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
Ian Thornley - In His Own Words: Part 1
Recently, I had a chance to sit down with Ian Thornley to talk about his career in our ongoing series of “in their own words” shows
And this time we cover everything…and I mean everything….
This is…
00:32:33 |
Wed 13 May 2020
100 Years of Radio: Part 2
One of the most robust creatures on the planet is the cockroach…gross things, but you have to admire ability to survive…I mean, they’ve been around for 280 million years…
Not only can a cockroach ho…
00:36:01 |
Wed 06 May 2020
100 Years of Radio: Part 1
This episode begins shortly after 9 am on the Saturday I turned 6…for reasons that will forever remain mysterious, the present from my grandmother was a Lloyds portable transistor radio…model tr-62…m…
00:34:22 |
Wed 29 Apr 2020
Big Picture Stuff: Part 2
In the olden days of newspapers—and I’m talking decades ago—there was a specific way printing photographs…photos were given to the printer who copied the picture using a special camera that converted…
00:36:45 |
Wed 22 Apr 2020
Big Picture Stuff: Part 1
When it comes to music, it’s so easy to get lost in the weeds…to become distracted by all the minutiae and trivia…
There’s nothing wrong with that, of course…it’s the study of exactly this kind of g…
00:29:56 |
Wed 15 Apr 2020
9 Great B Sides
Back in the day...when singles were released on vinyl...you needed to put a song on either side of the record.
Sometimes it was another version of the same song, or just the same song again, or mayb…
00:25:13 |
Tue 14 Apr 2020
Airplanes!
People often ask me where I come up with ideas for this program…my answer is always the same… you know that feeling when it’s Sunday night and you promise yourself you’ll start on that assignment tha…
00:32:23 |
Thu 02 Apr 2020
Alt Rock Revivals Part 5: New Wave
It is a fact of life that there are periods where everything old is new again…if you look at Broadway, for example, old productions are always being brought back…
Take “West Side Story,” for example…
00:23:31 |
Wed 25 Mar 2020
Alt Rock Revivals Part 4: Garage Rock
Take a look in your closet…are you the kind of person who won’t throw out anything because you’re sure it’ll come back into style one day?...
I am…long after this stuff have ceased sparking joy, it’…
00:30:45 |
Wed 18 Mar 2020
Alt Rock Revivals Part 3: Emo
We hear this phrase all the time: “once in a generation”…fine, but how long is a generation?...according to Wikipedia, it’s about 30 years, which is the time it takes children to be born, grow up, be…
00:25:31 |
Wed 11 Mar 2020
Alt Rock Revivals Part 2: Ska
Certain types of music have been around forever…jazz, for example, has been with us for over a hundred years…classical music goes back at least six hundred years…and then there’s religious music whic…
00:26:21 |
Wed 04 Mar 2020
Alt Rock Revivals Part 1: Punk
We begin this episode with Ecclesiastes, chapter 3, verses 1-3…ish:
“to everything there is a season, a time to every purpose under the heaven…a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant, a…
00:30:20 |
Wed 26 Feb 2020
Ongoing History of New Music - Trailer
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 t…
00:02:31 |
Mon 24 Feb 2020
Secrets of Queens of the Stone Age: Part 2
There are some bands that are very consistent with their sound—and fans love them for it…no two records are never exactlythe same, but whenever a new album is announced, we have a pretty good idea of…
00:24:45 |
Wed 19 Feb 2020
Secrets of Queens of the Stone Age: Part 1
How old is rock’n’roll now?...if we use 1955 has some kind of abritary ground zero, rock is now eligible for all kinds of senior’s discounts….
That’s a long time…and the older rock gets, the more di…
00:20:06 |
Wed 12 Feb 2020
Studio Stories with Chris Birkett
Like a lot of music fans, I’m fascinated by what goes on in the kitchen…how is music made and recorded?...who is responsible for doing what?...
You may have wondered what a producer does or what’s t…
00:43:28 |
Thu 30 Jan 2020
Headstones: In Their Own Words Part 2
Our memories are shaky constructs…we remember things wrong or forget things altogether…I’ve found—and other people agree with this—that if you want to dig through your brain to recover things that ha…
00:38:11 |
Wed 22 Jan 2020
Headstones: In Their Own Words Part 1
At one time, The Headstones were the scariest band in Canadian music…they scared audiences, scared record companies—hell, they scared themselves…
There were other words to describe them…intense…self…
00:31:34 |
Wed 15 Jan 2020
Remembering Neil Peart
Over the decades, drummers haven’t received a lot of respect…all the jokes…the running gag in “Spinal Tap”…the issues so many groups seem to have finding the right drummer…
But there are also those …
00:29:48 |
Mon 13 Jan 2020
Deconstructing the Arctic Monkeys
I love trying to figure out why things are the way they are…it’s a need to understand, you know?...
Take a guy like Jack White, for example…if you go deep into his background, you have a much better…
00:21:50 |
Wed 08 Jan 2020
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