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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.

Before we go any further with our history of Alt Rock, a lesson in cosmology is in order.

Sometime around 16 billion years ago, there was this infinitely dense and infinitely tiny thing

called a singularity. Don't ask where it came from or who made it. That's just asking for trouble.

The best anyone can tell is that one day, well, there weren't days back then because time didn't exist.

And again, let's just not go there.

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