ICYMI: Things I posted elsewhere last week
Lots of content emerges from the Home Office in the basement of my house: Radio shows, TV narrations, commercial reads, podcasts, and lots and lots of blog posts. You’ll find most of this
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Ongoing History
The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1031: A history of dream pop
Music is always just downstream of what’s happening in popular culture. The early 80s were a volatile time for politics and society was shifting, too. The Cold War was dangerously close to turning
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Want to help with an upcoming Ongoing History of New Music series? Here’s what I need.
I’m almost finished writing Ongoing History episodes to the end of 2024. I want to start 2025 with a series entitled “The Greatest Rock Moments of the Millennium So Far.” This will consist
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The History of the 2010s, part 5
[Last summer repeat! Brand new episodes start next week! – AC] For centuries, there’s been a dance between music and technology with each affecting the other in some way. Almost always, though, there’s
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The History of the 2010s, part 4
[Just a couple more weeks and we start a brand new season of shows. – AC] It’s an established fact that music comes in many different types of cycles. A sound and style
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: 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
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The History of Female Drummers
[It’s both spring break and Women’s History Month, so let’s revisit a couple of relevant shows. New episodes start up the last weekend of March. -AC] Many years ago when I was just
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1008: Another look at bootleg records, part 2
Once upon a time, I was deep into collecting bootleg recordings of my favourite bands. This obsession came from a really good place. At least I thought so. I’d already bought all the
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1002: 60 Mind-Blowing Facts About Music in 60 Minutes (2023 edition)
I’m not gonna lie: I’m addicted to listicles. Not the click-baity ones that have sub-headlines like “And You Won’t Believe #6!” I’m only interested in the ones that offer interesting or weird facts.
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The Ongoing History of New Music wins a Canadian Podcast Award
The Ongoing History of New Music was nominated for a Canadian Podcast Award in the category of Outstanding Music Series. And we won!
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1001: The 27th annual weirdo Christmas show
You want to know when I started thinking about this year’s annual Ongoing History Christmas show? It was August 27. Why? Because that was when a record label sent me the first new
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