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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The History of Alt Rock: Chapter 12
Description: The British music scene has always operated at warp speed...songs and bands and sounds have always come and gone very quickly, even before the age of the internet...This is what happens when you have a lot of people crammed onto an island linked together by a huge and obsequious national broadcasting network and goaded by a hyper-competitive music press...But every once in a while–maybe once a decade–something sticks...a movement takes root, grows organically and then suddenly explodes to the point where everyone is talking about it...it even goes intern...