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Oct 30, 2019

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...


Oct 23, 2019

“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.”

The post The Flyer Vault unlocks 150 years of Toronto concert history appeared first on The Geeks and Beats Podcast...


Oct 16, 2019

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

The post Gord Downie’s Secret Path Revisited appeared first on The Geeks and Beats Podcast with Alan Cross and Michael...


Oct 8, 2019

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...


Oct 2, 2019

The dream of '90s Canadian rock bands is alive and well, thanks to the devoted effort of the man behind Rave & Drool.

The post Rave and Drool, the 90s Documentary Gets a Podcast appeared first on The Geeks and Beats Podcast with Alan Cross and Michael...