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/