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Ongoing History of New Music Daily: Mispressed Records

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment CDs, Compact Discs, Lawrence Welk, Mispressed CDs

I often get emails from people asking about mispressed CDs and records. Occasionally, there are mixups at the pressing plant

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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 905: Theories, thoughts, and half-baked ideas

January 8, 2021January 6, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Ongoing History, Theories

One of the byproducts of doing a show like this for as long as I’ve been doing it is that

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Ongoing History of New Music Daily: The end of The Clash

January 8, 2021January 7, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Clash, Cut the Crap

The Clash were one of the most influential bands in the history of alternative music, so it’s kind of surprising

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Ongoing History of New Music Daily: A quaint internet story

January 7, 2021January 6, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment Compuserve, Depeche Mode, Internet, Lou Reed, Sarah McLachlan

Today we get so much of our music online. But twenty-five years ago, the Internet was still an unknown commodity

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Ongoing History of New Music Daily: The name “The Black Keys”

January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment Black Keys, Ongoing History

There are a couple of stories about where the Black Keys got their name. One says that Patrick Carney’s dad,

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Ongoing History of New Music Daily: X Ambassadors facts

January 5, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment Ongoing History of New Music, X Ambassadors

Here are some facts about X Ambassadors that may have escaped your attention up until now. First, we can probably

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Ongoing History Daily: The arrival of the MiniMoog

January 4, 2021January 4, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment Minimoog

Fifty years ago this month—January 24, 1970, to be exact—a new invention was unveiled by Dr. Robert Moog that would

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The Ongoing History of New Music encore: The Headstones, In Their Own Words, Part 2

January 1, 2021December 31, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alan Cross, Headstones, Ongoing History

[Happy New Year! One more encore before we get back to back to a long stretch of new shows next

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Ongoing History Daily: Poverty-stricken Clash

January 1, 2021December 31, 2020 Alan Cross 1 Comment Clash, Ongoing History

In the beginning, the Clash, like most of the punk brethren back in the middle 1970s, was poor. And I

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The Ongoing History of New Music encore presentation: The Headstones, In Their Own Words, Part 1

December 25, 2020December 25, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alan Cross, Headstones, Ongoing History

[We’re taking a bit of a Christmas break, but we’ll be back in January with a long string of new

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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 904: The annual Christmas show

December 18, 2020December 17, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Christmas

This year has been a raging dumpster fire. No, wait. It’s worse than that. It’s like someone gathered up millions

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The Backstage Project Podcast with Mark Silver focuses on the stories behind the biggest and best entertainment products, events, and companies. We go behind the scenes with amazing people who have done or are doing extraordinary things to entertain you, the audience. From sporting events to concerts, from cable tv to music apps; if it’s made an impact on the entertainment world, we cover it.

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