Beneath the Rhythm | An RX Music Podcast
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -The power of sound: Beneath the Rhythm’s aim is to showcase new and thought-provoking music-based initiatives 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.
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Episodes
Episode 11 | LOSTBOYJAY
March 16, 2023 17:10 - 13 minutes - 31.9 MB"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 Re...
Episode 10 | The Review
February 24, 2023 18:13 - 1 hour - 190 MBStarting 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 t...
Episode 9 | Artificial Intelligence
May 20, 2022 17:27 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBWith 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 ...
Episode 8 | Queer Country
December 22, 2021 16:46 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBIn 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 dism...
Episode 7 | WTF NFT?
July 15, 2021 16:19 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBWTF 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...
Episode 6 | Music vs. the Medium
March 25, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBTell us you listen to our podcast without telling us, you listen to our podcast...The people have spoken-- if you're an emerging musician, TikTok is the place to be. Let's not forget where we started, we've progressed a long way since 45's and CDs! As old mediums (and old wax), wax and wane, new consumption models have revolutionized the music business. By 2021, we've graduated to the sleek land of streaming; granted even this intangible format will continue to shift and change as our habits ...
Episode 5 | Christmas in July
December 11, 2020 17:00 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBAh the Christmas holiday season, commercially well-versed in engaging all the senses. It's hard to ignore, we're adept at noticing the festive cheer sprinkled in windows displays, on products, in messaging but most importantly in music! The Christmas season begs to be a case study as the ultimate example of music’s indisputable ability to mood transform. Familiar carols, sights and smells can make us swell with nostalgia and warmth. At RX music, we couldn’t agree more-- which is why behind cl...
Episode 4 | Free Music
November 02, 2020 14:14 - 55 minutes - 51 MBLed 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 uni...
Episode 3 | Black Lives Matter
July 29, 2020 14:37 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBFrom Sam Cooke, to Kendrick Lamar, since time immemorial, music has embodied hope and inspiration for social change. Serving as cultural timestamps to identify distinct times, places and distinct turning points in our lives; music can be a powerful reminder of how far we’ve come or rather echo how much farther we have to go. On May 25th 2020, George Floyd’s death by police brutality triggered one of the largest sustained protest periods in modern history. Artists and activists spearheaded thi...
Episode 2 | The Music Industry Amidst a Pandemic
May 27, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBI 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 art...
Episode 1 | The Flyer Vault
March 17, 2020 16:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MBPrior 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 ...
Introducing Beneath the Rhythm!
March 10, 2020 16:00 - 1 minute - 1.15 MBThe 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 i...