Fearfully and Wonderfully

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Welcome to Episode 32 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's the third longest day of the year, so to instigate suspended animation of the time/space continuum, I put on a bunch of psychedelia and mopey, depressing tunes to make the long days of summer last. It's been nice and quiet lately all around, and you can hear a pin drop in Lincoln at night. I've had a hiatus from gigging with my band, and started a new project in a more proper garage psychedelia mode, called "Red Cites" with some friends of mine. I also went back to my novel "Fishtown," and hope to finish that up this summer. I've traveled too much this spring and early summer, and am digging reconnecting with the actual place where I live.

On the show today, there's some tracks from early Bardo Pond albums, and a bunch of Flying Saucer Attack and Lungfish tunes. There's a rare track off the "lost" My Bloody Valentine album, tracks from collaborators Mark Lanegan and Mike Johnson, one of the great underground guitar players. I also put a track from Zomes on the show, and you'll have to figure out who that is. I put my favorite The Gardes tunes on, and they're probably the one of the best Oklahoma bands that you've never heard. There's a great track from White Denim, and if you haven't seen them, put that on your list of things to do.

As I've said before, if you like a recording artist on this show, lay down some cash and buy the band's album!!! Musicians need strings, food, drum heads, mike stands, and amp repairs...

The show is a whopping 149 minutes! The playlist for today is: The Gardes, Flying Saucer Attack, Mazzy Star, Swervedriver, Flying Saucer Attack, Lungfish, My Bloody Valentine, Flying Saucer Attack, The Pupils, White Denim, Television, Low, Bardo Pond, My Bloody Valentine, Lungfish, Mark Lanegan, Mazzy Star, Jimi Hendrix, Bardo Pond, Zomes, Embrace, Mike Johnson, The Smiths, Flying Saucer Attack, and Lungfish.

Thanks for tuning in!

Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Tear the Club Up

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Welcome to Episode 31 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I haven't been doing my shows too regularly the past 5 months, as my wife and I have been consumed with the after-effects of people we know who've died. Her mom died last October, and 5 of my close friends also died, one a month from August to December. It has been kind of weird to process it, by myself, so I used my health insurance to get a therapist. Being in your 40's is great, but it also sucks because that's when people start to die. For sure, I was unprepared to deal with death the first time.

Enough of the macabre, gallows fare, all the people who died would want me to keep the music regular! Today's show has a lot of new vinyl, particularly The Dirtbombs new album, "Party Store." You need to get this one if you like garage soul. I also put a track from Zomes, which is Asa Osbourne's solo project, who played guitar in Lungfish. The also a track from the Lungfish "ACR 1999" album, which were tracks done in the  Baltimore studio that were never released. The material from that session became "Necrophones" under Ian MacKaye and Don Zientara at Inner Ear Studios. It's raw, so you need to have it in your collection. I also threw some White Denim, Shitty/Awesome, Broncho, and the infamous Detroit band Death on there today as well.

I do have a podcast microphone, but I use it for recording my songwriting, so no boring narration on the show, still!!!

The playlist for today is: Broncho, MC5, Velvet Underground, Zombie vs. Shark, Death, Queens of the Stone Age, The Cult, The Dirtbombs, Blondie, Jawbox, Zombie vs. Shark, 3, The Damned, My Bloody Valentine, Lungfish, MC5, Turbonegro, Shitty/Awesome, The Dirtbombs, Zomes, White Denim, and Lungfish. The show is about 70 minutes long.

Thanks for tuning in, and see you next week!!

Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

OKC, or the new Detroit Garage Rock City

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Welcome to Episode 30 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I haven't been posting show much lately, since the spring was very stressful and busy, and I was traveling alot. Now it's all over, and I can finally settle in for the year. However, on my various travels this late winter and spring, I was able to buy quite a bit of quality vinyl, and this is what I play exclusively on this show, in case you are curious. There's no digital tracks on the podcast, only vinyl.

I did get a cassette tape MP3 player, so cassettes will be allowable in the future, since they are also making a comeback due to record pirates.

I just returned from two weeks of travel, one week in Philadelphia for work; the other week to Norman, Oklahoma for the Norman Music Festival. I got to see Broncho, the Oklahoma garage rock wiz kids, play at Kung Fu Necktie in Philadelphia, which was pretty exciting because it was my only night off. KFNT is in my old neighborhood, Fishtown, where I lived for 9 years and on which I'm writing a novel. It was up on north Front Street, near all the old neighborhood bars where I used to run pool tables. It was interesting since the neighborhood is now totally gentrified. At least it was hassle free walking up Front Street at night, but its essential grit is now a thing of the past!

Broncho rocked their set to a very unenthusiastic and perpetually, emotionally-detached Philadelphia indy music audience. Not much has changed about the indy music scene in Philly in 20 years: the indy music crowd seems still jaded and unenthusiastic, no doubt, due to most downtown Philadelphians background: white, suburban or smalltown, over-privileged. Nonetheless, Broncho didn't let that fact impede their roaring set of anthemic, late 70s garage punk. Some liken them to the Ramones, but I think they sound closer to the Detroit band Death, The Zeros, or the early The Damned, maybe with a little Television thrown in, which I have on my podcast today. I asked them how their tour had been going, and they indicated it was very well, especially in New York. These guys just charge, so you need to buy their album.

After that, I was in Norman to prepare for the Norman Music Festival 5 and to work for 3 days before the festival, and there's a large, critical mass of very good garage rock bands, The Boom Bang, The Copperheads, Shitty/Awesome, Zombie vs. Shark, John Wayne's Bitches, Debris' and others. It really is the new Detroit in terms of garage rock bands, and they are all putting out vinyl on their small indy labels. Even more than that, the indy music crowd is highly, if not overly-enthusiastic about loud guitar music. There's no folded arms out in the audience! It's just a matter of time until the rest of the country figures that out, it's super outgoing and non-rational, which is the necessary ingredient for garage rock.

The playlist for today is: Death, Zombie vs. Shark, Broncho, The Who, Debris', The Dirtbombs, Wayne Kramer, Queens of the Stone Age, The Mean Spirits, Shitty/Awesome, The Boom Bang, The Copperheads, Winter Boys, Ryan Lindsey, Beau Jennings, The MC5, Government Issue, The Zeros, Beastie Boys, Mission of Burma, The Dirtbombs, Zombie vs. Shark, White Denim, Mark Lanegan, and Desert Sessions.

The show is about 75 minutes.

Thanks for tuning in!

Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

41 n 93 w

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Welcome to episode 29 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's been a couple of months since I posted a show, and there is a lot of psychedelic space rock today. I've been absent from doing shows recently, since the sadness of 5 close friends having passed away since last August. It has caused me to overly contemplate mortality and life lately, and that has not been enjoyable to say the least. I think I'm feeling better about it all, so I thought I'd put on some joyous psychedelia to remember them all. Sorry to be so macabre!

Sometimes I play songs from previous podcasts when they fit the mood of one of my shows, so there are some repeats mixed in here, but not too many. I really always liked the bands that the producer and engineer Alan Moulder worked with, so I put on some My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver in honor of that. The first track is off the "lost tracks" album by My Bloody Valentine. This was the fabled "never completed album" that everyone was waiting for, and I like it alot. There'a also some Flying Saucer Attack on the show, and I like it when they re-record different versions of songs. The mixing and mastering of their music is really amazing. I put on The Byrds as well, since I'm getting tired of our country being at war.

The playlist for today is: My Bloody Valentine, Bardo Pond, Lungfish, Flying Saucer Attack, Mazzy Star, Portishead, Swervedriver, My Bloody Valentine, The Byrds, Come, Bardo Pond, Killing Joke, The Dream Syndicate, Television, Catherine Wheel, Band of Susans, Lungfish, Flying Saucer Attack, and Lungfish.

The show is just over 100 minutes.

Thanks for tuning in!

Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Plastic Surgery Kept Her Beautiful

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Welcome to Episode 28 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I took a little hiatus from podcasting over the the holidays, since we had record winter temperatures in the 50s for the past 3 weeks. Did some stuff, like painted the kitchen for my wife; hung out at the skateboard park with my son; and cleaned up my yard. I haven't had to pull out the Carhart suit yet to walk to work, and it's almost February!

I decided to play some punk and hardcore music today, with some pop punk thrown in here and there (who doesn't appreciate The Snakes fascination with 60s guitar pop?). Some of the highlights today are the band Inch, from San Diego, live at the Casbah. My old friend Dave Heppler played drums for them. I also put on some Green River, and there's a track from the Philadelphia band Mothra. There's also tracks from Broncho, Truman's Water, and a band we used to gig with called Sweep the Leg Johnny.

There's a static electricity "hiss" on the show. It's been really dry in Nebraska lately, and I couldn't eliminate the static on the turntable, but it's punk rock, so it already hisses anyway!

The playlist for today is: Minor Threat, Inch, Kingface, Christ on a Crutch, Sweep the Leg Johnny, Adolescents, Broncho, The Putters, Lungfish, Fire Party, Truman's Water, Edie Sedgwick, The Zeros, Green River, Drive Like Jehu, Meat Puppets, Fugazi, SNFU, Mothra, Government Issue, Band of Susans, Scream, The Minutemen, The Holy Rollers, The Make-Up, The Snakes, Youth Brigade, MIA, Genocide, Killing Joke, Cripped Pilgrims, Dag Nasty, 7 Seconds, and Minor Threat.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

How to Handle a Rope

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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

Drop the Bomb

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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