Co-Ops, Labour, Touring, & Streaming w/ Madelyn Read

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 websiteSubvert: "Q3 Transparency Report"Subvert features updateRecs: 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 DoctorowFIND US: MadelynBandcamp: 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/CarsonYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ctworow/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ctworow.bsky.social/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ctworow/