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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The History of Alt Rock Chapter: 15
Description: If the doomsayers are correct, something monumental–something transformative–is going to happen on December 21, 2012...this is the day the b’ak’tun cycle ends...The Mayan long count calendar runs out...after 5,125 years, it comes to an end date...what will happen next is up for debate...It could be the end of the world...Earth may collide with Nibiru, its long-hidden nemesis planet...some say a black hole may swallow us up...a catastrophic shift in the polar magnetic fields...Others believe we will achieve some kind of spiritual enlightenment, which will usher...