The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1005: UFOs, UAPs, and rock
I really, really want to believe. There are trillions of galaxies in the observable universe, each containing billions of stars. There’s gotta be something out there. We can’t be alone, can we?
Wait: Can we have some appropriate music, please?
That’ll work. Where was I?
Organisms floating in the acid clouds of Venus. Remains of bacteria in the Martian soil. Creatures swimming in vast oceans below the ice of Europe. Something lurking in the methane lakes of Titan And that’s just the start.
Roswell. The “WOW” signal. Fast radio bursts. The possibility of a Dyson sphere around “Tabby’s Star.” Hints of something on the hydrogen line frequency of 1.42405755117 gigahertz. And now both NASA and the U.S. Government have admitted that they don’t know what’s going on with those strange objects that have been buzzing the planet.
Our culture has absorbed these mysteries and possibilities–and our music reflects that. This is UFOs, UAPs, aliens, and rock.
Songs heard on this show:
- Babes in Toyland, Calling Occupants
- David Bowie, Starman
- Pixies, The Happening
- Foo Fighters, Alone + Easy Target
- David Bowie, Life on Mars
- Muse, Supermassive Black Hole
- Happy Mondays, Step On
- Blink-182, Aliens Exist
And yes, we have an Eric Wilhite playlist.
The Ongoing History of New Music can be heard on the following stations:
- 102.1 The Edge/Toronto – Sunday night at 7pm
- Q107/Toronto – Sunday night at 9pm
- Live 88-5/Ottawa – Saturdays at 9am and Sundays at 6pm.
- 107.5 Dave-FM/Kitchener – Sunday nights at 11pm
- FM96/London – Sunday nights at 8pm
- Power 97/Winnipeg – Sunday nights at 11pm
- Sonic 102.9/Edmonton – Sunday at 8am and 8pm
- The Zone/Victoria – Sunday at 8am and 9pm
- The Fox/Vancouver – Sunday at 11pm
- Surge 105/Halifax – Sunday at 7pm
- WAPS/WKTL The Summit/Arkon, Canton, Cleveland, Youngstown – Mon-Fri at 9pm
- We’re still looking for more affiliates in Calgary, Kamloops, Kelowna, Regina, Saskatoon, Brandon, Windsor, Montreal, Halifax, Charlottetown, Moncton, Fredericton, and St John’s and anywhere else with a transmitter. If you’re in any of those markets and you want the show, lemme know and I’ll see what I can do.
