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.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
