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
20 Short Stories About Joe Strummer
When Joe Strummer died on December 22, 2002, no one could believe it...first of all, the guy was only 50...second, this was a guy who ran marathons...third, he’d been strict vegetarian since 1971... …
00:25:38 |
Wed 07 Dec 2022
Piano Heroes
Rock’n’roll is built on the electric guitar...well, mostly...and not really in the beginning...in fact, the electric guitar as we know it, didn’t have much to do with the birth of rock at all...
The …
00:26:25 |
Wed 30 Nov 2022
Introducing "Canadian History Ehx"
From 1964 to 1966, The Beatles played only a handful of shows in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. Each show was pandemonium but the story of the Beatles in Canada goes far beyond that. From their fir…
00:24:16 |
Thu 24 Nov 2022
Michael Hutchence: 25 Years Later
Being a music fan was much different in the era before the internet...news traveled slowly often passed through many filters—so many filters, in fact, that a tremendous amount of information was eith…
00:33:20 |
Wed 23 Nov 2022
Musicians Battling Disease Part 2
In the old days before the internet, musicians had an aura of mystique about them...we only knew what they wanted us to know or what music writers could ferret out...it was an era of secrets and info…
00:32:24 |
Wed 16 Nov 2022
Musicians Battling Disease Part 1
The human body is a wonderful thing, a marvel of evolution, biology, chemistry, and more than a few bits—like consciousness—we don’t understand...and for the most part, this meat bag of water and che…
00:26:23 |
Wed 09 Nov 2022
Driven By Her: Women of the 21st Century
There’s no way to sugarcoat it: the music industry has a reputation of being unkind to women...it has been a struggle from the beginning...and even after decades of work, things have evolved to the p…
00:29:15 |
Thu 03 Nov 2022
The History of Distortion and Feedback
Once upon a time not that long ago, all music was expected to sound clean and clear. Pure, accurate, right in tune. And lo, it was…fine.
But with the introduction of the electric guitar and the ampl…
00:37:02 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
Rock Explainer 2
There’s the La Tomatina festival that happens on the last Wednesday in August in Spain...this is the largest public tomato fight in the world...first of all, why would you do this on a Wednesday?...a…
00:30:16 |
Wed 26 Oct 2022
Rock's Greatest Disasters
Humanity has always been set by disasters, whether they’ve been acts of god or something we somehow brought on ourselves...war, disease, earthquakes, famine, floods, volcanic eruptions, fire, plane c…
00:37:12 |
Wed 19 Oct 2022
Hidden Tracks and Other Sundry
This is a program about the hidden audio that lurks in your music collection. You don’t know about it…you didn’t ask for it…you maybe didn’t even want it…but it’s there…and it needs to be exposed…
An…
00:23:21 |
Wed 12 Oct 2022
Driven By Her: Guitar Heroes
Once upon a time, musical instruments were divided into two groups: those appropriate for women to play and everything else...
That first group was very small...playing the piano was considered femi…
00:28:57 |
Thu 06 Oct 2022
The Roots of the 90s CanRock Explosion
There was a time in this country when Canadians didn’t really care about Canadian music...no, wait...let’s start over...
There was a time in this country when Canadians didn’t like Canadian music an…
00:28:29 |
Wed 05 Oct 2022
The Long Strange Trip of John Frusciante Part 2
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in all my years dealing with musicians, there are artists and then there are artistes...here’s how I tell them apart...Artists make art, but they also have other int…
00:29:45 |
Wed 28 Sep 2022
The Long Strange Trip of John Frusciante Part 1
And if I’m sitting with my taxonomy flowchart, this is where I write the name “John Frusciante,” the occasional guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers...
And I use the word “occasional” deliberately…
00:29:25 |
Wed 21 Sep 2022
Mind-blowing Facts about Music, the Brain, and the Body
The most powerful and strangest lump of organic material in the known universe is sitting inside your skull...the human brain weighs about three pounds—call it about 1400 grams if you’re feeling metr…
00:27:52 |
Wed 14 Sep 2022
Driven By Her: Unsung Heroines
Have you ever heard of a woman named Rosalind Franklin?...probably not, but you can draw a line from today’s covid vaccines all the way back to her in the 1950s...she conducted some serious research …
00:28:18 |
Thu 08 Sep 2022
The History of Alt Rock Chapter: 15
If the doomsayers are correct, something monumental–something transformative–is going to happen on December 21, 2012...this is the day the b’ak’tun cycle ends...
The Mayan long count calendar runs ou…
00:30:27 |
Sun 04 Sep 2022
The History of Alt Rock Chapter: 14
To fans of any kind of rock, may 18, 1999, seemed like the end of the world...the Backstreet Boys released their new cd called Millennium...on that first day, it sold more than 500,000 copies...by th…
00:25:19 |
Wed 31 Aug 2022
The History of Alt Rock Chapter: 13
If you were around in the early 90s, you probably remember it as a time of awesome new music...it seemed that every single day, there was a cool new band, a great new sound, a scene you didn’t know a…
00:25:26 |
Sun 28 Aug 2022
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