Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Good For You

Good For You

Welcome to Episode 47 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I have not had time to do a new podcast in some time, between work and gigging with Red Cities. On my travels and our gigs, I was able to find some nice vinyl for this show, some of which is super-indy vinyl, like the Chicago band Vamos! on the show today. The weather is sucky today on my first day off, so it was perfect for putting a holiday playlist together this morning.

I put the show together today by choosing records and songs that were unpatriotic, retarded in terms of beat, and offensive in lyrical content, with some non-offensive stuff on here as well. Go see a psychiatrist if you feel offended for some reason!

I put on the new Laughing Falcon album, "Sonic Possession," and if you like Sabbath and Hawkwind, you will like this. I put on some Dragons, since they used to play the Christmas Eve show at the Casbah in San Diego, a great night to bail on the family. There's a new Dirty Talker track on here as well as Volcano Suns, Sorry, Q and Not U, Chain and the Gang, and the Slickee Boys, among others.

This show is about 100 minutes! The bands are: Embrace, Government Issue, The Damned, Dirty Talker, Zen Guerilla, Beefeater, Rites of Spring, Off!, The Faith, Mission of Burma, Void, Genocide, MIA, Hot Snakes, Domestica, Kinski, Q and Not U, Vamos!, The Gories (live), The Saints, Slickee Boys, The Cramps, Broncho, Johnny Thunders, The Dragons, Laughing Falcon, Angry Samoans, Junkyard, Detroit Cobras, Sorry, Vietcong, My Bloody Valentine, Volcano Suns, Code of Honor, The Snakes, Chain and the Gang, and Scream.

Thanks for tuning in!

Doc Rockavoy

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Lights Out

Lights Out

Welcome to Episode 46 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's been raining every weekend in Lincoln for the last 6 weeks; nice and warm during the week; torrential rain during the working man's two days off. It's put a cramp on skateboarding and hanging outside, so it's been a bit like winter in that regard.

I've been traveling a bit this spring, and had a chance to visit some good records stores around the country and find stuff I've wanted in my record collection, new stuff and old stuff that is actually old or reissued. I almost bought the first Black Market Baby album in Philly last month, but it cost too much. When Tesco Vee came through there to play, he ended up buying it! But he's a rock star.

I put on some new local releases, Dirty Talker and Halfwit, and I had a chance to see LA Witch last weekend, so there's a single on the show. There's also Aleister X (Doug Anson from The Gelcaps), The Disposables, Flipper, Johnny Thunders, and The Saints. I was lucky enough to get a reissue of the Angry Samoans "Back from Samoa" recently, since some lame college D.J. walked off with about half my punk record collection some years ago. I've been trying to rebuild it when I see missing vinyl. I also found a Killing Joke remix single with "Eighties" on it.

The playlist for today is: Dirty Talker, The Damned, The Saints, LA Witch, Johnny Thunders, The Disposables, Flipper, Detroit Cobras, Poppy, Drive Like Jehu, Ex Hex, Aleister X, Truman's Water, Magazine, Ignition, The Julie Ruin, Nation of Ulysses, Creem Circus, Angry Samoans, Void, Off!, The Faith, Halfwit, Purling Hiss, Mojave Lords, and Killing Joke.

Thanks for tuning in!

Doc Rockavoy

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Autodidact

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Welcome to Episode 45 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I got some new albums recently, used and new, and thought I'd do a new show. We emerged from a brutally cold winter, and it must be over since it's been 70 degrees or so all week. Good time to share some tunes.

I've been re-reading a bunch of punk rock histories of the U.S. and England lately, and it has been interesting thinking about how shitty the period 1975 to 1992 was in the West, with the rise of the New Right and the last gasp of the consensus over the liberal welfare state. It's no wonder punk rock and its offshoots started at that time; kids who graduated high school or college worked shit jobs and had no future, so why not nihilistically tell the older generations to "f*ck off?" The way things are today, I see this coming around again. The youth are our future.

Today I thought I'd put on some new records, like the new Viet Cong disc, which is really exciting, much as The Fall was exciting. I put on this Stiv Bators solo record I found, and he was in the Dead Boys if you don't know. I found my Unrest record, and I forgot how heavy they were. I also put on a few local items, from Sputnik Kaputnik and Twinsmith, two great Nebraska bands of dozens of great bands here. There's also some weird stuff like 9353, Zomes; and Reptile House.

The show is about 98 minutes.

The playlist is: Sonic's Rendezvous Band; Viet Cong; Swervedriver; Lush, 9353; The Pupils; Drive Like Jehu; Come; Thee Hypnotics; Cheetahs; Slant 6; The Dirtbombs; Stiv Bators; Savages; Sputnik Kaputnik; Debris'; Bardo Pond; Zomes; Lungfish; Government Issue; Lungfish; Kraut; Embrace; Kraut; Reptile House; Rites of Spring; Twinsmith; Unrest; Lush; and Articles of Faith.

Thanks for tuning in!

Doc Rockavoy