http://www.archive.org/details/HowToHandleARope
Welcome to Episode 27 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I thought I'd put on some more garage rock today, since it's the holiday season and garage rock is like home-cooked, comfort food. As always, independent rock and roll is always the best, even though a few tracks were released on big labels, but not many.
A couple of highlights on the show is Bardo Pond's "Capillary River," off the Bufo Alverius album on Drunken Fish Records. There's also "Girl Violence" by The State, an Ann Arbor punk band and the single was mixed by Ron Asheton. There's great track by Norman OK band Broncho called "Psychitrist" and this album is rapidly becoming my favorite album of the recent past. It is a must have.
The playlist for today is: Swervedriver, Scream, Come, Rites of Spring, 18th Dye, Broncho, Queens of the Stone Age, Zen Guerilla, Zombie vs. Shark, Minor Threat, The Swirlies, Bardo Pond, Flying Saucer Attack, Mazzy Star, Lungfish, Jimi Hendrix, Articles of Faith, The State, The Zeros, MC5, Detroit Cobras, and Slant 6.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Drop the Bomb
http://www.archive.org/details/DropTheBomb
Welcome to Episode 26 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I thought I'd play some R & B music today of various sorts, Acid Jazz, Jazz, Funk, Garage Psychedelia, Ska, and other stuff since the show has been too heavy on punk rock lately. There's a great confluence of R & B and rock on some of the tracks, so it fits the format of my show.
I decided to put on some James Blood Ulmer, a very influential acid jazz guitarist that needs to be more acknowledged in the rock community (he should have been included in Rolling Stone's recent "100 Greatest Guitar Player" poll!!). I also decided to put on some Fishbone, which was a great ska-rock band from Los Angeles, recently profiled as being influential in the New York Times. I put on some Don Byas, and couldn't resist a track of "Silver Bells" off the Johnny Mathis Christmas album, to get into the season's spirit. There's also a track from Hot Cold Sweat, one of the great D.C. go-go bands.
The playlist for today is: James Blood Ulmer, Beefeater, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Levine, Don Byas, Love Revisited, Fishbone, The Dirtbombs, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Johnny Mathis, The English Beat, Fenton Robinson, Jimi Hendrix, Charles Mingus, Desmond Dekkar, and James Blood Ulmer.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 26 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I thought I'd play some R & B music today of various sorts, Acid Jazz, Jazz, Funk, Garage Psychedelia, Ska, and other stuff since the show has been too heavy on punk rock lately. There's a great confluence of R & B and rock on some of the tracks, so it fits the format of my show.
I decided to put on some James Blood Ulmer, a very influential acid jazz guitarist that needs to be more acknowledged in the rock community (he should have been included in Rolling Stone's recent "100 Greatest Guitar Player" poll!!). I also decided to put on some Fishbone, which was a great ska-rock band from Los Angeles, recently profiled as being influential in the New York Times. I put on some Don Byas, and couldn't resist a track of "Silver Bells" off the Johnny Mathis Christmas album, to get into the season's spirit. There's also a track from Hot Cold Sweat, one of the great D.C. go-go bands.
The playlist for today is: James Blood Ulmer, Beefeater, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Levine, Don Byas, Love Revisited, Fishbone, The Dirtbombs, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Johnny Mathis, The English Beat, Fenton Robinson, Jimi Hendrix, Charles Mingus, Desmond Dekkar, and James Blood Ulmer.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Bad Fun
http://www.archive.org/details/BadFun
Welcome to Episode 25 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I've been playing a lot of gigs this fall with my band, Zombie vs. Shark, and I decided to put on some underground rock and roll, and some not so underground rock and roll, since we keep being booked with some over-dramatic, self-absorbed, and (rude) Lo-Fi type bands that have made it imperative to make rock and roll totally lame and boring, a mix between Wonder Bread and the Lawrence Welk Show (OK, maybe the silly Fleetwood Mac would suffice?). I've noticed that a lot of bands that we play gigs with are kind of over-into themselves and narcissistic. They also have so much stupid, ineffectual musical gear, it takes them 45 minutes to set up, and nothing is added to their sound (think the lame band, The Killers, gag!!). This is a bad trend for independent rock and roll, since the bedfock of rock and roll in Blues, R & B, and also Soul Music is sex; rhythms and grooves that make you shake your a - -! Your band either has "it," or not, period! So I thought I'd put some stuff on today that does just that.
In the 1990s, when "Lo-Fi" music reigned, it was very boring to go to shows that were not punk rock or garage rock gigs, since those Lo-Fi bands were boring from the sexy point-of-view, as many were just too serious for having fun. Stiffling was the word for it. It was really too serious, and that's why I tended to go to the Go-Go music joints in North Philly when I lived there; it was the only place to find some rhythmic music (for those of you that don't know what Go-Go music is, it's funk/R & B mixed with Black Power politics, with a dash of the emerging MC/DJ music back in the early 1970s).
I put some Meatmen on today, off the War of the Superbikes album, which was some kick-a - - rock and roll parody. There's also some Thee Hypnotics, the Cult's Electric, and Circus Lupus on here as well. I also put on some local Norman OK band like Shitty/Awesome and Brocho's album, Can't Get Past the Lips (that is, the way OK music is only connected to the Flaming Lips), which is one of the best albums I've ever heard in the underground (going back to 1980). OKC area garage rock bands are really the best in the country at the moment, with no major label sellouts, and oodles of vinyl releases. It's the next "scene" to be devoured by the vulture corporate record industry, mark my word on that. There's a track from the DC band Trouble Funk as well.
The playlist, in order, for today is: The Meatmen, Turbonegro, Thee Hypnotics, The Cult, Scream, MC5, Broncho, Straw Dogs, Junkyard, The Cult, Circus Lupus, Rocket from the Crypt, Detroit Cobras, The Make-Up, Slant 6, Truman's Water, Bardo Pond, Shitty/Awesome, Rocket from the Crypt, Green River, Reptile House, Lungfish, Egghunt, Pailhead, Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr., My Bloody Valentine, Girls vs. Boys, Edie Sedgewick, The Customs 5, Trouble Funk, Portishead, Killing Joke, Skull Defekts, Drive Like Jehu, Swervedriver, Embrace, The FU's, Sorry, Marginal Man, The Adolescents, TSOL, The Zeros, The Freeze, Volcano Suns, and The Cramps.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 25 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I've been playing a lot of gigs this fall with my band, Zombie vs. Shark, and I decided to put on some underground rock and roll, and some not so underground rock and roll, since we keep being booked with some over-dramatic, self-absorbed, and (rude) Lo-Fi type bands that have made it imperative to make rock and roll totally lame and boring, a mix between Wonder Bread and the Lawrence Welk Show (OK, maybe the silly Fleetwood Mac would suffice?). I've noticed that a lot of bands that we play gigs with are kind of over-into themselves and narcissistic. They also have so much stupid, ineffectual musical gear, it takes them 45 minutes to set up, and nothing is added to their sound (think the lame band, The Killers, gag!!). This is a bad trend for independent rock and roll, since the bedfock of rock and roll in Blues, R & B, and also Soul Music is sex; rhythms and grooves that make you shake your a - -! Your band either has "it," or not, period! So I thought I'd put some stuff on today that does just that.
In the 1990s, when "Lo-Fi" music reigned, it was very boring to go to shows that were not punk rock or garage rock gigs, since those Lo-Fi bands were boring from the sexy point-of-view, as many were just too serious for having fun. Stiffling was the word for it. It was really too serious, and that's why I tended to go to the Go-Go music joints in North Philly when I lived there; it was the only place to find some rhythmic music (for those of you that don't know what Go-Go music is, it's funk/R & B mixed with Black Power politics, with a dash of the emerging MC/DJ music back in the early 1970s).
I put some Meatmen on today, off the War of the Superbikes album, which was some kick-a - - rock and roll parody. There's also some Thee Hypnotics, the Cult's Electric, and Circus Lupus on here as well. I also put on some local Norman OK band like Shitty/Awesome and Brocho's album, Can't Get Past the Lips (that is, the way OK music is only connected to the Flaming Lips), which is one of the best albums I've ever heard in the underground (going back to 1980). OKC area garage rock bands are really the best in the country at the moment, with no major label sellouts, and oodles of vinyl releases. It's the next "scene" to be devoured by the vulture corporate record industry, mark my word on that. There's a track from the DC band Trouble Funk as well.
The playlist, in order, for today is: The Meatmen, Turbonegro, Thee Hypnotics, The Cult, Scream, MC5, Broncho, Straw Dogs, Junkyard, The Cult, Circus Lupus, Rocket from the Crypt, Detroit Cobras, The Make-Up, Slant 6, Truman's Water, Bardo Pond, Shitty/Awesome, Rocket from the Crypt, Green River, Reptile House, Lungfish, Egghunt, Pailhead, Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr., My Bloody Valentine, Girls vs. Boys, Edie Sedgewick, The Customs 5, Trouble Funk, Portishead, Killing Joke, Skull Defekts, Drive Like Jehu, Swervedriver, Embrace, The FU's, Sorry, Marginal Man, The Adolescents, TSOL, The Zeros, The Freeze, Volcano Suns, and The Cramps.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Monday, November 7, 2011
World of Blue
http://www.archive.org/details/WorldOfBlue
Welcome to Episode 24 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to put on some mellow psychedelia and kind of dark Americana for today, as the fall is underway and winter is upon us at the moment. I start traveling this week for work, and also for my band's record release party in Norman, OK this weekend and wanted to squeeze another episode for November.
I put on a lot of Mark Lanegan, who along with Tom Waits, is probably one the greatest American composers, period, as well has his guitarist, Mike Johnson. I was talking to my friends Chris and Jeff this weekend, and it was agreed that both songwriters are in a category of their own. There is also a track by a Philadelphia band called Eltro, which was a project by my old friend Diana Prescott. I also put on a tune by Spain, which my old friend Evan Hartzell played drums for.
The playlist for today is: The Doors, Mazzy Star, Flying Saucer Attack, Eltro, Tone Ambient Metals, Spain, Mark Lanegan, Swervedriver, Come, Flying Saucer Attack, Mark Lanegan, Flying Saucer Attack, Mark Lanegan, Lush, Elysian Fields, Mike Johnson, Jessamine, and Mark Lanegan.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 24 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to put on some mellow psychedelia and kind of dark Americana for today, as the fall is underway and winter is upon us at the moment. I start traveling this week for work, and also for my band's record release party in Norman, OK this weekend and wanted to squeeze another episode for November.
I put on a lot of Mark Lanegan, who along with Tom Waits, is probably one the greatest American composers, period, as well has his guitarist, Mike Johnson. I was talking to my friends Chris and Jeff this weekend, and it was agreed that both songwriters are in a category of their own. There is also a track by a Philadelphia band called Eltro, which was a project by my old friend Diana Prescott. I also put on a tune by Spain, which my old friend Evan Hartzell played drums for.
The playlist for today is: The Doors, Mazzy Star, Flying Saucer Attack, Eltro, Tone Ambient Metals, Spain, Mark Lanegan, Swervedriver, Come, Flying Saucer Attack, Mark Lanegan, Flying Saucer Attack, Mark Lanegan, Lush, Elysian Fields, Mike Johnson, Jessamine, and Mark Lanegan.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Joyride
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.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
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.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
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.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
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