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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 labour landscape

Sentries: Multifaceted Noise Rock

Exploring the world of genre agnostic soundcraft of the Lethbridge band’s album "Gem Of The West."

Step Into Little Stone Crow's World

Michael Rancic chats with the Mi'kmaw rapper and producer about turning private experiments into public practice.

Emma Goldman: The Dispossessed

Tom Beedham unpacks the ambiguous utopia of the Vancouver skramz band’s album, "all you are is we."

“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.

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.

Don't Start Another Substack

Michael Rancic writes about how platforms like Substack push writers toward individualized survival strategies over solidarity.

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.

Slash Need Double Dog Dare You…

The Toronto industrial provocateurs collapse the distance between performer, pest and possessed crowd.

New Feeling is 5

Five years ago, we launched New Feeling with a simple but important idea: music criticism can be worker-led, community-funded, and accountable to the people who make and love music. We started small, we learned in public as we went along, and we’ve kept our promises in the open.  Here’

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.

COVID is (STILL) a Working Class Issue

How the ongoing pandemic continues to profoundly impact working-class musicians and arts workers despite its erasure from the public consciousness.

Community Roots on the Rock

A report from New Feeling's panel at Lawnya Vawnya on building artist careers across so-called Canada.

Rae Spoon: Looking for “Friends in Low Places”

Rae Spoon on why they’re returning to their country roots, the genre’s fraught relationship to marginalized communities, and their queered cover of the class (im)mobility anthem “Friends In Low Places”