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Upsample is a music, tech, and business show co-hosted monthly by longtime friends Carson Tworow (drummer, electronic music producer, and Big Tech professional) and Will Chernoff (bassist, writer, and music industry professional).
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- Beach Bits · 1 t. 2 min. · Episode 34We discuss Micah Erenberg of The Secret Beach doing bits on Reels. Is this exactly what a 'social media' audience demands today, or do we have to strip away the last pretenses of…
- That's On Us. · 56 min. · Episode 33Late payments to artists this summer have reopened the East Coast Music Association (ECMA) situation. We go back through this story and its mix of joloew, ticket levy, co-op…
- Suno's Out for Summer! At Carson's · 60 min. · Episode 32Berklee students want the school to cut it out with AI music courses, but it's looking bleak. The same venture capital interests that brought us the CEO of Suno saying no one…
- Jo(el) Loew · 59 min. · Episode 31The future of getting paid for our songs rests on blockchain vs. bureaucracy, as Will reports back on Australian musician Jo Loewenthal's 19-part "deep forensic investigation" of…
- Ticket Talk w/ Gigpit Co-Founder Evan Dungate · 57 min. · Episode 30Evan Dungate of Gigpit joins us! Gigpit, headquartered in Victoria and also running in Vancouver, is a new local live music platform that offers concert listings and a ticketing…
- Sora Shutdown, Spotify Profile Protection, AI Can't Write · 60 min. · Episode 29(0:00) Toronto Blue Jays opening day (2:31) Will's physical media level-up (4:59) OpenAI shuts down Sora (17:35) Spotify Artist Profile Protection (30:29) Jasmine Sun on AI and…
- Getting Taken Down is Cool & SOCAN vs. AI · 60 min. · Episode 28let's talk about fully automated slopitalism and the threats to performance rights organizations & songwriters No episode 2 weeks from now (Mar. 13), we return later in March…
- Post-American Internet · 1 t. 9 min. · Episode 27"Move fast and break... Kings!" That's what Cory Doctorow calls for in his recent talk. We discuss a potential "post-American internet" future per that talk, then we weave in two…
- Now They’re Emailing Our Friends · 49 min. · Episode 26It's Year 2 of Upsample starting now, and the leading AI music company Suno has already intruded into Will's day-to-day in the local scene. What else is in store? (0:00) Intro &…
- Finally, Filterworld! Year-Ender at Carson's · 1 t. 12 min. · Episode 253 days after we published the Side Door episode, a tragic incident injured a loved one of someone from the Side Door community. There's a GoFundMe that the community organized to…
- Hide From Wrapped Season With Us · 1 t. 6 min. · Episode 24After we rage against Spotify Wrapped and follow up on our previous episodes, Carson unpacks three recent stories related by the theme of AI blowback: a maximally high-effort and…
- Side Door Closing · 1 t. 22 min. · Episode 23We discuss the story of the Canadian live show platform "where every space is a venue" called Side Door, from the company's founding to its coming end, as announced on Nov. 4…
- Aura, Agitslop Fear-Monsters, & Canada Music Fund · 1 t. 0 min. · Episode 22Carson declines to jinx the Jays. Then it's time to lock in for one of our most theoretical conversations yet, in response to the Never Post podcast episode titled "A.I. and New…
- Co-Ops, Labour, Touring, & Streaming w/ Madelyn Read · 1 t. 0 min. · Episode 21Madelyn Read (musician, songwriter, and BC Co-Op Association Community Engagement & Education Manager) is our first-ever guest! • (01:07) Introducing Madelyn and her work •…
- VSO Musicians Strike · 32 min. · Episode 20Update from later today: VSO musicians have begun their strike. After Will vents about the Canadian Football League controversy, we discuss a potential strike by the Vancouver…
- People Love the Dead Internet · 50 min. · Episode 19We begin by jinxing the Jays. Then we get into the KARRA story “I invested $100,000 to create my album & Spotify deleted it” & part 2 (2:24), are labels bad if they just use…
- Challengers to Bandcamp's Throne · 54 min. · Episode 18Be careful out there or you'll get yelled at by shirtless dudes in Pontiacs! Will has a music library app now on his desktop, and Carson needs a new website (02:10), Bandcamp…
- No Fees, No Saxe, No 'AI Music Night' · 1 t. 9 min. · Episode 17(0:00) Will LOVES that you don't read his emails (1:52) Subvert turned down $200K and want to launch with no fees (18:15) "AI Music Night" in Texas (27:26) We need skills to make…
- Who Funds Your Bumbershoot? Vancouver City Council Don't Pass Our Agenda · 56 min. · Episode 16We have closure on The Velvet Sundown! Then we get into the very creative ticket pricing, or lack thereof, at Bumbershoot in Seattle and the Guelph Jazz Festival in Ontario…
- Our First Look at Subvert · 60 min. · Episode 15After clearing the WeTransfer air, we get into subvert.fm, a collectively owned music commerce platform in development. The Subvert team calls the platform a direct alternative…
