Ongoing History Daily: Sony’s sound zombies
If you were to look around at other humans today, chances are you would see a bunch of them listening to some kind of personal music device. People have been using portable cassette
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Ongoing History Daily: Florence Welch’s near-death experience
Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine has several health challenges. She’s dyslexic. She has a condition called dyspraxia, which affects movement and coordination. She’s battled an eating disorder, along with anxiety, and
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: What was the first musical score written for a movie?
Writing musical scores for movies is big, big business and is an integral part to every film made today. But what was the first-ever movie with an original score written for it? It
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1060: Rock Explainer 6
There are so many things in this universe that we just can’t explain. Science, law enforcement, researchers, internet detectives—they continue to come up empty. The fate of Amelia Earhart is a good one.
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: The “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)” story
The Beastie Boys did some great things in their career, but many people will forever know them as the band that released “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party).” Here are some
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Radiohead’s Israeli adventure
Getting in and out of foreign countries can be one of the biggest hassles any musician will ever face. Radiohead has had their share of customs hassles, but none quite as weird as
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: The French LOVE Iggy Pop
You gotta love the French. France’s Ministry of Culture has an award called an “Officer or Arts and Letters.” The French government gives this thing to deserving artists from around the world. This
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: One band, two names. The world of pseudonyms.
There have been plenty of occasions when a band has released material (or even played live) under an alias. Why? Sometimes just for fun. Or they might want to try something that’s a
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: The fascinating world of on-hold music
We’ve all been put on hold when trying to reach a business or office. Almost 100% of the time, we hear on-hold music. There are strong psychological reasons why we’re subjected to this
Read MoreThe Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1059: Peaked Too Soon – Bands That were Before Their Time.
Ever hear of Jeremy Bentham? He was an Englishman, a political philosopher who lived in the 18th and 19th centuries—and he was, by all measures of his time, a radical. He was against
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Another reason concert tickets cost so much
We’ve seen the price of concert tickets spike by insane amounts over the last 25 years, largely because now that no one buys high-margin physical music the way they used to, most of
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