ISSUE 23: NIGHTLIFE The night is a site of struggle, where musicians and arts workers navigate economic precarity, geographic divides, legislative threats, and public health neglect.
ISSUE 22: CIRCUITRY Whether exploring the “plugged-in” practices of electronic musicians or the interpersonal, cultural, technological, or political relationships that drive these artists forward, this issue reflects the complexities of a world where everything is interconnected.
ISSUE 21: REVIEWS There’s no way around it: critics thrust meaning from their subjective presents on persisting work they’re trying to understand.
ISSUE 20: MEMORY The power of memory is stronger than a brick building, or lines of prose on an ad-saturated webpage, but it feels more and more that memory, and the way we remember, is under attack.
ISSUE 19: FANDOM Fandom – in all its various permutations – is explored in characteristic New Feeling fashion through sharp, engaging reads that highlight exactly what makes us unique.
ISSUE 18: YOUTH It hardly seems like a generalization to say that the experiences we have with music in our early years inform so much of who we are and become, what we value, and how we interact with music later in life. Whether that’s hearing an incredible song for the first
ISSUE 17: VERTICES “Vertices,” then, suggests a kind of lattice work of such convergences, which feels true to not only the development of the issue but the pieces inside.
ISSUE 16: DESIRE How can music afford us the opportunity to navigate our own desires, be they physical or ideological in nature?
ISSUE 14: MOVEMENT We’re embracing fluidity, change, and the power that can come from passing from one phase into the next.
ISSUE 13: HABIT With essays and features that touch on how our relationship with music becomes a habit – in the practice of music-making, of fandom, but also some of the destructive tendencies that are often part of the music industry.
ISSUE 12: Breaking Point We consider what it will take for things to change, given that they weren’t working before the pandemic, and they certainly aren’t working now.
ISSUE 11: Prospect So many of the meanings of “prospect” are at the core of what New Feeling is all about: hope; possibility; exploration.
ISSUE 10: FUNDAMENTALS At New Feeling, we’re always thinking back to the core of what we’re hoping the writing and art we publish conveys.
ISSUE 9: Kinship Our writers explore what kinship means in the context of some of the music being made across the country today.
ISSUE 8: Nourishment How to feed our bodies, minds, and souls during these last few trying years has certainly been top of mind, and we hope the reviews and stories in this issue remind you of how music can nourish us
ISSUE 6: REMODEL With our sixth issue arriving at the end of 2021, it felt necessary to look forward, to think about what we’ve learned so far and how we can bring those lessons and knowledge into the future with us.
ISSUE 4: ECONOMICS New Feeling aspires to likewise change the music economy by prioritizing equity in our co-op membership, the freelance writers and visual artists we contract, and the music we cover.
ISSUE 3: WELLNESS Wellness is not only a concept or lifestyle but an industry that can capitalize on personal vulnerabilities and traditional, cultural healing practices. New Feeling’s third issue, Wellness, reflects this multi-dimensionality.
ISSUE 1: RENEWAL I think we all know what we have to do: if the opportunities don’t exist, then we have to create our own.
