Alan Cross
Senior Program Director, Splice Interactive; creator, The Ongoing History of New Music.
Last Contribution:
Canada’s Lost Albums
Contributor Biography
Mr. Cross is the Senior Program Director for Splice Interactive – the online arm of Corus Radio, a multi-billion-dollar Canadian entertainment company with interests in radio, conventional TV, specialty TV, and animation. Between 2004 and 2008, he was program director of 102.1 the Edge/Toronto and was named Program Director of the Year at Canadian Music Week in 2005, 2006, and 2008.
He is also the host of the acclaimed music documentary program, The Ongoing History of New Music, which debuted in February 1993.
His latest project is ExploreMusic and ExploreMusic.com, a new radio-and-web initiative by Corus Entertainment’s online division. This new media project is dedicated to music discovery and music recommendation. There’s a daily half-hour radio show carried by the biggest rock stations across in Canada, a weekly national TV show on Aux-TV, and a variety of podcasts.
Along the way, he has interviewed the biggest names in rock (U2, Pearl Jam, Depeche Mode, Foo Fighters, Beastie Boys, Killers, Kings of Leon, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Joe Strummer, Green Day, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, the Cure, Beck, Blur, Nick Cave, Oasis, Trent Reznor, Courtney Love, Morrissey, New Order, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and countless others.)
He has also written four reference books on music, recorded audio books, appeared as music analyst on national and international TV, contributed to newspapers and magazines, writes a weekly music column for the Metro commuter papers, and speaks both at universities and colleges as well as for agencies and corporate business gatherings.
