My 2024 speaking engagements start this weekend!
Time to go back on the road for more of my salon encounters with music fans. These are free-wheelin’ discussions that can go off in a million different direction at once. Because no
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Alan Cross
New Music From The Inbox – Podcast! (Jan 15, 2024): Special Guest Alan Cross!
Every week, we’re sent dozens if not hundreds of promotional emails from agents, PR firms, and hopeful artists containing the latest releases from around the world. From the biggest superstars to the ambitious
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A holiday tradition: I helpfully deconstruct “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” [VIDEO]
Re-posting this video is turning out to be something of a Christmas tradition. Sorry if I ruin it for everyone (it does generate some serious hate mail, but I don’t care. C’mon! It’s
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There was a celebration for the 1000th episode of The Ongoing History of New Music last night.
The Ongoing History of New Music debuted as a one-hour radio music documentary show on February 28, 1993. On the weekend of December 16-17, the 1000th episode of the program will run on
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Here’s video of my interview with Green Day.
Last Friday (November 17), I had a chance to sit down with all three guys from Green Day for ten minutes in a suite at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto. Here’s how it
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Ongoing History Daily: When The Edge played the Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican is one of the most well-known religious sites in the world, built in the 15th century and with its frescos painted by Michelangelo in the 16th. Not
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Ongoing History Daily: Hovercraft, Eddie Vedder’s other band
Sure, Eddie has Pearl Jam and his solo work. But how many people remember Hovercraft? And no, this wasn’t some long-lost pre-Pearl Jam band. Eddie played drums in Hovercraft and his ex-wife Beth
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Ongoing History Daily: Radiohead’s hidden Kid A surprise
So you’re a Radiohead fan and you’ve listened to their 2000 CD, Kid A, a million times and you know every word and every note.. But do you really know everything about the
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The early days of LGBTQ+ music
Once upon a time not so long ago, it was illegal–criminal!–to be anything other than heterosexual. Any hint that you may be something other than straight could get you into all sorts of
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Ongoing History Daily: Blur facts
Blur has been with us since 1988 and were one of the two biggest bands of the Britpop era (Oasis being the other one). Here are a few miscellaneous facts about them. (1)
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The story of the electric guitar, part 1
There are few instruments more powerful than the electric guitar. When the first primitive models appeared in the 1920s, no one gave them much thought. The electric guitar was brand new, unproven, and
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