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
Saturday, October 22, 2011
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.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
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