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
Digital Debris Part 1: B-Sides and Bonus Tracks
We are very, very deep into the digital world when it comes to music…virtually every song we could ever want is available to us instantly no matter where we are…all we need is an internet connection …
00:32:57 |
Wed 27 Jan 2021
Unfortunate Sonic Coincidences: The Lawsuits
Okay…let’s go over this one more time…there are just twelve notes in the western scale…the ways they can be combined to form pleasing sounds are finite in number…it’s a big number, but it’s still fin…
00:46:29 |
Wed 20 Jan 2021
Theories, Thoughts, and Half-Baked Ideas
One of the byproducts of doing a show like this for as long as I’ve been doing it is that it’s really hard to shut off your brain…
I’m always thinking about topic ideas, ways to link facts and trivi…
00:41:56 |
Wed 13 Jan 2021
Sid Vicious
Every once in a while we come across someone who is famous and iconic for being...well let's be honest...nothing more than a monumental eff-up.
There is nothing about them we should admire...but for…
00:48:44 |
Wed 06 Jan 2021
Indigenous Alternative
Over the last decade, there has been some very, very long overdue attempts at reconciliation with the First Nations and Indigenous Peoples of North America…there’s still a long, long way to go, but a…
00:29:41 |
Wed 30 Dec 2020
The 2020 Xmas Show
This the 23rd annual ongoing Christmas show…and yeah, I know that 2020 has been a challenging year, but let’s look at some of the good things that happened…
Many of us learned to bake bread…drive-in…
00:21:11 |
Wed 23 Dec 2020
60 Facts in 30 Minutes: 2020 Edition
Okay…let’s start the annual office cleanup…this is the time of year when I go through all the scraps of paper, all the scribbles on various notepads and all the post-it notes hanging everywhere…then …
00:28:46 |
Wed 16 Dec 2020
The Story of Stereo: Part 2
We are always pouring sound into our heads, whether we’re using some kinds of speakers or wearing headphones…
I’m going to make a guess here, but I’m going to assume that most people demand a certai…
00:36:25 |
Wed 09 Dec 2020
Introducing: Whatever Happened To...?
You’ve heard the stories. You’ve felt for the people involved. But what happens after the cameras shut off and the reporters walk away? Just because a story disappears from the news doesn’t mean it’s…
00:12:13 |
Fri 04 Dec 2020
The Story of Stereo: Part 1
Our ears are amazing things…evolution has created an ability that allows us to tell the direction of a sound…left and right, up and down, front and back…we can tell how close something might be, whet…
00:28:55 |
Wed 02 Dec 2020
Even More Rock Conspiracies
The universe is a weird, random place that has little regard for what us puny humans think…this is something we find very, very hard to accept…we’re always looking for explanations for the weird, ran…
00:30:36 |
Wed 25 Nov 2020
Hidden Figures
I’ve always been something of a nut when it comes to the space program…but even though I’ve read all the books, seen all the documentaries, and watched all the movies, I was still surprised to learn …
00:26:37 |
Wed 18 Nov 2020
The Return of ACDC - Power Up Premiere
2020 has been a miserable year…the pandemic…economic ruin…the crazy U.S. election, which featured an impeached President…Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crash…the death of George Floyd…murder hornets arrive…
00:29:05 |
Mon 16 Nov 2020
Great Alt-Rock One-Hit Wonders of the 90s: Part 2
Creating art is hard…if it wasn’t, everyone would do it—and everyone would be successful at doing it…even those who can create art—the people with the right stuff—have a finite supply of good stuff w…
00:21:52 |
Wed 11 Nov 2020
Introducing... 13 Hours: Inside the Nova Scotia Massacre
The deadliest shooting spree in Canada’s modern history left us with far more questions than answers. Join Sarah Ritchie, a reporter for Global News in Halifax, as she tries to unravel how something …
00:12:23 |
Mon 09 Nov 2020
Great Alt-Rock One-Hit Wonders of the 90s: Part 1
Artists who manage to have only one hit are often the butt of jokes…getting tagged as a one-hit-wonder can kill your career…but let’s turn this around: how many hits do you have?...
There is so much…
00:25:51 |
Wed 04 Nov 2020
The History of Moshing
I do not dance…I’m too awkward and too self-aware of my awkwardness…I know we’re all supposed to dance like no one is looking, but when it comes to me, people will look, point, and judge…
My wife re…
00:29:03 |
Wed 28 Oct 2020
The Great KGB Punk Conspiracy
You may be aware of a podcast that came out in the spring of 2020 that sought to get to the bottom of a certain musical mystery…it’s called “wind of change” and it explores the possibility that a met…
00:33:15 |
Wed 21 Oct 2020
Introducing... Crime Beat - Season 3
Ride along with 25 year veteran Crime Reporter Nancy Hixt, from Global News, on her award winning podcast Crime Beat as she takes you through some of Canada’s most high-profile criminal cases. Real P…
00:14:15 |
Tue 20 Oct 2020
History of Pop Punk: Part 2
Here’s a list of words that shouldn’t go together but do…alone together…how many times did you uses that during the coronavirus pandemic?...deafening silence…I know what that means, but when you thin…
00:27:11 |
Wed 14 Oct 2020
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