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 Tool Odyssey
As we sit here together, it’s been about 11 years and five months since Tool released their last album, “10,000 days”…that record came out on April 28, 2006…
Let’s put that into perspective…the las…
00:24:26 |
Wed 27 Sep 2017
The Last Hours Of...
At some point, all of us will shuffle off this mortal choir and join the choir invisible…doesn’t matter who you are, how much money you may have or how famous you might be…in the end, we’re all morta…
00:31:22 |
Wed 13 Sep 2017
Unfortunate Sonic Coincidences
Here are a couple of musical terms you may have heard of…
Earworm: that’s when a clip of a song keeps running through your head on a loop over and over and over again.
Mondegreen: a misheard lyr…
00:37:22 |
Mon 11 Sep 2017
Catching Up With The Black Keys
It is so hard to have a hit record these days…hell, with all the music out there it’s nearly impossible to attract any kind of attention…all the noise and distractions and competition…
If you’re a n…
00:26:06 |
Wed 30 Aug 2017
Spectacular Acts of Self Sabotage
You probably know someone like this: a guy (or a woman) who through having loads of talent or tons of luck or both has become successful…they have everything anyone could ever hope to have…money, not…
00:34:17 |
Tue 22 Aug 2017
Chester Bennington and Linkin Park
The last few years have been rough for music fans…Scott Weiland, David Bowie, Prince and a dozen more have left us…2017 has also had its share of loss…Chuck Berry…Gregg Allman…Chris Cornell—and now C…
00:24:45 |
Tue 25 Jul 2017
Inside The Foo Fighters
Being in a band seems straightforward…you pick up some instruments and start playing…but it’s much more complicated than that…the music that you end up making is influenced by so many outside forces……
00:27:16 |
Wed 19 Jul 2017
10 Terrible Career Moves
We’ve all done something that we’ve later regretted...it seemed so right at the time, you know? In hindsight, though, it turned out to be really, really dumb…
Maybe we were misinformed or lacking al…
00:32:53 |
Wed 28 Jun 2017
RockNRoll Drugs
There are many ways to clear or expand your mind to allow creativity to flow, stress to dissipate and peace to descend on the mind and body…exercise, meditation, prayer…but that takes exertion, pract…
00:28:56 |
Wed 21 Jun 2017
Remembering the Beastie Boys Part 2
It is almost impossible for anyone from a lightweight boy band to transition to serious, respected artist…it can be done—we can look at Justin Timberlake and, um…well, we can look at Justin Timberlak…
00:29:47 |
Wed 14 Jun 2017
Remembering the Beastie Boys Part 1
For an entire generation of music fans—two generations, really—The Beastie Boys were always there…and now that they’re no longer with us, there are a lot of people who feel like there’s a void in mus…
00:26:15 |
Fri 09 Jun 2017
Chris Cornell: 6 Degrees of Separation
There’s a misconception that it takes a lot of people to come together to create a viable music scene…not true…
The original punk scene in New York consisted of a few dozen weirdos who hung out at p…
00:25:30 |
Fri 19 May 2017
Why Punk Happened
Every once in a while, something extraordinary happens in rock’n’roll…I hate the use the cliché of “a perfect storm,” but that’s exactly what I’m talking about…a bunch of things involving culture, po…
00:33:18 |
Wed 22 Mar 2017
Rock And Roll Myths
Myths and legends come in all sizes…Atlantis…that’s a big one that we can’t seem to wrap our heads around…but maybe homer was just yanking our chain…
“feed a cold, starve a fever”…turns out that’s w…
00:29:12 |
Wed 15 Mar 2017
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Blink 182 Part 3
Some years ago, I had a conversation with Don Letts, the DJ, filmmaker and confidant of The Clash…and he said something that stuck with me: “the average lifespan of a band is seven years…that’s enoug…
00:27:07 |
Fri 17 Feb 2017
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Blink 182 Part 2
It’s rare that a band has a career with two acts…it’s not impossible…the survivors of Joy Division managed to do quite well as new order…the Barenaked Ladies were once written off before roaring back…
00:22:54 |
Fri 10 Feb 2017
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Blink 182 Part 1
After grunge blew up in the early 1990s, the walls between mainstream rock and the alternative universe crumbled completely…what other music had been hiding in the plain sight?...
There was goth and…
00:32:17 |
Tue 31 Jan 2017
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