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 90's Part 1: Foundational Changes
Writing history takes a very long time…sure, you could write down everything as it happens, but that’s really only like writing a diary…you only have a record of events—which is fine…but real history…
00:34:10 |
Wed 07 Feb 2018
RocknRoll Scientific Nomenclature
How would you like to be remembered when you’re gone?...most people make do with a tombstone or some such other grave marker…maybe a few photographs and other detritus from a life…
But maybe you’ve …
00:30:08 |
Wed 31 Jan 2018
Remembering David Bowie: Part 2
He was known by many names over the six decades he made music...and for the last 40-plus years, he was the most discussed, photographed, imitated, worshiped and admired rock star in history...
No si…
00:35:41 |
Tue 16 Jan 2018
Remembering David Bowie: Part 1
The sound of a text coming through woke me up at 2:15 in the morning…what was so important that it couldn’t wait until later?...it was either a wrong number—or it was bad news…
It was bad news…a fri…
00:33:40 |
Thu 11 Jan 2018
Who the Hell is Arcade Fire? Part 2
Let’s just say it: Arcade Fire is weird…just about everything they’ve done in their career has been not only unconventional but against the rules…
They rarely give interviews…they won’t license thei…
00:23:47 |
Fri 05 Jan 2018
Who the Hell is Arcade Fire? Part 1
The music world went a little weird on February 13, 2011…and I remember it very, very well because I was in a hotel room in Vancouver with nothing to do but watch TV…I think I was coming back from a …
00:21:04 |
Mon 01 Jan 2018
Scott Weiland: Part 3
If you’ve ever been responsible for managing a group of people, you’ll understand when I say, “humans are complicated” …as much life experience you may have, you will always, always encounter folks w…
00:31:11 |
Sun 31 Dec 2017
Scott Weiland: Part 2
We all react differently when we hear that a celebrity has died…if it’s someone whose work has managed to touch us in a particular way, the loss can really hurt…
Our idols aren’t supposed to be life…
00:36:58 |
Wed 27 Dec 2017
Scott Weiland: Part 1
The layout of a tour bus is standard…first, you have the driver’s compartment…behind that is an area where everyone can hang out…a couple of tables, some seating, a fridge, a stove, a microwave and a…
00:23:11 |
Tue 26 Dec 2017
60 Mind-Blowing Facts About Music in 60 Minutes: 2017 Edition
One of my great accomplishments of the year was the construction of a new home office…after 12 years working on this program in a converted bedroom, I built a full-feature workspace in the basement…
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00:30:48 |
Sun 24 Dec 2017
Remembering Chester Bennington Part 3
If anyone were to look at Linkin Park around 2011, there no reason to think that anything was going wrong…
In the ten years since the band was formed, they’d sold over 80 million albums…they had mil…
00:27:00 |
Fri 15 Dec 2017
Remembering Chester Bennington Part 2
When a musician dies, there’s a light that goes out in fans…it’s not like we knew this person, you know, personally…but it might feel that we did…that’s because the art they created expressed feeling…
00:22:53 |
Thu 07 Dec 2017
Remembering Chester Bennington Part 1
When the news first came down on the afternoon of Thursday, July 20, 2017, maybe your reaction was the same as me… “another celebrity death hoax…it’s gotta be because this doesn’t make sense”…but it …
00:22:52 |
Wed 29 Nov 2017
60 Band Name Origins in 60 Minutes
As someone who churns out tens of thousands of words a week—everything from emails to blog posts to business documents to these radio scripts—I’ve developed a fascination with words and, for whatever…
00:30:25 |
Wed 22 Nov 2017
Legendary Recording Studios
Not that long ago, if you wanted to make an album, you needed rent a big, expensive recording studio…in addition to paying an hourly, daily, weekly or monthly rate, you need to pay for a producer, an…
00:34:29 |
Fri 10 Nov 2017
Gord Downie: A Remembrance Part 2
This is part two of our remembrance of Gord Downie…
We left off last time with The Hip in their golden years—a glorious run of singles, albums, tours, festivals (like edgefest, their own “another ro…
00:32:37 |
Tue 07 Nov 2017
Gord Downie: A Remembrance-Part 1
Here is how we’re going to do this…we all know how important Gord Downie and The Tragically Hip have been to Canadian music, Canadian culture and Canada, period…we’ll take that as read…
And when Gor…
00:18:21 |
Wed 01 Nov 2017
The Tragically Hip: A Retrospective
I’d just landed at Pearson airport in Toronto after a long flight from the far east…as soon as we left the runway, I turned on my phone…the texts and the emails came one after another…blam: Gord Down…
00:22:50 |
Sun 22 Oct 2017
What's The Big Deal About Bauhaus
For this Friday bonus Podcast of the Ongoing History of New Music we dig deep into the OGH archieves to the spring of 2005 and have a look at one of the most influcential bands of the 80's
They only…
00:18:33 |
Sat 14 Oct 2017
The Oral History of Manchester Part 2
It's a Friday bonus Podcast of the Ongoing History of New Music. We dig deep into the OGH archieves to bring you episodes that you want to hear again. This time in Podcast form.
This week it's the 2…
00:26:04 |
Fri 06 Oct 2017
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