Ongoing History Daily: Movie cameos
Unexpectedly seeing your favourite band in a movie can sometimes eclipse the flick itself. These are some of the cameos that brought rock to the silver screen. Want to see Josh Homme playing
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Ongoing History Daily: Kate Bush’s crumbling house
Kate Bush had a tremendous run of success extending from the late 70s through the early 90s. Then she disappeared for 12 years before releasing another album. After that record, she moved to
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: A computer music mistake
The first computer-generated music happened in 1951 at the Manchester Computing Machine Laboratory using scientist Alan Turing’s Mark II machine, which filled pretty much the entire ground floor of the building. It had
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: A disastrous Metallica audition
After Metallica bass player Cliff Burton died in a tour bus accident in September 1986, the band re-grouped and began auditioning for a new member. Many people turned up, including Les Claypool, the
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1080: The 50 biggest all-time alt-rock one-hit wonders (30-21)
Usually, if something is one of a kind, it’s at the very least unique and if enough people lust after this thing, it can also be very valuable. Take the case of an
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Twenty One Pilots’ mysterious Blurryface
Sometimes a band’s music hides a narrative that needs piecing together. For example, take Twenty One Pilots’ fourth studio album, Blurryface. The album tells a story of a character called Blurryface, who is
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Ongoing History Daily: Pearl Jam’s shady, scary bus driver
Back in 1991, when Pearl Jam was on one of their first tours, they began to feel some weird vibes coming off the driver of their bus. In an interview, Mike McCready said,
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Why do we recognize a song before we can put a name to it?
This has probably happened to you when a song that you haven’t heard in a while comes on. You immediately recognize it—and we’re talking within milliseconds—but it takes a second or two for
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Why do we keep going back to the music of our youth? (Part 2)
Last time, we looked at why we tend to go back to the music of our youth again and again. Most people will lose interest in finding new music. Is there a way
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Why do we keep going back to the music of our youth? (Part 1)
If you keep going back to the music you loved when you were young, there’s a neurological reason for this. A 2011 study at McGill in Montreal looked at the mesolimbic pathway, which
Read MoreThe Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1079: The 50 biggest all-time alt-rock one-hit wonders (40-31)
There are certain things that will happen only once in a lifetime—your first steps or those of your child, your first kiss, your first real heartbreak. You can never repeat those. There are
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