Just ten more sleeps before Christmas, but the new songs keep coming for 2025. Here’s proof with this week’s Five Songs You Must Hear list.
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Ongoing History Daily: Your music choices reshape your brain (part 1)
Every time you listen to music, your brain changes–in a good way.
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1066: 60 mind-blowing facts about music in 60 minutes (2025 edition)
It’s the annual data purge. You’re about to learn 60 mind-blowing things about music in 60 minutes.
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Ongoing History Daily: Want to fight off dementia? Listen to music every day.
Music can be something of a vaccine against dementia.
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Ongoing History Daily: The PreiPod iPod
Before Apple unveiled the iPod, there was this invention that no one remembers.
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Ongoing History Daily: The story of Uncle Chuck Berry
Why was Chuck Berry seen around Kitchener, Ontario, so much?
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Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, episode 54: The Long Strange Trip of How Owsley Stanley's LSD Changed Music Forever (Part 2)
Owsley Stanley was hero to the Grateful Dead and users of LSD. This is the second half of a program that explains how his influence extended far beyond that.
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Ongoing History Daily: More touring bands should do this
Robin Williams used to do this. Maybe some touring bands should do it, too.
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Ongoing History Daily: Why you should never lend John Frusciante a guitar
If you lend John Frusciante a guitar, there’s a non-zero chance you’ll get it back.
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New Music Friday: Your last look at new tunes for 2025 (05 Dec 2025)
We’ve pretty much come to the end of New Music Friday for 2025. Here are 10 releases to round out the year.
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1065: Why Bowie still matters, part 3
This week is the conclusion to a three-part series on why David Bowie still matters to all of us, whether you know it or not.
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