Lights Out

Lights Out

Welcome to Episode 46 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's been raining every weekend in Lincoln for the last 6 weeks; nice and warm during the week; torrential rain during the working man's two days off. It's put a cramp on skateboarding and hanging outside, so it's been a bit like winter in that regard.

I've been traveling a bit this spring, and had a chance to visit some good records stores around the country and find stuff I've wanted in my record collection, new stuff and old stuff that is actually old or reissued. I almost bought the first Black Market Baby album in Philly last month, but it cost too much. When Tesco Vee came through there to play, he ended up buying it! But he's a rock star.

I put on some new local releases, Dirty Talker and Halfwit, and I had a chance to see LA Witch last weekend, so there's a single on the show. There's also Aleister X (Doug Anson from The Gelcaps), The Disposables, Flipper, Johnny Thunders, and The Saints. I was lucky enough to get a reissue of the Angry Samoans "Back from Samoa" recently, since some lame college D.J. walked off with about half my punk record collection some years ago. I've been trying to rebuild it when I see missing vinyl. I also found a Killing Joke remix single with "Eighties" on it.

The playlist for today is: Dirty Talker, The Damned, The Saints, LA Witch, Johnny Thunders, The Disposables, Flipper, Detroit Cobras, Poppy, Drive Like Jehu, Ex Hex, Aleister X, Truman's Water, Magazine, Ignition, The Julie Ruin, Nation of Ulysses, Creem Circus, Angry Samoans, Void, Off!, The Faith, Halfwit, Purling Hiss, Mojave Lords, and Killing Joke.

Thanks for tuning in!

Doc Rockavoy

Autodidact

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Welcome to Episode 45 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I got some new albums recently, used and new, and thought I'd do a new show. We emerged from a brutally cold winter, and it must be over since it's been 70 degrees or so all week. Good time to share some tunes.

I've been re-reading a bunch of punk rock histories of the U.S. and England lately, and it has been interesting thinking about how shitty the period 1975 to 1992 was in the West, with the rise of the New Right and the last gasp of the consensus over the liberal welfare state. It's no wonder punk rock and its offshoots started at that time; kids who graduated high school or college worked shit jobs and had no future, so why not nihilistically tell the older generations to "f*ck off?" The way things are today, I see this coming around again. The youth are our future.

Today I thought I'd put on some new records, like the new Viet Cong disc, which is really exciting, much as The Fall was exciting. I put on this Stiv Bators solo record I found, and he was in the Dead Boys if you don't know. I found my Unrest record, and I forgot how heavy they were. I also put on a few local items, from Sputnik Kaputnik and Twinsmith, two great Nebraska bands of dozens of great bands here. There's also some weird stuff like 9353, Zomes; and Reptile House.

The show is about 98 minutes.

The playlist is: Sonic's Rendezvous Band; Viet Cong; Swervedriver; Lush, 9353; The Pupils; Drive Like Jehu; Come; Thee Hypnotics; Cheetahs; Slant 6; The Dirtbombs; Stiv Bators; Savages; Sputnik Kaputnik; Debris'; Bardo Pond; Zomes; Lungfish; Government Issue; Lungfish; Kraut; Embrace; Kraut; Reptile House; Rites of Spring; Twinsmith; Unrest; Lush; and Articles of Faith.

Thanks for tuning in!

Doc Rockavoy

Subvert

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Welcome to Episode 44 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! Since it was -20 today, I decided to stay home and put a show together, with some local Lincoln NE bands and some rare stuff out of my record collection. Sit back and enjoy the show during this Arctic blast!

I put a a bunch of new local music on today, like Sputnik Kaputnik, which is kind of like Devo and weird, 70s LA stuff I've heard. There's some Powers on the show, and go see them Wednesday night at Duffy's for the New Year's Eve show. I also put on some King Thumper, Once a Pawn, and Halfwit.

There's a track from a weird single I found, with Keith Levene and Hillel Slovak on one side, and Kendra Smith on the other. If you don't know who those people are, I can't help you! I also have the new Chain and the Gang record, "Minimum Rock and Roll"; a My Bloody Valentine release that was supposed to be the famed "post-Loveless" album, put out by a German label; and this great Ann Arbor band The State, whose E.P. was mixed by Ron Asheton.

The playlist is: Sputnik Kaputnik, Powers, Once a Pawn, King Thumper, The Seen, Savages, Halfwit, Red Cities, Cheetahs, Jet Black, Kendra Smith, Flying Saucer Attack, My Bloody Valentine, Dream Syndicate, Vivian Girls, Broncho, Dum Dum Girls, Pack A.D., Kinski, Producers of the Word, Chain and the Gang, The State, Heroin, Rocket from the Crypt, The Sinners, Fugazi, and B-Boys.

The show is 95 minutes.

Thanks for tuning in, and see you in 2015!

Doc Rockavoy

Modern Peasant Records - Resistance is Feudal

Modern Peasant Records

Welcome to Episode 43 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! Today the show is dedicated to Modern Peasant Records, a Norman OK-based punk, garage, and stoner rock label. The label was started by Robert and Nate from The Putters back in 2010 to put out The Putters annual jam session/recording sessions in Ellensburg, where Nate lives. Then is morphed into a music publishing platform for Robert and Nate's "whore bands," or bands that were not The Putters, like Zombie vs. Shark and The 667s. Then it just became more like a community-based record label for friends of Robert and Nate, taking on bands like John Wayne's Bitches, Red Cities, and The Sinners. It's motto is "Resistance is Feudal," and it's basically aimed to put out all the rad music that the crappy, major record industry won't publish, and that is local in nature. All good indie music is local, so that is where MPR's work is concentrated. To date, Modern Peasant Records has put out 13 releases, with more in the future from Norman/Chickasha band Bite Me! and some other stuff on the horizon.

So be sure to support your local record labels and its bands! You can learn more about Modern Peasant Records and order records from: www.modernpeasantrecords.com

The show has 13 tracks and is about 35 minutes. The playlist is:

The Putters - "Housewives and Handgrenades," on Got Something for Your Daughter (MPR-001)
Zombie vs. Shark - "Purify," on Wartime Sugar (MPR-002/007)
The 667s - "Bitch and Moan," on The 667s (MPR-666)
Zombie vs. Shark - "Wunderkind," on Dogs and Guns (MPR-003)
The Putters - "Come on Over," on Good Friends with Your Mother (MPR-008)
The 667s - "Good Morning Sorrow," on Mondons of the World Unite! (MPR-009)
Zombie vs. Shark - "Cold Machine," on Cold Machine (MPR-004)
John Wayne's Bitches - "American Greed," on Bitched Out (MPR-011)
Red Cities - "Burnout," on Build it Up, Tear it Down (MPR-010)
The 667s - "Little Red Car," on Cheer Up, Buttercup (MPR-012)
Red Cities - "Plastic People," on Red Cities (MPR-014)
The Sinners - "Whoa, Whoa, Whoa," on Drunk on the Lord's Day (MPR-013)

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Doc Rockavoy

Everywhere Was Everything

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Welcome to Episode 42 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I haven't posted a new show in awhile, and mostly it's been that I've been out of town for work this fall. Drag on my love of music, but I was able to find some rad local vinyl and some classics at record stores around the country. I'm impressed with the amount of local vinyl coming out of music scenes around the country. All music is local music.

I have a bunch Lincoln NE local vinyl and digital releases on the show today, as they city keeps cranking out excellent indy music. I usually make a point to buy a band's record when mine plays a show with them, so make sure you buy a record when you go to a show. Guitar strings and drum heads add up, and all that money goes into studio recording for the bands. I'm a preachy blowhard about this, but it makes a big difference.

I have some tracks on the show by The Inner Party, Bogusman, Halfwit, and some other local Lincoln bands like Producers of the Word and Weldon Keys. The new Broncho record is on, and it's really good as well as the new Low Litas record. I found some old stuff like Stiv Bators, The Slickee Boys, and Black Market Baby, in addition to the The Velvet Monkeys, James Williamson and Iggy Pop, and a live Dream Syndicate 45 rpm. There's other cool stuff on here, like the Fugazi demos.

The playlist for today is: Rocket from the Crypt, Fugazi, Jet Black, Halfwit, Bogusman, Low Litas, The Inner Party, Dirty Talker, Shasha - Red Cities, Slant 6, Teen Idles, Veronica Falls, Penetration, Bullet Proof Hearts, Red Cities, The Sinners, Chain and the Gang, Broncho, Stiv Bators, James Williamson and Iggy Pop, The Renfields, Weldon Keys, Producers of the Word, The Bottletops, Black Market Baby, The Slickee Boys, The Velvet Monkeys, Dream Syndicate, Cheetahs, Flying Saucer Attack, Bardo Pond, Cheetahs.

The show is about 98 minutes.

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Doc Rockavoy

Under the Smoky Sky

Under the Smoky Sky

Welcome to Episode 41 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It has been some time since I posted some music, mostly since I've been slowly acquiring some new vinyl, and have not much to play. The summer is in doldrums at the moment, so I figured it was a good time to get a show going. Somber, humid, languid, alienated, joyful. We've been good this summer, and hope all of you have been as well.

I put a couple special items on the show. The Montreal band Jet Black sent me the promo of their new record, "In Paradox," and if you like Swervedriver, you will like Jet Black. Dischord Records released in the recent past the Rites of Spring demo to their album, and there is a track from that on the show. I put on some Zomes, one of Asa Osbourne's many projects. There's a rare pre-Opal track on here, when Kendra Smith, Keith Mitchell, and David Roback first got together to track. I decided to catch up on my Bardo Pond vinyl, so there's some here as well. There's two bands from Modern Peasant Records, Red Cities and The Sinners, on the show whose albums are out in the next 1-3 weeks.

The track list is: Bardo Pond, Red Cities, Jet Black, Rites of Spring, Flying Saucer Attack, Mazzy Star, Opal, The Sinners, My Bloody Valentine, Bardo Pond, Zomes, Flying Saucer Attack, My Blood Valentine, Flying Saucer Attack, Bardo Pond, Swervedriver-live.

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Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Some Kinda Itch

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Welcome to Episode 40 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! The winter this year has been pretty brutal, with minus temperatures most of January, so I thought I'd do a new show today and rotate in some new vinyl purchases lately. 5 more weeks of winter, and the weather should be getting warmer. We'll see what the groundhog will say tomorrow.

There's some rare stuff on the show today, like Happy Go Licky, the band after Rites of Spring with all the same members. It's an early Peterbilt Records release and a live show recording. There's also a John Peel Session of Captain Sensible's "Antipope." I also put at track from the new Broncho single, and if they come to your town, you need to check them out. There's a track from The Atom Age, as well as new tracks from Johnny Marr and local Lincoln, NE favorites, Weldon Keys. There's a rad track from Debris'.

The show is about 90 minutes. The playlist is: Lush, Broncho, Scream, Off!, Johnny Marr, Mothra, Rocket from the Crypt, The Make-Up, Red Cities, Weldon Keys, Captain Sensible, The Atom Age, Debris', Jawbox, Zen Guerilla, Code of Honor, Pailhead, Sick Pleasure, Drive Like Jehu, My Bloody Valentine, The Three O'Clock, My Bloody Valentine, Rites of Spring, The Dream Syndicate, Dinosaur Jr., Happy Go Licky, Sonic Youth, Office of Future Plans, Fear.

Thanks for tuning in!

Doc Rockavoy