Geeks & Beats

Taylor Swift isn’t as powerful as you think. The real story behind Apple blinking over the battle for free streaming music. The connected car: why you need to be afraid, very afraid, when it comes to…

Rock Stars After Rock. The guitarist from Queen wants to save the world from a meteor attack while the bassist from Blur has a lovely blue cheese he’d like to sell you. Got $18K and a love of the ban…

Save Ferris — Bueller, that is. We’ll look at why the John Hughes teen flick couldn’t be made today. The death of voicemail: When Wall Street decides its over, it’s over. JPMorgan, Coke and others pu…

Mars Needs Women — Country music doesn’t? We’ll help a legendary music programmer extract his cowboy boot from his mouth. The curse of U2. We’ll blame Apple and iTunes for launching what has been a t…

The iCar is coming — if you believe the latest court documents filed against Apple. Are these your drums? David Letterman signs off with the Foo Fighters and we look at his fetish for the skins. Your…

The video game industry goes whale hunting. We’ll look at how much you’re spending on in-app purchases. Whine and Grind — we’ll look at the three-part history of Ska and why the English Beat has spli…

KISS brings back the pinball machine — and yes Gene Simmons’ tongue factors heavily in the ball play. 1986 - the worst year for pop music according to science. And we’ll look at why the British Invas…

Star Wars: The Bank Awakens — the film is expected to rake-in as much as 2-billion at the box office. Got a cat and an iPod? We’ll look at the science of music for your kitty cat. Grooveshark goes do…

Michael gets his Apple Watch — we’ll tell you why it’s not ready for prime time. NASA accidentally creates a warp drive — and blows Einstein’s “faster than light” out the airlock. Hipsters rejoice! 1…

The Sounds of Star Wars — while the Internet loses its mind over Han Solo’s appearance in the latest Star Wars teaser — we’ll tell you the origins of the blaster sound — and why Darth Vader has more …

Highway to Hell? More like Heaven. We’ll tell you how the iconic “devil horns” salute by Metal Heads has its origins in a Sicilian grandmother. It’s just a jump to the left — and 40 years into the pa…

Road trips, punk music and cyberpunk. We’ll connect the dots between national lampoon’s vacation, CBGB’s and Max Headroom. Before you pre-order that Apple Watch, a Canadian startup wants to offer you…

Our exclusive interview with Sir Jony Ive. We’ll ask Steve Jobs 2-point-0 if these iCar rumours are true. Spend time in a foreign hotel using its wifi? You might be infected. We’ll tell you why. Like…

Boeing patents the force field. We’ll tell you why it’s not going to protect you like Master Chief anytime soon. Got 40 grand and a death wish? A real life Tron Light Cycle can be yours if you don’t …

Thunderbirds are Go! A reboot of the classic 60s show cuts the strings. Blurred Lines may have ruined the music business — but it was always the devil’s music. We’ll rewind the clock 500 years to tel…

Live Long and Prosper — we’ll look back at the lives of Leonard Nimoy, a radio legend, and Sony’s robotic dog. Apple’s iWatch is coming. We’ll look at reasons not to buy the latest wrist gadget. And …

Don’t want to clear the snow off your car? We’ve got a track that will do it for you — so long as you’ve dropped 14-grand on a subwoofer system. Tesla wants to be the battery company for your car — a…

The 40 best Saturday Night Live musical guests — we’ll run down the most controversial. Putting the fun back into funerals? We’ll look at the small town radio phenomenon and mark the passing of a DJ …

William Shatner joins us to talk about his 500 horsepower tricycle, his new book, and we’ve got the scoop on his involvement in the next Star Wars movie. Watch what you say in front of your new Samsu…

Music to put you in the mood — courtesy of your pharmacist. We’ll tell you why the audio version of the little blue pill is a bitter pill to swallow. The connected car — half the vehicles on the road…