http://www.archive.org/details/Joyride_607
Welcome to Episode 23 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's getting a little exciting in politics in the USA lately, with the Occupy Wall Street protestors all over the country. So I thought I'd put on some indy punk today to follow-up on the mood of the nation. There's alot of Detroit garage rock on the episode today, since it has a music tradition of being politically aware, no doubt, due to the MC5 and other bands of the late 60s and early 70s, but also that some of the great community organizing, like Solidarity Detroit, originated in that city.
There's a lot of indy bands from Norman, OK where I used to live on the show. The local bands there are pressing vinyl consistently these days, and the OKC area has really good garage bands at the moment. I also put on a tune by The Zeros, who were a great late 70s punk band from San Diego. The singer, Javier Escobedo, comes from an important music family (Alejandro; and Mario, of The Dragons). Robert Lopez, or "El Vez" was the lead guitar player in the band. I also threw on some Adolescents, one of the great Orange County early punk bands that captured disaffected youth in the early 1980s.
The playlist for today is: The Adolescents, The Replacements, The Zeros, The MC5, Copperheads, Crown Imperial, Zombie vs. Shark, Shitty/Awesome, Stardeath and the White Dwarfs, Colourmusic, Debris', The Stooges, Skewbald, Void, The Faith, Jawbox, The Teen Idles, The Dirtbombs, Das Damen, The MC5, The Dream Syndicate, Broncho, The Detroit Cobras, Rocket From the Crypt, Turbonegro, Government Issue, Code of Honor, Kraut, Gray Matter, Scream, Scab Cadillac, The Delta 72, Government Issue, Second Wind, The Magentlemen, Zen Guerilla, Gray Matter, Live Skull, The Putters, and The MC5.
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Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Down on the Street
http://www.archive.org/details/DownOnTheStreet
Welcome to Episode 22 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I've had a couple of people and also some friends ask where "Doc Rockavoy" came from. I explained it on the first episode. When I was a college professor in Stillwater, OK, my friend Brad Hayes, of Sharkbait Mag/Smash Skates, came up with the nickname while we were skateboarding alot. So I thought it would be funny to call my podcast by that name, since the bands on the podcast are like an education in early punk rock and indy music history.
I'll keep it brief, but I just read two band biographies recently, one of the MC5 and one of The Stooges, by Brent Callwood, and published by Wayne State University Press (in Detriot). I highly recommend them, and I decided to put on those bands' tunes today. There's alot of OKC garage rock on the show as well.
The playlist for today is: The Stooges, The MC5, The Dragons, American Ruse, JP5, The Goats, The Replacements, Sonic Youth, Channels, The Fluid, Splendorbin, 999, The Routineers, The Catheters, The Breeders, Queens of the Stone Age, The Bam Band, Mudhoney, Flipper, Johnny Thunders, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Disposables, Your Mom, The Meatmen, El Dorado, L7, and The Stooges.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 22 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I've had a couple of people and also some friends ask where "Doc Rockavoy" came from. I explained it on the first episode. When I was a college professor in Stillwater, OK, my friend Brad Hayes, of Sharkbait Mag/Smash Skates, came up with the nickname while we were skateboarding alot. So I thought it would be funny to call my podcast by that name, since the bands on the podcast are like an education in early punk rock and indy music history.
I'll keep it brief, but I just read two band biographies recently, one of the MC5 and one of The Stooges, by Brent Callwood, and published by Wayne State University Press (in Detriot). I highly recommend them, and I decided to put on those bands' tunes today. There's alot of OKC garage rock on the show as well.
The playlist for today is: The Stooges, The MC5, The Dragons, American Ruse, JP5, The Goats, The Replacements, Sonic Youth, Channels, The Fluid, Splendorbin, 999, The Routineers, The Catheters, The Breeders, Queens of the Stone Age, The Bam Band, Mudhoney, Flipper, Johnny Thunders, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Disposables, Your Mom, The Meatmen, El Dorado, L7, and The Stooges.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Class War
http://www.archive.org/details/ClassWar
Welcome of Episode 21 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to play alot of politically-energized punk rock from my collection today, as the economy sinks into a jobless recovery, and probably a 10-year cycle of very low growth and, thus, future opportunity (according to our leading economists). With high unemployment at 9.1% (thanks to Bush II), an ever-rising consumer price index, and a 30-year stagnation of wages and salaries, I thought it would be good to reflect through music some of the earlier musical commentary on the beginning of our current era. Young people all over the country are voicing their concern for the future this past year, and not through the Tea Party......but through progressive political organizations
I decided to kick off the show with Code of Honor's 45" single, What Are You Gonna Do?, which is a great anthem of disaffected youth from the Reagan Era. There is a great cover of The Dils "Class War" by Mission of Burma, a song that needs to be covered more often by punk rock bands. I threw on some Wayne Kramer, who has been out touring and playing gigs to support workers from the recent attacks on the American working class. And I threw on some Queens of the Stone Age tunes that reflect on the beginning of the Bush II era that laid the foundation to our current economic recession and imperialist quagmire in the Middle East.
In one sense, the show highlights our current economic and cultural Kondratiev Cycle. For those apolitical hipsters and inane "epistemological radicals" (part of the petit bourgeois entrepreneurship formations of the 1990s American academy), let the show hit you in the face like a home foreclosure, or your lost salary due to budget cuts. It's time for action and not talk!
The playlist for today is: Code of Honor, Government Issue, Mission of Burma, Lungfish, Wayne Kramer, Fugazi, State of Alert, MIA, Scream, Queens of the Stone Age, Kraut, Beefeater, Minor Threat, The Minutemen, Government Issue, Articles of Faith, Artificial Peace, The Faith, Turbonegro, Bad Religion, Unrest, Rocket From the Crypt, Queens of the Stone Age, and Killing Joke.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome of Episode 21 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to play alot of politically-energized punk rock from my collection today, as the economy sinks into a jobless recovery, and probably a 10-year cycle of very low growth and, thus, future opportunity (according to our leading economists). With high unemployment at 9.1% (thanks to Bush II), an ever-rising consumer price index, and a 30-year stagnation of wages and salaries, I thought it would be good to reflect through music some of the earlier musical commentary on the beginning of our current era. Young people all over the country are voicing their concern for the future this past year, and not through the Tea Party......but through progressive political organizations
I decided to kick off the show with Code of Honor's 45" single, What Are You Gonna Do?, which is a great anthem of disaffected youth from the Reagan Era. There is a great cover of The Dils "Class War" by Mission of Burma, a song that needs to be covered more often by punk rock bands. I threw on some Wayne Kramer, who has been out touring and playing gigs to support workers from the recent attacks on the American working class. And I threw on some Queens of the Stone Age tunes that reflect on the beginning of the Bush II era that laid the foundation to our current economic recession and imperialist quagmire in the Middle East.
In one sense, the show highlights our current economic and cultural Kondratiev Cycle. For those apolitical hipsters and inane "epistemological radicals" (part of the petit bourgeois entrepreneurship formations of the 1990s American academy), let the show hit you in the face like a home foreclosure, or your lost salary due to budget cuts. It's time for action and not talk!
The playlist for today is: Code of Honor, Government Issue, Mission of Burma, Lungfish, Wayne Kramer, Fugazi, State of Alert, MIA, Scream, Queens of the Stone Age, Kraut, Beefeater, Minor Threat, The Minutemen, Government Issue, Articles of Faith, Artificial Peace, The Faith, Turbonegro, Bad Religion, Unrest, Rocket From the Crypt, Queens of the Stone Age, and Killing Joke.
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Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Low Pressure Systems
http://www.archive.org/details/LowPressureSystems
Welcome to Episode 20 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to cue alot of psychedelia and space rock today, since my mood has been somewhat somber the past month or so. Many friends and family have passed or been very ill recently and I've been somewhat down. Through it all, there's been some new friends in my hometown that have kept my spirits up, and I can't thank them enough for their warmth and worldliness. I hope I can return the gestures. Summer disappeared quickly earlier this month, and fall temps have set the stage for the oncoming winter....
Some of the highlights on the show is a rare live 12" LP by Happy Go Licky, which was basically the band Rites of Spring after it broke up doing some more experimental-type noise rock. I also decided to put on some Experimental Audio Research, which was a collaboration headed by Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3, with Kevin Shields from MBV on some tracks. There is also a track from Mike Johnson, who played with Dinosaur Jr. and composed many of the Mark Lanegan albums with his great and spooky guitar work. Perfect tunes for the upcoming holidays this fall.
The show is a bit over 120 minutes. The playlist is: 18th Dye, Mazzy Star, Flying Saucer Attack, Opal, Bardo Pond, Lungfish, Flying Saucer Attack, Velvet Underground, Happy Go Licky, Debris', Dream Syndicate, Low, Flying Saucer Attack, Experimental Audio Research, Lungfish, Low, Experimental Audio Research, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Astronauts, Tom Waits, The Smiths, Mike Johnson, Government Issue, Soundgarden, Bardo Pond, Killing Joke, Hot Snakes, Broncho, and Zombie vs. Shark.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 20 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to cue alot of psychedelia and space rock today, since my mood has been somewhat somber the past month or so. Many friends and family have passed or been very ill recently and I've been somewhat down. Through it all, there's been some new friends in my hometown that have kept my spirits up, and I can't thank them enough for their warmth and worldliness. I hope I can return the gestures. Summer disappeared quickly earlier this month, and fall temps have set the stage for the oncoming winter....
Some of the highlights on the show is a rare live 12" LP by Happy Go Licky, which was basically the band Rites of Spring after it broke up doing some more experimental-type noise rock. I also decided to put on some Experimental Audio Research, which was a collaboration headed by Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3, with Kevin Shields from MBV on some tracks. There is also a track from Mike Johnson, who played with Dinosaur Jr. and composed many of the Mark Lanegan albums with his great and spooky guitar work. Perfect tunes for the upcoming holidays this fall.
The show is a bit over 120 minutes. The playlist is: 18th Dye, Mazzy Star, Flying Saucer Attack, Opal, Bardo Pond, Lungfish, Flying Saucer Attack, Velvet Underground, Happy Go Licky, Debris', Dream Syndicate, Low, Flying Saucer Attack, Experimental Audio Research, Lungfish, Low, Experimental Audio Research, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Astronauts, Tom Waits, The Smiths, Mike Johnson, Government Issue, Soundgarden, Bardo Pond, Killing Joke, Hot Snakes, Broncho, and Zombie vs. Shark.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Friday, September 16, 2011
Try Me Out Some Time
Welcome to Episode 19 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's been another weird month again, as I've been out of town and haven't been able to put up a new show recently. I was down rehearsing with my band in Norman, OK to write new material for a second full-length album over Labor Day, and managed to avoid college football hooliganism and all that goes with it. Recharged with hours of jamming with my bandmates, I thought I'd put on a bunch of punk and garage rock again, mixed in with some weird new wavey stuff, or underground pop music.
I decided to lead off with the Oklahoma band, Broncho, whose album is pretty rad and on Guestroom Records, which is the label run by the record store in Norman. If you get a chance to see their video of the song, "Try Me out Some Time," you'll see Ron Haas, our drummer, as the college professor in the video. Very funny and awesome, it's on YouTube. I put a track on from our new single, "Dogs and Guns," a left-wing country rock anthem about not getting along America. There's a video of that on YouTube as well, so check it out.
Other highlights on the show is a track from Kraut's first album, with Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols on guitar. Of course I had to play Code of Honor, and be sure to follow through on the recommendations of their monologue before the song. I had to throw on Junkyard's "Life Sentence," since Brian Baker is the best punk/rock guitarist in the world, and it's a fatalistic rock tune and that's what rock is all about.
There's a track from a very weird band called 9353 from Washington DC. If you can tell me which band the guitar player was in before 9353, I'll send you a free Zombie vs. Shark single. And you won't find the answer on Wikipedia! Good luck.....
The playlist is: Broncho, Turbonegro, Rocket from the Crypt, Fugazi, Lungfish, Edie Sedgewick, Zombie vs. Shark, The Dirtbombs, Das Damen, My Bloody Valentine, Lungfish, The Damned, Kraut, Code of Honor, Sick Pleasure, Scream, Hot Snakes, DYS, Nation of Ulysses, Kyuss, The Cult, Junkyard, Fire Party, The Detroit Cobras, 9353, Electric Love Muffin, Sonic Youth, Scream, Killing Joke, Lungfish, Dream Syndicate.
We're having a record release party for the Dogs and Guns/Wunderkind single at The Opolis in Norman, OK on November 12, with The Escatones and John Wayne's Bitches. Be sure to come out and see the show!
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Calle de Dolor y Otros Olvidados
http://www.archive.org/details/CalleDeDolorYOtrosOlvidados
Welcome to Episode 18 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to do a short show of only 65 minutes today, of country music and other music influenced by country music. Some people don't like country music, since people assume it is music of poor white people who are conservative, and is associated only with the Nashville music, corporate dream machinery.
However, country music is a blend of southern blues music from African American musicians, along with poor white people's folk music that mixed throughout the South and Southern Plains from the 1800s to the 1950s. There's even this brand of country music in California's Central Valley and Los Angeles that dates from the southern Black and Okie migration from 1920 to 1945. The origins of country music is closer in spirit to class consciousness, than any other factor. Listen to the lyrics: it's about mean bosses, working two jobs and not getting by, and of unobtainable dreams due to poverty and lack of privilege. Let's not forget that fact, and note what is probably "country-lite" being played on the radio today. Sorry folks, it just ain't country.
Some of the highlights on the show is Sonny Rollins jazz record, Way Out West, where he covers country standards with his quartet. There's also a Hank Williams tune off a weird 1950s "Country Hits" record I found in a thirft store. I decided to kick off the show with an old friends' project, called Slo-Mo, the album Novelty. It's Mike Brenner, from Philly, with D.J. Dozia, a colleague of King Britt. It's really wild stuff, just like the origins of country music.
The playlist for today is: Slo-Mo, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, The Cramps, Willie Nelson, Come, Hank Williams, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Patton, Buck Owens, Charlie Rich, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lucero, Come, Chris Brokaw, Mazzy Star, Come, The Smiths, Calexico, Friends of Dean Martinez, and The Gardes.
Thanks for tuning in!!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 18 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to do a short show of only 65 minutes today, of country music and other music influenced by country music. Some people don't like country music, since people assume it is music of poor white people who are conservative, and is associated only with the Nashville music, corporate dream machinery.
However, country music is a blend of southern blues music from African American musicians, along with poor white people's folk music that mixed throughout the South and Southern Plains from the 1800s to the 1950s. There's even this brand of country music in California's Central Valley and Los Angeles that dates from the southern Black and Okie migration from 1920 to 1945. The origins of country music is closer in spirit to class consciousness, than any other factor. Listen to the lyrics: it's about mean bosses, working two jobs and not getting by, and of unobtainable dreams due to poverty and lack of privilege. Let's not forget that fact, and note what is probably "country-lite" being played on the radio today. Sorry folks, it just ain't country.
Some of the highlights on the show is Sonny Rollins jazz record, Way Out West, where he covers country standards with his quartet. There's also a Hank Williams tune off a weird 1950s "Country Hits" record I found in a thirft store. I decided to kick off the show with an old friends' project, called Slo-Mo, the album Novelty. It's Mike Brenner, from Philly, with D.J. Dozia, a colleague of King Britt. It's really wild stuff, just like the origins of country music.
The playlist for today is: Slo-Mo, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, The Cramps, Willie Nelson, Come, Hank Williams, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Patton, Buck Owens, Charlie Rich, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lucero, Come, Chris Brokaw, Mazzy Star, Come, The Smiths, Calexico, Friends of Dean Martinez, and The Gardes.
Thanks for tuning in!!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Sunday, August 14, 2011
45 Revolutions Per Lifetime
http://www.archive.org/details/45RevolutionsPerLifetime
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!
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
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!
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
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