Popol Vuh

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Welcome to Episode 37 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It seems that fall is on its way, with the seasonal shift in sunlight, so I bet everyone is tired waking up in the dark. September is always a good month, not too hot, not too cold, but just close enough to Halloween and pumpkin season to make it all worthwhile. We'll head off to the Roca pumpkin patch this year with Spencer to get our usual carving Jack'O    Lanterns, and then get a Halloween outfit. He was a vampire last year, and mummies are really in right now, so that one should be easy, just white ace bandages. Other than that, I finally got my new garage punk/psychedelia band up and running, called Red Cities (more Red Vienna than OKC, by the way....), and we'll be out gigging in November. This is the last podcast before I embark on 14 straight days of work, so the next one will likely be all punk rock!

I put on a lot of the same artist this show, dominated by the prince of darkness himself, Mark Lanegan. He certainly tops Bob Dylan as America's all-time singer-songwriter, but he didn't have a (lame) magazine like Rolling Stone to promote him and dozens of bad yuppie-growing-up films to make him the soundtrack to people's lives. There's also some Gardes on the show, this track with Watermelon Slim. I threw on some Lush, Kyuss, Flying Saucer Attack (their back-catalog is huge), and the John Cale mixes of The Stooges first album, if you haven't heard them. 

The show is about 105 minutes, and the playlist is: Flying Saucer Attack, Lush, The Gardes, Swervedriver, Flying Saucer Attack, Mark Lanegan, Kyuss, Sonic Youth, Flying Saucer Attack, The Stooges, My Bloody Valentine, Mark Lanegan, Swervedriver, Zen Guerilla, Mark Lanegan, P.J. Harvey, Flying Saucer Attack, Mark Lanegan, and The Doors.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Every Man For Himself

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Welcome to Episode 36 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! Well, the Fall equinox is upon us and the seasonal shift in sunlight is making everyone tired. After a scorching hot summer, we got our first rain this week, which caused the trees to perk up. Hopefully these hot summers will not be the norm, as mother nature does what it wants no matter what you believe about science. Nothing really going on lately, except skateboarding and Spencer starting school, so there's nothing to report. I hope everyone celebrated themselves over Labor Day weekend!

Today I put on some stuff I don't listen to very often, bands like Faraquet, Skinyard, Q and Not U, The Evens, Slant 6 among others. These bands are great, though! I put on a Skinyard tune that has the infamous Helios Creed on second guitar, so all you Hawkwind fans should dig it, and you'll note how often Helios Creed has been ripped off by other bands! I started the show with "Teenager in a Box" by Government Issue, which was a rare 7" EP that had Brian Baker on guitar. My friend Kasey owned it, and I have it on tape, but Dischord released the GI Complete Sessions, so it's available again. There's some Obits, Times New Viking (the Slitbreeze Records EP), and Articles of Faith, which has influenced a lot of loud, math-rocky types of bands, notably the local OKC band CHUD. The new Redd Kross album is on here, too.

The show is about 80 minutes, and the playlist is: Government Issue, Dream Syndicate, Broncho, Obits, Depth and Current, Off!, Times New Viking, Slant 6, Faraquet, Redd Kross, Rites of Spring, Scream, Lungfish, Dag Nasty, The Faith, Fugazi, 7 Seconds, The Evens, Skinyard, The Cult, Q and Not U, Scream, The Stooges, Dag Nasty, The Dirtbombs, Code of Honor.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

I've Got News For You

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Welcome to Episode 35 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I've been away lately, traveling for work and just scratching to catch up with everything, including my podcast. The Plains heat wave of 2012 finally broke, and it rained, all day, yesterday, so I'm looking forward to my vegetable garden recovering and yielding some yummy stuff before the first frost. An ethno-botanist I know said this year was one of the worst droughts in the paleo-ecological record, and among the ethnohistorical record on the Plains, and we had a discussion about the bummer of no summer home grown vegetables. We're at the mercy of the catch basin for Rocky Mountain moisture! The Plains live and die by it.

Beyond nerding out on home gardens, I've got another punk rock and hardcore filled show today, again, and  this might be one of the last heavy shows for some time, as I'm feeling the need record some shows that have jazz/R & B, and other stuff out of my record collection soon. I think I'll do one more heavy show this late summer/fall. After that, I'll move into some more mellow territory with the show.

Well, there's some good stuff on here today. I decided, again, to put on Montreal-based post-punk band Jet Black, who's sound is in the Swervedriver and Jawbox vein. Their album, Escape Measures is worth mail-ordering and putting in your record collection. I also put on a tune by Truman's Water, which was this crazy noise/math rock band that reminds me of a very distorted Pavement. I also put on "Moral Majority" by Youth Brigade, not the L.A. Better Youth Organization Records band, but the DC hardcore band from the "Flex Your Head" compilation. This song has now assumed some currency, after 33 years. Who would have thought? I also put on a weird tune by Sick Pleasure, and also Ignition, if you know your punk, you'll know these bands.

The show is about 75 minutes, and the playlist is: Embrace, Off!, Code of Honor, MIA, Government Issue, The Cramps, Das Damen, Jimi Hendrix, Jet Black, Lungfish, Kraut, MC5, Truman's Water, Fugazi, Government Issue, Youth Brigade, Off! Scream, Desert Sessions, Grand Mal, Sick Pleasure, Gray Matter, The Make-Up, The Dirtbombs, Ignition, and Minor Threat.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Panic Attack

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Welcome to Episode 34 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! We've been through a month heat wave out here in Nebraska, and it's been brutal. Everything is brown; it's too hot to skate; and the pools close this week around town. I just got back from playing the Free Tulsa Music Festival with my band, and it was 108 degrees when we played, which was outdoors in a courtyard surrounded on three sides by brick walls. I felt like an wood oven baked pizza. ! I was also a little swoony after we played, as did most of the bands that day. The temps are down, and the skatepark is looking good to go now.

For today's show, I put on some new records I got recently, which people will like a lot. There's a track from a great Montreal band called Jet Black, who sound a little like Swervedriver, and pretty much rule. There's also a cool track from Dikes of Holland, which I picked up in Norman during rehearsals for the festival. One of the surprises I bought recently was the band Off!, which is Keith Morris' new project. I thought it would be lame, but I was surprised. I bought the box set of 4 singles, 4 songs each, and it just blares late 70s LA punk rock! It really kicks. It's kind of supergroup, with Dimitri Coats from Burning Brides on guitar; Mario Rubalcaba from the Hot Snakes on drums; and Steve McDonald from Red Kross on bass. You need this for your record collection. The first track on the show is a great misanthropic (or charitable, you decide) song called "F**k People."

I also picked up The Who, Live at Leeds, in the used record section, and side two just kicks ass as well, so I thought I'd put "My Generation" on, which is 15 minutes long. After Hendrix died, all the big guitar players had just been influenced by him, and Pete Townsend tries to reach that potential, but doesn't quite do it. But it's still pretty rad guitar playing. There's a great track from Thee Hypnotics as well.

The playlist for today is: Off!, Jet Black, Dikes of Holland, Zombie vs. Shark, Government Issue, Thee Hypnotics, The Who, Drive Like Jehu, Lungfish, Desert Sessions, Fugazi, The Zeros, Lungfish, Adolescents, Death, MC5, Dirtbombs, Off! The show is bit over 60 minutes.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

The Singles - 3

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Welcome to Episode 33 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! We're going through a heat wave, close to 2 weeks of 95 + temperatures, so I thought I'd do another episode mostly of 45pm singles. The days are long and lazy in Nebraska right now, so some rare punk rock vinyl is in order. I've not much to say lately, just work and hanging out with Spencer and Tabby, and taking Spence to the water park and pool, since it's too hot for the skateboard park.

There's a lot of Minor Threat singles on this show, one's put out by Dischord and also this weird live single I have recorded in Camden, NJ in 1982. I put on a live Government Issue track "Victim of the Screen" on Mystic Records. There's a Reptile House track from their first single as well. I put some San Diego bands on, Contra Guerra, Inch, and Chincilla. There's also some OKC/Norman bands present, Debris', Crown Imperial, Shitty/Awesome, and Dikes of Holland from Texas.

The show is about 78 minutes. The playlist is: Debris', Rocket from the Crypt, Emma, Inch, Copperheads, Egg Hunt, Reflex from Pain, Crown Imperial, Rocket from the Crypt, Zombie vs. Shark, Meat Puppets, Jawbox, Rites of Spring, Contra Guerra, Pavement, Chincilla, Government Issue, King James Version, The Freeze, Reptile House, Minor Threat, Jodie Foster's Army, The Putters, TSOL, The State, Minor Threat, Ill Repute, Jawbox, Minor Threat, Teen Idles, Zen Guerilla, Slant 6, Shitty/Awesome, and Dikes of Holland.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Fearfully and Wonderfully

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Welcome to Episode 32 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's the third longest day of the year, so to instigate suspended animation of the time/space continuum, I put on a bunch of psychedelia and mopey, depressing tunes to make the long days of summer last. It's been nice and quiet lately all around, and you can hear a pin drop in Lincoln at night. I've had a hiatus from gigging with my band, and started a new project in a more proper garage psychedelia mode, called "Red Cites" with some friends of mine. I also went back to my novel "Fishtown," and hope to finish that up this summer. I've traveled too much this spring and early summer, and am digging reconnecting with the actual place where I live.

On the show today, there's some tracks from early Bardo Pond albums, and a bunch of Flying Saucer Attack and Lungfish tunes. There's a rare track off the "lost" My Bloody Valentine album, tracks from collaborators Mark Lanegan and Mike Johnson, one of the great underground guitar players. I also put a track from Zomes on the show, and you'll have to figure out who that is. I put my favorite The Gardes tunes on, and they're probably the one of the best Oklahoma bands that you've never heard. There's a great track from White Denim, and if you haven't seen them, put that on your list of things to do.

As I've said before, if you like a recording artist on this show, lay down some cash and buy the band's album!!! Musicians need strings, food, drum heads, mike stands, and amp repairs...

The show is a whopping 149 minutes! The playlist for today is: The Gardes, Flying Saucer Attack, Mazzy Star, Swervedriver, Flying Saucer Attack, Lungfish, My Bloody Valentine, Flying Saucer Attack, The Pupils, White Denim, Television, Low, Bardo Pond, My Bloody Valentine, Lungfish, Mark Lanegan, Mazzy Star, Jimi Hendrix, Bardo Pond, Zomes, Embrace, Mike Johnson, The Smiths, Flying Saucer Attack, and Lungfish.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Tear the Club Up

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Welcome to Episode 31 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I haven't been doing my shows too regularly the past 5 months, as my wife and I have been consumed with the after-effects of people we know who've died. Her mom died last October, and 5 of my close friends also died, one a month from August to December. It has been kind of weird to process it, by myself, so I used my health insurance to get a therapist. Being in your 40's is great, but it also sucks because that's when people start to die. For sure, I was unprepared to deal with death the first time.

Enough of the macabre, gallows fare, all the people who died would want me to keep the music regular! Today's show has a lot of new vinyl, particularly The Dirtbombs new album, "Party Store." You need to get this one if you like garage soul. I also put a track from Zomes, which is Asa Osbourne's solo project, who played guitar in Lungfish. The also a track from the Lungfish "ACR 1999" album, which were tracks done in the  Baltimore studio that were never released. The material from that session became "Necrophones" under Ian MacKaye and Don Zientara at Inner Ear Studios. It's raw, so you need to have it in your collection. I also threw some White Denim, Shitty/Awesome, Broncho, and the infamous Detroit band Death on there today as well.

I do have a podcast microphone, but I use it for recording my songwriting, so no boring narration on the show, still!!!

The playlist for today is: Broncho, MC5, Velvet Underground, Zombie vs. Shark, Death, Queens of the Stone Age, The Cult, The Dirtbombs, Blondie, Jawbox, Zombie vs. Shark, 3, The Damned, My Bloody Valentine, Lungfish, MC5, Turbonegro, Shitty/Awesome, The Dirtbombs, Zomes, White Denim, and Lungfish. The show is about 70 minutes long.

Thanks for tuning in, and see you next week!!

Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

OKC, or the new Detroit Garage Rock City

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Welcome to Episode 30 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I haven't been posting show much lately, since the spring was very stressful and busy, and I was traveling alot. Now it's all over, and I can finally settle in for the year. However, on my various travels this late winter and spring, I was able to buy quite a bit of quality vinyl, and this is what I play exclusively on this show, in case you are curious. There's no digital tracks on the podcast, only vinyl.

I did get a cassette tape MP3 player, so cassettes will be allowable in the future, since they are also making a comeback due to record pirates.

I just returned from two weeks of travel, one week in Philadelphia for work; the other week to Norman, Oklahoma for the Norman Music Festival. I got to see Broncho, the Oklahoma garage rock wiz kids, play at Kung Fu Necktie in Philadelphia, which was pretty exciting because it was my only night off. KFNT is in my old neighborhood, Fishtown, where I lived for 9 years and on which I'm writing a novel. It was up on north Front Street, near all the old neighborhood bars where I used to run pool tables. It was interesting since the neighborhood is now totally gentrified. At least it was hassle free walking up Front Street at night, but its essential grit is now a thing of the past!

Broncho rocked their set to a very unenthusiastic and perpetually, emotionally-detached Philadelphia indy music audience. Not much has changed about the indy music scene in Philly in 20 years: the indy music crowd seems still jaded and unenthusiastic, no doubt, due to most downtown Philadelphians background: white, suburban or smalltown, over-privileged. Nonetheless, Broncho didn't let that fact impede their roaring set of anthemic, late 70s garage punk. Some liken them to the Ramones, but I think they sound closer to the Detroit band Death, The Zeros, or the early The Damned, maybe with a little Television thrown in, which I have on my podcast today. I asked them how their tour had been going, and they indicated it was very well, especially in New York. These guys just charge, so you need to buy their album.

After that, I was in Norman to prepare for the Norman Music Festival 5 and to work for 3 days before the festival, and there's a large, critical mass of very good garage rock bands, The Boom Bang, The Copperheads, Shitty/Awesome, Zombie vs. Shark, John Wayne's Bitches, Debris' and others. It really is the new Detroit in terms of garage rock bands, and they are all putting out vinyl on their small indy labels. Even more than that, the indy music crowd is highly, if not overly-enthusiastic about loud guitar music. There's no folded arms out in the audience! It's just a matter of time until the rest of the country figures that out, it's super outgoing and non-rational, which is the necessary ingredient for garage rock.

The playlist for today is: Death, Zombie vs. Shark, Broncho, The Who, Debris', The Dirtbombs, Wayne Kramer, Queens of the Stone Age, The Mean Spirits, Shitty/Awesome, The Boom Bang, The Copperheads, Winter Boys, Ryan Lindsey, Beau Jennings, The MC5, Government Issue, The Zeros, Beastie Boys, Mission of Burma, The Dirtbombs, Zombie vs. Shark, White Denim, Mark Lanegan, and Desert Sessions.

The show is about 75 minutes.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

41 n 93 w

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Welcome to episode 29 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's been a couple of months since I posted a show, and there is a lot of psychedelic space rock today. I've been absent from doing shows recently, since the sadness of 5 close friends having passed away since last August. It has caused me to overly contemplate mortality and life lately, and that has not been enjoyable to say the least. I think I'm feeling better about it all, so I thought I'd put on some joyous psychedelia to remember them all. Sorry to be so macabre!

Sometimes I play songs from previous podcasts when they fit the mood of one of my shows, so there are some repeats mixed in here, but not too many. I really always liked the bands that the producer and engineer Alan Moulder worked with, so I put on some My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver in honor of that. The first track is off the "lost tracks" album by My Bloody Valentine. This was the fabled "never completed album" that everyone was waiting for, and I like it alot. There'a also some Flying Saucer Attack on the show, and I like it when they re-record different versions of songs. The mixing and mastering of their music is really amazing. I put on The Byrds as well, since I'm getting tired of our country being at war.

The playlist for today is: My Bloody Valentine, Bardo Pond, Lungfish, Flying Saucer Attack, Mazzy Star, Portishead, Swervedriver, My Bloody Valentine, The Byrds, Come, Bardo Pond, Killing Joke, The Dream Syndicate, Television, Catherine Wheel, Band of Susans, Lungfish, Flying Saucer Attack, and Lungfish.

The show is just over 100 minutes.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Plastic Surgery Kept Her Beautiful

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Welcome to Episode 28 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I took a little hiatus from podcasting over the the holidays, since we had record winter temperatures in the 50s for the past 3 weeks. Did some stuff, like painted the kitchen for my wife; hung out at the skateboard park with my son; and cleaned up my yard. I haven't had to pull out the Carhart suit yet to walk to work, and it's almost February!

I decided to play some punk and hardcore music today, with some pop punk thrown in here and there (who doesn't appreciate The Snakes fascination with 60s guitar pop?). Some of the highlights today are the band Inch, from San Diego, live at the Casbah. My old friend Dave Heppler played drums for them. I also put on some Green River, and there's a track from the Philadelphia band Mothra. There's also tracks from Broncho, Truman's Water, and a band we used to gig with called Sweep the Leg Johnny.

There's a static electricity "hiss" on the show. It's been really dry in Nebraska lately, and I couldn't eliminate the static on the turntable, but it's punk rock, so it already hisses anyway!

The playlist for today is: Minor Threat, Inch, Kingface, Christ on a Crutch, Sweep the Leg Johnny, Adolescents, Broncho, The Putters, Lungfish, Fire Party, Truman's Water, Edie Sedgwick, The Zeros, Green River, Drive Like Jehu, Meat Puppets, Fugazi, SNFU, Mothra, Government Issue, Band of Susans, Scream, The Minutemen, The Holy Rollers, The Make-Up, The Snakes, Youth Brigade, MIA, Genocide, Killing Joke, Cripped Pilgrims, Dag Nasty, 7 Seconds, and Minor Threat.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy