Geeks & Beats

1/5th of the Kids in the Hall joins the geeks from the block-heater capital of Canada to talk about getting the band back together, why he's not the least bit qualified to write and sing in a rock opera, and why the hell he's living in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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Social Media Guy Stewart Reynolds tells us why Tik Tok doesn't get sued for music sampling, his inaugural Social Media North conference, and why U2 is just getting big halfway around the world.

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The music industry is locked in a cold war for gold records. And in the digital streaming age, the weapons are algorithms. Entertainment Intelligence founder Greg Delaney joins us from the London bureau to talk about how an avalanche of data is burying artists who don't adapt to the modern age.

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Beatie Wolfe wants you to get excited about listening to music again. Here's how she's going to do it.

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Back in August, World Wrestling Entertainment dropped the news that they'll be getting into the podcast game. Just let's say it's a brand new endeavour. Unlike their film studios - WWE Studios, the podcast network might be more successful for them creativity and financially.

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Lyrics are the most popular and most widely searched music content on the Internet. When listeners bought physical albums, finding lyrics wasn't a problem; they were usually printed on the inside of the CD, cassette or record insert. But since the dawn of the digital download, the lyric has been left behind. One Canadian company […]

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Music producer and longtime friend of the show Brent Bodrug helps deconstruct what makes Nirvana's Smell's Like Teen Spirit the ultimate Grunge Rock track, Sound City was its legendary home, and we learn the track has its roots in the last vestiges of Boomer hair-metal bands, the Pixies, and BOSTON!?? Knowing nothing about Nirvana, a […]

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"There's this big emphasis on Toronto as a music city now, but I'm more interested in 'how did we get here?' Well, man, it didn't just happen overnight. That shit started in the 1880s."

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Gord Downie was just 2 years old when Chanie Wenjack died, but the Secret Path united them 50 years later.

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The inspiration for this week's episode was the release of Robbie Robertson & friends' cover of "The Weight" for "Playing for Change". But as long time music industry exec Eric Alper tells us, the interest in rock icons rallying around a cause has been lost, and the 80s may get the blame. The video came […]

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