Summer Fun and Bubblegum

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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