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
History of Skate Punk
My main interest with skateboarding is the music that’s evolved along with it...in fact, there’s a whole subgenre of alt-rock built on skateboarding culture....and there are plenty of legendary rock …
00:26:01 |
Wed 12 Apr 2023
9 Nine In Nails Tales
I vividly remember my first encounter with Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails...it was April 17, 1990, at the old RPM club in Toronto... Nine Inch Nails were opening for Goth God Peter Murphy and frank…
00:36:41 |
Wed 05 Apr 2023
Sonic Coincidences in Alt-Rock Part 2
This is part 2 of our look at true stories of plagiarism and unfortunate sonic coincidences in the world of Alt-Rock
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00:25:40 |
Wed 29 Mar 2023
Sonic Coincidences in Alt-Rock Part 1
Let me ask you this...how many times have you heard a song and said "Hey that song sounds just like something I heard last month. That guitar riff is really familiar....don't they realize those chord…
00:23:11 |
Wed 22 Mar 2023
The Weird History of Concert Tickets Part 2
We’ve all been there...tickets for a concert you really, really want to see are set to go on sale at exactly 10am...you’re on the Ticketmaster site as the clock ticks toward the appointed time...
9:5…
00:47:12 |
Wed 15 Mar 2023
The Weird History of Concert Tickets Part 1
Let’s define a “concert ticket”...it is a contract between you, an act, a promoter, and a venue that allows you admission to specific event at a stated time and place...seems simple enough...let’s co…
00:36:28 |
Wed 08 Mar 2023
The Early Days of LGBTQ Rock
Once upon a time, it was illegal—criminal—to be another other than heterosexual...any hint that you may be something other than straight could get you into all sorts of trouble—and career suicide was…
00:28:07 |
Wed 01 Mar 2023
The Very First Episode of the Ongoing History of New Music
I vividly remember sitting down to write the first-ever episode of “The Ongoing History of New Music”...I was in my living room with a blank yellow note pad...and I was terrified...
To be brutally ho…
00:18:51 |
Tue 28 Feb 2023
Black History Month 2023
A couple of years back, I did an episode called “The Diversity Show”...it ran in February as part of Black History Month...the goal was to salute the contributions of people of African descent to the…
00:22:37 |
Wed 22 Feb 2023
More Vinyl Stories
At the dawn of the 21st century, vinyl was dead, dead, dead...we were all going digital and there was no point in keeping this ancient format...vinyl records were dusty, scratchy, and noisy...they to…
00:31:36 |
Wed 15 Feb 2023
The Story of TV Theme Songs
Like Homer Simpson, I love my TV...without my local, network, cable, on-demand, and streaming shows none of us would have made it through the pandemic...
The downside is that in order to remain dist…
00:34:43 |
Wed 08 Feb 2023
Connections
Back in the late 70s, the BBC debuted a science education show called “Connections”...the host was James Burke, an affable, professorish guy, usually dressed in a beige polyester leisure suit who gav…
00:35:21 |
Wed 01 Feb 2023
The History of Remixes
When humans first started making audio recordings of music, they were limited as to how long those recordings could be...
An original Edison cylinder could maybe hold two minutes of music, therefore …
00:28:41 |
Wed 25 Jan 2023
Couples in Music
Have you ever had to work together with your significant other?...and I don’t mean anything like housework or parenting or anything like that...I’m talking about a job—your primary source of income—w…
00:24:55 |
Wed 18 Jan 2023
In Memoriam of Those Lost in 2022
Sometime around 2016, I got the sense that we were entering into a new era of rock history: a period when the musicians we loved and admired began to die...
Listen, there had been many deaths before …
00:26:08 |
Wed 11 Jan 2023
Rhythm Sections
In most rock bands, we hear most about the singer and the guitarist...you know...those two up front tend to get the most attention, and the most adoration.
That leaves the bass player and the drummer…
00:18:57 |
Wed 04 Jan 2023
Outsider Music
When it comes to what you are about to hear, there is nothing wrong with your equipment or how it was produced...this music is exactly as it was intended to be. It is exactly as it was record, and ex…
00:36:42 |
Wed 28 Dec 2022
The Roots of New Wave through Techno-Pop
A few years ago, there was a revival. A rediscovery of a sound that we used to call Techno-Pop.
Some people loved it...some people hated it. But whatever the opinion, it was a very important part of …
00:23:04 |
Wed 21 Dec 2022
60 Mind-Blowing Facts About Music 2022 Edition
Well, it’s that time again...another year is almost at an end—and once again, we have been subjected to the whims of the universe and human stupidity through 2022...
It got better with covid but then…
00:33:04 |
Wed 14 Dec 2022
Introducing "Everything 80's"
It was a classic battle between good and evil and it gave us one of the greatest toys of all time. Today, we journey back to revisit the history of the iconic Transformers.
From their early days in J…
00:31:55 |
Thu 08 Dec 2022
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