Latest updates for Ongoing History Of New Music

Fresh curated links around Ongoing History of New Music are collected here so marketers can spot useful updates and turn timely ideas into posts faster.

Recent items include:

  • People have been asking for a master list of all songs played on Ongoing History of New Music shows. Here you go. It’s 4
  • Ongoing History Daily: A history of smashing instruments (part 2)
  • Ongoing History Daily: The death of Le Studio

Post angles to try

Share the most useful takeaway for your audience.
Turn one article into a quick practical checklist.
Ask your audience how this shift affects their work.
Turn angles into scheduled posts

Fresh articles and ideas

Recent curated links from global sources. Generate one free draft from any story, then use SocialBu to schedule and refine your content calendar.

ajournalofmusicalthings.com /2 weeks ago

People have been asking for a master list of all songs played on Ongoing History of New Music shows. Here you go. It’s 4...

Every week, The Ongoing History of New Music includes anywhere from seven to 12 songs as part of whatever story is being told. Each episode gets its own posting on Corus Radio webs...

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

Ongoing History Daily: A history of smashing instruments (part 2)

Last time, we went through a list of important artists in the history of smashing instruments onstage. The 80s were a quiet time for guitar destruction, probably because synth-base...

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

Ongoing History Daily: The death of Le Studio

Back in the day—which is to say the late 70s and early 80s—one of the most famous recording studios in the world was Le Studio, a then state-of-the-art facility in Morin-Heights, Q...

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 week 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...

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

Ongoing History Daily: A history of smashing instruments (part 1)

The smashing and destruction of instruments onstage has a long and storied history. If we have to trace it back to one person, it’s probably Pete Townshend of The Who, who, in a

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /4 weeks ago

Ongoing History Daily: The worst music festivals EVER (part 2)

Many of the worst musical festivals have been blissfully forgotten, which is not a good thing because promoters and fans should learn from past mistakes. Take the Ozark Music Festi...

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

Ongoing History: The birth of the teenager and its effect on rock

Up until the mid-20th century, there was no such thing as a “teenager.” You were a child, and then one day, you were declared an adult. There was no official in-between period. In

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /4 weeks ago

Ongoing Daily: The worst music festivals EVER (part 3)

We’ve evolved when it comes to being able to stage music festivals. In the 70s, though, people were still learning, often with disastrous results. Let’s go back to Labour Day 1972...

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /3 weeks ago

Ongoing History Daily: Who invented the concept album?

A concept album is a record that has a narrative, theme, or story that links all the songs together in a unified way. Green Day’s American Idiot qualifies as such a record. Dig

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

Ongoing History Daily: More interesting facts about vinyl, part 1

The vinyl revival shows absolutely no sign of going away as LPs continue to outsell CDs and show double-digit growth year after year. Here are a couple of facts you may not know

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /2 weeks 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

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 day 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...

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /2 weeks ago

Ongoing History Daily: Fun with Queens of the Stone Age

If you know anything about Josh and the guys in Queens of the Stone Age, you’ll know that they have a quirky sense of humour. When it came to promoting their Villains album,

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

Ongoing History Daily: The MiniDisc is back?

In the late 90s, consumer electronics manufacturers were looking for a digital format to replace the cassette. One attempt was Sony’s MiniDisc, which debuted in 1992. Instead of us...

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /2 weeks ago

Here’s a look at Ottawa’s new music venue History

[Yes, there’s a History in Toronto also owned by Live Nation. This is a different animal entirely. Ross MacDonald was there. – AC] On Tuesday, 18 August, Live Nation Canada announc...

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /3 weeks ago

Ongoing History Daily: How to get Spotify to unknowingly pay for your tour

It turns out that there are many ways to game the technology that powers streaming music services. Take the case of a funk band called Vulfpeck. In March 2014, they uploaded an alb...

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

Ongoing History Daily: The origin of the title OK Computer

OK Computer, Radiohead’s third album, is considered a masterpiece and remains the centrepiece of the band’s catalogue. But that’s a weird title, isn’t it? Where did it come from? T...

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

Ongoing History Daily: When the star can’t make it, someone has to fill in

The show must go on, so when a member of the band (outside the singer, anyway) can’t perform for whatever reason, it might fall on the shoulders of a roadie to fill in.

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /2 days ago

Ongoing History Daily: Jobs of rock stars before they were famous

No one is born a famous rock star. There are years of dues-paying that come before the fame, often including some pretty mundane day jobs.

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /1 month ago

Ongoing History Daily: Weird album alert

I have a fondness for weird albums—and this one fits the bill perfectly. EasyJet, the British discount no-frills airline, had a weird marketing product back in 2017: An album fille...

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /4 weeks ago

Ongoing History Daily: The worst music festivals EVER (part 1)

Staging a music festival is an incredibly risky thing because so many things that are beyond your control can go wrong. That ranges from the weather to crazy crowds to logistical m...

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /4 weeks ago

As the country prepares to relive the last Tragically Hip show ten years ago, there’s a Hip radio station

On August 22, Canada will relive the final Tragically Hip show that took place in Kingston in the summer of 2016. In addition all the listening/watching parties (go here and here),...

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /3 weeks ago

Ongoing Daily: The worst music festivals EVER (part 4)

Whenever you get a bunch of music fans into a field and introduce alcohol, drugs, and dodgy weather, things can and will go wrong. The Powder Ridge Rock Festival, held at a ski

Read source
ajournalofmusicalthings.com /3 weeks ago

New study: There’s a huge demand for music podcasts but not enough supply

Well, this is good new for my two podcasts, The Ongoing History of New Music and Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry. WhichPodcast is a service that indexes the milli...

Read source

Turn fresh research into a full content calendar

Use SocialBu to discover ideas, generate post drafts, and schedule them across your social channels.

Sources covering Ongoing History Of New Music

ajournalofmusicalthings.com

Recent coverage from public sources
Public source