Upsample with Carson Tworow & Will Chernoff

Chernoff Music

Upsample is a music, tech, and business show co-hosted by longtime friends Carson Tworow (drummer, electronic music producer, and Big Tech professional) and Will Chernoff (bassist, writer, and music industry professional). New episodes on a 2-week schedule.

  1. 2025-11-21

    Side Door Closing

    We 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. Correction: at about 53 minutes, we say Arlene invested out of Dragon's Den, and we later say that Side Door didn't raise again afterward. Per Simpson's comment on the YouTube version of this episode (Nov. 25), it fell through like many of those DD offers do, but Side Door did raise once more afterward: "Arlene did not actually invest...that's a long story, but just to say Dragon's Den is entertainment first. We did get further investment after this from BDC instead." (0:00) The World Series, the Grey Cup, & JP Saxe sang the anthem (3:28) Side Door Access is winding down on Dec. 31 (10:53) Act I: founding to pandemic (32:08) Act II: covid momentum (55:13) Act III: end of the runway (1:04:01) Aftermath & discussion (1:17:59) Outro & recommendations Recommendations: Will – Check out the New Feeling Co-Op of Canadian music journalists Carson – listen to Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2 by Chris Thile FIND US: 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/ Hosted by Carson Tworow & Will Chernoff. Edited and mixed by Will Chernoff. A Chernoff Music podcast. Theme music by Carson Tworow.

    1h 23m
  2. 2025-10-29

    Famine at the Aura Farm

    Carson 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 American Fascism". Will chases it with a Canadian story about the possible non-renewal of a $16 million boost to federal music funding. Correction: at pretty much the very end, I say Universal is the majority shareholder in NTS. They're not; they're merely the largest shareholder. Scheduling note: the next Upsample will drop three weeks from now instead of two. (4:07) Never Post episode overview (14:18) Walter Benjamin (21:13) Sora, OpenAI, and agitslop machines (28:32) Hackers, free marketeers, and their fascist fear-monsters (36:01) A CD with Aura - because you can't see it on the audio pod, it's Brighton Train by Madeleine Elkins (with Will on bass and Kevin Romain on drums) and it's out now! (38:49) How does PragerU fit into this?! (44:56) Activism around the Canada Music Fund and Budget 2025 (54:19) Will goes full Ezra (58:24) Recommendations: Will - listen to radio show Self Soothe by Margeaux on NTS, Carson - listen to album Nested in Tangles by Hannah Frances Canada Music Fund links: Letter/advocacy pageDetails of the fundRoots Music Canada piece by Heather Kitching FIND US: 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/ Hosted by Carson Tworow & Will Chernoff. Edited and mixed by Will Chernoff. A Chernoff Music podcast. Theme music by Carson Tworow.

    1h 1m

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Upsample is a music, tech, and business show co-hosted by longtime friends Carson Tworow (drummer, electronic music producer, and Big Tech professional) and Will Chernoff (bassist, writer, and music industry professional). New episodes on a 2-week schedule.