http://www.archive.org/details/HowToHandleARope
Welcome to Episode 27 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I thought I'd put on some more garage rock today, since it's the holiday season and garage rock is like home-cooked, comfort food. As always, independent rock and roll is always the best, even though a few tracks were released on big labels, but not many.
A couple of highlights on the show is Bardo Pond's "Capillary River," off the Bufo Alverius album on Drunken Fish Records. There's also "Girl Violence" by The State, an Ann Arbor punk band and the single was mixed by Ron Asheton. There's great track by Norman OK band Broncho called "Psychitrist" and this album is rapidly becoming my favorite album of the recent past. It is a must have.
The playlist for today is: Swervedriver, Scream, Come, Rites of Spring, 18th Dye, Broncho, Queens of the Stone Age, Zen Guerilla, Zombie vs. Shark, Minor Threat, The Swirlies, Bardo Pond, Flying Saucer Attack, Mazzy Star, Lungfish, Jimi Hendrix, Articles of Faith, The State, The Zeros, MC5, Detroit Cobras, and Slant 6.
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Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Drop the Bomb
http://www.archive.org/details/DropTheBomb
Welcome to Episode 26 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I thought I'd play some R & B music today of various sorts, Acid Jazz, Jazz, Funk, Garage Psychedelia, Ska, and other stuff since the show has been too heavy on punk rock lately. There's a great confluence of R & B and rock on some of the tracks, so it fits the format of my show.
I decided to put on some James Blood Ulmer, a very influential acid jazz guitarist that needs to be more acknowledged in the rock community (he should have been included in Rolling Stone's recent "100 Greatest Guitar Player" poll!!). I also decided to put on some Fishbone, which was a great ska-rock band from Los Angeles, recently profiled as being influential in the New York Times. I put on some Don Byas, and couldn't resist a track of "Silver Bells" off the Johnny Mathis Christmas album, to get into the season's spirit. There's also a track from Hot Cold Sweat, one of the great D.C. go-go bands.
The playlist for today is: James Blood Ulmer, Beefeater, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Levine, Don Byas, Love Revisited, Fishbone, The Dirtbombs, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Johnny Mathis, The English Beat, Fenton Robinson, Jimi Hendrix, Charles Mingus, Desmond Dekkar, and James Blood Ulmer.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 26 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I thought I'd play some R & B music today of various sorts, Acid Jazz, Jazz, Funk, Garage Psychedelia, Ska, and other stuff since the show has been too heavy on punk rock lately. There's a great confluence of R & B and rock on some of the tracks, so it fits the format of my show.
I decided to put on some James Blood Ulmer, a very influential acid jazz guitarist that needs to be more acknowledged in the rock community (he should have been included in Rolling Stone's recent "100 Greatest Guitar Player" poll!!). I also decided to put on some Fishbone, which was a great ska-rock band from Los Angeles, recently profiled as being influential in the New York Times. I put on some Don Byas, and couldn't resist a track of "Silver Bells" off the Johnny Mathis Christmas album, to get into the season's spirit. There's also a track from Hot Cold Sweat, one of the great D.C. go-go bands.
The playlist for today is: James Blood Ulmer, Beefeater, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Levine, Don Byas, Love Revisited, Fishbone, The Dirtbombs, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Johnny Mathis, The English Beat, Fenton Robinson, Jimi Hendrix, Charles Mingus, Desmond Dekkar, and James Blood Ulmer.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Bad Fun
http://www.archive.org/details/BadFun
Welcome to Episode 25 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I've been playing a lot of gigs this fall with my band, Zombie vs. Shark, and I decided to put on some underground rock and roll, and some not so underground rock and roll, since we keep being booked with some over-dramatic, self-absorbed, and (rude) Lo-Fi type bands that have made it imperative to make rock and roll totally lame and boring, a mix between Wonder Bread and the Lawrence Welk Show (OK, maybe the silly Fleetwood Mac would suffice?). I've noticed that a lot of bands that we play gigs with are kind of over-into themselves and narcissistic. They also have so much stupid, ineffectual musical gear, it takes them 45 minutes to set up, and nothing is added to their sound (think the lame band, The Killers, gag!!). This is a bad trend for independent rock and roll, since the bedfock of rock and roll in Blues, R & B, and also Soul Music is sex; rhythms and grooves that make you shake your a - -! Your band either has "it," or not, period! So I thought I'd put some stuff on today that does just that.
In the 1990s, when "Lo-Fi" music reigned, it was very boring to go to shows that were not punk rock or garage rock gigs, since those Lo-Fi bands were boring from the sexy point-of-view, as many were just too serious for having fun. Stiffling was the word for it. It was really too serious, and that's why I tended to go to the Go-Go music joints in North Philly when I lived there; it was the only place to find some rhythmic music (for those of you that don't know what Go-Go music is, it's funk/R & B mixed with Black Power politics, with a dash of the emerging MC/DJ music back in the early 1970s).
I put some Meatmen on today, off the War of the Superbikes album, which was some kick-a - - rock and roll parody. There's also some Thee Hypnotics, the Cult's Electric, and Circus Lupus on here as well. I also put on some local Norman OK band like Shitty/Awesome and Brocho's album, Can't Get Past the Lips (that is, the way OK music is only connected to the Flaming Lips), which is one of the best albums I've ever heard in the underground (going back to 1980). OKC area garage rock bands are really the best in the country at the moment, with no major label sellouts, and oodles of vinyl releases. It's the next "scene" to be devoured by the vulture corporate record industry, mark my word on that. There's a track from the DC band Trouble Funk as well.
The playlist, in order, for today is: The Meatmen, Turbonegro, Thee Hypnotics, The Cult, Scream, MC5, Broncho, Straw Dogs, Junkyard, The Cult, Circus Lupus, Rocket from the Crypt, Detroit Cobras, The Make-Up, Slant 6, Truman's Water, Bardo Pond, Shitty/Awesome, Rocket from the Crypt, Green River, Reptile House, Lungfish, Egghunt, Pailhead, Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr., My Bloody Valentine, Girls vs. Boys, Edie Sedgewick, The Customs 5, Trouble Funk, Portishead, Killing Joke, Skull Defekts, Drive Like Jehu, Swervedriver, Embrace, The FU's, Sorry, Marginal Man, The Adolescents, TSOL, The Zeros, The Freeze, Volcano Suns, and The Cramps.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 25 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I've been playing a lot of gigs this fall with my band, Zombie vs. Shark, and I decided to put on some underground rock and roll, and some not so underground rock and roll, since we keep being booked with some over-dramatic, self-absorbed, and (rude) Lo-Fi type bands that have made it imperative to make rock and roll totally lame and boring, a mix between Wonder Bread and the Lawrence Welk Show (OK, maybe the silly Fleetwood Mac would suffice?). I've noticed that a lot of bands that we play gigs with are kind of over-into themselves and narcissistic. They also have so much stupid, ineffectual musical gear, it takes them 45 minutes to set up, and nothing is added to their sound (think the lame band, The Killers, gag!!). This is a bad trend for independent rock and roll, since the bedfock of rock and roll in Blues, R & B, and also Soul Music is sex; rhythms and grooves that make you shake your a - -! Your band either has "it," or not, period! So I thought I'd put some stuff on today that does just that.
In the 1990s, when "Lo-Fi" music reigned, it was very boring to go to shows that were not punk rock or garage rock gigs, since those Lo-Fi bands were boring from the sexy point-of-view, as many were just too serious for having fun. Stiffling was the word for it. It was really too serious, and that's why I tended to go to the Go-Go music joints in North Philly when I lived there; it was the only place to find some rhythmic music (for those of you that don't know what Go-Go music is, it's funk/R & B mixed with Black Power politics, with a dash of the emerging MC/DJ music back in the early 1970s).
I put some Meatmen on today, off the War of the Superbikes album, which was some kick-a - - rock and roll parody. There's also some Thee Hypnotics, the Cult's Electric, and Circus Lupus on here as well. I also put on some local Norman OK band like Shitty/Awesome and Brocho's album, Can't Get Past the Lips (that is, the way OK music is only connected to the Flaming Lips), which is one of the best albums I've ever heard in the underground (going back to 1980). OKC area garage rock bands are really the best in the country at the moment, with no major label sellouts, and oodles of vinyl releases. It's the next "scene" to be devoured by the vulture corporate record industry, mark my word on that. There's a track from the DC band Trouble Funk as well.
The playlist, in order, for today is: The Meatmen, Turbonegro, Thee Hypnotics, The Cult, Scream, MC5, Broncho, Straw Dogs, Junkyard, The Cult, Circus Lupus, Rocket from the Crypt, Detroit Cobras, The Make-Up, Slant 6, Truman's Water, Bardo Pond, Shitty/Awesome, Rocket from the Crypt, Green River, Reptile House, Lungfish, Egghunt, Pailhead, Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr., My Bloody Valentine, Girls vs. Boys, Edie Sedgewick, The Customs 5, Trouble Funk, Portishead, Killing Joke, Skull Defekts, Drive Like Jehu, Swervedriver, Embrace, The FU's, Sorry, Marginal Man, The Adolescents, TSOL, The Zeros, The Freeze, Volcano Suns, and The Cramps.
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Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Monday, November 7, 2011
World of Blue
http://www.archive.org/details/WorldOfBlue
Welcome to Episode 24 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to put on some mellow psychedelia and kind of dark Americana for today, as the fall is underway and winter is upon us at the moment. I start traveling this week for work, and also for my band's record release party in Norman, OK this weekend and wanted to squeeze another episode for November.
I put on a lot of Mark Lanegan, who along with Tom Waits, is probably one the greatest American composers, period, as well has his guitarist, Mike Johnson. I was talking to my friends Chris and Jeff this weekend, and it was agreed that both songwriters are in a category of their own. There is also a track by a Philadelphia band called Eltro, which was a project by my old friend Diana Prescott. I also put on a tune by Spain, which my old friend Evan Hartzell played drums for.
The playlist for today is: The Doors, Mazzy Star, Flying Saucer Attack, Eltro, Tone Ambient Metals, Spain, Mark Lanegan, Swervedriver, Come, Flying Saucer Attack, Mark Lanegan, Flying Saucer Attack, Mark Lanegan, Lush, Elysian Fields, Mike Johnson, Jessamine, and Mark Lanegan.
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Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 24 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to put on some mellow psychedelia and kind of dark Americana for today, as the fall is underway and winter is upon us at the moment. I start traveling this week for work, and also for my band's record release party in Norman, OK this weekend and wanted to squeeze another episode for November.
I put on a lot of Mark Lanegan, who along with Tom Waits, is probably one the greatest American composers, period, as well has his guitarist, Mike Johnson. I was talking to my friends Chris and Jeff this weekend, and it was agreed that both songwriters are in a category of their own. There is also a track by a Philadelphia band called Eltro, which was a project by my old friend Diana Prescott. I also put on a tune by Spain, which my old friend Evan Hartzell played drums for.
The playlist for today is: The Doors, Mazzy Star, Flying Saucer Attack, Eltro, Tone Ambient Metals, Spain, Mark Lanegan, Swervedriver, Come, Flying Saucer Attack, Mark Lanegan, Flying Saucer Attack, Mark Lanegan, Lush, Elysian Fields, Mike Johnson, Jessamine, and Mark Lanegan.
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Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Joyride
http://www.archive.org/details/Joyride_607
Welcome to Episode 23 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's getting a little exciting in politics in the USA lately, with the Occupy Wall Street protestors all over the country. So I thought I'd put on some indy punk today to follow-up on the mood of the nation. There's alot of Detroit garage rock on the episode today, since it has a music tradition of being politically aware, no doubt, due to the MC5 and other bands of the late 60s and early 70s, but also that some of the great community organizing, like Solidarity Detroit, originated in that city.
There's a lot of indy bands from Norman, OK where I used to live on the show. The local bands there are pressing vinyl consistently these days, and the OKC area has really good garage bands at the moment. I also put on a tune by The Zeros, who were a great late 70s punk band from San Diego. The singer, Javier Escobedo, comes from an important music family (Alejandro; and Mario, of The Dragons). Robert Lopez, or "El Vez" was the lead guitar player in the band. I also threw on some Adolescents, one of the great Orange County early punk bands that captured disaffected youth in the early 1980s.
The playlist for today is: The Adolescents, The Replacements, The Zeros, The MC5, Copperheads, Crown Imperial, Zombie vs. Shark, Shitty/Awesome, Stardeath and the White Dwarfs, Colourmusic, Debris', The Stooges, Skewbald, Void, The Faith, Jawbox, The Teen Idles, The Dirtbombs, Das Damen, The MC5, The Dream Syndicate, Broncho, The Detroit Cobras, Rocket From the Crypt, Turbonegro, Government Issue, Code of Honor, Kraut, Gray Matter, Scream, Scab Cadillac, The Delta 72, Government Issue, Second Wind, The Magentlemen, Zen Guerilla, Gray Matter, Live Skull, The Putters, and The MC5.
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Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 23 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's getting a little exciting in politics in the USA lately, with the Occupy Wall Street protestors all over the country. So I thought I'd put on some indy punk today to follow-up on the mood of the nation. There's alot of Detroit garage rock on the episode today, since it has a music tradition of being politically aware, no doubt, due to the MC5 and other bands of the late 60s and early 70s, but also that some of the great community organizing, like Solidarity Detroit, originated in that city.
There's a lot of indy bands from Norman, OK where I used to live on the show. The local bands there are pressing vinyl consistently these days, and the OKC area has really good garage bands at the moment. I also put on a tune by The Zeros, who were a great late 70s punk band from San Diego. The singer, Javier Escobedo, comes from an important music family (Alejandro; and Mario, of The Dragons). Robert Lopez, or "El Vez" was the lead guitar player in the band. I also threw on some Adolescents, one of the great Orange County early punk bands that captured disaffected youth in the early 1980s.
The playlist for today is: The Adolescents, The Replacements, The Zeros, The MC5, Copperheads, Crown Imperial, Zombie vs. Shark, Shitty/Awesome, Stardeath and the White Dwarfs, Colourmusic, Debris', The Stooges, Skewbald, Void, The Faith, Jawbox, The Teen Idles, The Dirtbombs, Das Damen, The MC5, The Dream Syndicate, Broncho, The Detroit Cobras, Rocket From the Crypt, Turbonegro, Government Issue, Code of Honor, Kraut, Gray Matter, Scream, Scab Cadillac, The Delta 72, Government Issue, Second Wind, The Magentlemen, Zen Guerilla, Gray Matter, Live Skull, The Putters, and The MC5.
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Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Down on the Street
http://www.archive.org/details/DownOnTheStreet
Welcome to Episode 22 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I've had a couple of people and also some friends ask where "Doc Rockavoy" came from. I explained it on the first episode. When I was a college professor in Stillwater, OK, my friend Brad Hayes, of Sharkbait Mag/Smash Skates, came up with the nickname while we were skateboarding alot. So I thought it would be funny to call my podcast by that name, since the bands on the podcast are like an education in early punk rock and indy music history.
I'll keep it brief, but I just read two band biographies recently, one of the MC5 and one of The Stooges, by Brent Callwood, and published by Wayne State University Press (in Detriot). I highly recommend them, and I decided to put on those bands' tunes today. There's alot of OKC garage rock on the show as well.
The playlist for today is: The Stooges, The MC5, The Dragons, American Ruse, JP5, The Goats, The Replacements, Sonic Youth, Channels, The Fluid, Splendorbin, 999, The Routineers, The Catheters, The Breeders, Queens of the Stone Age, The Bam Band, Mudhoney, Flipper, Johnny Thunders, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Disposables, Your Mom, The Meatmen, El Dorado, L7, and The Stooges.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 22 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I've had a couple of people and also some friends ask where "Doc Rockavoy" came from. I explained it on the first episode. When I was a college professor in Stillwater, OK, my friend Brad Hayes, of Sharkbait Mag/Smash Skates, came up with the nickname while we were skateboarding alot. So I thought it would be funny to call my podcast by that name, since the bands on the podcast are like an education in early punk rock and indy music history.
I'll keep it brief, but I just read two band biographies recently, one of the MC5 and one of The Stooges, by Brent Callwood, and published by Wayne State University Press (in Detriot). I highly recommend them, and I decided to put on those bands' tunes today. There's alot of OKC garage rock on the show as well.
The playlist for today is: The Stooges, The MC5, The Dragons, American Ruse, JP5, The Goats, The Replacements, Sonic Youth, Channels, The Fluid, Splendorbin, 999, The Routineers, The Catheters, The Breeders, Queens of the Stone Age, The Bam Band, Mudhoney, Flipper, Johnny Thunders, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Disposables, Your Mom, The Meatmen, El Dorado, L7, and The Stooges.
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Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Class War
http://www.archive.org/details/ClassWar
Welcome of Episode 21 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to play alot of politically-energized punk rock from my collection today, as the economy sinks into a jobless recovery, and probably a 10-year cycle of very low growth and, thus, future opportunity (according to our leading economists). With high unemployment at 9.1% (thanks to Bush II), an ever-rising consumer price index, and a 30-year stagnation of wages and salaries, I thought it would be good to reflect through music some of the earlier musical commentary on the beginning of our current era. Young people all over the country are voicing their concern for the future this past year, and not through the Tea Party......but through progressive political organizations
I decided to kick off the show with Code of Honor's 45" single, What Are You Gonna Do?, which is a great anthem of disaffected youth from the Reagan Era. There is a great cover of The Dils "Class War" by Mission of Burma, a song that needs to be covered more often by punk rock bands. I threw on some Wayne Kramer, who has been out touring and playing gigs to support workers from the recent attacks on the American working class. And I threw on some Queens of the Stone Age tunes that reflect on the beginning of the Bush II era that laid the foundation to our current economic recession and imperialist quagmire in the Middle East.
In one sense, the show highlights our current economic and cultural Kondratiev Cycle. For those apolitical hipsters and inane "epistemological radicals" (part of the petit bourgeois entrepreneurship formations of the 1990s American academy), let the show hit you in the face like a home foreclosure, or your lost salary due to budget cuts. It's time for action and not talk!
The playlist for today is: Code of Honor, Government Issue, Mission of Burma, Lungfish, Wayne Kramer, Fugazi, State of Alert, MIA, Scream, Queens of the Stone Age, Kraut, Beefeater, Minor Threat, The Minutemen, Government Issue, Articles of Faith, Artificial Peace, The Faith, Turbonegro, Bad Religion, Unrest, Rocket From the Crypt, Queens of the Stone Age, and Killing Joke.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome of Episode 21 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to play alot of politically-energized punk rock from my collection today, as the economy sinks into a jobless recovery, and probably a 10-year cycle of very low growth and, thus, future opportunity (according to our leading economists). With high unemployment at 9.1% (thanks to Bush II), an ever-rising consumer price index, and a 30-year stagnation of wages and salaries, I thought it would be good to reflect through music some of the earlier musical commentary on the beginning of our current era. Young people all over the country are voicing their concern for the future this past year, and not through the Tea Party......but through progressive political organizations
I decided to kick off the show with Code of Honor's 45" single, What Are You Gonna Do?, which is a great anthem of disaffected youth from the Reagan Era. There is a great cover of The Dils "Class War" by Mission of Burma, a song that needs to be covered more often by punk rock bands. I threw on some Wayne Kramer, who has been out touring and playing gigs to support workers from the recent attacks on the American working class. And I threw on some Queens of the Stone Age tunes that reflect on the beginning of the Bush II era that laid the foundation to our current economic recession and imperialist quagmire in the Middle East.
In one sense, the show highlights our current economic and cultural Kondratiev Cycle. For those apolitical hipsters and inane "epistemological radicals" (part of the petit bourgeois entrepreneurship formations of the 1990s American academy), let the show hit you in the face like a home foreclosure, or your lost salary due to budget cuts. It's time for action and not talk!
The playlist for today is: Code of Honor, Government Issue, Mission of Burma, Lungfish, Wayne Kramer, Fugazi, State of Alert, MIA, Scream, Queens of the Stone Age, Kraut, Beefeater, Minor Threat, The Minutemen, Government Issue, Articles of Faith, Artificial Peace, The Faith, Turbonegro, Bad Religion, Unrest, Rocket From the Crypt, Queens of the Stone Age, and Killing Joke.
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Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Low Pressure Systems
http://www.archive.org/details/LowPressureSystems
Welcome to Episode 20 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to cue alot of psychedelia and space rock today, since my mood has been somewhat somber the past month or so. Many friends and family have passed or been very ill recently and I've been somewhat down. Through it all, there's been some new friends in my hometown that have kept my spirits up, and I can't thank them enough for their warmth and worldliness. I hope I can return the gestures. Summer disappeared quickly earlier this month, and fall temps have set the stage for the oncoming winter....
Some of the highlights on the show is a rare live 12" LP by Happy Go Licky, which was basically the band Rites of Spring after it broke up doing some more experimental-type noise rock. I also decided to put on some Experimental Audio Research, which was a collaboration headed by Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3, with Kevin Shields from MBV on some tracks. There is also a track from Mike Johnson, who played with Dinosaur Jr. and composed many of the Mark Lanegan albums with his great and spooky guitar work. Perfect tunes for the upcoming holidays this fall.
The show is a bit over 120 minutes. The playlist is: 18th Dye, Mazzy Star, Flying Saucer Attack, Opal, Bardo Pond, Lungfish, Flying Saucer Attack, Velvet Underground, Happy Go Licky, Debris', Dream Syndicate, Low, Flying Saucer Attack, Experimental Audio Research, Lungfish, Low, Experimental Audio Research, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Astronauts, Tom Waits, The Smiths, Mike Johnson, Government Issue, Soundgarden, Bardo Pond, Killing Joke, Hot Snakes, Broncho, and Zombie vs. Shark.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 20 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to cue alot of psychedelia and space rock today, since my mood has been somewhat somber the past month or so. Many friends and family have passed or been very ill recently and I've been somewhat down. Through it all, there's been some new friends in my hometown that have kept my spirits up, and I can't thank them enough for their warmth and worldliness. I hope I can return the gestures. Summer disappeared quickly earlier this month, and fall temps have set the stage for the oncoming winter....
Some of the highlights on the show is a rare live 12" LP by Happy Go Licky, which was basically the band Rites of Spring after it broke up doing some more experimental-type noise rock. I also decided to put on some Experimental Audio Research, which was a collaboration headed by Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3, with Kevin Shields from MBV on some tracks. There is also a track from Mike Johnson, who played with Dinosaur Jr. and composed many of the Mark Lanegan albums with his great and spooky guitar work. Perfect tunes for the upcoming holidays this fall.
The show is a bit over 120 minutes. The playlist is: 18th Dye, Mazzy Star, Flying Saucer Attack, Opal, Bardo Pond, Lungfish, Flying Saucer Attack, Velvet Underground, Happy Go Licky, Debris', Dream Syndicate, Low, Flying Saucer Attack, Experimental Audio Research, Lungfish, Low, Experimental Audio Research, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Astronauts, Tom Waits, The Smiths, Mike Johnson, Government Issue, Soundgarden, Bardo Pond, Killing Joke, Hot Snakes, Broncho, and Zombie vs. Shark.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Friday, September 16, 2011
Try Me Out Some Time
Welcome to Episode 19 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's been another weird month again, as I've been out of town and haven't been able to put up a new show recently. I was down rehearsing with my band in Norman, OK to write new material for a second full-length album over Labor Day, and managed to avoid college football hooliganism and all that goes with it. Recharged with hours of jamming with my bandmates, I thought I'd put on a bunch of punk and garage rock again, mixed in with some weird new wavey stuff, or underground pop music.
I decided to lead off with the Oklahoma band, Broncho, whose album is pretty rad and on Guestroom Records, which is the label run by the record store in Norman. If you get a chance to see their video of the song, "Try Me out Some Time," you'll see Ron Haas, our drummer, as the college professor in the video. Very funny and awesome, it's on YouTube. I put a track on from our new single, "Dogs and Guns," a left-wing country rock anthem about not getting along America. There's a video of that on YouTube as well, so check it out.
Other highlights on the show is a track from Kraut's first album, with Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols on guitar. Of course I had to play Code of Honor, and be sure to follow through on the recommendations of their monologue before the song. I had to throw on Junkyard's "Life Sentence," since Brian Baker is the best punk/rock guitarist in the world, and it's a fatalistic rock tune and that's what rock is all about.
There's a track from a very weird band called 9353 from Washington DC. If you can tell me which band the guitar player was in before 9353, I'll send you a free Zombie vs. Shark single. And you won't find the answer on Wikipedia! Good luck.....
The playlist is: Broncho, Turbonegro, Rocket from the Crypt, Fugazi, Lungfish, Edie Sedgewick, Zombie vs. Shark, The Dirtbombs, Das Damen, My Bloody Valentine, Lungfish, The Damned, Kraut, Code of Honor, Sick Pleasure, Scream, Hot Snakes, DYS, Nation of Ulysses, Kyuss, The Cult, Junkyard, Fire Party, The Detroit Cobras, 9353, Electric Love Muffin, Sonic Youth, Scream, Killing Joke, Lungfish, Dream Syndicate.
We're having a record release party for the Dogs and Guns/Wunderkind single at The Opolis in Norman, OK on November 12, with The Escatones and John Wayne's Bitches. Be sure to come out and see the show!
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Calle de Dolor y Otros Olvidados
http://www.archive.org/details/CalleDeDolorYOtrosOlvidados
Welcome to Episode 18 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to do a short show of only 65 minutes today, of country music and other music influenced by country music. Some people don't like country music, since people assume it is music of poor white people who are conservative, and is associated only with the Nashville music, corporate dream machinery.
However, country music is a blend of southern blues music from African American musicians, along with poor white people's folk music that mixed throughout the South and Southern Plains from the 1800s to the 1950s. There's even this brand of country music in California's Central Valley and Los Angeles that dates from the southern Black and Okie migration from 1920 to 1945. The origins of country music is closer in spirit to class consciousness, than any other factor. Listen to the lyrics: it's about mean bosses, working two jobs and not getting by, and of unobtainable dreams due to poverty and lack of privilege. Let's not forget that fact, and note what is probably "country-lite" being played on the radio today. Sorry folks, it just ain't country.
Some of the highlights on the show is Sonny Rollins jazz record, Way Out West, where he covers country standards with his quartet. There's also a Hank Williams tune off a weird 1950s "Country Hits" record I found in a thirft store. I decided to kick off the show with an old friends' project, called Slo-Mo, the album Novelty. It's Mike Brenner, from Philly, with D.J. Dozia, a colleague of King Britt. It's really wild stuff, just like the origins of country music.
The playlist for today is: Slo-Mo, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, The Cramps, Willie Nelson, Come, Hank Williams, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Patton, Buck Owens, Charlie Rich, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lucero, Come, Chris Brokaw, Mazzy Star, Come, The Smiths, Calexico, Friends of Dean Martinez, and The Gardes.
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Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 18 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to do a short show of only 65 minutes today, of country music and other music influenced by country music. Some people don't like country music, since people assume it is music of poor white people who are conservative, and is associated only with the Nashville music, corporate dream machinery.
However, country music is a blend of southern blues music from African American musicians, along with poor white people's folk music that mixed throughout the South and Southern Plains from the 1800s to the 1950s. There's even this brand of country music in California's Central Valley and Los Angeles that dates from the southern Black and Okie migration from 1920 to 1945. The origins of country music is closer in spirit to class consciousness, than any other factor. Listen to the lyrics: it's about mean bosses, working two jobs and not getting by, and of unobtainable dreams due to poverty and lack of privilege. Let's not forget that fact, and note what is probably "country-lite" being played on the radio today. Sorry folks, it just ain't country.
Some of the highlights on the show is Sonny Rollins jazz record, Way Out West, where he covers country standards with his quartet. There's also a Hank Williams tune off a weird 1950s "Country Hits" record I found in a thirft store. I decided to kick off the show with an old friends' project, called Slo-Mo, the album Novelty. It's Mike Brenner, from Philly, with D.J. Dozia, a colleague of King Britt. It's really wild stuff, just like the origins of country music.
The playlist for today is: Slo-Mo, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, The Cramps, Willie Nelson, Come, Hank Williams, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Patton, Buck Owens, Charlie Rich, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lucero, Come, Chris Brokaw, Mazzy Star, Come, The Smiths, Calexico, Friends of Dean Martinez, and The Gardes.
Thanks for tuning in!!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Sunday, August 14, 2011
45 Revolutions Per Lifetime
http://www.archive.org/details/45RevolutionsPerLifetime
Welcome to Episode 17 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I took a week off the podcast, since the heatwave broke and the weather is so nice you can actually go outside. While I was confined to the house, I read the Sunday New York Times more carefully than I usually do, and read this inane article about "Generation X" and "nostalgia." You can pretty much expect that a pop culture writer for the NYT doesn't know much about underground culture stuff, since they all come from Ivy League journalism programs. The only thing I know about "Generation X" was that they were a great British punk band, and that it's a corporate marketing niche for people between 33-44. I didn't have a TV for 15 years, so I never saw the movie Singles, I just read about it in a magazine once?
The writer commented on pop culture recycling, and how this generation is recycling its young adult years, evidenced by the reunion of bands like the Pixies and whatnot, and being into pinball machines and old video games like Space Invaders. I thought it was pretty lame, since it focused mostly on music, and the writer seemed to me the kind that went to boarding school, then an Ivy League College, and learned who Richard Hell and Television were in 2003 or something like that.
There was alot of music published between 1982 and 1991 that this writer manque doesn't know about, since they were probably into either Men Without Hats or Bon Jovi, or some combination of Big Country and A-Ha. Well, I decided I had to roll out the rest of my singles collection to make sure to distinguish between commercial "nostaglia" as this writer would have it, and real uncommodified punk and garage rock. As Craig Steyck said about commercial skateboards circa 1977, "Dogtown wasn't interested in garbagey generic skateboards, it was about innovation." I feel the same about non-commercially published music. Innovative sounds are like artistic modernism, they break new ground. All these albums on the podcast today kind of do that, and nothing has come along since, they are all still viable projects with plenty of space for any younger takers to realize the project.
45 Revolutions Per Minute, and more to come!!
The one highlight today is a 30 minute tune by Bardo Pond, on a split 12" single with Subarachnoid Space, published by an indy label in Australia. There's alot of San Diego and Philly indy punk as well.
The playlist for today is: Jodie Foster's Army, Meat Puppets, Minor Threat, The Putters, Zen Guerilla, Contra Guerra, The King James Version, POD (the Philly one), Pavement, Contra Guerra, Edsel, Emma, Shudder to Think, Reflex From Pain, Rocket From the Crypt, Jawbox, The State, Mothra, Toxic Reasons, Bardo Pond, Swiz, Rocket From the Crypt, Slant 6, The Conrads, Chincilla, Pee, Sweep the Leg Johnny, Helicopter, Government Issue, Bardo Pond, Roy Montgomery, Bardo Pond, Strapping Fieldhands, Title Tracks, Mike Johnson, Ashtabula, and Volcano Suns.
A whopping 135 minutes!
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 17 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I took a week off the podcast, since the heatwave broke and the weather is so nice you can actually go outside. While I was confined to the house, I read the Sunday New York Times more carefully than I usually do, and read this inane article about "Generation X" and "nostalgia." You can pretty much expect that a pop culture writer for the NYT doesn't know much about underground culture stuff, since they all come from Ivy League journalism programs. The only thing I know about "Generation X" was that they were a great British punk band, and that it's a corporate marketing niche for people between 33-44. I didn't have a TV for 15 years, so I never saw the movie Singles, I just read about it in a magazine once?
The writer commented on pop culture recycling, and how this generation is recycling its young adult years, evidenced by the reunion of bands like the Pixies and whatnot, and being into pinball machines and old video games like Space Invaders. I thought it was pretty lame, since it focused mostly on music, and the writer seemed to me the kind that went to boarding school, then an Ivy League College, and learned who Richard Hell and Television were in 2003 or something like that.
There was alot of music published between 1982 and 1991 that this writer manque doesn't know about, since they were probably into either Men Without Hats or Bon Jovi, or some combination of Big Country and A-Ha. Well, I decided I had to roll out the rest of my singles collection to make sure to distinguish between commercial "nostaglia" as this writer would have it, and real uncommodified punk and garage rock. As Craig Steyck said about commercial skateboards circa 1977, "Dogtown wasn't interested in garbagey generic skateboards, it was about innovation." I feel the same about non-commercially published music. Innovative sounds are like artistic modernism, they break new ground. All these albums on the podcast today kind of do that, and nothing has come along since, they are all still viable projects with plenty of space for any younger takers to realize the project.
45 Revolutions Per Minute, and more to come!!
The one highlight today is a 30 minute tune by Bardo Pond, on a split 12" single with Subarachnoid Space, published by an indy label in Australia. There's alot of San Diego and Philly indy punk as well.
The playlist for today is: Jodie Foster's Army, Meat Puppets, Minor Threat, The Putters, Zen Guerilla, Contra Guerra, The King James Version, POD (the Philly one), Pavement, Contra Guerra, Edsel, Emma, Shudder to Think, Reflex From Pain, Rocket From the Crypt, Jawbox, The State, Mothra, Toxic Reasons, Bardo Pond, Swiz, Rocket From the Crypt, Slant 6, The Conrads, Chincilla, Pee, Sweep the Leg Johnny, Helicopter, Government Issue, Bardo Pond, Roy Montgomery, Bardo Pond, Strapping Fieldhands, Title Tracks, Mike Johnson, Ashtabula, and Volcano Suns.
A whopping 135 minutes!
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Summer Fun and Bubblegum
http://www.archive.org/details/SummerFunAndBubblegum
Welcome to Episode 16 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I thought I would play a bunch of 80s bubblegum pop, interspersed with some punk and gloomy solo artists like Mark Lanegan and Mike Johnson, and also English shoegazer bands, since it's the summertime and brutally hot lately on the Great Plains. I originally started the podcast in the wintertime, since the brutally cold weather had us confined to the house. Now it's too hot to go outside, with heat indexes around 115 degree! No wonder Nebraska fiction is so psychically gloomy, this is an indoor environment for certain.....
One of the highlights on the show is a rare Killing Joke 10" LP called "Ha Ha," recorded in Toronto in 1982. I put a couple of tracks from the band Lush, which had a cool punky sound, but never got as big as some of the other noise rock bands in England at the time.
The playlist for today, in order: The Go-Go's, The Snakes, Debris', The Cramps, The Stray Cats, The Beach Boys, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Police, The Kaleidescope, Television, Turbonegro, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Killing Joke, One Last Wish, Portishead, REM, Big Star, Emmylous Harris, Mike Johnson, Mark Lanegan, The Police, The Cure, The Pretenders, The Smiths, Lush, My Bloody Valentine, Friends of Dean Martinez, and Lush.
Thanks for tuning in!!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 16 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I thought I would play a bunch of 80s bubblegum pop, interspersed with some punk and gloomy solo artists like Mark Lanegan and Mike Johnson, and also English shoegazer bands, since it's the summertime and brutally hot lately on the Great Plains. I originally started the podcast in the wintertime, since the brutally cold weather had us confined to the house. Now it's too hot to go outside, with heat indexes around 115 degree! No wonder Nebraska fiction is so psychically gloomy, this is an indoor environment for certain.....
One of the highlights on the show is a rare Killing Joke 10" LP called "Ha Ha," recorded in Toronto in 1982. I put a couple of tracks from the band Lush, which had a cool punky sound, but never got as big as some of the other noise rock bands in England at the time.
The playlist for today, in order: The Go-Go's, The Snakes, Debris', The Cramps, The Stray Cats, The Beach Boys, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Police, The Kaleidescope, Television, Turbonegro, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Killing Joke, One Last Wish, Portishead, REM, Big Star, Emmylous Harris, Mike Johnson, Mark Lanegan, The Police, The Cure, The Pretenders, The Smiths, Lush, My Bloody Valentine, Friends of Dean Martinez, and Lush.
Thanks for tuning in!!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Trance States in Tongues
http://www.archive.org/details/TranceStatesInTongues
Welcome to Episode 15 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! With the intense heat wave plaguing the country, I decided to play a bunch of sonic, repetitive guitar music ranging from psychedelia to noise rock to coincide with the daze that most people are likely experiencing the last month or so. I've walked around Lincoln in a heat stupor for weeks now. For the homebound, I hope the show will give everyone something to do.
And don't forget to add each and every one of these albums to your record collection!
Some of the highlights on today's show are a bunch of E.P.'s and singles by The Swirlies, Swervedriver, and My Bloody Valentine from my record collection. There's not a lot of copies of them circulating around, and most people who bought these bands' full-length L.P.'s don't necessarily have these E.P.s. I put two, long tracks from the Harmony of the Spheres album, which features Flying Saucer Attack, Jessamine, Roy Montgomery, Bardo Pond, and Loren M. Connors. It's kind of rare, and I hope people will dig it.
There's also a great track by The Gardes, from Ponca City, Oklahoma, and the garagey demo track of "Fall" by Dag Nasty, which was the recording before Wig Out at Denkos, which I like much better since it sounds looser and more rackety. There a live track of the Dream Syndicate on here, too.
The show is a whopping 165 minutes! The playlist today, in order, is: Swervedriver, Mercury Rev, Swirlies, My Bloody Valentine, Zen Guerilla, Lush, Come, Propellerheads, Dream Syndicate, Calexico, Flying Saucer Attack, Jessamine, The Gardes, Swervedriver, Dag Nasty, Rountineers, Sponge, Snowpony, Flying Saucer Attack, Swervedriver, My Bloody Valentine, Come, Mazzy Star, Mark Lanegan, Flying Saucer Attack, Swervedriver, Lush, Jane's Addiction, The Doors, and Swervedriver.
If someone guesses which album the show is named after today, I'll send you a free Zombie vs. Shark album and a t-shirt, just send me your address.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 15 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! With the intense heat wave plaguing the country, I decided to play a bunch of sonic, repetitive guitar music ranging from psychedelia to noise rock to coincide with the daze that most people are likely experiencing the last month or so. I've walked around Lincoln in a heat stupor for weeks now. For the homebound, I hope the show will give everyone something to do.
And don't forget to add each and every one of these albums to your record collection!
Some of the highlights on today's show are a bunch of E.P.'s and singles by The Swirlies, Swervedriver, and My Bloody Valentine from my record collection. There's not a lot of copies of them circulating around, and most people who bought these bands' full-length L.P.'s don't necessarily have these E.P.s. I put two, long tracks from the Harmony of the Spheres album, which features Flying Saucer Attack, Jessamine, Roy Montgomery, Bardo Pond, and Loren M. Connors. It's kind of rare, and I hope people will dig it.
There's also a great track by The Gardes, from Ponca City, Oklahoma, and the garagey demo track of "Fall" by Dag Nasty, which was the recording before Wig Out at Denkos, which I like much better since it sounds looser and more rackety. There a live track of the Dream Syndicate on here, too.
The show is a whopping 165 minutes! The playlist today, in order, is: Swervedriver, Mercury Rev, Swirlies, My Bloody Valentine, Zen Guerilla, Lush, Come, Propellerheads, Dream Syndicate, Calexico, Flying Saucer Attack, Jessamine, The Gardes, Swervedriver, Dag Nasty, Rountineers, Sponge, Snowpony, Flying Saucer Attack, Swervedriver, My Bloody Valentine, Come, Mazzy Star, Mark Lanegan, Flying Saucer Attack, Swervedriver, Lush, Jane's Addiction, The Doors, and Swervedriver.
If someone guesses which album the show is named after today, I'll send you a free Zombie vs. Shark album and a t-shirt, just send me your address.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Nancy Boys, Your Mom, and Other Debris'
http://www.archive.org/details/NancyBoysYourMomAndOtherDebris
Welcome to Episode 14 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! Today I decided to play a bunch of old punk rock, and weird new wave stuff, and also shoegazer noise music. Now that I'm on episode 14, I want to remind listeners of one thing:
BE SURE TO ALSO BUY THESE INDY ALBUMS, AND ADD THEM TO YOUR RECORD COLLECTION!!!
The recording artists would appreciate it!
Some notable spins on the podcast are two tracks from the Chickasha, Oklahoma band Debris', who were a pioneering 1970s punk/new band that kind of defies musical categories. I recommend purchasing their album, Static Disposal, on Anopheles Records. Another great spin today is by the Norman, Oklahoma band Your Mom, which urges pundits on T.V. to stop talking. Who can argue with that?
Two other notable track are the "Sellout Song" by Minor Threat, the mysterious "5th track" on side two of Out Step. There is a cover of "American Band" by The FUs at the end of the second side of My America. This album was produced by legendary Lou Giordano, who brought forth many Boston punk and hardcore/post-hardcore bands.
I've been away on vacation, finally, this summer and I'll try to keep the shows regular from here on out.
I've decided to not have a podcast microphone at all, so this is last mention about it!
The playlist for today, in order, is: Debris', Untouchables, Dream Syndicate, The Minutemen, State of Alert, Green River, Sick Pleasure, Group Image, The Damned, Killing Joke, My Bloody Valentine, Sorry, Void, Embrace, Drive Like Jehu, French Toast, Minor Threat, Black Eyes, Lungfish, Swervedriver, Dinosaur, Jr., Reptile House, Keith Levene, Jimi Hendrix, Beefeater, The FUs, Dag Nasty, Hot Snakes, Ignition, Your Mom, Spacemen 3, Swirlies, Skull Defekts, Edie Sedgewick, Kraut, Q and Not U, Husker Du, and Debris'.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 14 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! Today I decided to play a bunch of old punk rock, and weird new wave stuff, and also shoegazer noise music. Now that I'm on episode 14, I want to remind listeners of one thing:
BE SURE TO ALSO BUY THESE INDY ALBUMS, AND ADD THEM TO YOUR RECORD COLLECTION!!!
The recording artists would appreciate it!
Some notable spins on the podcast are two tracks from the Chickasha, Oklahoma band Debris', who were a pioneering 1970s punk/new band that kind of defies musical categories. I recommend purchasing their album, Static Disposal, on Anopheles Records. Another great spin today is by the Norman, Oklahoma band Your Mom, which urges pundits on T.V. to stop talking. Who can argue with that?
Two other notable track are the "Sellout Song" by Minor Threat, the mysterious "5th track" on side two of Out Step. There is a cover of "American Band" by The FUs at the end of the second side of My America. This album was produced by legendary Lou Giordano, who brought forth many Boston punk and hardcore/post-hardcore bands.
I've been away on vacation, finally, this summer and I'll try to keep the shows regular from here on out.
I've decided to not have a podcast microphone at all, so this is last mention about it!
The playlist for today, in order, is: Debris', Untouchables, Dream Syndicate, The Minutemen, State of Alert, Green River, Sick Pleasure, Group Image, The Damned, Killing Joke, My Bloody Valentine, Sorry, Void, Embrace, Drive Like Jehu, French Toast, Minor Threat, Black Eyes, Lungfish, Swervedriver, Dinosaur, Jr., Reptile House, Keith Levene, Jimi Hendrix, Beefeater, The FUs, Dag Nasty, Hot Snakes, Ignition, Your Mom, Spacemen 3, Swirlies, Skull Defekts, Edie Sedgewick, Kraut, Q and Not U, Husker Du, and Debris'.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, June 25, 2011
North of the Sunset
http://www.archive.org/details/NorthOfTheSunset
Welcome to Episode 13 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's been a strange week weather and otherwise, so I thought I'd play some jazz and reggae/ska/dub records. I enjoyed peeling into this side of my record collection that I don't listen to often. After having lived in Philadelphia for ten years, there's a lot of Afro-Carribbean music crosscurrenting through that music scene in so many ways, it's almost a civic duty as a Philadelphian to have this stuff in your record collection. It's good medicine for where I live.
Some highlights on the show are Charles Mingus, one of America's greatest composers, as well Linton Kwesi Johnson, the writer, poet, and music activist. I decided to throw something from the first English Beat album, which was very good.
Still no podcast microphone......!
The playlist for today, in order, is: Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, The Lounge Lizards, Sonny Rollins, Oscar Peterson Trio, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Miles Davis, Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Flames (guess who they really are!), The English Beat, LKJ, The Melodians, Harry Belafonte, Pete Fountain, Miles Davis, and Stan Getz Quartet (live).
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 13 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's been a strange week weather and otherwise, so I thought I'd play some jazz and reggae/ska/dub records. I enjoyed peeling into this side of my record collection that I don't listen to often. After having lived in Philadelphia for ten years, there's a lot of Afro-Carribbean music crosscurrenting through that music scene in so many ways, it's almost a civic duty as a Philadelphian to have this stuff in your record collection. It's good medicine for where I live.
Some highlights on the show are Charles Mingus, one of America's greatest composers, as well Linton Kwesi Johnson, the writer, poet, and music activist. I decided to throw something from the first English Beat album, which was very good.
Still no podcast microphone......!
The playlist for today, in order, is: Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, The Lounge Lizards, Sonny Rollins, Oscar Peterson Trio, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Miles Davis, Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Flames (guess who they really are!), The English Beat, LKJ, The Melodians, Harry Belafonte, Pete Fountain, Miles Davis, and Stan Getz Quartet (live).
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Volcano Trash
http://www.archive.org/details/VolcanoTrash
Welcome to Episode 12 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! In trying to rotate some new material into the podcast for today, I included some of the "scum punk" and "trash punk" records in my collection, records I don't usually listen to, but have archival value as documents of the underground music scene. For example, I included Fear for this episode, but didn't like them at all in the early 1980s and never went to their shows. All my friends thought they were "sell-outs," and they tended to attract all the jocks and other goons that had just been introduced to punk rock. I felt the same way about Black Flag and other big bands like the Dead Kennedy's. I like those bands, but their shows had too much violence, so I tended to listen to the more musical or political bands in the punk underground.
I included a couple of tracks from some Philly bands, The Dead Milkmen and the Serial Killers. Also, there's a song by Spacemen 3 and my friend Eric LaValle gave me that album, which was on Bomp Records on clear vinyl. I couldn't resist to put on "Strutter" off the Kiss Alive! album, kind of a period piece.
I still don't have a podcast microphone, and probably won't get one anytime soon!
The playlist for today is: M.I.A., Beefeater, Fear, S.N.F.U., Embrace, The FU's, Gray Matter, Die Kreuzen, Turbonegro, Live Skull, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Magazine, The Dead Milkmen, Serial Killers, Spacemen 3, The Velvet Underground, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Unrest, Kiss, Rocket From the Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, Skull Defekts, The Lemonheads, Husker Du, Fugazi, The Smiths, The High Back Chairs, Slant 6, Lucero, Band of Susans, and Swervedriver.
Thanks for tuning in, and enjoy!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 12 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! In trying to rotate some new material into the podcast for today, I included some of the "scum punk" and "trash punk" records in my collection, records I don't usually listen to, but have archival value as documents of the underground music scene. For example, I included Fear for this episode, but didn't like them at all in the early 1980s and never went to their shows. All my friends thought they were "sell-outs," and they tended to attract all the jocks and other goons that had just been introduced to punk rock. I felt the same way about Black Flag and other big bands like the Dead Kennedy's. I like those bands, but their shows had too much violence, so I tended to listen to the more musical or political bands in the punk underground.
I included a couple of tracks from some Philly bands, The Dead Milkmen and the Serial Killers. Also, there's a song by Spacemen 3 and my friend Eric LaValle gave me that album, which was on Bomp Records on clear vinyl. I couldn't resist to put on "Strutter" off the Kiss Alive! album, kind of a period piece.
I still don't have a podcast microphone, and probably won't get one anytime soon!
The playlist for today is: M.I.A., Beefeater, Fear, S.N.F.U., Embrace, The FU's, Gray Matter, Die Kreuzen, Turbonegro, Live Skull, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Magazine, The Dead Milkmen, Serial Killers, Spacemen 3, The Velvet Underground, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Unrest, Kiss, Rocket From the Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, Skull Defekts, The Lemonheads, Husker Du, Fugazi, The Smiths, The High Back Chairs, Slant 6, Lucero, Band of Susans, and Swervedriver.
Thanks for tuning in, and enjoy!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Me, Willie, My Dog, Thalia, My Cat, and Twangy Guitars
Welcome to Episode 11 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I've missed a couple of weeks lately, mostly just working on my house during the weekends while Tab and Spence are away. It has been a little boring with them away, so I've tried to keep myself busy. A couple of weeks ago, my dad sent me a package with a bunch of Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard 7" 45s, so I put a couple on for today. The show has a lot of twangy guitar music, jangly, distorted, ringing, and just plain "twangy." Maybe it's because I've been talking to my dog and cat for the last 8 weeks, primarily, and need to get out more often.
There's a track by an old Philly band, The Strapping Fieldhands, since I had their old single. There's also a track by my band, Zombie vs. Shark, called "Cold Machine," which will appear on a split single next fall with one of our Norman band friends. It's the final mix, and the masters should be back soon.
The playlist for today is: Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, The Astronauts, Strapping Fieldhands, Come, Baker Street Irregulars, The Detroit Cobras, Volcano Suns, Zombie vs. Shark, Chris Brokaw, Mazzy Star, The Smiths, Fire Party, Scream, Tom Waits, Trouble Funk, Beastie Boys, Q and not U, The Cult, TSOL, Flying Saucer Attack, My Bloody Valentime, Flying Saucer Attack, Bardo Pond, and Lungfish.
Above is an old photo of Willie playing with my old band, Dona Sonora.
Thanks for tuning in, and see you next week!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Guitars May Bring the Sun
http://www.archive.org/details/GuitarsMayBringTheSun
Welcome to Episode 10 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Garage! This spring, the whole country seems to be inundated by late, wintry weather: rain, tornadoes, May snow, and just torrentially intense weather. I decided to call up the guitar gods and see if some high-energy garage rock and rhythmic underground music may bring the sun. I'm not feeling very editorial today, so I'll brief and hope the sun and warm weather may come out where you're at.
I still don't have a microphone, and like it very much!
The playlist today, in order, is: Zen Guerilla, The Dragons, The Swirlies, Built to Spill, SSD, The Teen Idles, Government Issue, Toxic Reasons, The Straw Dogs, Wayne Kramer, Come, The Dream Syndicate, Zen Guerilla, The Hot Snakes, Reptile House, The Cramps, The Dirtbombs, Thee Hypnotics, French Toast, Bad Religion, Rocket From the Crypt, The Fall, Scream, Red C, Jawbox, The Make-Up, Lungfish, 18th Dye, The Minutemen, Mazzy Star, TSOL, and The Police.
Thanks for tuning in, and see you next week!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 10 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Garage! This spring, the whole country seems to be inundated by late, wintry weather: rain, tornadoes, May snow, and just torrentially intense weather. I decided to call up the guitar gods and see if some high-energy garage rock and rhythmic underground music may bring the sun. I'm not feeling very editorial today, so I'll brief and hope the sun and warm weather may come out where you're at.
I still don't have a microphone, and like it very much!
The playlist today, in order, is: Zen Guerilla, The Dragons, The Swirlies, Built to Spill, SSD, The Teen Idles, Government Issue, Toxic Reasons, The Straw Dogs, Wayne Kramer, Come, The Dream Syndicate, Zen Guerilla, The Hot Snakes, Reptile House, The Cramps, The Dirtbombs, Thee Hypnotics, French Toast, Bad Religion, Rocket From the Crypt, The Fall, Scream, Red C, Jawbox, The Make-Up, Lungfish, 18th Dye, The Minutemen, Mazzy Star, TSOL, and The Police.
Thanks for tuning in, and see you next week!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, May 14, 2011
The Ides of May and Other Emotions
http://www.archive.org/details/TheIdesOfMayAndOtherEmotions
Welcome to Episode 9 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! This is one of my shorter shows, at about 65 minutes of music. The spring has been quite busy, and I've been away from home, I think, too much. For a middle-aged guy at 42, traveling seems to have taken its toll on me the last several weeks, as I've been to Norman to record new material with my band and play the Norman Music Festival, and gave the alumni lecture in the history department at UC Santa Cruz. Those trips were back to back, with short stops at home, and I've traveled alone. Too much time alone in my mind. At least when I go on tour with my band next week, I'll be with my best friends!
Traveling and being away from my wife and son is pretty hard, and I guess one of the things I realized while I was away, and now they are away, is that primarily I'm a dad and someone's husband, and not a book editor, writer, or guitarist. I would not have thought about that 5 years ago; now no matter how rewarding writing or music is, both are only OK, but hanging out with Tabby and Spencer is what I look forward to the most. I guess these longings and waiting for your family to come home is probably what most people do in their 40s, however, it's all quite new to me.
Well, enough of that, and I still don't have podcast microphone, which is just as well!
The playlist today is, in order: The Doors, Mark Lanegan, Flying Saucer Attack, The MC5, Debris', Jimi Hendrix, Lungfish, Swervedriver, El Dorado, The Pupils, Soccer Team, Zombie vs. Shark, Rites of Spring, Television, The Dream Syndicate, The Smiths, Lungfish.
Enjoy the show, and I'll be back in two weeks after the tour!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 9 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! This is one of my shorter shows, at about 65 minutes of music. The spring has been quite busy, and I've been away from home, I think, too much. For a middle-aged guy at 42, traveling seems to have taken its toll on me the last several weeks, as I've been to Norman to record new material with my band and play the Norman Music Festival, and gave the alumni lecture in the history department at UC Santa Cruz. Those trips were back to back, with short stops at home, and I've traveled alone. Too much time alone in my mind. At least when I go on tour with my band next week, I'll be with my best friends!
Traveling and being away from my wife and son is pretty hard, and I guess one of the things I realized while I was away, and now they are away, is that primarily I'm a dad and someone's husband, and not a book editor, writer, or guitarist. I would not have thought about that 5 years ago; now no matter how rewarding writing or music is, both are only OK, but hanging out with Tabby and Spencer is what I look forward to the most. I guess these longings and waiting for your family to come home is probably what most people do in their 40s, however, it's all quite new to me.
Well, enough of that, and I still don't have podcast microphone, which is just as well!
The playlist today is, in order: The Doors, Mark Lanegan, Flying Saucer Attack, The MC5, Debris', Jimi Hendrix, Lungfish, Swervedriver, El Dorado, The Pupils, Soccer Team, Zombie vs. Shark, Rites of Spring, Television, The Dream Syndicate, The Smiths, Lungfish.
Enjoy the show, and I'll be back in two weeks after the tour!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Spring Squall
http://www.archive.org/details/SpringSquall
Welcome to Episode 8 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to play lots of long play, psychedelic and space rock. Spring is coming too slowly and I thought a squall of feedbacky guitars and ephemeral space rock would bring forth warmer weather. I'm short for words today, so right to the playlist. There's alot of Flying Saucer Attack, one of my favorite bands.
The highlights of the show is a track by The Gardes that I really like, who are from Ponca City, Oklahoma and whose album, for me, is one of the best albums beginning to end I've ever listened to. Another highlight is the band Spain, from Los Angeles. Their first album was really cool, and Evan Hartzell, a friend and drummer I've played with, is on the kit. The last highlight is "Let My Children Hear Music," from my band, Zombie vs. Shark. It's an instrumental of utopian sound named after the great Charles Mingus album.
The show is a whopping 135 minutes! The playlist, in order: Flying Saucer Attack, Lungfish, Killing Joke, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, Jimi Hendrix, Bardo Pond, Swervedriver, Come, Portishead, Spain, The Gardes, Roy Montgomery, Zombie vs. Shark, My Bloody Valentine, Flying Saucer Attack, Low, Chris Brokaw, Experimental Audio Research, Lungfish, Flying Saucer Attack, Bardo Pond, Flying Saucer Attack.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
The Hard Stuff, Hedonism, Mopeyness, and You
Welcome to Episode 7 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! Spring has finally arrived with warm temperatures, and it's rock and roll season for the next couple of months, with Norman Music Festival 4 set for late April. For today's episode, we have a bunch of awesome OKC/Norman bands from its huge and radical garage rock music scene, who will play NMF 4 this year. This is the hard stuff, as Brother Wayne Kramer would call it, so give it a listen.
I decided to mix in some hedonistic 70s rock and psychedelia to pay homage to our ancestors of tripped out noise rock, and to always remember we walk in their footsteps. A little modesty about what we call "new music" is always in order. There is also some pop and mopey English new wave music in there, like the Cure, U2, and The Smiths. I love discordant and atonal guitar playing, and some of it is noisier than you think. Outside of Captain Sensible and Brian Baker, the guitarists Johnny Marr, Robert Smith, and John McGeogh (who eventually played in P.I.L.) are some of my favorites for their original approach to rock/pop.
One of the highlights on the show is the band Pee, from San Francisco. My grade school friend Jim Stanley's band from the early 1990s. Jim and I were really influenced by all this stuff. When I recorded the albums today, it was funny to see that The Go Go's, Cure, Siouxsie and Banshees, and Psychedelic Furs albums were mastered "hot" to take up almost all bandwith. These albums rock!
The line-up for today, in order: Glister, Shitty/Awesome, The Pretty Black Chains, Zombie vs. Shark, Psychotic Reaction, Junebug Spade, Klipspringer, The Boom Bang, Debris', Big Star, Sweet, Grand Funk Railroad, The Kaleidescope, Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds, The Smiths, The Go Go's, The Psychedelic Furs, The Cure, U2, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Police, Tommy Keene, REM, Pee, Lush, The Moon and the Melodies, Calexico, and Mazzy Star.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, April 2, 2011
The Revolution Will be Hijacked....by Youth with Cassette Tapes
Welcome to Episode 6 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! For this episode, I have a DC heavy rotation of bands, with a little space and stoner rock thrown in the mix. When I selected the music for today, I realized that alot of my punk rock record collection is on cassette tapes, which was the older mode for music piracy when I grew up.
When I was a teenager, my friends and I used to buy records together, and given our meager cash, we would divide up the buying so we wouldn't duplicate our record purchases, knowing that we would record each other's records on cassette tapes. I bought alot of the DC and East Coast underground music, and my friend Kasey had all the West Coast and Midwest punk. Thus, I have no Misfits in my record collection, or the Circle Jerks, Battalion of Saints, Wasted Youth, and Adolescents, for example. My friend Johnny Reichard had a comprehensive collection of Brit punk, every Damned and UK Subs record. I will have to purchase a tape player that makes MP3's in the future to mix more into the rotation.
I still don't have a podcast microphone, which is just as well. Some highlights here are a new track by Crowds and Power entitled "Bad Actress," and a great band headed by Jack Gory from Philly called Scab Cadillac. Jack was really cool, and has since passed away, but was a true bohemian and punk rocker. I first met him at Silk City Lounge in the mid-1990s, and enjoyed his jovial and warm presence. He was a mix between a gnarly football player and Lord Byron, equally brute strength and poetic in his endeavors.
The last track by Sick Pleasure on this episode is a true dirge of punk.
The show is about 115 minutes. The playlist in order is: Minor Threat, Sick Pleasure, TSOL, Sorry, Gray Matter, Grand Mal, Second Wind, Aggression, Red C, Marginal Man, Reptile House, Kyuss, Ignition, Minutemen, Beefeater, Nation of Ulysses, Truman's Water, Articles of Faith, The Fall, Spacemen 3, Fugazi, Scab Cadillac, Delta 72, Zombie vs. Shark, Crowds and Power, Holy Rollers, The Snakes, Bluetip, Murder City Devils, Das Damen, The Cult, Queens of the Stone Age, Zen Guerilla, Scream, Fire Party, and Sick Pleasure.
Thank for tuning in, and I'll mix it up next week with some early 80s punk/pop!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Come on and Wake Up....to Big Guitars, Lo-Fi is Dead
http://www.archive.org/details/ComeOnAndWakeUp.......toBigGuitarsLo-fiIsDead
Welcome to Episode 5 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I didn't know what I might play in this new podcast, and all week I've felt like big, loud guitars, and that is mostly what's on the show today. Big loud guitars that are discordant and noisey, complex and ringing, and there's a little bit of ska/punk/funk in the beginning of the show. But it's time to return to big, loud, noisey guitars after the era 2000-2008, where Lo-Fi indy rock predominated, and people's politics were apathetic. I like some of the Lo-Fi scene, but it's now time for rackety big guitars and big cabinets, and the assertive politics that comes with it! As it was said, "Kick Out the Jams.....," you can fill in the blank.
I decided to start off the show with Mr. Roger's album, Come on and Wake Up, which is about as early 1970s as you can get, all good stuff for kids. I played a track off The Astronauts album, a surf rock band from the early 1960s, since my high school band teacher played guitar in the group. There's also a great track by the DC band, The Faith, which was released on blue vinyl no less. There's a nice rackety track of Swervedriver to end the show, recorded live. I had to play G.I. three times!
I still don't have a podcast microphone, so I'll keep my editorializing brief.
The playlist is about 85 minutes: Mister Rogers, The Astronauts, Lungfish, The Pretenders, Fishbone, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Minutemen, French Toast, The Damned, Government Issue, Dag Nasty, Dinosaur Jr., The Faith, Bad Religion, Jawbox, Soundgarden, One Last Wish, Government Issue, The Stooges, Beefeater, My Bloody Valentine, Flying Saucer Attack, Killing Joke, Government Issue, Gray Matter, Television, and Swervedriver.
Enjoy!
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 5 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I didn't know what I might play in this new podcast, and all week I've felt like big, loud guitars, and that is mostly what's on the show today. Big loud guitars that are discordant and noisey, complex and ringing, and there's a little bit of ska/punk/funk in the beginning of the show. But it's time to return to big, loud, noisey guitars after the era 2000-2008, where Lo-Fi indy rock predominated, and people's politics were apathetic. I like some of the Lo-Fi scene, but it's now time for rackety big guitars and big cabinets, and the assertive politics that comes with it! As it was said, "Kick Out the Jams.....," you can fill in the blank.
I decided to start off the show with Mr. Roger's album, Come on and Wake Up, which is about as early 1970s as you can get, all good stuff for kids. I played a track off The Astronauts album, a surf rock band from the early 1960s, since my high school band teacher played guitar in the group. There's also a great track by the DC band, The Faith, which was released on blue vinyl no less. There's a nice rackety track of Swervedriver to end the show, recorded live. I had to play G.I. three times!
I still don't have a podcast microphone, so I'll keep my editorializing brief.
The playlist is about 85 minutes: Mister Rogers, The Astronauts, Lungfish, The Pretenders, Fishbone, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Minutemen, French Toast, The Damned, Government Issue, Dag Nasty, Dinosaur Jr., The Faith, Bad Religion, Jawbox, Soundgarden, One Last Wish, Government Issue, The Stooges, Beefeater, My Bloody Valentine, Flying Saucer Attack, Killing Joke, Government Issue, Gray Matter, Television, and Swervedriver.
Enjoy!
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Episode 4: Paisley Underground, Feedback, and Other Technical Difficulties
http://www.archive.org/details/DocRockavoysIndyMusicGarageEpisode4-paisleyUndergroundFeedbackAnd
Welcome to the fourth episode of the Indy Music Garage! I grew up in Southern California, and other than the punk and hardcore scenes, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego had a garage psychedelia scene called the "Paisley Underground" that flourished in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was loosely connected to the punk/hardcore scene, but also quite distinct, since the 60s pop/psyche sound crossed over into more conventional pop tastes. But most of the scene was marked by noisey songwriting, distorted guitars, and lots of reverby feedback.
I finally figured out how to import MP3 files into my podcast program, and there will be some technical difficulties on this podcast until I master the technology. I have analog guitar equipment, so all this digital recording stuff is new to me.
On the podcast, there's two tracks by my old friend Dave Lorenz, who played bass in my band Dona Sonora from Philadelphia in the mid-1990s. His band Crowds and Power is from Brooklyn, New York, so check them out if you live there.
I still do not have a podcast microphone, which is just as well. The show is a whopping 155 minutes!
The bands listed in order are: Embrace, The Yo-Yo's, Rain Parade, The Dream Syndicate, The Velvet Underground, The Crippled Pilgrims, Opal, Mazzy Star, Television, Lungfish, The Cramps, Crowds and Power, Das Damen, 3, 9353, The Snakes, TSOL, Thee Hypnotics, Rites of Spring, Zombie vs. Shark, Edie Sedgewick, Mark Lanegan, Mike Johnson, The Pupils, Bardo Pond, Low, Lucero, Circus Lupus, Skin Yard, Green River, Ruin, The Hot Snakes, The Meatmen, Turbonegro, Mudhoney, Sonic Youth, The Detroit Cobras, Zombie vs. Shark, The Dirtbombs, The Volcano Suns, Mission of Burma, and The Golden Cups.
Next week, I will not know what's in store, so be sure to tune in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to the fourth episode of the Indy Music Garage! I grew up in Southern California, and other than the punk and hardcore scenes, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego had a garage psychedelia scene called the "Paisley Underground" that flourished in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was loosely connected to the punk/hardcore scene, but also quite distinct, since the 60s pop/psyche sound crossed over into more conventional pop tastes. But most of the scene was marked by noisey songwriting, distorted guitars, and lots of reverby feedback.
I finally figured out how to import MP3 files into my podcast program, and there will be some technical difficulties on this podcast until I master the technology. I have analog guitar equipment, so all this digital recording stuff is new to me.
On the podcast, there's two tracks by my old friend Dave Lorenz, who played bass in my band Dona Sonora from Philadelphia in the mid-1990s. His band Crowds and Power is from Brooklyn, New York, so check them out if you live there.
I still do not have a podcast microphone, which is just as well. The show is a whopping 155 minutes!
The bands listed in order are: Embrace, The Yo-Yo's, Rain Parade, The Dream Syndicate, The Velvet Underground, The Crippled Pilgrims, Opal, Mazzy Star, Television, Lungfish, The Cramps, Crowds and Power, Das Damen, 3, 9353, The Snakes, TSOL, Thee Hypnotics, Rites of Spring, Zombie vs. Shark, Edie Sedgewick, Mark Lanegan, Mike Johnson, The Pupils, Bardo Pond, Low, Lucero, Circus Lupus, Skin Yard, Green River, Ruin, The Hot Snakes, The Meatmen, Turbonegro, Mudhoney, Sonic Youth, The Detroit Cobras, Zombie vs. Shark, The Dirtbombs, The Volcano Suns, Mission of Burma, and The Golden Cups.
Next week, I will not know what's in store, so be sure to tune in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Episode 3: Music in the Grain of the Americas
http://www.archive.org/details/Episode3MusicInTheGrainOfTheAmericas
Welcome to the 3rd Episode of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided for this episode to put together a sample of roots and New World musics, out of the more mellow side of my record collection for my friends and family members that are not into rock-based music with its loud amplification. It was really fun this morning to listen to these albums again, and the memories that they conjure since last listening to them. I hope listeners will enjoy the rotation. It is about 100 minutes of music.
I still don't have a podcast microphone, which is probably fine, I can editorialize here without annoying anyone who listens to the podcast.
Next week, I'll have a rotation of Paisley Underground, early 80s indy pop, and, of course, back to garage rock!
The show features these artists, in order: Trouble Funk, Mills Blue Rhythm Band, Charlie Patton, Earl Hines, Count Basie, Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins, The Oscar Peterson Trio, Don Byas, Pete Fountain, Miles Davis, Oh Lonesome Me (artist unknown), Carl Casen, Pete Seeger, Buck Owens, Charlie Rich, Conway Twitty, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Orquestra Aragon, Andreas Segovia, Pedro Del Valle and Heredia, Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto, The Lounge Lizards, and Sly and the Family Stone.
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to the 3rd Episode of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided for this episode to put together a sample of roots and New World musics, out of the more mellow side of my record collection for my friends and family members that are not into rock-based music with its loud amplification. It was really fun this morning to listen to these albums again, and the memories that they conjure since last listening to them. I hope listeners will enjoy the rotation. It is about 100 minutes of music.
I still don't have a podcast microphone, which is probably fine, I can editorialize here without annoying anyone who listens to the podcast.
Next week, I'll have a rotation of Paisley Underground, early 80s indy pop, and, of course, back to garage rock!
The show features these artists, in order: Trouble Funk, Mills Blue Rhythm Band, Charlie Patton, Earl Hines, Count Basie, Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins, The Oscar Peterson Trio, Don Byas, Pete Fountain, Miles Davis, Oh Lonesome Me (artist unknown), Carl Casen, Pete Seeger, Buck Owens, Charlie Rich, Conway Twitty, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Orquestra Aragon, Andreas Segovia, Pedro Del Valle and Heredia, Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto, The Lounge Lizards, and Sly and the Family Stone.
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Sunday, February 20, 2011
The Singles-Episode 2
http://www.archive.org/details/TheSingles-episode2
Welcome again to Episode Two of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I was excited about the first episode out of my record collection. When selecting records today, I had a hard time figuring out what to play, so this episode is almost solely devoted to 7" vinyl singles, with a couple of good album cuts rotated in the mix. There's a section on Philly bands from the 1990s represented here, as well as two versions of my friend Robert Scafe's old band, The Putters. I hope all listeners will enjoy the show.
I still don't have a podcast microphone yet, which is probably fine, and the show is a little over 90 minutes.
I'll be doing Episode 3 later this week, and it will be devoted to rockabilly, jazz, big band music, and variations in between, some on little labels, so my older friends and family can participate in listening to the show. Some people kind of don't find punk and garage music attractive, so I'll have shows across the musical genres.
The playlist, in order: Kraut, The Freeze, The State, Ill Repute, Code of Honor, TSOL, The Damned, Bardo Pond, Toxic Reasons, The Putters (2010), Flesh Columns, 7 Seconds, Husker Du, 18th Dye, POD (the one from Philly), The King James Version, Electric Love Muffin, Jodie Foster's Army, Pailhead, Government Issue, Come, Slant 6, The Cramps, The Putters (1992), The Byrds, Egg Hunt, Kingface, Minor Threat, Rocket from the Crypt, Ashtabula, Jawbox, Zen Guerilla, Rites of Spring, Code of Honor.
Thanks for listening!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome again to Episode Two of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I was excited about the first episode out of my record collection. When selecting records today, I had a hard time figuring out what to play, so this episode is almost solely devoted to 7" vinyl singles, with a couple of good album cuts rotated in the mix. There's a section on Philly bands from the 1990s represented here, as well as two versions of my friend Robert Scafe's old band, The Putters. I hope all listeners will enjoy the show.
I still don't have a podcast microphone yet, which is probably fine, and the show is a little over 90 minutes.
I'll be doing Episode 3 later this week, and it will be devoted to rockabilly, jazz, big band music, and variations in between, some on little labels, so my older friends and family can participate in listening to the show. Some people kind of don't find punk and garage music attractive, so I'll have shows across the musical genres.
The playlist, in order: Kraut, The Freeze, The State, Ill Repute, Code of Honor, TSOL, The Damned, Bardo Pond, Toxic Reasons, The Putters (2010), Flesh Columns, 7 Seconds, Husker Du, 18th Dye, POD (the one from Philly), The King James Version, Electric Love Muffin, Jodie Foster's Army, Pailhead, Government Issue, Come, Slant 6, The Cramps, The Putters (1992), The Byrds, Egg Hunt, Kingface, Minor Threat, Rocket from the Crypt, Ashtabula, Jawbox, Zen Guerilla, Rites of Spring, Code of Honor.
Thanks for listening!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Indy Music Garage is Open for Corporate Destruction-Episode 1
http://www.archive.org/details/DocRockavoyInaugeralShow
Welcome! This is the first episode of my podcast, Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage. I decided to create a podcast for two reasons: I have a bunch of good, old indy music albums and other stuff like 50s country music and jazz albums from thrift stores. It is also something fun to do during the winters in Lincoln, NE. I hope visitors will enjoy listening to the old school garage punk stuff, with some space rock and other weird psychedelia thrown in. I will have country, jazz, and big band episodes to come in the near future.
I'll have to thank Brad from Sharkbait Magazine for the nickname, "Doc Rockavoy," which was something he devised when I was still a college professor. Thanks Brad, and I decided to use this for my podcast channel. Thanks to my big sister, Melissa, for sending me this MP3 turntable!
This episode is about 100 minutes of music, with bands listed in order like Code of Honor, Scream, Killing Joke, The Dream Syndicate, The Minutemen, Jimi Hendrix, Drive Like Jehu, Das Damen, Swervedriver, Chris Brokaw, The Smiths, Come, Lungfish, Bardo Pond, Government Issue, The Dirtbombs, Kraut, MIA (the one from Vegas), Articles of Faith, Scream, Brother Wayne Kramer, The Cult, The Swirlies, Lungfish, My Bloody Valentine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Flying Saucer Attack, Opal, and Portishead. Once I get a microphone, I'll contribute some "history" to the music, bands, and record labels so that the memory of these great bands won't lapse this generation.
I will be podcasting about once or twice a month throughout 2011, so tell all your friends to listen in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome! This is the first episode of my podcast, Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage. I decided to create a podcast for two reasons: I have a bunch of good, old indy music albums and other stuff like 50s country music and jazz albums from thrift stores. It is also something fun to do during the winters in Lincoln, NE. I hope visitors will enjoy listening to the old school garage punk stuff, with some space rock and other weird psychedelia thrown in. I will have country, jazz, and big band episodes to come in the near future.
I'll have to thank Brad from Sharkbait Magazine for the nickname, "Doc Rockavoy," which was something he devised when I was still a college professor. Thanks Brad, and I decided to use this for my podcast channel. Thanks to my big sister, Melissa, for sending me this MP3 turntable!
This episode is about 100 minutes of music, with bands listed in order like Code of Honor, Scream, Killing Joke, The Dream Syndicate, The Minutemen, Jimi Hendrix, Drive Like Jehu, Das Damen, Swervedriver, Chris Brokaw, The Smiths, Come, Lungfish, Bardo Pond, Government Issue, The Dirtbombs, Kraut, MIA (the one from Vegas), Articles of Faith, Scream, Brother Wayne Kramer, The Cult, The Swirlies, Lungfish, My Bloody Valentine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Flying Saucer Attack, Opal, and Portishead. Once I get a microphone, I'll contribute some "history" to the music, bands, and record labels so that the memory of these great bands won't lapse this generation.
I will be podcasting about once or twice a month throughout 2011, so tell all your friends to listen in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
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