Ongoing History of New Music
Ongoing History of New Music looks at things from the alt-rock universe to hip hop, from artist profiles to various thematic explorations. It is Canada’s most well known music documentary hosted by the legendary Alan Cross. Whatever the episode, you’re definitely going to learn something that you might not find anywhere else. Trust us on this.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 497
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Remembering The Beastie Boys: Part 2
It is almost impossible for anyone from a lightweight boy band to transition to serious, respected artist…it can be done—we can look at Justin Timberlake and, um…well, we can look at Justin Timberlak…
00:29:37 |
Wed 24 Aug 2022
The History of Alt Rock: Chapter 12
The British music scene has always operated at warp speed...songs and bands and sounds have always come and gone very quickly, even before the age of the internet...
This is what happens when you hav…
00:24:36 |
Sun 21 Aug 2022
Remembering The Beastie Boys: Part 1
For an entire generation of music fans—two generations, really—The Beastie Boys were always there…and now that they’re no longer with us, there are a lot of people who feel like there’s a void in mus…
00:26:58 |
Wed 17 Aug 2022
The History of Alt-Rock: Chapter 11
One of the great indirect heroes of modern rock’n’roll was born on March 21, 1865...his name was brigadier general George Owen Squier....he was an Army officer with a PhD in electrical science and a …
00:33:16 |
Sun 14 Aug 2022
Mysterious Lost Albums
We're digging back into the original Ongoing History vault and have found this requested show on lost albums.
Sometimes an artist will work on, and almost finish an album. But for whatever reason...c…
00:26:40 |
Wed 10 Aug 2022
The History of Alt-Rock: Chapter 10
Once upon a time, all music was made mechanically...something had to be hit with a hand or a stick...or strummed or plucked...or air had to be forced over a reed or through a valve...
Then along came…
00:32:16 |
Sat 06 Aug 2022
Driven By Her: Women Who Rocked The 90's
Women helped changed the face of ROCK as hair metal from the 80’s gave way to brand new sounds and VERY different attitudes in the 90's. On this episode of "Driven by Her" presented by our friends at…
00:29:24 |
Thu 04 Aug 2022
Listener Email
Okay, stay with us as this could get a bit confusing.
Since the Ongoing History takes the summer months off to write and research new shows, we dig into the vault to post older episodes that first ai…
00:24:19 |
Wed 03 Aug 2022
The History of Alt-Rock: Chapter 9
It had taken a few years, but by the middle 1980s, the underground music scene in north America had reached some kind of a tipping point...enough people had discovered punk, new wave and all the sub-…
00:20:34 |
Mon 01 Aug 2022
Songs of Protest
Sometimes people get so pissed off or so inspired by something that they just have to sing about it…this is the protest song and it’s been with us for centuries…
It’s music that encourages political …
00:27:02 |
Wed 27 Jul 2022
The History of Alt-Rock: Chapter 8
When punk rock first appeared in the middle 1970s, the major record companies in north America really didn’t care...they were happily making millions and millions of dollars from big rock bands like …
00:28:44 |
Sun 24 Jul 2022
10 Unusual Things About Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam is one of the most-documented bands of the last 30 years…even before the internet came along, fans were obsessive about cataloguing everything the band did…tour schedules, setlists, bootleg…
00:25:12 |
Wed 20 Jul 2022
The History of Alt-Rock: Chapter 7
Before we go any further with our history of alt-rock, a lesson in cosmology is in order...sometime around 16 billion years ago, there was this infinitely dense and infinitely tiny thing called a “si…
00:30:28 |
Mon 18 Jul 2022
10 Unusual Things About Nirvana
Nirvana is one of those bands where it seems we know everything…when they broke through with the “Nevermind” album in 1991 and 1992, there was a rush to learn everything we could about them…and then …
00:26:22 |
Wed 13 Jul 2022
The History of Alt-Rock: Chapter 6
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of young French film makers decided to mess things up...they insisted on more artistic control and less meddling by the studios......this free-form attitude…
00:25:00 |
Mon 11 Jul 2022
Driven By Her: History of Female Drummers
In this episode of "Driven By Her," presented by our friends at Porsche Canada, Alan Cross and Ongoing History of New Music explore a subject that has fascinated Alan since he saw Karen Carpenter pla…
00:28:16 |
Thu 07 Jul 2022
The Ongoing History Book of Firsts
I started thinking about “firsts” the other day, so I started looking things up…the first McDonald’s was in san Bernardino, California…the first guy to literally walk around the world on foot was Dav…
00:35:57 |
Thu 07 Jul 2022
The History of Alt-Rock: Chapter 5
Every once in a while, humankind has one of those pivotal years where everything changes...
325 AD and the council of Nicea...1215 and the signing of the Magna Carta...the discoveries of 1492..The re…
00:30:40 |
Sun 03 Jul 2022
The History of Nerd Rock
Nerd…noun…a foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious…definition 2: a single-minded expert in a particular technical field...example: a computer nerd…
It’s an old…
00:27:19 |
Wed 29 Jun 2022
The History of Alt-Rock: Chapter 4
In the middle 1970s, Britain was a mess...like the rest of the west, the country was blindsided by the Arab oil embargo...it was a recession that just wouldn’t end...
And to make matters worse, every…
00:35:26 |
Sun 26 Jun 2022
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