Reposted by gayhamCanadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @cjpme.org · 08/10/2026CJPME has joined 30+ civil society groups calling on CBC/Radio-Canada to boycott Eurovision 2027. Institutions cannot claim neutrality while Israel continues to participate amid its ongoing violations of Palestinian rights. Open letter: musiciansforpalestinemontreal.org/eurovision-open-letter/ 094
Reposted by gayhamNEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Today marks the beginning of our 2026 member drive! www.newfeeling.ca#/portal 144
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Mixtape/newsletter for August: a clutch of reggaeton- and cumbia-adjacent tunes, and a bit of writing about how things like “rights” are always an unstable formation, always the outcome of ongoing social struggle (so we’ve gotta keep fighting!). anything-everything.ghost.io/actually-exi...anything-everything.ghost.ioactually existing“Perhaps it never was our welfare state?” - The London Edinburgh Weekend Return Group, In and Against the State (1979) Gavin Matts, a stand-up comedian originally from Vancouver, has a bit about bein... 011
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Mixtape/newsletter for July: it’s a bit of a mix genre-wise, though it leans into some amazing folk-adjacent tunes, and I wrote a bit about Mark Carney and “market solutions” to social crisis. anything-everything.ghost.io/aint-hallelu...anything-everything.ghost.ioain't hallelujah but might as well have beenAgain and again throughout his first sixteen months in office, Mark Carney has sombrely reminded us of the alarming scale and pace of the political-economic change currently afoot on the global stage.... 000
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Hey I wrote a short thing about my buddy Jack, who, alongside fronting beloved queer anarchist powerviolence trio Jetsam, makes stunning flute-based noise music as Amarior. Check it out: www.newfeeling.ca/bespoke-devo... 010
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Maisonneuve just published a piece I wrote about the ongoing struggle against the Carney’s government’s cuts to refugee healthcare. It’s an attack on migrants and an attack on public healthcare in general, and people are mobilizing to fight back and protect both. maisonneuve.org/article/livi...maisonneuve.orgLiving in DenialDoctors and activists are fighting the Carney government’s cuts to healthcare for refugee claimants. 032
Reposted by gayhamNEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Graham Latham (@grahamericlatham.bsky.social) profiles Montreal based experimental noise artist Amorior and discusses their DIY roots, the politics of noise music, and the ways a space can be reshaped and interpreted in the context of a musical performance. www.newfeeling.ca/bespoke-devo...newfeeling.caBespoke DevotionalMontreal's Amarior invokes vengeance and forgiveness in radiant noise 132
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Labour/Le Travail just published my review of 'A Brilliant Red Thread: Revolutionary Writings from Don Hamerquist,' probably my favourite of the books I read last year and one I highly recommend. DM me if you need access (or better yet, just go read the book). muse.jhu.edu/pub/151/arti...muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE -- Verification required! 010
Reposted by gayhamirina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I love this meditation on my favorite Fugazi song, Sweet and Low. Thanks, @grahamericlatham.bsky.social anything-everything.ghost.io/out-in-the-o...anything-everything.ghost.ioout in the open"To be in the room with them firing on all cylinders was to feel like taking on the world was not only possible, but a duty one could enthusiastically embrace." - Joe Gross Although there's no shorta... 111
Reposted by gayhamNEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 19/03/2026In 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...newfeeling.ca“The process is the project” : Egyptian Cotton Arkestra stays rooted in Time and PlaceThe Montreal free jazz ensemble’s debut channels radical improvisation, community care, and unapologetically unscalable intimacy. 043
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 10/03/2026New mixtape + newsletter for March: a little over an hour of ambient/experimental sounds and some lamentations for the sorry state of the organized left as the world ends.anything-everything.ghost.ioa difficult and narrow space"Every one of us knows from experience that radical political activity contains as much impetus towards fragmentation as towards unity, and that when ‘people are united,’ despite the slogan, they stil... 000
Reposted by gayhamgayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 17/02/2026New mixtape + newsletter for February: a bunch of recently released jazz- and/or postrock-adjacent tunes (plus a Faraquet song for good measure), and a bit of writing about Mark Carney’s smug neo-neoliberalism.anything-everything.ghost.iocommençons par l'honnêteté“At the triumphal ‘end of history’ in the West," wrote Wendy Brown just over a decade ago, "most have ceased to believe in the human capacity to craft and sustain a world that is humane, free, sustain... 001
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 17/02/2026New mixtape + newsletter for February: a bunch of recently released jazz- and/or postrock-adjacent tunes (plus a Faraquet song for good measure), and a bit of writing about Mark Carney’s smug neo-neoliberalism.anything-everything.ghost.iocommençons par l'honnêteté“At the triumphal ‘end of history’ in the West," wrote Wendy Brown just over a decade ago, "most have ceased to believe in the human capacity to craft and sustain a world that is humane, free, sustain... 001
Reposted by gayhamliz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social · 20/01/2026new kag singles on loop katiealicegreer.bandcamp.com/track/expo-70 katiealicegreer.bandcamp.com/track/talk-t...katiealicegreer.bandcamp.comExpo '70, by Katie Alice Greertrack by Katie Alice Greer 071
Reposted by gayhamgayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Just 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.”anything-everything.ghost.ioas in engines“Blackout at the terror trials It’s the sixth year of their wars I’m pacing shotgun hallways While my fucking neighbour snores” - A Silver Mt Zion (2008) As part of its definition of “direct,” the Ox... 011
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Just 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.”anything-everything.ghost.ioas in engines“Blackout at the terror trials It’s the sixth year of their wars I’m pacing shotgun hallways While my fucking neighbour snores” - A Silver Mt Zion (2008) As part of its definition of “direct,” the Ox... 011
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Who'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."montrealgazette.comGrowing divide between affordable and luxury apartment vacancies, Montreal survey shows"Affordable units, with rents below the median, are becoming scarcer than higher-priced units," a new report says. 020
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Three favourite records of 2025: Vulture Feather - ‘It Will Be Like Now’ Postcards - ‘Ripe’ Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland - ‘Duvet’ 110
Reposted by gayhamgayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 28/11/2025I 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...newfeeling.ca“The process is the project” : Egyptian Cotton Arkestra stays rooted in Time and PlaceThe Montreal free jazz ensemble’s debut channels radical improvisation, community care, and unapologetically unscalable intimacy. 063
Reposted by gayhamMichael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · 02/12/2025@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...newfeeling.ca“The process is the project” : Egyptian Cotton Arkestra stays rooted in Time and PlaceThe Montreal free jazz ensemble’s debut channels radical improvisation, community care, and unapologetically unscalable intimacy. 151
Reposted by gayhamJohn Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 01/12/2025The 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.nationalobserver.comDid the climate world misread Carney?Many in the climate movement saw a fellow traveller in Mark Carney — the man who could preach climate action in the language of finance — but what if they were wrong from the very start? 1113284
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Green Day Fugazi Stars of the Lid Getatchew Mekuria and the Ex Godspeed You! Black Emperor 050
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 28/11/2025I 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...newfeeling.ca“The process is the project” : Egyptian Cotton Arkestra stays rooted in Time and PlaceThe Montreal free jazz ensemble’s debut channels radical improvisation, community care, and unapologetically unscalable intimacy. 063
Reposted by gayhamTom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 28/11/2025@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...newfeeling.ca“The process is the project” : Egyptian Cotton Arkestra stays rooted in Time and PlaceThe Montreal free jazz ensemble’s debut channels radical improvisation, community care, and unapologetically unscalable intimacy. 032
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Absolute fkn madness montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...montrealgazette.comQuebec plans to ban street prayers as it moves to beef up secularism lawThe law will oblige students and staff to keep their faces uncovered while they are within the education system, from daycare to university. 020
Reposted by gayhamHarsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 21/11/20255. 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 (!). 28223
Reposted by gayhamHarsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 21/11/2025I 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: 15526339
Reposted by gayhamgayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Made 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... 022
Reposted by gayhamClaire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 26/06/2025Some 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 1496
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Made 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... 022
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 13/11/2025New 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...vulturefeather.bandcamp.comCraving and Aversion, by Vulture Feather4 track album 000
Reposted by gayhamSamir S-H @samir0s-h.bsky.social · 08/11/2025« 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...ledevoir.comLes rythmes agonauxComme projet de société, notre système de santé public ne doit laisser personne pour compte. 203
Reposted by gayhamNEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 05/11/2025New 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-... 186
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Wrote 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.socialacloserlisten.comPRAED Orchestra! ~ The Dictionary of Lost MeaningsFor nearly two decades, Lebanese experimental musicians and composers Raed Yassin and Paed Conca have been developing a thrilling hybrid of Arabic working-class popular music and psych-adjacent fre… 071
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 23/10/2025“land Palestinians want for a state” is a hell of a way to put it 010
Reposted by gayhamEman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 07/10/20252 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. 422475
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 06/10/2025BREAKING: Three out of four business owners think we need more cops! 010
Reposted by gayhamgayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Every 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.socialirisarri.bandcamp.comAusencia (Hiatus rework), by Mabe Fratti, Rafael Anton Irisarritrack by Mabe Fratti, Rafael Anton Irisarri 152
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Every 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.socialirisarri.bandcamp.comAusencia (Hiatus rework), by Mabe Fratti, Rafael Anton Irisarritrack by Mabe Fratti, Rafael Anton Irisarri 152
Reposted by gayhamgayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Very 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.socialbalmat.bandcamp.comDuvet, by Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland8 track album 0112
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Very 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.socialbalmat.bandcamp.comDuvet, by Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland8 track album 0112
Reposted by gayhamgayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Wrote 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.socialacloserlisten.comClare O’Connell ~ Light FlowingIn standard verbiage, light tends to glow, to shine, to radiate. In summoning an image of light as something that might flow, London-based cellist and curator Clare O’Connell evokes a subtle tensio… 1105
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Wrote 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.socialacloserlisten.comClare O’Connell ~ Light FlowingIn standard verbiage, light tends to glow, to shine, to radiate. In summoning an image of light as something that might flow, London-based cellist and curator Clare O’Connell evokes a subtle tensio… 1105
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Love to see it (so let’s see more!) nomusicforgenocide.netnomusicforgenocide.netNo Music For Genocidecargo.site 010
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Toronto 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...briarpatchmagazine.comLessons from the cultural frontNo Arms in the Arts organizers look back on over a year of confronting cultural institutions complicit in Palestinian genocide 010
Reposted by gayhamDave Gray-Donald @dgrdon.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Two 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.readthemaple.comPolice Involvement With Pro-Israel Charity Raises Concerns“We have seen increasing police aggression and baseless arrests and prosecutions against those protesting Israel’s genocide.” 14434
Reposted by gayhamOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/09/2025this tendency within contemporary liberalism is intimately connected with its aversion to acknowledging past or present colonialism 131008192
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Loved 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. 1135
Reposted by gayhamrafeefz.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Why 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...versobooks.comResisting ErasureWhy has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti... 174