Alan Cross

Because after all, if it hadn't happened, you'd be listening to something else right now.

This is the Ongoing History of New Music Podcast with Alan Cross.

Hi there, I'm Alan Cross.

As I sit here in the fall of 2026, it's been 50 years since the punk rock explosion of 1976.

And since punk begat new wave, post-punk, and all the left of center stuff that has spread everywhere throughout global culture since the 1970s.

And you can always email me about anything.

I'm available through alan@alancross.ca. Technical production is by Rob Johnston.

I'm Alan Cross.

But if you're Chinese and you ask that question in Chinese, he's gonna answer you in Chinese

Music journalist and historian Alan Cross predicts more digital-first performances are on the way

Well, in the next five years we're gonna see a mass extinction event with all these rock 'n' roll heroes and music heroes that we've known our entire lives.

They're gonna die.

You're the paragon of animals September is the turning of this blade You've shaped me, I shaped you This man delights me not to turn a phrase You're just giving on, girl, and I'm In his halcyon, his hammer falling dead Does it hate me? to bring Get on And I think I fucked it up, I push you pull It's all we got, it doesn't end I think I fucked you up and tore it all apart I miss you on the night You were my friend I think I fucked it up Always in my head I wish I'd look up You held my hand And now I miss your touch Always find out too late It was the two of us I miss you under my skin You're the finest for me Skin, you're the finest for me I miss you Thank you for watching! My heart to breathe It hurts again As I look at the clock of fame Oh fuck it's three o'clock only Digging holes in the ground for you Come and dead on

Hey, it's Alan Cross of the Ongoing History of New Music, and you're listening to Phased Out on CJSR 88.5 FM in Edmonton.

All right.

Just cruising through some shoegazy stuff on Phased Out on CJSR.

I mean, it's interesting.

In 2011, you've got that Alan Cross interview with Chris and Patrick at the Sloan Space.

Mm-hmm.

just as Doublecross is coming out, and he's talking about looking forward to future releases even then, two years later, and Patrick is predicting in the future, will we even have albums? Will we just do direct download EPs or singles? So they were thinking about that two years after this.

Love it.

A non, a non-album track, and this is, this is my opportunity, Scott, to give, uh, myself a plug because this Sunday I am on the Edge Time Machine, and we are a Time Machine program which, uh, if you live in the eastern part of, of the country, uh, and in the northern United States, we're on at 6:00 PM on the Edge, uh, followed by Alan Cross' Ongoing History of New Music.

And, uh, we played, um, Shout It to the Top, also by the Style Council too.

So-

So I got myself another copy of that to add to Ivor's collection, and I'll bring it to Ground Control next week.

Awesome.

Uh, just to wrap up the '80s, we wanted to mention it was this week, uh, specifically October 13th, 1986, that Alan Cross started at CFNY.

He, uh, and you do have to go back if you have not done that and listen to the interview that we did with, uh, Alan, uh, on his start at CFNY.

The biggest bone in your body, by God's sake

sakeSo anyway, we had Allan Cross, uh, Rob Bowman, Elaine Overholt, David Marsden, and we did a-

Yes

... for David Clayton-Thomas.