There are many godfathers in music. The Godfather of Rock? Well, there’s the King, Elvis Presley, but Chuck Berry is probably a more accurate choice…the Godfather of Funk and Soul? James Brown. The godfathers of hip-hop? DJ Kool Herc was the O.G. Run-D.M.C. should be in there, too, along with Afrika Bambaataa, Spoonie Gee, and…
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Ongoing History Daily: A lesson in radio frequencies (part 4)
What radio frequencies are there beyond AM and FM?
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Ongoing History Daily: A lesson in radio frequencies (part 3)
Not everyone listens to the same radio frequencies as we do in North America.
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Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, episode 064: The weirdness of the Strawberry Fields and Edenfest music festivals
Staging a music festival is an extremely risky thing. Everything works on a knife’s edge. And while a promoter can make an insane amount of money from a festival, everything has to go just right. But if things start to go wrong at any point, the failures can cascade into a disaster, financial and otherwise……
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Ongoing History Daily: A lesson in radio frequencies (part 2)
Sorting out how radio frequencies are allocated around the world can be confusing.
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Five Songs You Must Hear This Week (11 May 2026)
The Five Songs You Must Hear list welcomes back Dirty Heads and Hollerado, reminds us of Gay Nineties, and offers two new discoveries,
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Ongoing History Daily: A lesson in radio frequencies (part 1)
Think your radio will work everywhere in the world? Think again.
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1083: The 50 biggest all-time alt-rock one-hit wonders (BONUS SHOW!)
Now that we’ve gone through the top alt-rock one-hit wonders of the last 50 years, what’s next? The mistakes, that’s what.
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New Music Friday: 8 releases for a May weekend (08 May 2026)
There are only seven entries on this week’s New Music Friday list, but look at the names involved.
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Ongoing History Daily: On-stage accidents
Workplace accidents can happen anywhere, even if that workplace is the concert stage.
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Ongoing History Daily: Right place, wrong time
When I say “right place, wrong time,” I mean guys who were in the right band but at the wrong time.
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