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 1000th Episode of the Ongoing History of New Music
On Tuesday December 5th, in front of a live audience at Corus Quay, the Ongoing History of New Music recorded the 1000th episode of the radio program.
What some people don't know is that this Podcast…
00:54:58 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
Alt-Rocks Great Bass Players
With over 300 OGH podcasts to choose from, we know that sometimes older episodes get lost in the library.
So, here is a topic we had a request to dig up again...and this episode first aired on radio …
00:24:55 |
Wed 13 Dec 2023
The Great KGB Punk Rock Conspiracy
You may be aware of a podcast that came out in the spring of 2020 that sought to get to the bottom of a certain musical mystery…it’s called “wind of change” and it explores the possibility that a met…
00:33:15 |
Wed 06 Dec 2023
Life After Music
If you are a professional musician—that is, you’re being paid to write and perform music and can actually make a living from it—you’re part of an infinitesimal quintile of people who are able to do t…
00:29:11 |
Wed 29 Nov 2023
Remembering Sinead O'Connor
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00:37:41 |
Wed 22 Nov 2023
Music vs Technology Over The Years
In the mid-15th century, France was ruled by Louis XI, otherwise known as “Louis the Prudent”...but he was always known as “Louis the Cunning” and “The Universal Spider” because he was always spinnin…
00:38:54 |
Wed 15 Nov 2023
Gord Downie - Canada's Rock Poet
It was Tuesday, May 24, 2016...you know how when you land the flight attendant says it’s now permissible to “use transmitting and receiving functions your portable devices” while you’re taxiing to th…
00:30:58 |
Wed 08 Nov 2023
Introducing... Black and Blue: Behind the Badge | Catching Hell
It’s 1986 and Michael Morrison is offered the opportunity of a lifetime. A chance to leave his life of poverty in Newark and start afresh. It’s a job offer he can’t afford to refuse. Michael has no i…
00:37:40 |
Sat 04 Nov 2023
The Last Moments Of - Part 2
When someone dies, our first reaction is disbelief...we’re stunned...that’s immediately followed by a need to know what happened...how?...where?...it’s only natural...we need information to help us p…
00:40:17 |
Wed 01 Nov 2023
The Last Moments Of - Part 1
It’s always a shock when a rock star dies...and our first reaction is “what happened?...how did this person die?”...
That’s completely natural...whenever we’re met with something incomprehensible, we…
00:39:13 |
Wed 25 Oct 2023
Introducing...Uncharted: The Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash
The old days of air travel were quite risky…compared to today, the chances of your flight going down were far greater …every airport had kiosks and coin-operating vending machines where you could buy…
00:31:58 |
Tue 24 Oct 2023
The History of the Drum Machine
One of the most important parts of music is beat and rhythm...without beats, without rhythm, there’s no groove...without a groove, there’s no movement or dancing or really physically getting into the…
00:30:04 |
Wed 18 Oct 2023
The History of the 2010s Part 5: Music and Tech
For centuries, there’s been a dance between music and technology with each affecting the other in some way...almost always, though, there’s no fighting progress...music (and everything to do with it)…
00:32:35 |
Wed 11 Oct 2023
Introducing.... Bad Parents | Vacationing with Children
We as parents get so little time to ourselves. So if you know when vacationing with kids actually becomes a relaxing vacation… please let us know.
In this episode we discuss the literal ups and downs…
00:33:15 |
Sat 07 Oct 2023
The History of the 2010s Part 4: The Revivals
It’s an established fact that music comes in many different types of cycles...a sound and style will be big for a while, reach a peak with the public, and then slowly fade out....but once established…
00:24:01 |
Wed 04 Oct 2023
The History of the 2010s Part 3: The New Genres
It must have been so easy to write about rock back in the 50s...comparatively easy to today, i mean...everything was so new that that’s all you had to pay attention to...there wasn’t exactly anything…
00:24:05 |
Wed 27 Sep 2023
The History of the 2010s Part 2: The Role of Indie Rock
Traditional wisdom says that the recorded music industry is dominated by the major labels...there used to be a bunch of them, but over the last 25 years, their number has been whittled down to just t…
00:27:19 |
Wed 20 Sep 2023
The History of the 2010s Part 1: Rock Struggles Again
We never know we’re living through history as it happens...for example, if we’re trying to assess what happened in a particular decade, we can’t really do it justice if we attempt to analyze things d…
00:31:24 |
Wed 13 Sep 2023
The More Things Change Part 2
Continuing to dive into the Ongoing History of New Music archives, here's a show for 2016 that we are surprised has not been posted yet!
At some point in your life, you said “I’m never going to beco…
00:30:07 |
Wed 06 Sep 2023
The More Things Change Part 1
Continuing to dive into the Ongoing History of New Music archives, here's a show for 2016 that we are surprised has not been posted yet!
Have you every heard yourself say this?
kids these days! What…
00:26:50 |
Wed 30 Aug 2023
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