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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1090: 1976-The birth year of alt-rock, part 2

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Cross, A. (2026, October 16). The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1090: 1976-The birth year of alt-rock, part 2. Global News. https://globalnews.ca/news/12098433/the-ongoing-history-of-new-music-episode-1090-1976-the-birth-year-of-alt-rock-part-2/

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This article is a radio episode focusing on the music of 1976, particularly highlighting punk bands like Ramones, Sex Pistols, and The Clash. It lists several tracks from these bands and provides air times for various Canadian radio stations broadcasting this episode across different cities.

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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1090, aired on October 16, 2026, focusing on the birth year of alternative rock in 1976. The episode featured tracks by influential bands such as Ramones, Sex Pistols, and The Clash. It highlighted songs like "Beat on the Brat," "Pretty Vacant (Live)," and "White Riot." The show is broadcast across various radio stations including 102.1 The Edge/Toronto, Q107/Toronto, and Sonic 102.9/Edmonton among others, providing a national audience with insights into the early days of punk and alternative rock music.

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🔮 You may not know the name Arthur Janov, but he had an unusual influence on music.

2026-10-12 · assertive framing · Ongoing History Daily: Music and psychologist Arthur Janov

🔮 Where you come into the world determines much of how your life will turn out, as my brother-in-law, a professor with a specialty in how geography impacts the arts, will tell you.

2026-10-11 · assertive framing · Here’s how the U.K. manages to produce so much innovation in music

🔮 In the old days, the magazine would call out to a panel of select record stores to find out which 45 RPM, seven-inch singles sold the most over the previous seven days.

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🔮 I will be forever grateful to David for hiring me back in the fall of 1986.

2026-09-28 · assertive framing · David Marsden, the architect of CFNY and the Spirit of Radio, has died

🔮 How would you describe this book?

2026-09-27 · assertive framing · A new book sheds light on the birth of punk in New York City fifty years ago

🔮 The prevailing theory is that this is some band from somewhere in Southern Ontario that may have entered one of the station’s talent searches, called The Great Ontario Talent Search, a winter project that ran between October 1984 and February 1985 and typically received more than a thousand entries annually.

2026-09-20 · assertive framing · The fevered quest for a song (that might be) called “CIA”

🔮 Just ask Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams what they went through with their song Blurred Lines (which they lost), or Ed Sheeran, who battled over the originality of his Shape of You (in which he eventually prevailed).

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Hands up everyone who’s never heard Choosin’ Texas by Ella Langley

2026-10-04 · Global News

David Marsden, the architect of CFNY and the Spirit of Radio, has died

2026-09-28 · Global News

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- Ramones, Beat on the Brat - Sex Pistols, Pretty Vacant (Live) - Ramones, Loudmouth (Live) - Ramones, Judy is a Punk - The Clash, White Riot - Ramones, Now I Want to Sniff Some Glue - Sex Pistols, Problems (Live) - The Clash, Guns of Brixton - The Damned, New Rose - Sex Pistols, Anarchy in the UK Get daily National news - 102.1 The Edge/Toronto – Sunday night at 7pm - Q107/Toronto – Sunday night at 9pm - Live 88-5/Ottawa – Saturdays at 9am and Sundays at 6pm - 107.5 Dave-FM/Kitchener – Sunday nights at 11pm - FM96/London – Sunday nights at 8pm - Power 97/Winnipeg – Sunday nights at 10am and 10pm - 107-3 The Edge/Calgary – Sundays at 10am and 10pm - Sonic 102.9/Edmonton – Sunday at 8am and 8pm - The Zone/Victoria – Sunday at 9am and 9pm - The Fox/Vancouver – Sundays at 10am and 10pm - The Goat Network/Interior BC - WAPS/WKTL The Summit/Arkon, Canton, Cleveland, Youngstown – Mon-Fri at 9pm asserted

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