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Tom Beedham

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Freelance writer (Musicworks, Exclaim!, VICE, The Grind). Co-founder, New Feeling. Managing Director, Long Winter. He/him. tbeedham88@gmail.com📩

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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Recently caught up with the absolute legends @lalforest.bsky.social for @thegrindto.bsky.social and had a great chat about their ninth studio album, which they'll debut at Venus Fest this Friday. www.thegrindmag.ca/lal-find-har...
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LAL Find Harmony in the Wake of Romantic Dissolution on ‘Practice of Love’
Thirty years into their career, the Toronto downtempo veterans enter an expansive new era with their ninth studio album, which they’ll debut at Venus Fest on Sept.
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thirty years into their career, the Toronto downtempo veterans of LAL enter an expansive new era with their ninth studio album, which they’ll debut at Venus Fest this Friday, Sept. 18.
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LAL Find Harmony in the Wake of Romantic Dissolution on ‘Practice of Love’
Thirty years into their career, the Toronto downtempo veterans enter an expansive new era with their ninth studio album, which they’ll debut at Venus Fest on Sept.
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Recently caught up with the absolute legends @lalforest.bsky.social for @thegrindto.bsky.social and had a great chat about their ninth studio album, which they'll debut at Venus Fest this Friday. www.thegrindmag.ca/lal-find-har...
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LAL Find Harmony in the Wake of Romantic Dissolution on ‘Practice of Love’
Thirty years into their career, the Toronto downtempo veterans enter an expansive new era with their ninth studio album, which they’ll debut at Venus Fest on Sept.
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tricky has always met the past that follows him by erasing his presence, placing faith in the mathematical logic that duelling negations could cancel each other out and mutually amplify what's left in the wake. My review for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social: exclaim.ca/music/articl...
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Tricky Gives New Voice to His Apparitions on 'Different When It's Silent' │ Exclaim!
Your daily dose of the best music, film and comedy news, reviews, streams, concert listings, interviews and other exclusives on Exclaim!
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🌬️💨⏩ Our 26th issue, SLIPSTREAM, is here! In his editor's note, Tom Beedham (@tombeedham.bsky.social) explores the “slipstream” as a space where artists can resist dominant forces and forge new paths for collective imagination/experimentation/change. www.newfeeling.ca/issue-26-sli...
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ISSUE 26: SLIPSTREAM
Slipstreams can be avenues of momentum through which artists, scenes, and collective initiatives can transcend their regular working conditions
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
For @thegrindto.bsky.social, I spoke with Loveless Collective about leading Toronto's most recent shoegaze revival. On July 25 and 26, the 2nd annual Loveless Festival brings a new slate of shoegazers to Monarch Tavern, Sneaky Dee’s, and St. Stephen-in-the-Fields. www.thegrindmag.ca/meet-the-gen...
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Meet the Gen Z Youth Leading Toronto’s Shoegaze Revival
Loveless, an artist-run collective dedicated to the alt-rock subgenre, will host its second annual music festival on July 25 and July 26.
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The shoegaze revival is in full force in Toronto. Ahead of the second annual Loveless Festival, @tombeedham.bsky.social spoke to the Gen Z organizers who are harnessing the energy of the resurgent scene.
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Meet the Gen Z Youth Leading Toronto’s Shoegaze Revival
Loveless, an artist-run collective dedicated to the alt-rock subgenre, will host its second annual music festival on July 25 and July 26.
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The body keeps the score on ‘in grief or in hope,’ BIG‡BRAVE's latest, out now via @thrilljockey.bsky.social. My review for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social: exclaim.ca/music/articl...
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BIG|BRAVE's 'in grief or in hope' Is a Collective Reckoning │ Exclaim!
Your daily dose of the best music, film and comedy news, reviews, streams, concert listings, interviews and other exclusives on Exclaim!
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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.
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What We’re Listening To
Looking for some new music? Here are six Canadian albums worth checking out, carefully curated by the New Feeling crew and The Grind’s music contributors…
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Aliya Pabani @aliyapabani.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I have a new column about the Toronto police. In this one, I look at the cycles of scandals and budget increases since 2000, and try to figure out what it is the police board actually does
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The new tenant-focused issue of The Grind is out now! Grab a copy at your favourite bookshop or cafe, or find one at a TTC station near you. Here are a few highlights... 🧵
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
In the arts section, @tombeedham.bsky.social chatted with the members of Cola about their new album, which recorded just after a member of the band lost their house in the 2025 L.A. fires. @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social
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Cola’s New Album Offers Split Visions of a World Beyond Capitalism
The Montreal- and Toronto-based band’s third LP finds them at home between worlds…
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Exclaim! @exclaimdotca.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Boards of Canada's Catalogue Ranked from Worst to Best
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Boards of Canada's Catalogue Ranked from Worst to Best
Growing up in rural Scotland, brothers Michael and Marcus Eoin Sandison experienced a formative stoke of serendipity when their father took
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
with new @boardsofcanada.bsky.social arriving TOMORROW via @warprecords.bsky.social, for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social, I've spent the last few weeks living with the back catalogue, exploring how it stands up to this day: exclaim.ca/music/articl...
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Boards of Canada's Catalogue Ranked from Worst to Best │ Exclaim!
To mark the release of 'Inferno,' we're going through the duo's discography, including albums, EPs and other releases
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
In 2025, Cola singer and vocalist Tim Darcy lost his home when the deadly Eaton Fire tore through his Los Angeles neighbourhood. @tombeedham.bsky.social speaks with Darcy and his bandmates about how a sense of drift and dislocation shaped their stellar new album.
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Cola’s New Album Offers Split Visions of a World Beyond Capitalism
The Montreal- and Toronto-based band’s third LP finds them at home between worlds…
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
@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. www.newfeeling.ca/rae-spoon-looking…
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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”
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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...
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Yes in My Backyard: Victoria
Tom Beedham highlights Victoria's thriving music scene in the latest edition of Yes In My Backyard.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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: www.newfeeling.ca/issue-25-tectonics
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ISSUE 25: TECTONICS
This issue's theme traces seismic shifts in music, culture, and identity—where pressure sparks both sound and change.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
And, in the latest edition of our “Yes In My Backyard” series, Tom Beedham (@tombeedham.bsky.social) looks at the contemporary music scene in Victoria, BC and the community that surrounds it. www.newfeeling.ca/yes-in-my-backyard-victoria/
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Yes in My Backyard: Victoria
Tom Beedham highlights Victoria's thriving music scene in the latest edition of Yes In My Backyard.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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. www.newfeeling.ca/issue-25-tectonics
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ISSUE 25: TECTONICS
This issue's theme traces seismic shifts in music, culture, and identity—where pressure sparks both sound and change.
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Musicworks @musicworksmag.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Winter waves are melting into spring. Please remove your earmuffs—Musicworks 153 is here! 🎉 🌸
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
At the end of last year, I spoke with PEACHES for the Exclaim Questionnaire, wherein I learned all about the teaches before Peaches, her dream of a CanCon theme park, and the time she covered the NY New Music Seminar as a short-lived @exclaimdotca.bsky.social contributor exclaim.ca/music/articl...
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Peaches Is Leading a "Joyful Revolution" of CanCon Theme Parks, Hot Dog Obsessions and Writing for Exclaim! │ Exclaim!
The Exclaim Questionnaire
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 18/02/2026
Canadian BDS activists just won a historic victory: Scotiabank, once the largest foreign shareholder in Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer, has dropped all its shares in Elbit Systems. @desaima.bsky.social and Harrison Samphir report on the years-long pressure campaign that led to divestment.
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A powerful decentralized campaign forced Scotiabank to divest from Israeli arms ⋆ The Breach
A major bank sells its shares in Elbit Systems, in one of Canada’s biggest BDS victories to date
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
i let myself go to a stadium concert once in a blue moon so right now i'm just trying to navigate my way into hamilton while GO's services are bonked and their website's trip search function is also down 🫠
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Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Aquakultre's new album 1783 is out today! @tombeedham.bsky.social reviewed it in our latest What We're Listening To feature in the latest issue of @thegrindto.bsky.social!
the cover of 1783, depicting Aquakultre/Lance Sampson in a photographthe cover of The Grind's Issue 18
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Welcome back, music lovers! We're trying something new in 2026: An (in)frequent open online hang for anyone curious about music journalism, co-ops, or what we’re building at New Feeling. A hot stove of sorts.
28 Jan, 7pm-8pm est. New Feeling hot stove. an open hang with new feeling's leadership. no prep. no pressure. all welcome.
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Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
hey i wrote a history of electronic music in canada from 1945-1985. it's called A Nation of Tinkerers and it's now available to pre-order through @invisibooks.bsky.social! invisiblepublishing.com/product/a-na...
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A Nation of Tinkerers: A History of Canadian Electronic Music from 1945–1985 · Invisible Publishing
From university labs to home-built studios, A Nation of Tinkerers charts the evolution of Canadian electronic music.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
2025 has been quite the year for us, so we thought we'd take a look back to reflect on it all ⏪⏪⏪
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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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Anti-Copyright Extremists
Spotify and Anna's Archive
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
NEW: How Toronto’s Concert Venue Landscape Changed in 2025 @tombeedham.bsky.social details the city's big openings, moves, ownership changes and closures.
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How Toronto’s Concert Venue Landscape Changed in 2025
From the closing of the Dakota Tavern and the Velvet Underground to the launch of Rogers Stadium, the city’s live music scene underwent major changes last year.
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
In 2025, Toronto saw the rise of a mega-stadium, new smaller venues opened, landlords did landlord things, monopoly money moved around, beloved haunts closed and spaces rebranded. My round up for @thegrindto.bsky.social: www.thegrindmag.ca/how-torontos...
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How Toronto’s Concert Venue Landscape Changed in 2025
From the closing of the Dakota Tavern and the Velvet Underground to the launch of Rogers Stadium, the city’s live music scene underwent major changes last year.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We’re this close to our goal! Only 5 new members needed to reach it and 10 to smash it. Join New Feeling today to support fair pay for Canadian music writers and build a cooperative future for music journalism. $5/month newfeeling.ca/nfisfive $55/year newfeeling.ca/nfisfive360
a bullseye target next to "5 more signups to reach our goal and 10 to smash it" with a rocket ship breaking out from behind the "smash it" part
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
We’ve made it to five years thanks to the support of our subscribers, who co-own New Feeling with us. To mark our anniversary, you can now join the co-op and support our work for only $5/month, or $55/year. $5/month newfeeling.ca/nfisfive $55/year newfeeling.ca/nfisfive360
Colorful illustrated promo graphic on a teal background advertising a ‘5th Anniversary Discount!!!’. Large cream speech-bubble shapes hold black text. The middle panel reads: ‘From November 5th to December 31st Our Community Monthly Membership is just $5 / MONTH!’ The lower panel reads: ‘And our Annual Community Membership is just $55 / YEAR! & includes a free copy of our 5th Anniversary Zine (ships 2026).’ On the left bottom corner is a tilted black-and-white zine cover titled ‘NEW FEELING – COLLECTED 2020–2025’ with a halftone image of two hands pressed together. On the right is a blue cartoon dog with a heart-shaped black nose, and simple orange line-drawn flowers decorate the corners.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
As New Feeling turns 5, we zoom out by surveying the co-ops, solidarity economies, and platform alternatives that make our work possible and show how we can organize differently. Featuring @flaminghydra.com, @subvert.fm & more! www.newfeeling.ca/21st-century...
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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.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
🗓️🥳🎂 Our 24th issue, ANNIVERSARY, is here! Five years ago, in the chaos of the pandemic & collapsing music media, we started a co-op. Today we’re still here, organizing for something better. www.newfeeling.ca/issue-24-ann...
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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 la...
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
@tombeedham.bsky.social dove into the big-tent anarchism of Vancouver screamo punks Emma Goldman, interviewing them about their debut full-length 'all you are is we:' www.newfeeling.ca/emma-goldman...
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Emma Goldman: The Dispossessed
Tom Beedham unpacks the ambiguous utopia of the Vancouver skramz band’s album, "all you are is we."
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Meanwhile, @lesliekenchu.bsky.social facilitates a conversation between Sook-Yin Lee and Gong Gong Gong 工工工 about their shared Chinese and Canadian roots, and how their work transcends borders. www.newfeeling.ca/sook-yin-lee...
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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.
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
It’s been fascinating watching the collaged anarchist speculative fiction of Emma Goldman’s ‘all you are is we’ take off. I spoke with the band about ambiguous utopias and their very busy year www.newfeeling.ca/emma-goldman...
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Emma Goldman: The Dispossessed
Tom Beedham unpacks the ambiguous utopia of the Vancouver skramz band’s album, "all you are is we."
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
@therewasnosound.bsky.social writes about the cyberpunk landscapes of Little Stone Crow’s sci-fi hip hop www.newfeeling.ca/little-stone...
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Step Into Little Stone Crow's World
Michael Rancic chats with the Mi'kmaw rapper and producer about turning private experiments into public practice.
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
@danielgwilson.bsky.social checks in on the genre-agnostism of Lethbridge, AB noise rockers Sentries www.newfeeling.ca/sentries-fea...
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Sentries: Multifaceted Noise Rock
Exploring the world of genre agnostic soundcraft of the Lethbridge band’s album "Gem Of The West."
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Tom 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...
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“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.
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
@therewasnosound.bsky.social writes about how Substack’s spurious scheme to sell writers and workers the promise of empowerment effectively sequesters them from their colleagues, a shared working environment, and formal safeguards against their own exploitation. www.newfeeling.ca/dont-start-a...
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Don't Start Another Substack
Michael Rancic writes about how platforms like Substack push writers toward individualized survival strategies over solidarity.
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
In “21st Century Co-op Ecologies,” @lesliekenchu.bsky.social, @therewasnosound.bsky.social and I survey the flourishing cooperative movement that’s taken shape over the last 5 years, tracing its deeper historical foundations. www.newfeeling.ca/21st-century...
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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.
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
It's @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social's 5-year anniversary, and this is our 24th issue! We tried not to be too navel-gazey about it. Inside: nostalgic reassessment, stock taking of collective achievements, refocusing our sights. www.newfeeling.ca/issue-24-ann...
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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 la...
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Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Despite fierce political opposition, cultural boycotts of Israel and institutions complicit in the occupation of Palestine have gone mainstream. I spoke to some organizers in the arts about how we got here, and what's next for the movement.
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How Canadian Artists Brought Cultural Boycotts of Israel to the Mainstream
Boycotts of Israel and institutions supportive of the occupation of Palestine were a fringe activity just a couple years ago. But artists across the country have made them impossible to ignore.
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Today!
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Then, just before it plunged into half a year of darkness, Yukon fest Wonderhorse invited us out to cover its answer to the territory's "very top-down and Whitehorse-centric" funding administration and decision-making www.newfeeling.ca/after-the-go...
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After The Gold Rush: Wonderhorse Reviewed
When non-profit arts collective Something Shows reaches out to New Feeling and offers to fly someone from the co-op out to review Wonderhorse, it sounds like an invitation to break spells and witness ...
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
in 2022, Ford dropped indoor mask mandates and experts warned ON testing was catching ~10% of COVID cases. I figured fests were off the table. So when St. John’s NL festival @lawnyavawnya.bsky.social reached out, I jumped at a chance to escape to the Atlantic Bubble www.newfeeling.ca/family-value...
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Family Values: Lawnya Vawnya Reviewed
Asking audiences again and again to examine the branches of their relations and follow them to the connective canopies of larger networks, the kind of change Lawnya Vawnya asked for in this year's pro...
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Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Shortly after we ran this, a new TO alt mag reached out re: reprinting it abridged in their first issue. Eventually, @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social partnered with @thegrindto.bsky.social; we contribute regular music content to their arts section, incl. concert listings www.newfeeling.ca/joseph-shaba...
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Joseph Shabason and André Ethier Come Out of The Kitchen With Fresh Pepper
Fresh Pepper provides a summit for service and music workers alike, toasting their interdependencies and challenging the conditions they bump against with metaphor-rich vignettes.
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