/the-ratskin-family-band-keep-the-spirit-of-queer-country-music-alive/

Exactly what I needed tonight

What happens when artists across borders dial into a shared frequency? @lesliekenchu.bsky.social brought Sook-Yin Lee and Gong Gong Gong 工工工 together for a conversation on roots, memory, and the universal language of music. https://www.newfeeling.ca/sook-yin-lee-and-gong-gong-gong-feature/

lots of great music to discover in here

Our 'Yes In My Backyard' series is back with a profile of 'Victoria, BC' from recent transplant @tombeedham.bsky.social as he tours the scene from "hazy guitar pop and feral hardcore to experimental sound art, Indigenous hip-hop, and noise at its breaking point." www.newfeeling.ca/yes-in-my-ba...

On their 2026 album 'Big Changes,' Status/Non-Status collaborate with Julie Doiron. Back in 2022, we connected Doiron & Adam Sturgeon for the first Generation Wise—a conversation meant to span eras and experiences. https://www.newfeeling.ca/generation-wise-julie-doiron-and-adam-sturgeon/

Our latest issue just dropped! "elemental forces are constantly revealing the sensuous reality of the massive, vibrational bodies we take for granted in our everyday lives," writes @tombeedham.bsky.social in his Editor's Note. Check it out here: https://www.newfeeling.ca/issue-25-tectonics/

Our latest issue just dropped! "elemental forces are constantly revealing the sensuous reality of the massive, vibrational bodies we take for granted in our everyday lives," writes @tombeedham.bsky.social in his Editor's Note. Check it out here: https://www.newfeeling.ca/issue-25-tectonics/

there's a new issue of New Feeling out in the world!

FUNLAND ZINE NO. 08 // FLIRT KILL ESCAPE @thestacks.ca EXPLORES A QUEER EDITOR'S ATTEMPT TO SHAPE NASCENT '90S CYBERSPACE WITH HUSTLER MAGAZINE NIRVANNA THE BAND REVISITS THE CYBER GOTHS OF QUEEN WEST COVER BY @alecrobbins.bsky.social funland.itch.io/funland-zine...

Our 25th issue, TECTONICS, is now live! 🛘 🫨🌱 In this issue, we navigate the complexities of shaky ground, and explore the tensions and possibilities that emerge beneath the ruptures. https://www.newfeeling.ca/issue-25-tectonics/

THIS SATURDAY don't miss @unrigged.bsky.social's PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS symposium @uwinnipeg.bsky.social from 12-5 featuring @readtheorchard.org @robertalexier.bsky.social @seancarleton.bsky.social @breachmedia.ca's El Jones + more RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv...

In issue 25 @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social navigates the complexities of shaky ground, and explore the tensions and possibilities that emerge beneath the ruptures. Read it at www.newfeeling.ca/issue-25-tec...

Had the pleasure of speaking with Arielle Soucy about her excellent new album, 'Passages,' out today. My first piece for the lovely folks at @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social!

Our 25th issue, TECTONICS, is now live! 🛘 🫨🌱 In this issue, we navigate the complexities of shaky ground, and explore the tensions and possibilities that emerge beneath the ruptures. https://www.newfeeling.ca/issue-25-tectonics/

In this profile from @grahamericlatham.bsky.social, Montreal’s Egyptian Cotton Arkestra build from contingency through fearless expression, playfulness, and fury shaped by the moment they’re in, together. “What happens if we’re here, in the now?” www.newfeeling.ca/egyptian-cot...

today is long COVID awareness day, so i'm resharing this piece i wrote last year for @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social about the long term effects COVID is having on music workers in the seventh year of this pandemic. www.newfeeling.ca/covid-is-sti...

very sick

The average cassette lasts 30 years. Vinyl, might see 100. But the spirit of Calgary's hardcore punk scene? Archivists like Ben Lines and Arif Ansari are making sure it won't be lost to decay. https://www.newfeeling.ca/connective-tissue-calgary-punk-archivists/

"Where there are collectives, there are often chants— whether at a protest, a concert, or a soccer game." https://www.newfeeling.ca/protest-chants-as-a-collective-musical-habit/

"We are Musicians For Palestine Montréal, a group of Montreal-based musicians and music industry workers, and we’re part of a growing international network of people of conscience who are standing up against this madness." ❤️ www.musiciansforpalestinemontreal.org/bds-statemen...

Follow writer Tia Julien on a sonic exploration of Toronto, "where tires continue to squeal, and billboards continue to sell us wellness just as nature floods our highways, and supposed leaders sneak in the night to destroy what’s left of our natural world." www.newfeeling.ca/are-you-list...

Sentries' most recent album takes the band’s sound in a slightly more melodic direction with nods to ’90s indie rock, folk, post-rock, and lo-fi mixed in with his signature aggression. @danielgwilson.bsky.social has the story on this breakout talent. https://www.newfeeling.ca/sentries-feature/

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.