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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /4 weeks ago

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1087: A follow-up to alt-rock one-hit wonders

Okay, okay, okay! I hear you! Lemme make some amends here. In spring 2026, I set out to explore alt-rock one-hit wonders. It was a five-episode series in six parts (very Hitchhiker...

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 week ago

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1090: 1976-The birth year of alt-rock, part 2

Over the course of human history, certain years have proven to be more important than others. Over the course of 12 months, things happen that change everything. Nothing is ever th...

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /2 weeks ago

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1089: 1976-The birth year of alt-rock, part 1

When was rock’n’roll born? That’s hard to pin down. It’s not like the world woke up one day and, all of a sudden, there was this brand-new genre of music that had emerged

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /2 weeks ago

Ongoing History Daily: Another look at weird genres (part 1)

From the moment rock’n’roll was born in the 1950s, it has evolved, mutated, segmented, and stratified as people all over the planet put their own spin on it. Now there are eleventy...

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /3 weeks ago

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1088: A timeline of technological advances in music

This probably won’t come as a shock, but I’m something of a nerd when it comes to technology. Yeah, I like gadgets and devices and toys and machines that go “ping,” but I’m

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1086: The story of trip-hop

As of 2026, there are something like 250 million songs available to the streaming music services. How do we even begin to wrap our heads around a number like that? Well, the first

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /3 weeks ago

Ongoing History Daily: The weird Hollerado fan album

Hollerado is a weirdly creative bunch of guys. Take the case of their album, 111 Songs. Someone in the group came up with the idea of writing a song for every fan who

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /3 weeks ago

Ongoing History Daily: The making of Nirvana’s Unplugged

On November 18, 1993, Nirvana went to Sony Music Studios in New York to perform an unplugged gig for MTV.  It was broadcast on TV and turned into a CD that came out

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /2 weeks ago

Ongoing History Daily: Another look at weird music genres (part 2)

Last time, we looked at how metal has fractured into a million different genres, sub-genres, and sub-sub-genres. For example, have you heard of “blackened crust?” This is a combina...

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1085: The history of the band t-shirt

I have a wardrobe problem. Most of what I have consists of jeans, gym socks, sneakers, and lots and lots and lots of T-shirts. Of those T-shirts, at least 90% of them are

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

Ongoing History Daily: The jukebox

If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember the old-style non-digital jukebox. They used to be in bars and restaurants everywhere. It was usually a big metal-and-plastic-and-glass...

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 week ago

Ongoing History Daily: Movies featuring The Tragically Hip

Here’s a trivia question.  Name two films that feature an on-screen appearance by The Tragically Hip. Remember the curling movie, Men with Brooms?  The Hip shows up for about a sec...

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /3 weeks ago

Ongoing History Daily: Music has never been cheaper

Think buying music is too expensive? If you look at things from a historical point of view, music has never, ever been cheaper. If you go back to the 1950s, the average price

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

Ongoing History Daily: Disc rot is back in the news

When CDs first appeared in 1983, one of the things were sold was that they would deliver perfect sound forever. Not quite. If you’re into collecting physical media like CDs (and DV...

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 week ago

Ongoing History Daily: Counterfeit CDs and Mafia records

If you spend any time at record shows or in record shops—anyplace you can find used physical products—you may stumble across some interesting counterfeit records. A counterfeit rel...

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

Ongoing History Daily: The doomed Sanyo Micro-Pack

The history of consumer electronics is littered with devices that just didn’t make it. This is one of the most obscure ones I’ve ever heard of. Back in 1964, while the world was

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

Ongoing History Daily: Notes on vinyl collecting

Let’s talk about collecting rare vinyl records.  How much is any given record worth?  It depends on two things. First, demand.  You may have a one-of-a-kind recording, but if no on...

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 week ago

Ongoing History Daily: Music and psychologist Arthur Janov

You may not know the name Arthur Janov, but he had an unusual influence on music. Janov was a psychologist, psychotherapist and writer who, back in the 60s, came up with a theory

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

Ongoing History Daily: A quick lesson in ancient music

Pretty much all the songs we listen to today features multiple tracks of instrumentation and vocals. The term for this is “polyphonic.” But when did the idea of layering music begi...

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torontomike.com /2 weeks ago

Michael Barclay and Jason Schneider: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1989

In this 1989th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with authors Michael Barclay and Jason Schneider about the 25th anniversary of Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance...

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exclaim.ca /1 month ago

2004 Indie Music Podcast Gets Members of Death Cab for Cutie, Spoon, Metric, the New Pornographers as Guests

A new music podcast, '2004: The Year Indie Rock Broke,' has launched its first two episodes, with artists diving deep into the early 2000s

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

Ongoing History Daily: The two punk bands who played a psychiatric hospital

The early days of punk were anything-goes times. The idea was to do virtually everything differently, especially you could be extra strange and provocative. Enter The Cramps, a New...

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /4 weeks ago

Ongoing History Daily: Sometimes it takes sales to catch up to an album’s influence

An album can be both tremendously influential and a commercial failure—at least at first. Here are a two examples. The Clash’s London Calling came out in December 1979. It didn’t o...

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ajournalofmusicalthings.com /2 weeks ago

Ongoing History Daily: Whatever happened to FM radio in mobile phones?

There was a time about 15 years ago when there was a major push to have FM radios in mobile phones. Many phones already came (and still come) with an FM receiver, but

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