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Posted on 08/26/2014 10:02:54 AM PDT by Squawk 8888
Toronto’s 102.1 the Edge relaunches Canada’s best-known radio documentary program, Ongoing History of New Music, and introduces a new series, Adventures in Vinyl, both hosted by veteran broadcaster and musicologist Alan Cross.
Ongoing History of New Music returns with even more artist profiles, thematic studies of alternative rock and its legendary in-depth narrative. The one-hour program will run weekly on Sundays with a replay on Mondays beginning Sunday, September 7. The first episode, Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Before, offers up Alan’s weirdest and most interesting musical encounters over the last few years. Subsequent episodes will profile punk rock staple The Ramones as well as an examination on spectacular acts of self-sabotage in the music industry.
To celebrate the highly-anticipated relaunch of the series, the Edge is offering fans a chance to catch up on the most popular Ongoing History of New Music episodes with a 12-hour binge listen on Monday, September 1 from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. The Edge will also be airing one minute features from Ongoing History of New Music everyday at 9:15 a.m., 4:15 p.m. and 7:15 p.m starting Tuesday, September 2.
Adventures in Vinyl will profile the recent resurgence of vinyl records in Canada. With a collection of close to 10,000 new and vintage vinyl records, Alan explores this revival with one minute set-ups of classic releases, new records and reissues, followed by the track itself. Adventures in Vinyl will run daily at 7:15 a.m., 1:15 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. beginning Sunday, September 21.
The show will stream live here.
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Thanks.
What is “New Music”?
Sa-weeeet! Maybe I can pull my Sonos system off of Flashback Alternatives for a bit!
Most of Cross’s shows deal with anything from the 1950s to the present time, and feature anything from lounge acts, metal, punk, folk, jazz or techno. His shows are always well-researched.
Thanks.
I just looked up a comprehensive Wikipedia entry on the show.
New Music is just punk rock and what came after or out of it.
That’s what I thought. I always wondered why they decided to call it “new music”.
It’s always strange to me to see how these academic type analyses seem to be stilted and destroy the actuality of what it was like.
It’s amazing to me the depths some people go to “study” punk rock and alternative music, how seriously they take it.
It’s a very English thing and I guess Canada. Isn’t much different
It’s also true in other pop culture avenues.
As an example, one of my great friends is an academic from England. And in talking to him, he was trying to talk about a Monty Python skit. But I had no idea what skit he was talking about because he described the skit in terms of it’s meaning and purpose.
Everything has to be about something and mean something.
Anyhow, thanks for this info.
I may check it out. I am amazed at the speciousness and solipsism often in such things, but still like them and may hear some good old music that brings back memories.
And there may be excellent all around aspects to it and my cynical suspicions are wrong.
As for my collection...about 10% is from the 50's...80% is from the 60's...1% from the 70's...8% from the 80's and the rest is more recent times.IOW,current music is cr@p.
There is still good music being made, but it’s really hard to find now. I’m lucky because I live in a town with a thriving local music scene.
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