"It's a crazy feeling right? To go from just making music in your room to now you get to play to people. It's unreal, I love it."

We spoke to Toronto electronic dance artist LOSTBOYJAY. Riding the wave of a his infectious 2022 single COULD BE WRONG, Jay warmed up the decks in February for a unique underground show deep in the bowels of Toronto's Lower Bay subway station. This track cleverly transforms Brandy's I Wanna Be Down, into a summer-drenched house track. Freshly signed to Polydor Records and the entire festival season ahead of him, there's lots to celebrate. We discuss his journey from producing beats on Soundcloud to playing live shows and the positivity of the electronic dance community. You can catch him live in Toronto at CODA April 8 supporting Low Steppa.

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Starting as the musical brainchild of Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason in 1967, Rolling Stone magazine turned into a movement and paragon of music journalism history. Entrusting readers with in depth music reviews and interviews. Folk heroes like Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, martyrs like John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix, and saints like Lester Bangs, and Hunter S. Thompson made the pages of the Rolling Stone the center of the musical and cultural universe. What happens to music journalism once the written word turned to digital? We wanted to know. To learn more we spoke to Jason Grishkoff, blogger and creator at Indie Shuffle and SubmitHub, David Harris, editor in chief at Spectrum Culture. Zac Johnson, Senior Product Manager for AllMusic.com and Matthew Perpetua blogger at Fluxblog, formerly of Pitchfork, NPR and the Rolling Stone.

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Jann Wenner @ Berkley

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With any new sophisticated technology, there comes the trial and error, the novelty, the speculation and the question of longevity. In this episode we pull back the curtain on artificial intelligence x music. Turns out its not all robots and conspiracy, so let’s debunk that. We wanted to explore the different sides of how machine learning can offer innovation in music making, as well as the budding questions of ethics and ownership that go along with it. Are you a musician curious about the creative opportunities AI can offer? We wanted to learn more about how musicians and computer scientists are working in tandem with machine learning and the challenges and milestones in this developing field.

To learn more we spoke to Ace Piva, musician and executive director at Over the Bridge, a non-profit organization that provides counselling services to help musicians with addiction and mental health. OTB worked alongside the “Lost Tapes of the 27 Club” – a campaign project that used AI to create new songs by said well-known artists of The 27 Club. We also spoke with Sageev Oore, musician, professor at Dalhousie University and research faculty member at the Vector Institute, to understand some of the more technical attributes concerning AI and machine learning in music making.

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In Episode 8 of Beneath the Rhythm, we interviewed Shana Goldin-Perschbacher, author of upcoming book, Queer Country.  

From trailblazing queer musicians of the past, who used country music as a springboard in expressing their sexuality, to emerging non-binary and queer artists navigating the music industry today-- with a keen eye and ear Goldin-Perschbacher examines the inherent politics surrounding 'genre,' identity in music and how the normative country music standard was ultimately dismantled. We also interviewed Canadian country music singer and author Rae Spoon. A leading voice in the trans, non-binary and queer community, Spoon shares their insight on both the challenges and victories of navigating the current social and music industry landscape.

Use Promo Code F21UIP when ordering Queer Country from the www.press.uillinois.edu for a 30% discount until December 2022. 

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WTF is an NFT you ask? Why, a non-fungible token of course! And how do you make 69 million off of selling one? Lions and tigers and bears and bull markets oh my! It started with CryptoPunks and CryptoKitties; if we merge the finance and art world, we're learning to navigate assigning value to intangible art and music. We’re also learning that streaming may not be answer the industry was looking for. Are NFT’s a bandwagon only tech and crypto savvy artists can jump onto or will this transform the game as a new revenue stream? 2020 imposed a lot of strain on artists’ livelihoods because it took away shows--- NFT’s might be the road to follow to in order to bounce back and create in a completely uncensored network, the possibilities are endless.

To understand more about NFT opportunities in the music industry and the crypto world, we spoke to Bjorn Niclas (CEO & Co-founder of ROCKI app), Raine Maida (Chief Product Officer of S!NG app, frontman of Our Lady Peace) and David Canellis (cryptojournalist and Director of News Programming at Protos Media).

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Led Zeppelin, Katy Perry - it seems one is safe from copyright infringement lawsuits. Where does ownership begin and end in the inexhaustible battle of music licensing? Its philosophically impossible to prove you’ve never heard a song before. No one can prove that in the span of your life, said song had never entered your conscious or subconscious brain. Behind closed doors, releasing as well as utilizing existing music, can be a bit of a minefield. Why is this lack of understanding, the universal understanding? What resources are out there so content creators and musicians can create without getting burned?

We sat down (virtually) with the movers (experts) who fight this system every day and the shakers, who are challenging it. Join us in our conversations with the host of The Stock Music Licensing Podcast and respective guru Daniel Carrizalez, entertainment lawyer Andreas Kilogiannides, lawyer/musician and co-creator of the Allthemusicproject Damien Riehl and CEO and co-founder of Epidemic Sound Oscar Hoglund.  

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I don’t know about you, but I miss standing side by side in a sweaty throng of strangers to watch bands, DJs, artists and my friends, play music. A world without live music would be my idea of a worst nightmare and I’m not the only one. Amidst a pandemic, the music business was thrust into a volatile game of adapt or die. If there’s anything we’ve been learning, it's how to make the best of a situation. Music is a universal force, so in a time when being together was rendered taboo, many artists and music industry personnel have been hard at work on new and innovative ways we can engage in live music. 

I virtually interviewed several key players in the music industry to hear their sides of the story and how they've been rising to the challenge. Our conversations outline some of the innovative ways we’ve been using music and technology to create, support and ultimately connect. What’s driving artists to create right now and what's next for the future of live music? 

Join me in my talks with longtime broadcaster Alan Cross (The Ongoing History of New Music), Nick Waterhouse (musician/producer), Amanda McCauley (Publicist at Indoor Recess Public Relations), Mark Marczyk (Founder of URGNT online music venue and COVID artist relief and Lemon Bucket Orkestra), Lizzy Clarke (vocal coach/music educator), DJ Starting from Scratch and Danny Reiner (Director of ArtistsCan). 

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Prior to the digital age, concerts were promoted purely by word of mouth and physical flyers. Introducing The Flyer Vault: 150 Years of Toronto Concert History, co-authored by Daniel Tate and Rob Bowman. Having spent years as a promoter in Toronto, Daniel Tate earned a collection of flyers documenting shows across a variety of genres. Rediscovering his flyer collection launched the ambitious mission alongside Bowman, to illustrate a thorough explanation of the diverse musical landscape that is Toronto.  

Today co-author Rob Bowman joined me in the studio to underscore some of the key movements that took place in the Toronto live music scene. Bowman is the quintessential example of a music enthusiast. His undeniable passion led him to pursue music inside and outside of his career. He is an ethnomusicologist and Grammy award-winning producer. His ethnomusicology background effortlessly lends itself to transport us from 1850 when artists were travelling by stagecoach, to the booming 1970’s music scene in Yorkville, to how two promoters “changed the cultural landscape” of Toronto.    

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The power of sound: Beneath the Rhythm’s aim is to showcase new and thought-provoking music-based initiatives, discoveries and stories. As an extension of the RX Music brand, we are passionate about exploring music as more than just a medium, but as a powerful form of creative expression, progress and community. Each episode, Laura MacInnes-Rae will bring you special guest interviews as well as setting out to contextualize music’s cultural significance beyond the medium.

BTR aims to plant itself firmly on the forefront of meaningful musical projects and initiatives to celebrate and share music with our loyal listeners. 

Be sure to follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as well as on the pod-catcher of your choice!

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