Joyride

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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