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
Sunday, November 27, 2011
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.
Thanks for tuning in!
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.
Thanks for tuning in!
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.
Thanks for tuning in!
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.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
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