Let’s look at the hell that is choosing a name for your band.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] In 2007, a couple of listeners asked me if I would do another Ongoing History of New Music program on the origins of
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20 years ago today, the word “podcast” was born. Maybe.
We’ve been listening to podcasts for longer than 20 years, but it was two decades ago today that the word was first formally used to describe this sort of on-demand
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Ongoing History Daily: The origin of the word “Britpop”
Back in the middle 90s, the big buzzword in the UK was “Britpop.” This became an umbrella term for a fiercely proud made-in-Britain type of rock music that included Blur,
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Why do we call it “ska?”
Chances are you know what ska music is. But where did it get that name? The ska sound first appeared in Jamaica in the 1950s as a blend of Dixieland, jazz,
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: The history of the word “punk” part 2
Last time, we explored the earliest use of the word “punk,” which turned out to be in an old English ballad composed around 1575 and then used by Shakespeare about
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