Sunday, March 26, 2017

Mythologies

Mythologies

Welcome to Episode 51 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! We had a dreary, rainy weekend so I decided it was time to put up another show. The show today tends towards psychedelia, experimental, space rock, and other ethereal types of music. Some of it is remarkable because it has no precedent in rock and roll and its compositional forms. However, you can hear the influence of jazz, R&B, and classical music compositions throughout the show made electric.

Many of the artists on the show who had begun making music in the late 80s/early 90s also do not tour extensively or play much anymore, since the proliferation of file-sharing, youtube, and other ways of making music available over the internet. They have full-time, day jobs. In many ways, this has undercut the basis of earnings and monthly income for recording artists, and has made it difficult for independent labels to continue and compete with the multi-integrated media corporations that control mass, musical taste in the United States and around the globe. Basically, music is currently in the "Era of Suck," and yes, I'm being judgmental because I'm not responsible for other people making crappy music, they are. Get past it and support independent music if you can.

As a result, I've made some improvements to my show page. To your Right, there is list of independent records labels, and some bigger music groups with subsidiary labels, where you can buy the Records/LPs that I play on my show. Every record on all my shows was recorded for the show, and I have a healthy collection approaching 1000 records. You have no excuse not to buy a cool record!

Fanzine writers once asked Ian MacKaye and Jello Biafra how they had so many records some years back. They replied, "we don't drink or do drugs, so I have a lot of records." Get your priorities straight and support your favorite bands and local bands.

On the show today is the new Preoccupations (ex-Vietcong) record that is just as stunning as their first LP "Vietcong." The first record, unnoted by any music journalist, was the great anti-war and socialist record of the 2010s, indeed 21st Century so far. How Pitchfork, Magnet, and its ilk missed this fact baffles me. I also put on some very local stuff like Aleister X, The Sinners, Purling Hiss, Broncho among others. I put on this wonderful cassette release by Jet Black  called "Dead Horse One" which has two great tracks, so check it out, it has a download.

The show is just pushing over 2 hours! The playlist for today is: Preoccupations, Broncho, Bardo Pond, Red Cities-ShaSha, Killing Joke, Jet Black, Kinski, Cheatahs, Aleister X, Lungfish, Vietcong, Kendra Smith, Lungfish, By Bloody Valentine, Flying Saucer Attack, The Sinners, Cheatahs, My Bloody Valentine, The Moon and the Melodies, Portishead, Mazzy Star, The Smiths, Flying Saucer Attack, The Smiths, Savages, and Purling Hiss.

Thanks for tuning in!

Doc Rockavoy