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
Rivers Cuomo and Weezer - Alt-Rock's Nerd Heroes Part 2
The way I see it, there are three types of bands that stretch across a spectrum…first, there’s the extreme sort, a group that will do almost anything to attract attention…you’re probably thinking of …
00:37:36 |
Wed 11 Dec 2024
Rivers Cuomo and Weezer - Alt-Rock's Nerd Heroes Part 1
If Rivers Cuomo of Weezer were to walk past you on the street, you probably wouldn’t notice him…if you did, you might think that this stranger kinda looked like Louis Tully, the nebbish accountant pl…
00:31:56 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
Dreampop - A History
We’re about to get all dreamy and floaty and all blissed out by taking a look at another specific genre…a post-punk genre called “dream pop”…it’s a thing unto itself but it’s also related to other ge…
00:29:35 |
Wed 27 Nov 2024
The Most Explosive Band Bust-ups and Breakups
This is an episode all about bust-ups and break-ups, those times when tensions within a band get so high that things get weird and violent and—well, let’s just say “regrettable”.
Some of these incide…
00:32:21 |
Wed 20 Nov 2024
Stories Behind Songs - 5
We’ve all sat listening to music and though to ourselves “what does this song mean?...what’s the singer (or the band) trying to say?”.
Sometimes it’s nothing…it’s just a bunch of words strung togethe…
00:33:47 |
Wed 13 Nov 2024
Murder Ballads (and Other Deadly Songs)
This is an episode about murder…call this a crossover episode with my true crime podcast, “Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry”.
For as long as rock music has existed, people have been …
00:28:52 |
Wed 06 Nov 2024
Introducing... Haunted Canada
When Nadine Bailey was 7 years old she woke up terrified of dark figures looming at the end of her bed and an eerie presence all around her. From then on every night was the same, she was visited by …
00:23:29 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
Celtic Rock - A History
Anyone with a passing knowledge of rock is aware of its origins back in the late 40s and early 50s when blues, rhythm and blues, western, country, folk, and hillbilly traditions began to mix and matc…
00:25:02 |
Wed 30 Oct 2024
Mighty Managers of Rock
If you’re a musical artist and you start to do well, the point will come when you need a manager.
The manager is the person who looks after all the business stuff so the musician can get on with the …
00:39:04 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
Stupid History: The Music Version 1
For some people, history is dry and boring…it’s all dates and wars and dusty facts about things that don’t have anything to do with life today…and yes, that can be true…but history also helps us unde…
00:35:52 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
Survey Says: Useful and Odd Music Surveys and Polls
By the time this episode is over, you will learn things about your fellow music fans (and music in general) that you can use to astound your friends…and when they say “go on, that’s not true,” you ca…
00:34:02 |
Wed 09 Oct 2024
Oasis at War Part 2 - Revisited
After years and years or rumour and speculation, we now have an Oasis reunion.
The brother Gallagher have agreed to reunite…and possibly burry the hatchet. This for a series of shows next summer in …
00:22:36 |
Sun 06 Oct 2024
The Last Moments of - Part 3
We don’t like to think about our favourite musicians as being mortal…because let’s face it, we believe that they do extraordinary things and make us feel in ways we otherwise wouldn’t.
Rock stars are…
00:35:51 |
Wed 02 Oct 2024
Oasis at War Part 1 - Revisited
After years and years or rumour and speculation, we now have an Oasis reunion.
The brother Gallagher have agreed to reunite…and possibly burry the hatchet. This for a series of shows next summer in …
00:21:34 |
Sun 29 Sep 2024
Connections 3
It may not seem like it, but everything in this universe is connected in all kinds of unseen ways.
Humans have always known that chaos is a capricious and fickle thing, something that can show up whe…
00:41:35 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
Lostwave
Tell me if this sounds familiar…you’re sitting around with a bunch of friends talking about music when someone says “what’s that song with the thing at the beginning and the boom-boom sound effects?.…
00:38:22 |
Wed 18 Sep 2024
Twee Pop: A History
There’s a scene in the 2000 movie “High Fidelity” that introduced a lot of people to the name Belle and Sebastian.
Rob, the owner of a record store, and his employee, Dick, are enjoying a new arrival…
00:26:48 |
Wed 11 Sep 2024
A 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 rea…
00:29:03 |
Wed 04 Sep 2024
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 28 Aug 2024
A Brief History of Alt Psychedelic Rock
Here’s one of the most misunderstood and misused words in the English language: “psychedelic” …
The word first came into use in 1956 when a psychiatrist named Humphrey Osmond was studying a new class…
00:24:30 |
Wed 21 Aug 2024
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