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.
Thanks for tuning in!!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, August 20, 2011
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
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