Tom Beedham
@tombeedham.bsky.social
Freelance writer (Musicworks, Exclaim!, VICE, The Grind). Co-founder, New Feeling. Managing Director, Long Winter. He/him. tbeedham88@gmail.com📩
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...
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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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.
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.
thegrindmag.ca
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...
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.
thegrindmag.ca
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...
Tricky Gives New Voice to His Apparitions on 'Different When It's Silent' │ Exclaim!
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🌬️💨⏩ 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...
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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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...
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 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.
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 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...
BIG|BRAVE's 'in grief or in hope' Is a Collective Reckoning │ Exclaim!
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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.
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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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
The Grind@thegrindto.bsky.social · 4mo agoDecades ago, Olivia Chow learned the hard way what happens when police board members criticize the cops. She wouldn’t be the last. This article is the first for @aliyapabani.bsky.social's new column, Cops and the City.
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... 🧵
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
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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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...
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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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.
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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@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/
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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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...
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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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/
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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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/
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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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/
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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Winter waves are melting into spring. Please remove your earmuffs—Musicworks 153 is here! 🎉 🌸
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...
Peaches Is Leading a "Joyful Revolution" of CanCon Theme Parks, Hot Dog Obsessions and Writing for Exclaim! │ Exclaim!
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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.
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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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 🫠
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.
NEW FEELING@newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 8mo agoIn our latest issue, 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. www.newfeeling.ca/21st-century...
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!
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.
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...
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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2025 has been quite the year for us, so we thought we'd take a look back to reflect on it all ⏪⏪⏪
