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 Rock Explainer 5
This is the fifth edition of an occasional series called “The Rock Explainer.” The idea is to explore the strange, unexplained, and traditional aspects of rock culture that don’t get enough attention…
00:35:04 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
The Rise and Fall of the MP3
The mp3 had a spectacular rise…the tech was everywhere…it brought music and the industry into the digital era. But like almost everything in this universe, it has a finite lifespan…it’s still with us…
00:40:10 |
Wed 16 Apr 2025
The History of 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 a…
00:31:38 |
Wed 09 Apr 2025
Legendary Gigs
Maybe it was the first time you saw your favourite musical. Maybe they played a set list that you thought was perfection. Maybe you were front and centre and the singer crowd surfed right over your h…
00:26:45 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
The 100 Greatest Rock Moments of the Millennium So Far - Part 10: (10-1)
People who study such things say that the human brain—this folded lump of mostly fat—has a pretty good hard drive…the average adult brain has a capacity of about 2.5 petabytes…put another way, that’s…
00:48:49 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
The 100 Greatest Rock Moments of the Millennium So Far - Part 9: (20-11)
We’ve been talking about life beyond earth for decades…and one of the best places to look (for starters) are the moons of Jupiter and Saturn…wouldn’t it be cool if we could land a probe on one of the…
00:38:31 |
Wed 19 Mar 2025
The 100 Greatest Rock Moments of the Millennium So Far - Part 8: (30-21)
How many times have you been told to “live in the moment?”…it usually comes with statements like “the past can’t be changed, the future is unknown, so all you can do is experience the present to the …
00:41:07 |
Wed 12 Mar 2025
The 100 Greatest Rock Moments of the Millennium So Far - Part 7: (40-31)
It’s wild how so much in this universe is connected in ways we don’t understand…there’s something in quantum physics that Einstein called “spooky interaction at a distance”.
Quantum theory says that …
00:34:22 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
The 100 Greatest Rock Moments of the Millennium So Far - Part 6: (50-41)
If you’re a Boomer, a Gen Xer or an early millennial, this is going to hurt. If someone says “25 years ago,” now, they mean something that happened in the 1900s, not in the 21st century.
Despite how …
00:36:15 |
Wed 26 Feb 2025
The 100 Greatest Rock Moments of the Millennium So Far - Part 5: (60-51)
People love lists…magazines, broadcasters, and websites are always publishing them…the ones that seem to get the most attention are those that rank a specific thing from worst to best.
And let’s be h…
00:33:12 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
Introducing: A Most Audacious Heist - Shoot For The Moon | 01
It’s a summer night in 1998. Vienna, Austria. And petty thief Daniel Blanchard is about to carry out the heist of a lifetime. Stealing a crown jewel. The last remaining diamond Sisi Star.
His plan? A…
00:35:57 |
Sat 15 Feb 2025
The 100 Greatest Rock Moments of the Millennium So Far - Part 4: (70-61)
Time has a way of getting away from us, especially at the speed at which news cycles travel…with a firehose of information coming at us from traditional media, online sources, social media, and just …
00:37:44 |
Wed 12 Feb 2025
The 100 Greatest Rock Moments of the Millennium So Far - Part 3: (80-71)
The great 20th century philosopher Ferris Bueller once said “life moves pretty fast…if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it”.
I think of this wisdom a lot, especially whe…
00:33:56 |
Wed 05 Feb 2025
The 100 Greatest Rock Moments of the Millennium So Far - Part 2: (90-81)
So much can happen in 25 years…let’s go back to how the 20th century began…in just a quarter century, we got radio, airplanes, the Great War, the Russian revolution, the Soviet Union, and the rise of…
00:33:38 |
Wed 29 Jan 2025
The 100 Greatest Rock Moments of the Millennium So Far - Part 1: (100-91)
Keeping up to date with the news cycles is exhausting…so much comes at us from so many different directions that it’s impossible to know if we’re in the middle of something important or not…everythin…
00:33:32 |
Wed 22 Jan 2025
In Memoriam 2024
A couple of years ago, it became obvious that we were entering an era where music fans were increasingly going to be sad…that’s because our musical heroes are shuffling off this mortal coil.
It reall…
00:27:59 |
Wed 15 Jan 2025
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 connect facts and tri…
00:34:40 |
Wed 08 Jan 2025
The Kings of Quirk
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder—or in the case of music, the ear…what’s pleasant to one person is nothing but noise to someone else…
This is where it’s good to have some patience…there are some …
00:28:00 |
Wed 01 Jan 2025
The Queens of Quirk
For a very long time—too long—women were locked in very defined roles when it came to rock’n’roll…girls were expected to look pretty and do little more than sing…okay, maybe shake a tambourine or som…
00:26:08 |
Wed 25 Dec 2024
60 Mind-Blowing Facts About Music (2024 Edition)
All right…I hope you’re ready because a lot of information—some of it important, some of it useless—is about to come your way in a rapid-fire way.
Again, this is material collected over the last 12 m…
00:39:49 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
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