45 Revolutions Per Lifetime

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Welcome to Episode 17 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I took a week off the podcast, since the heatwave broke and the weather is so nice you can actually go outside. While I was confined to the house, I read the Sunday New York Times more carefully than I usually do, and read this inane article about "Generation X" and "nostalgia." You can pretty much expect that a pop culture writer for the NYT doesn't know much about underground culture stuff, since they all come from Ivy League journalism programs. The only thing I know about "Generation X" was that they were a great British punk band, and that it's a corporate marketing niche for people between 33-44. I didn't have a TV for 15 years, so I never saw the movie Singles, I just read about it in a magazine once?

The writer commented on pop culture recycling, and how this generation is recycling its young adult years, evidenced by the reunion of bands like the Pixies and whatnot, and being into pinball machines and old video games like Space Invaders. I thought it was pretty lame, since it focused mostly on music, and the writer seemed to me the kind that went to boarding school, then an Ivy League College, and learned who Richard Hell and Television were in 2003 or something like that.

There was alot of music published between 1982 and 1991 that this writer manque doesn't know about, since they were probably into either Men Without Hats or Bon Jovi, or some combination of Big Country and A-Ha. Well, I decided I had to roll out the rest of my singles collection to make sure to distinguish between commercial "nostaglia" as this writer would have it, and real uncommodified punk and garage rock. As Craig Steyck said about commercial skateboards circa 1977, "Dogtown wasn't interested in garbagey generic skateboards, it was about innovation." I feel the same about non-commercially published music. Innovative sounds are like artistic modernism, they break new ground. All these albums on the podcast today kind of do that, and nothing has come along since, they are all still viable projects with plenty of space for any younger takers to realize the project.

45 Revolutions Per Minute, and more to come!!

The one highlight today is a 30 minute tune by Bardo Pond, on a split 12" single with Subarachnoid Space, published by an indy label in Australia. There's alot of San Diego and Philly indy punk as well.

The playlist for today is: Jodie Foster's Army, Meat Puppets, Minor Threat, The Putters, Zen Guerilla, Contra Guerra, The King James Version, POD (the Philly one), Pavement, Contra Guerra, Edsel, Emma, Shudder to Think, Reflex From Pain, Rocket From the Crypt, Jawbox, The State, Mothra, Toxic Reasons, Bardo Pond, Swiz, Rocket From the Crypt, Slant 6, The Conrads, Chincilla, Pee, Sweep the Leg Johnny, Helicopter, Government Issue, Bardo Pond, Roy Montgomery, Bardo Pond, Strapping Fieldhands, Title Tracks, Mike Johnson, Ashtabula, and Volcano Suns.

A whopping 135 minutes!

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Summer Fun and Bubblegum

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Welcome to Episode 16 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I thought I would play a bunch of 80s bubblegum pop, interspersed with some punk and gloomy solo artists like Mark Lanegan and Mike Johnson, and also English shoegazer bands, since it's the summertime and brutally hot lately on the Great Plains. I originally started the podcast in the wintertime, since the brutally cold weather had us confined to the house. Now it's too hot to go outside, with heat indexes around 115 degree! No wonder Nebraska fiction is so psychically gloomy, this is an indoor environment for certain.....

One of the highlights on the show is a rare Killing Joke 10" LP called "Ha Ha," recorded in Toronto in 1982. I put a couple of tracks from the band Lush, which had a cool punky sound, but never got as big as some of the other noise rock bands in England at the time.

The playlist for today, in order: The Go-Go's, The Snakes, Debris', The Cramps, The Stray Cats, The Beach Boys, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Police, The Kaleidescope, Television, Turbonegro, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Killing Joke, One Last Wish, Portishead, REM, Big Star, Emmylous Harris, Mike Johnson, Mark Lanegan, The Police, The Cure, The Pretenders, The Smiths, Lush, My Bloody Valentine, Friends of Dean Martinez, and Lush.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Trance States in Tongues

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Welcome to Episode 15 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! With the intense heat wave plaguing the country, I decided to play a bunch of sonic, repetitive guitar music ranging from psychedelia to noise rock to coincide with the daze that most people are likely experiencing the last month or so. I've walked around Lincoln in a heat stupor for weeks now. For the homebound, I hope the show will give everyone something to do.

And don't forget to add each and every one of these albums to your record collection!

Some of the highlights on today's show are a bunch of E.P.'s and singles by The Swirlies, Swervedriver, and My Bloody Valentine from my record collection. There's not a lot of copies of them circulating around, and most people who bought these bands' full-length L.P.'s don't necessarily have these E.P.s. I put two, long tracks from the Harmony of the Spheres album, which features Flying Saucer Attack, Jessamine, Roy Montgomery, Bardo Pond, and Loren M. Connors. It's kind of rare, and I hope people will dig it.

There's also a great track by The Gardes, from Ponca City, Oklahoma, and the garagey demo track of "Fall" by Dag Nasty, which was the recording before Wig Out at Denkos, which I like much better since it sounds looser and more rackety. There a live track of the Dream Syndicate on here, too.

The show is a whopping 165 minutes! The playlist today, in order, is: Swervedriver, Mercury Rev, Swirlies, My Bloody Valentine, Zen Guerilla, Lush, Come, Propellerheads, Dream Syndicate, Calexico, Flying Saucer Attack, Jessamine, The Gardes, Swervedriver, Dag Nasty, Rountineers, Sponge, Snowpony, Flying Saucer Attack, Swervedriver, My Bloody Valentine, Come, Mazzy Star, Mark Lanegan, Flying Saucer Attack, Swervedriver, Lush, Jane's Addiction, The Doors, and Swervedriver.

If someone guesses which album the show is named after today, I'll send you a free Zombie vs. Shark album and a t-shirt, just send me your address.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Nancy Boys, Your Mom, and Other Debris'

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Welcome to Episode 14 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! Today I decided to play a bunch of old punk rock, and weird new wave stuff, and also shoegazer noise music. Now that I'm on episode 14, I want to remind listeners of one thing:

BE SURE TO ALSO BUY THESE INDY ALBUMS, AND ADD THEM TO YOUR RECORD COLLECTION!!!

The recording artists would appreciate it!

Some notable spins on the podcast are two tracks from the Chickasha, Oklahoma band Debris', who were a pioneering 1970s punk/new band that kind of defies musical categories. I recommend purchasing their album, Static Disposal, on Anopheles Records. Another great spin today is by the Norman, Oklahoma band Your Mom, which urges pundits on T.V. to stop talking. Who can argue with that?

Two other notable track are the "Sellout Song" by Minor Threat, the mysterious "5th track" on side two of Out Step. There is a cover of "American Band" by The FUs at the end of the second side of My America. This album was produced by legendary Lou Giordano, who brought forth many Boston punk and hardcore/post-hardcore bands.

I've been away on vacation, finally, this summer and I'll try to keep the shows regular from here on out.

I've decided to not have a podcast microphone at all, so this is last mention about it!

The playlist for today, in order, is: Debris', Untouchables, Dream Syndicate, The Minutemen, State of Alert, Green River, Sick Pleasure, Group Image, The Damned, Killing Joke, My Bloody Valentine, Sorry, Void, Embrace, Drive Like Jehu, French Toast, Minor Threat, Black Eyes, Lungfish, Swervedriver, Dinosaur, Jr., Reptile House, Keith Levene, Jimi Hendrix, Beefeater, The FUs, Dag Nasty, Hot Snakes, Ignition, Your Mom, Spacemen 3, Swirlies, Skull Defekts, Edie Sedgewick, Kraut, Q and Not U, Husker Du, and Debris'.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

North of the Sunset

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Welcome to Episode 13 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's been a strange week weather and otherwise, so I thought I'd play some jazz and reggae/ska/dub records. I enjoyed peeling into this side of my record collection that I don't listen to often. After having lived in Philadelphia for ten years, there's a lot of Afro-Carribbean music crosscurrenting through that music scene in so many ways, it's almost a civic duty as a Philadelphian to have this stuff in your record collection. It's good medicine for where I live.

Some highlights on the show are Charles Mingus, one of America's greatest composers, as well Linton Kwesi Johnson, the writer, poet, and music activist. I decided to throw something from the first English Beat album, which was very good.

Still no podcast microphone......!

The playlist for today, in order, is: Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, The Lounge Lizards, Sonny Rollins, Oscar Peterson Trio, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Miles Davis, Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Flames (guess who they really are!), The English Beat, LKJ, The Melodians, Harry Belafonte, Pete Fountain, Miles Davis, and Stan Getz Quartet (live).

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Volcano Trash

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Welcome to Episode 12 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! In trying to rotate some new material into the podcast for today, I included some of the "scum punk" and "trash punk" records in my collection, records I don't usually listen to, but have archival value as documents of the underground music scene. For example, I included Fear for this episode, but didn't like them at all in the early 1980s and never went to their shows. All my friends thought they were "sell-outs," and they tended to attract all the jocks and other goons that had just been introduced to punk rock. I felt the same way about Black Flag and other big bands like the Dead Kennedy's. I like those bands, but their shows had too much violence, so I tended to listen to the more musical or political bands in the punk underground.

I included a couple of tracks from some Philly bands, The Dead Milkmen and the Serial Killers. Also, there's a song by Spacemen 3 and my friend Eric LaValle gave me that album, which was on Bomp Records on clear vinyl. I couldn't resist to put on "Strutter" off the Kiss Alive! album, kind of a period piece.

I still don't have a podcast microphone, and probably won't get one anytime soon!

The playlist for today is: M.I.A., Beefeater, Fear, S.N.F.U., Embrace, The FU's, Gray Matter, Die Kreuzen, Turbonegro, Live Skull, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Magazine, The Dead Milkmen, Serial Killers, Spacemen 3, The Velvet Underground, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Unrest, Kiss, Rocket From the Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, Skull Defekts, The Lemonheads, Husker Du, Fugazi, The Smiths, The High Back Chairs, Slant 6, Lucero, Band of Susans, and Swervedriver.

Thanks for tuning in, and enjoy!

Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Me, Willie, My Dog, Thalia, My Cat, and Twangy Guitars

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Welcome to Episode 11 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I've missed a couple of weeks lately, mostly just working on my house during the weekends while Tab and Spence are away. It has been a little boring with them away, so I've tried to keep myself busy. A couple of weeks ago, my dad sent me a package with a bunch of Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard 7" 45s, so I put a couple on for today. The show has a lot of twangy guitar music, jangly, distorted, ringing, and just plain "twangy." Maybe it's because I've been talking to my dog and cat for the last 8 weeks, primarily, and need to get out more often.



There's a track by an old Philly band, The Strapping Fieldhands, since I had their old single. There's also a track by my band, Zombie vs. Shark, called "Cold Machine," which will appear on a split single next fall with one of our Norman band friends. It's the final mix, and the masters should be back soon.


The playlist for today is: Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, The Astronauts, Strapping Fieldhands, Come, Baker Street Irregulars, The Detroit Cobras, Volcano Suns, Zombie vs. Shark, Chris Brokaw, Mazzy Star, The Smiths, Fire Party, Scream, Tom Waits, Trouble Funk, Beastie Boys, Q and not U, The Cult, TSOL, Flying Saucer Attack, My Bloody Valentime, Flying Saucer Attack, Bardo Pond, and Lungfish.


Above is an old photo of Willie playing with my old band, Dona Sonora.

Thanks for tuning in, and see you next week!

Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy