Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.

Hey, it's Alan Cross, and this summer we thought we would do something special with the

ongoing history podcast and give you, our fantastic audience, a bonus episode every Sunday

from now through Labor Day. We're going all the way back

to the spring of 2010 and a 15-part deep dive into the history of Alternative Rock. It's the

history of Alt Rock series. So every Sunday, you'll get a brand new episode of this series

that examines every single facet of Alt Rock from the 1950s right up to, well, pretty much today.

And don't worry, because we'll have a brand-new episode of the ongoing history podcast for you every Wednesday as well.

So you're getting two podcasts every week now through Labor Day.

I hope you enjoy.

And thanks for supporting the ongoing history of new music.

Music. joy. And thanks for supporting the ongoing history of new music. Once upon a time, all music was made mechanically. Something had to be hit with a hand or a stick,

or maybe strummed or plucked, or air had to be forced over a reed or through a valve. Then along came electricity. It took a while,

but electricity was tamed, so that it could not only power new forms of musical instruments,

but the energy itself could be

made musical. By the beginning of the 1980s, the people of planet Earth were most pleased

by what they had accomplished. But in the background, some people knew that there was still

much more work to be done. They began asking, what if anything could be made into music?

Others still mused, what if we could take existing music, chop it up, and reassemble it into something brand new? Some used the old ways, chopping up these sounds mechanically using proven machinery

like turntables and tape machines. But others learned to use new inventions called

computers and samplers. And so it came to pass that all through the 1980s, people began

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