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
Read MoreLet’s play a game. How many different genres of popular music can you name? In the early 50s, this was fairly easy. Country, folk, R&B, spiritual, classical, jazz, and a few others. But
Read MoreI have no idea how we got here. But if we rewind things way back to January 1993, I can try to reconstruct things. The radio station where I’d been working for seven
Read MoreLast Tuesday (December 5), we held a special live taping of the 1000th episode of The Ongoing History of New Music radio show in front of a live audience at Corus Quay in
Read MoreOnce 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
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreIf back in 1993 anyone had ever suggested that I’d still be doing The Ongoing History of New Music into the third decade of the 21st century, I’d have confidently assured you that
Read MoreCage the Elephant comes out of Bowling Green, Kentucky. That’s not a very famous place for music. They have some good high school sports teams and the plant where GM builds the Corvette
Read MoreBack on November 3, I was invited to speak in front of listeners of The Summit FM in Akron, Ohio, a station that has repeaters throughout northern Ohio. The station is the only
Read MoreIt’s an established fact that music comes in many different types of cycles. A sound and style will be big for a while, reach a peak with the public, and then slowly fade
Read MoreIt must have been so easy to write about rock back in the 1950s. Well, comparatively easy to today, I mean. Everything was so new that that’s all you had to pay attention
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