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
Connections 2
Historians love to investigate causes and effects…it’s possible for a teeny-tiny seemingly inconsequential thing to set off a cascading series of events…and before you know it, the universe has chang…
00:33:44 |
Wed 10 Apr 2024
Lo-Fi: A History
For the first 60 years of the recorded music industry, things sounded awful…the quality of the recordings people had to put up with were terrible…the old 78 rpm records played on gramophones were no …
00:31:58 |
Wed 03 Apr 2024
Introducing... Crime Beat | Out of the dark
In the summer of 2006, a young Calgary woman was on top of the world. She had a supportive family, amazing friends and a great job. But life as she knew it came to an abrupt stop in the middle of the…
00:40:09 |
Sat 30 Mar 2024
Songs Based On Real Events
Streaming is a very cool way to access tens of millions of songs with a few pokes on your phone…the idea of being able to listen to virtually any song from any era of human history with such ease is …
00:26:50 |
Wed 27 Mar 2024
Alexisonfire: In Their Own Words
A band is like a plant…stay with me on this…like a plant, a band grows from seeds to maturity, bursts for with new seeds and then eventually withers and dies…it’s the cycle of life, you know?...
But …
00:52:34 |
Wed 20 Mar 2024
Rock Explainer 4
A boy cannot become a man in the Satere-Mawe tribe of the Amazon Rain Forest until he can stand being stung by a swarm of Bullet ants…they’re called that because it’s said their sting is as painful a…
00:35:53 |
Wed 13 Mar 2024
The History and Future of AI in Music
The biggest tech story of recent years has been the rise of artificial intelligence…the subject of ai is everywhere… it’s been “AI this” and “AI that”…
The Wikipedia article on ChatGPT, the company t…
00:43:51 |
Wed 06 Mar 2024
Another Look At Bootlegging: Part 2
Once upon a time, I was deep into collecting bootleg recordings of my favourite bands…and this obsession came from a really good place…at least I thought so…
I’d already bought all the albums and sin…
00:37:49 |
Wed 28 Feb 2024
Uncharted "Sneak Peak" - Episode 9: The Disappearance of Richey Edwards
Hey It's Alan...and I want to introduce you to my brand new, one-of-a-kind true crime podcast called Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry.
On this podcast I take you inside unbelievable…
00:30:59 |
Fri 23 Feb 2024
Another Look At Bootlegging: Part 1
On December 24, 1877, Thomas Edison filed a patent for a new invention he referred to as a “talking machine”…for the first time ever, audio could be captured, played back, stored, shared, and analyze…
00:31:16 |
Wed 21 Feb 2024
Rock Firsts By Black Artists
We would not be sitting here talking about rock music if it weren’t for people of African descent…if you start in the present and begin to trace things backward to important innovations and accomplis…
00:36:12 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
UFOs, UAPs, and Rock
I really, really want to believe…there are trillions of galaxies in the observable universe, each containing billions of stars…there’s gotta be something out there…we can’t be alone…
Organisms floati…
00:30:16 |
Wed 07 Feb 2024
Uncharted "Sneak Peak" - Episode 7: The Linkin Park Cyberstalker
Hey It's Alan...and I want to introduce you to my brand new, one-of-a-kind true crime podcast called Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry.
On this podcast I take you inside unbelievable…
00:12:31 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
What A Drag It Is Getting Old (Musically)
Decades ago, I was the best man for my buddy Charlie and was in charge of driving the bridal car from the church to the reception…the happy couple were in the back seat…next to me up front was the br…
00:37:36 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
2023 In Memoriam
A year ago, I began what will unfortunately be a regular series of these programs from now on…it’s an annual look back on the musicians we lost in the previous year…
Rock star deaths have been on our…
00:27:49 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
60 Mind-Blowing Facts About Music in 60 Minutes: The 2023 Edition
I’m not gonna lie…I’m addicted to listicles…not the click-baity ones that have sub-headlines like “and you won’t believe #6!”…I’m only interested in the ones that offer interesting or weird facts…usu…
00:36:40 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
Uncharted "Sneak Peak" - Episode 5: The Satanic Panic
Hey It's Alan...and I want to introduce you to my brand new, one-of-a-kind true crime podcast called Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry.
On this podcast I take you inside unbelievable…
00:17:09 |
Thu 11 Jan 2024
Modern Guitar Heroes 2: The Women
It’s been a rough decade for the electric guitar…sales of new instruments have dropped by a third, from 1.5 million globally to around just one million…
Why?...generations brought up on electronics a…
00:25:32 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
Modern Guitar Heroes: The Men
What is a guitar hero?...yes, yes, it’s a video game that vaguely simulates playing a real guitar…what else?...
Yes, yes, it means someone who can rock the “expert level” at guitar hero, the video ga…
00:27:51 |
Wed 03 Jan 2024
OGHONM 1000th Episode: The Q&A From the Live Recording
Hey it’s Alan and this week we’re going to do something a bit different for the podcast…
When we recorded our 1000th episode of the ongoing history at Corus Quay…we ended up with a lot of content tha…
01:07:34 |
Wed 27 Dec 2023
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