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.

Thanks for tuning in!

Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy