Episode 21
Co-Ops, Labour, Touring, & Streaming w/ Madelyn Read
Upsample with Carson Tworow & Will Chernoff · Chernoff Music
October 15, 20251h 0mExplicit
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Show Notes
Madelyn Read (musician, songwriter, and BC Co-Op Association Community Engagement & Education Manager) is our first-ever guest!
- (01:07) Introducing Madelyn and her work
- (05:26) VSO musicians strike update (it's over)
- (10:33) How Madelyn set up her Europe tour in 2024
- (21:54) Talking about streaming
- (26:44) Leaving Spotify
- (31:14) Madelyn's nuanced disagreement with us
- (32:45) Madelyn and Will's history at the Ampled co-op
- (37:26) The Subvert co-op as a Bandcamp competitor
- (42:29) Madelyn enables Sports Upsample!
- (45:26) What happened at the end of Ampled
- (50:23) Co-op considerations for Subvert's future
- (55:04) Recommendations
Links:
- Madelyn wrote about streaming, on her website
- Subvert: "Q3 Transparency Report"
- Subvert features update
Recs:
- Madelyn - listen to Wild and Clear and Blue by I’m With Her, Chandler by Wyatt C. Louis, Good Buddy by Fontine.
- Carson - listen to Getting Killed by Geese.
- Will - read Chokepoint Capitalism (2022) by Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow
FIND US:
Madelyn
- Bandcamp: https://madelynread.bandcamp.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madelynread/
Will
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@williamchernoff/
- Rhythm Changes: https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/williamchernoff/
Carson
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ctworow/
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ctworow.bsky.social/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ctworow/