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
The Concept of Selling Out: Part 1
One of the worst insults you can throw at an artist is to accuse them of “selling out”…the most basic definition is when the pursuit of money compromises, corrupts or otherwise interrupts the pursuit…
00:43:42 |
Wed 16 Mar 2022
Billy Talent In Their Own Words: Part 1
The best way to construct a profile on an artist is to round up everyone together, put them in a studio and get them to tell their story themselves…
But that can be difficult, especially with a band…
00:36:32 |
Sun 13 Mar 2022
Infamous Hotels and Hotel Rooms
In the days before Covid, I was always on the road…if it wasn’t a music conference in Singapore, it was an interview in London, the Juno’s in—wherever, or a concert in Los Angeles…this means I have s…
00:32:12 |
Wed 09 Mar 2022
Modern Rock Feuds
There are some people who just can’t get along…it could be the result of politics, religion, philophies, property, honour, a personal slight, a perceived insult, or—well, a million things, really…
T…
00:32:26 |
Wed 02 Mar 2022
History Concert Sound
Ever been to a concert and wondered "How do they make all of this work?". "How have I not gone deaf?" or "Why does the dude on stage wearing what looks like a pair of ear-buds?"Well we're here to ans…
00:31:38 |
Wed 23 Feb 2022
The Story of the Electric Guitar - Part 3
In assessing popular music in the last half of the 20th century, rock music was a massive cultural phenomenon…initially driven by young baby boomers, rock grew bigger and stronger, starting in the mi…
00:26:57 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
The Story of the Electric Guitar - Part 2
For centuries, music was nice and clean…while different instruments gave notes different timbres, the frequencies of those notes was expected to be clear and pure…yes, you could add a little umph by …
00:23:40 |
Wed 09 Feb 2022
The Story of the Electric Guitar - Part 1
There are few instruments more powerful than the electric guitar…when the first primitive models appeared in the 1920s, no one gave them much thought…the electric guitar was brand new, unproven, and …
00:32:49 |
Wed 02 Feb 2022
Rock'n'Roll Tattoos
The human body is a remarkably good piece of construction…it has its quirks and shortcomings, but for the most part is a pretty cool thing: functional, durable, and to other humans, attractive…
But …
00:32:00 |
Wed 26 Jan 2022
14 Important Canadian Punk Bands
We’ve all heard the stories about where punk came from…the New York Dolls and a few other bands start playing in a crappy area of New York that attracted musicians, artists, and degenerates with low …
00:33:40 |
Wed 19 Jan 2022
More Musical Offspring
Whether we want to admit it or not, each of us is product of our parents…we are like mom and/or dad…and that may manifest itself in different ways…
Maybe one of them was a great cook and that’s led …
00:24:16 |
Wed 12 Jan 2022
What's The Big Deal About Elvis Costello
With the way the music industry operates, this guys career should have been dead and buried long ago. I mean no offense…but look at this dude.
Even when he was young, he looked dorky. Bad glasses an…
00:25:02 |
Wed 05 Jan 2022
What's The Big Deal About The Smiths
Although they were around really for just 4 years, The Smiths succeeded in becoming the most influential British indie band of the 1980's. They hastened the deal of tech-pop, and laid the foundation …
00:25:47 |
Wed 29 Dec 2021
Joe Strummer: A Remembrance
Back in the day, they called The Clash "the only band that mattered" and few voices are more important or influential in the history of rock than that of Joe Strummer. Without Joe and The Clash, we w…
00:48:45 |
Wed 22 Dec 2021
60 Mind-Blowing Things About Music: 2021 Edition
Is it really almost the end of 2021?...if I’m honest, it’s all been a blur, almost like 2020, with covid on my mind 24/7…it’s just reality…
You know how I’ve been spending my time?...I’ve spent almo…
00:29:09 |
Wed 15 Dec 2021
Alt-Rock's Most Mysterious Musicians
Once upon a time, before social media and the internet, all musicians were mysterious…outside of seeing them live, our only connections with them were through their music, the liner notes and album a…
00:37:23 |
Wed 08 Dec 2021
The Strokes
I remember being in London in the summer of 2001…I made my usual pilgrimage up to the original Rough Trade records store on Talbot Street, off Portobello Road in Notting Hill…
I was a little bummed …
00:29:01 |
Wed 01 Dec 2021
Album Artwork
This time we go deep into the vaults for an episode about the now seemingly long lost concept of "Album Artwork".
We'll look at some of the most famous of all time, and look into why this concept ha…
00:27:21 |
Wed 24 Nov 2021
23 Points About Streaming: Part 2
Once upon a time many centuries ago, someone came up with the idea of taking all the world’s available knowledge and storing it one place…that way everyone who had questions had somewhere to go to ge…
00:34:59 |
Wed 17 Nov 2021
23 Points About Streaming: Part 1
Once upon a time, all music was sold to us on pieces of plastic…we had to travel through time and space to hand over hard-earned money to purchase those pieces of plastic…and there was a financial li…
00:33:00 |
Wed 10 Nov 2021
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