http://www.archive.org/details/GuitarsMayBringTheSun
Welcome to Episode 10 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Garage! This spring, the whole country seems to be inundated by late, wintry weather: rain, tornadoes, May snow, and just torrentially intense weather. I decided to call up the guitar gods and see if some high-energy garage rock and rhythmic underground music may bring the sun. I'm not feeling very editorial today, so I'll brief and hope the sun and warm weather may come out where you're at.
I still don't have a microphone, and like it very much!
The playlist today, in order, is: Zen Guerilla, The Dragons, The Swirlies, Built to Spill, SSD, The Teen Idles, Government Issue, Toxic Reasons, The Straw Dogs, Wayne Kramer, Come, The Dream Syndicate, Zen Guerilla, The Hot Snakes, Reptile House, The Cramps, The Dirtbombs, Thee Hypnotics, French Toast, Bad Religion, Rocket From the Crypt, The Fall, Scream, Red C, Jawbox, The Make-Up, Lungfish, 18th Dye, The Minutemen, Mazzy Star, TSOL, and The Police.
Thanks for tuning in, and see you next week!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
The Ides of May and Other Emotions
http://www.archive.org/details/TheIdesOfMayAndOtherEmotions
Welcome to Episode 9 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! This is one of my shorter shows, at about 65 minutes of music. The spring has been quite busy, and I've been away from home, I think, too much. For a middle-aged guy at 42, traveling seems to have taken its toll on me the last several weeks, as I've been to Norman to record new material with my band and play the Norman Music Festival, and gave the alumni lecture in the history department at UC Santa Cruz. Those trips were back to back, with short stops at home, and I've traveled alone. Too much time alone in my mind. At least when I go on tour with my band next week, I'll be with my best friends!
Traveling and being away from my wife and son is pretty hard, and I guess one of the things I realized while I was away, and now they are away, is that primarily I'm a dad and someone's husband, and not a book editor, writer, or guitarist. I would not have thought about that 5 years ago; now no matter how rewarding writing or music is, both are only OK, but hanging out with Tabby and Spencer is what I look forward to the most. I guess these longings and waiting for your family to come home is probably what most people do in their 40s, however, it's all quite new to me.
Well, enough of that, and I still don't have podcast microphone, which is just as well!
The playlist today is, in order: The Doors, Mark Lanegan, Flying Saucer Attack, The MC5, Debris', Jimi Hendrix, Lungfish, Swervedriver, El Dorado, The Pupils, Soccer Team, Zombie vs. Shark, Rites of Spring, Television, The Dream Syndicate, The Smiths, Lungfish.
Enjoy the show, and I'll be back in two weeks after the tour!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 9 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! This is one of my shorter shows, at about 65 minutes of music. The spring has been quite busy, and I've been away from home, I think, too much. For a middle-aged guy at 42, traveling seems to have taken its toll on me the last several weeks, as I've been to Norman to record new material with my band and play the Norman Music Festival, and gave the alumni lecture in the history department at UC Santa Cruz. Those trips were back to back, with short stops at home, and I've traveled alone. Too much time alone in my mind. At least when I go on tour with my band next week, I'll be with my best friends!
Traveling and being away from my wife and son is pretty hard, and I guess one of the things I realized while I was away, and now they are away, is that primarily I'm a dad and someone's husband, and not a book editor, writer, or guitarist. I would not have thought about that 5 years ago; now no matter how rewarding writing or music is, both are only OK, but hanging out with Tabby and Spencer is what I look forward to the most. I guess these longings and waiting for your family to come home is probably what most people do in their 40s, however, it's all quite new to me.
Well, enough of that, and I still don't have podcast microphone, which is just as well!
The playlist today is, in order: The Doors, Mark Lanegan, Flying Saucer Attack, The MC5, Debris', Jimi Hendrix, Lungfish, Swervedriver, El Dorado, The Pupils, Soccer Team, Zombie vs. Shark, Rites of Spring, Television, The Dream Syndicate, The Smiths, Lungfish.
Enjoy the show, and I'll be back in two weeks after the tour!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Spring Squall
http://www.archive.org/details/SpringSquall
Welcome to Episode 8 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to play lots of long play, psychedelic and space rock. Spring is coming too slowly and I thought a squall of feedbacky guitars and ephemeral space rock would bring forth warmer weather. I'm short for words today, so right to the playlist. There's alot of Flying Saucer Attack, one of my favorite bands.
The highlights of the show is a track by The Gardes that I really like, who are from Ponca City, Oklahoma and whose album, for me, is one of the best albums beginning to end I've ever listened to. Another highlight is the band Spain, from Los Angeles. Their first album was really cool, and Evan Hartzell, a friend and drummer I've played with, is on the kit. The last highlight is "Let My Children Hear Music," from my band, Zombie vs. Shark. It's an instrumental of utopian sound named after the great Charles Mingus album.
The show is a whopping 135 minutes! The playlist, in order: Flying Saucer Attack, Lungfish, Killing Joke, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, Jimi Hendrix, Bardo Pond, Swervedriver, Come, Portishead, Spain, The Gardes, Roy Montgomery, Zombie vs. Shark, My Bloody Valentine, Flying Saucer Attack, Low, Chris Brokaw, Experimental Audio Research, Lungfish, Flying Saucer Attack, Bardo Pond, Flying Saucer Attack.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
The Hard Stuff, Hedonism, Mopeyness, and You
Welcome to Episode 7 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! Spring has finally arrived with warm temperatures, and it's rock and roll season for the next couple of months, with Norman Music Festival 4 set for late April. For today's episode, we have a bunch of awesome OKC/Norman bands from its huge and radical garage rock music scene, who will play NMF 4 this year. This is the hard stuff, as Brother Wayne Kramer would call it, so give it a listen.
I decided to mix in some hedonistic 70s rock and psychedelia to pay homage to our ancestors of tripped out noise rock, and to always remember we walk in their footsteps. A little modesty about what we call "new music" is always in order. There is also some pop and mopey English new wave music in there, like the Cure, U2, and The Smiths. I love discordant and atonal guitar playing, and some of it is noisier than you think. Outside of Captain Sensible and Brian Baker, the guitarists Johnny Marr, Robert Smith, and John McGeogh (who eventually played in P.I.L.) are some of my favorites for their original approach to rock/pop.
One of the highlights on the show is the band Pee, from San Francisco. My grade school friend Jim Stanley's band from the early 1990s. Jim and I were really influenced by all this stuff. When I recorded the albums today, it was funny to see that The Go Go's, Cure, Siouxsie and Banshees, and Psychedelic Furs albums were mastered "hot" to take up almost all bandwith. These albums rock!
The line-up for today, in order: Glister, Shitty/Awesome, The Pretty Black Chains, Zombie vs. Shark, Psychotic Reaction, Junebug Spade, Klipspringer, The Boom Bang, Debris', Big Star, Sweet, Grand Funk Railroad, The Kaleidescope, Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds, The Smiths, The Go Go's, The Psychedelic Furs, The Cure, U2, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Police, Tommy Keene, REM, Pee, Lush, The Moon and the Melodies, Calexico, and Mazzy Star.
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, April 2, 2011
The Revolution Will be Hijacked....by Youth with Cassette Tapes
Welcome to Episode 6 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! For this episode, I have a DC heavy rotation of bands, with a little space and stoner rock thrown in the mix. When I selected the music for today, I realized that alot of my punk rock record collection is on cassette tapes, which was the older mode for music piracy when I grew up.
When I was a teenager, my friends and I used to buy records together, and given our meager cash, we would divide up the buying so we wouldn't duplicate our record purchases, knowing that we would record each other's records on cassette tapes. I bought alot of the DC and East Coast underground music, and my friend Kasey had all the West Coast and Midwest punk. Thus, I have no Misfits in my record collection, or the Circle Jerks, Battalion of Saints, Wasted Youth, and Adolescents, for example. My friend Johnny Reichard had a comprehensive collection of Brit punk, every Damned and UK Subs record. I will have to purchase a tape player that makes MP3's in the future to mix more into the rotation.
I still don't have a podcast microphone, which is just as well. Some highlights here are a new track by Crowds and Power entitled "Bad Actress," and a great band headed by Jack Gory from Philly called Scab Cadillac. Jack was really cool, and has since passed away, but was a true bohemian and punk rocker. I first met him at Silk City Lounge in the mid-1990s, and enjoyed his jovial and warm presence. He was a mix between a gnarly football player and Lord Byron, equally brute strength and poetic in his endeavors.
The last track by Sick Pleasure on this episode is a true dirge of punk.
The show is about 115 minutes. The playlist in order is: Minor Threat, Sick Pleasure, TSOL, Sorry, Gray Matter, Grand Mal, Second Wind, Aggression, Red C, Marginal Man, Reptile House, Kyuss, Ignition, Minutemen, Beefeater, Nation of Ulysses, Truman's Water, Articles of Faith, The Fall, Spacemen 3, Fugazi, Scab Cadillac, Delta 72, Zombie vs. Shark, Crowds and Power, Holy Rollers, The Snakes, Bluetip, Murder City Devils, Das Damen, The Cult, Queens of the Stone Age, Zen Guerilla, Scream, Fire Party, and Sick Pleasure.
Thank for tuning in, and I'll mix it up next week with some early 80s punk/pop!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Come on and Wake Up....to Big Guitars, Lo-Fi is Dead
http://www.archive.org/details/ComeOnAndWakeUp.......toBigGuitarsLo-fiIsDead
Welcome to Episode 5 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I didn't know what I might play in this new podcast, and all week I've felt like big, loud guitars, and that is mostly what's on the show today. Big loud guitars that are discordant and noisey, complex and ringing, and there's a little bit of ska/punk/funk in the beginning of the show. But it's time to return to big, loud, noisey guitars after the era 2000-2008, where Lo-Fi indy rock predominated, and people's politics were apathetic. I like some of the Lo-Fi scene, but it's now time for rackety big guitars and big cabinets, and the assertive politics that comes with it! As it was said, "Kick Out the Jams.....," you can fill in the blank.
I decided to start off the show with Mr. Roger's album, Come on and Wake Up, which is about as early 1970s as you can get, all good stuff for kids. I played a track off The Astronauts album, a surf rock band from the early 1960s, since my high school band teacher played guitar in the group. There's also a great track by the DC band, The Faith, which was released on blue vinyl no less. There's a nice rackety track of Swervedriver to end the show, recorded live. I had to play G.I. three times!
I still don't have a podcast microphone, so I'll keep my editorializing brief.
The playlist is about 85 minutes: Mister Rogers, The Astronauts, Lungfish, The Pretenders, Fishbone, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Minutemen, French Toast, The Damned, Government Issue, Dag Nasty, Dinosaur Jr., The Faith, Bad Religion, Jawbox, Soundgarden, One Last Wish, Government Issue, The Stooges, Beefeater, My Bloody Valentine, Flying Saucer Attack, Killing Joke, Government Issue, Gray Matter, Television, and Swervedriver.
Enjoy!
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to Episode 5 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I didn't know what I might play in this new podcast, and all week I've felt like big, loud guitars, and that is mostly what's on the show today. Big loud guitars that are discordant and noisey, complex and ringing, and there's a little bit of ska/punk/funk in the beginning of the show. But it's time to return to big, loud, noisey guitars after the era 2000-2008, where Lo-Fi indy rock predominated, and people's politics were apathetic. I like some of the Lo-Fi scene, but it's now time for rackety big guitars and big cabinets, and the assertive politics that comes with it! As it was said, "Kick Out the Jams.....," you can fill in the blank.
I decided to start off the show with Mr. Roger's album, Come on and Wake Up, which is about as early 1970s as you can get, all good stuff for kids. I played a track off The Astronauts album, a surf rock band from the early 1960s, since my high school band teacher played guitar in the group. There's also a great track by the DC band, The Faith, which was released on blue vinyl no less. There's a nice rackety track of Swervedriver to end the show, recorded live. I had to play G.I. three times!
I still don't have a podcast microphone, so I'll keep my editorializing brief.
The playlist is about 85 minutes: Mister Rogers, The Astronauts, Lungfish, The Pretenders, Fishbone, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Minutemen, French Toast, The Damned, Government Issue, Dag Nasty, Dinosaur Jr., The Faith, Bad Religion, Jawbox, Soundgarden, One Last Wish, Government Issue, The Stooges, Beefeater, My Bloody Valentine, Flying Saucer Attack, Killing Joke, Government Issue, Gray Matter, Television, and Swervedriver.
Enjoy!
Doc Rockavoy
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Episode 4: Paisley Underground, Feedback, and Other Technical Difficulties
http://www.archive.org/details/DocRockavoysIndyMusicGarageEpisode4-paisleyUndergroundFeedbackAnd
Welcome to the fourth episode of the Indy Music Garage! I grew up in Southern California, and other than the punk and hardcore scenes, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego had a garage psychedelia scene called the "Paisley Underground" that flourished in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was loosely connected to the punk/hardcore scene, but also quite distinct, since the 60s pop/psyche sound crossed over into more conventional pop tastes. But most of the scene was marked by noisey songwriting, distorted guitars, and lots of reverby feedback.
I finally figured out how to import MP3 files into my podcast program, and there will be some technical difficulties on this podcast until I master the technology. I have analog guitar equipment, so all this digital recording stuff is new to me.
On the podcast, there's two tracks by my old friend Dave Lorenz, who played bass in my band Dona Sonora from Philadelphia in the mid-1990s. His band Crowds and Power is from Brooklyn, New York, so check them out if you live there.
I still do not have a podcast microphone, which is just as well. The show is a whopping 155 minutes!
The bands listed in order are: Embrace, The Yo-Yo's, Rain Parade, The Dream Syndicate, The Velvet Underground, The Crippled Pilgrims, Opal, Mazzy Star, Television, Lungfish, The Cramps, Crowds and Power, Das Damen, 3, 9353, The Snakes, TSOL, Thee Hypnotics, Rites of Spring, Zombie vs. Shark, Edie Sedgewick, Mark Lanegan, Mike Johnson, The Pupils, Bardo Pond, Low, Lucero, Circus Lupus, Skin Yard, Green River, Ruin, The Hot Snakes, The Meatmen, Turbonegro, Mudhoney, Sonic Youth, The Detroit Cobras, Zombie vs. Shark, The Dirtbombs, The Volcano Suns, Mission of Burma, and The Golden Cups.
Next week, I will not know what's in store, so be sure to tune in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Welcome to the fourth episode of the Indy Music Garage! I grew up in Southern California, and other than the punk and hardcore scenes, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego had a garage psychedelia scene called the "Paisley Underground" that flourished in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was loosely connected to the punk/hardcore scene, but also quite distinct, since the 60s pop/psyche sound crossed over into more conventional pop tastes. But most of the scene was marked by noisey songwriting, distorted guitars, and lots of reverby feedback.
I finally figured out how to import MP3 files into my podcast program, and there will be some technical difficulties on this podcast until I master the technology. I have analog guitar equipment, so all this digital recording stuff is new to me.
On the podcast, there's two tracks by my old friend Dave Lorenz, who played bass in my band Dona Sonora from Philadelphia in the mid-1990s. His band Crowds and Power is from Brooklyn, New York, so check them out if you live there.
I still do not have a podcast microphone, which is just as well. The show is a whopping 155 minutes!
The bands listed in order are: Embrace, The Yo-Yo's, Rain Parade, The Dream Syndicate, The Velvet Underground, The Crippled Pilgrims, Opal, Mazzy Star, Television, Lungfish, The Cramps, Crowds and Power, Das Damen, 3, 9353, The Snakes, TSOL, Thee Hypnotics, Rites of Spring, Zombie vs. Shark, Edie Sedgewick, Mark Lanegan, Mike Johnson, The Pupils, Bardo Pond, Low, Lucero, Circus Lupus, Skin Yard, Green River, Ruin, The Hot Snakes, The Meatmen, Turbonegro, Mudhoney, Sonic Youth, The Detroit Cobras, Zombie vs. Shark, The Dirtbombs, The Volcano Suns, Mission of Burma, and The Golden Cups.
Next week, I will not know what's in store, so be sure to tune in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
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