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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Ongoing History Daily: The brief history of the PA system
PA systems have a long and interesting history. Here’s the quick version.
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Ongoing History Daily: The mystery of Mingering Mike
Mingering Mike was one weird dude. But that weirdness eventually paid off.
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Five Songs You Must Hear This Week (04 May 2026)
Our music discovery goes pretty deep with this week’s Five Songs You Must Here list. Trust me. It’ll pay off.
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Ongoing History Daily: A strange radio story
Germany once wanted to tax radios. They did, and the results were unexpected.
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