Mod Riot

Mod Riot

Welcome of Episode 57 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! Well, this week pretty much showed that Americans cannot sacrifice to end a major pandemic plaguing our planet. 45,000 plus infections yesterday in the UXA, and I haven't even checked today. There are people who live in far-Right false consciousness and will not adhere to any public health measures with skyrocketing infections throughout the South and Southern Plains. There are the typical unreliable, progressive liberal haute bourgeoisie that Marx and Engels despised so much, who cannot be inconvenienced to discontinue their status-seeking by dining, shopping, and resuming their summer vacation travel taking their families on a death march. Then there's the rest of the suckers like us who do not want to catch the virus and stay home except for groceries and other essentials like beer and cigarettes!

So that is why my podcast is up and running again, I do not want to get sick and have resigned to stay home as much as possible! For those at home, these shows are for you!

I put on a bunch of punk, hardcore, and hard rock and roll to punch through the July 4 weekend and its usual jingoism. I started the show with Philly's Mt. Vengeance, which is a superstar line-up of Philly punks who are now ready for Tiger Beat Magazine! Forget the old and tired band reunions, at 50+ in age this entire album shows they are skilled songwriters and full of vital originality. No one trick pony here. I decided to put on a bunch of Boston bands like Sorry, Bullet LaVolta, and Gang Green. There's a song by San Francisco's The Breakouts (bet you never heard of them). There are more Philly bands with Zen Guerilla, and a bunch of Oklahoma bands like Your Mom, The Disposables, Wicked Shimmies, Zombie vs. Shark, Low Litas, and Broncho. Then there's the usual famous bands.....and some local Lincoln bands as well like Gripping, Bogusman, Universe Contest, and Red Cities.

The show is about 90 minutes! The playlist is: Mt. Vengeance, Bikini Kill, Come, Gripping, Zen Guerilla, Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Boys, Angry Samoans, Mannequin Pussy, Articles of Faith, Gang Green, Bullet LaVolta, Circus Lupus, Ex-Hex, The Breakouts, Adolescents, Bogusman, The Dragons, Turbonegro, Universe Contest, Wicked Shimmies, Broncho, Your Mom, The Meatmen, Red Cities, The Bronx, Zombie vs. Shark, Swervedriver, Scream, The Disposables, Metz, Low Litas, Kinski, The Hot Snakes, and Zen Guerilla.

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Fell From the Sun

Fell From the Sun

Welcome to Episode 56 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! We've been getting into the summer, with its sultry temperatures and serene, southerly Plains breezes, bringing forth the cicadas soon and their velvety unison. The world wakes up in its verdant hallucinations, washing over the senses with the calm of spring and summer. What a magical turn from the nadir of the winter and its alienated endurance. Goodbye winter.

This show is for the quieter moods of summer and everyone stuck at home during the pandemic.

I put on the new Roy Montgomery record, released by Grapefruit Records in Omaha, a real stunning release for a small indy label. I put on lots of bands by the late David Roback, one of the finest guitar players in the psychedelia underground of the West Coast, who passed away in February this year. I put on rare 12" E.P. in the transition from Opal to Mazzy Star with Kendra Smith on vocals. There's also a lot of Preoccupations on the show; Purling Hiss, The Sinners, and Bardo Pond from Philadelphia; Jet Black from Montreal; The Funns, Zomes, and Alvvays, fun bands. There's a track on a weird MBV L.P. I bought which was basically the follow-up to Loveless on an obscure German label, which is a really cool album.

The show is just over 170 minutes! The playlist is: Roy Montgomery-She Keeps Bees, Kendra Smith-Keith Mitchell-David Roback, Opal, Preoccupations, TSOL, The Sinners, The Black Heart Procession, Preoccupations, Bardo Pond, Lush, Broncho, Jet Black, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Vietcong, Cheetahs, Purling Hiss, Roy Montgomery, Mazzy Star, Rain Parade, Alvvays, Kinski, The Smiths, My Bloody Valentine, Flying Saucer Attack, Swervedriver, Flying Saucer Attack, Zomes, L.A. Witch, The Funns, and Roy Montgomery.

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The U Suck A - We're Fed Up

The U Suck A - We're Fed Up

Welcome to Episode 55 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's been a long time since I posted a show, as there were some major changes in my life in the past year. Then the coronavirus hit. Then our racist, capitalist, settler colonial country marched the working class back to work in their Neo-Darwinian gamble to salvage an already over-speculated economy from the last throes of late capitalist accumulation crisis. Then white supremacist infiltration into law enforcement reared its ugly head in the police murder of George Floyd, and repression of peaceful protests across the country, led by the white nationalist administration currently ruining our country as a corrupt plutocracy.

So I thought I'd start up my podcast again, and you can expect regular weekly shows as we shelter in place to curb the pandemic.

There's a bunch of garage and new wavy punk rock on the show today, and some other stuff like locals Lincoln bands Gripping, Sputnik Kaputnik, Eddy Mink, and Red Cities. There's tracks also by White Drugs, The 667s, Mannequin Pussy and Mt. Vengeance from Philly, the Wicked Shimmies from Oklahoma City, and The Midnight Moan from NYC, among others. Scream concludes the show with U Suck A/We're Fed Up, as relevant today as 1983 during racist Ronnie's reign.

The show today is a whopping 105 minutes! The playlist in order is: Broncho, Chain and the Gang, American Ruse, Aleister X, Gripping, Jet Black, Illuminati Hotties, Kinski, Eddy Mink, L.A. Witch, Mannequin Pussy, Metz, Mojave Lords, Mt. Vengeance, Red Cities, Sonic's Rendezvous Band, Swervedriver, The 667s, Zombie vs. Shark, The Wicked Shimmies, White Drugs, Sputnik Kaputnik, The Midnight Moan, The Coathangers, Death Valley Girls, When Particles Collide, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, 20/20, The Red Aunts, The Cramps, and Scream.

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Peer Pressure

Peer Pressure

Welcome to Episode 54 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! With the summer monsoon season upon us in the Great Plains, I thought it a good idea to run out another show today. There was a ton of great shows in Lincoln this week/weekend, so I put some locals on the show today. Check out Universe Contest, David Nance, and Red Cities, and also other Great Plains bands like Broncho and Zombie vs. Shark.

I put on a few, new Philadelphia bands, No Thank You and Mannequin Pussy, that have really great albums, so be sure to check them out. I got to see No Thank You when they toured our way this summer. There's old Philadelphia bands, Zen Guerilla and The Sinners, on the show and check out The Sinners' album on Modern Peasant Records, it's a garage rock classic!

I also put on my favorite bands fronted by female musicians, like Ex-Hex, The Julie Ruin, L.A. Witch, The Red Aunts, The Demolition Doll Rods, and The Darts. Chain and Gangs' guitar player is awesome as well, so check out that track on the show.

The show is 70 minutes or so! The playlist is: Red Cities, Turbonegro, Universe Contest, David Nance, The Sinners, Demolition Doll Rods, The Lolitas, Gang Green, The Screamers, Kinski, Mannequin Pussy, No Thank You, Government Issue, Broncho, Zombie vs. Shark, The Bronx, Zen Guerilla, The Red Aunts, Scream, Rites of Spring, The Julie Ruin, Ex-Hex, L.A. Witch, Chain & the Gang, The Darts, Hot Snakes, and Metz.

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Doc Rockavoy

Freak Heat Waves

Freak Heat Waves

Welcome to Episode 53 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I haven't posted show in over a year but I will remedy that in the coming year! My band Red Cities released a second L.P. "Soft Target" last November, and we've been busy with that since summer 2017. It received good reviews in our local paper the Lincoln Journal Star and in Big Takeover Magazine, posting as #60 in its "Best Albums of 2017." We also got some airplay on Little Steven's Underground Garage on Genya Ravan's show, and also on WFMU, WKDU, and some other radio stations. Now that's run its course, I can get back to my podcast and play new and old records I've accumulated since that time.

There's a number of Preoccupations/Vietcong tracks on the show, one of the great, new post-punk bands out touring and recording at the moment. I had the opportunity to see them twice this spring in Philadelphia and Los Angeles when I was on the road doing book acquisitions. They are a phenomenal band, and I had the chance to talk to their guitarist Daniel after their great (but way under-attended) Philadelphia show. We liked the same post-punk bands and also Vox AC30s, and I convinced him to whittle down his pedal rig and let the Vox ring through. When I saw them again in Los Angeles, I ran into him and their drummer Michael, and they noted they'd been getting rid of guitar pedals and letting their amps/Celestion greenbacks ring and chime through their melodic compositions. They had a phenomenal run of sold out shows in Los Angeles at The Echo, just epic performances despite having All of their gear stolen in San Francisco. Their fans gave $30K in two days to get them back on the road. We were paid back two night in row for our support!

Speaking of post-punk, this show is devoted to this splintering off of the original punk scene 1975 to 1979, although of course both musical movements overlap. I put on a song off the 1987 Rites of Spring 7" released on Dischord that was such a milestone of US post-punk. There's some Siouxsie and Banshees, an original post-punk band, and also some great new work by Protomartyr from Detroit; Jawbox, The Swirlies, New Zealand experimental guitarist Roy Montgomery with also Flying Saucer Attack. There's also some tracks from Cheatahs, Swervedriver, Spaceman 3, Dum Dum Girls, and Lincoln's own Universe Contest, Omaha's See Through Dresses, and Kansas City's Dark Satellites. I also put a track off the first Spain album, a masterpiece of ambient guitarwork with my old friend Evan Hartzell on drums.

The show is a whopping 160 minutes! The tracks in order are: Preoccupations, Alvays, Protomartyr, Rites of Spring, Flying Saucer Attack, Jawbox, Rites of Spring, Universe Contest, Siouxsie and the Banshees, See Through Dresses, Roy Montgomery, Veronica Falls, Spain, Come, Vietcong, L.A. Witch, Bardo Pond, Swervedriver, Cheatahs, Come, Dark Satellites, Dum Dum Girls, Red Cities, Opal, Flying Saucer Attack, Preoccupations, Siouxsie and the Banshees, My Blood Valentine, Vietcong, Portishead, Savages, Spaceman 3, and The Swirlies.

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Doc Rockavoy

Cold Machine

Cold Machine

Welcome to Episode 52 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! We're finally in springtime and hitting the 80s and 90s already, so I thought I'd do a show this afternoon. I've been traveling a lot lately and just returned from Philly, which was really cool to see some old friends. Other than that we've been working on our garden; my son is almost done with school; and been getting together the new Red Cities record "Soft Target." I'm headed back to Philly in a few week, and after that, Vancouver. After those work trips, it's just summer vacation after summer vacation.

Oh, I got bored and started the "Star City" chapter of the Turbojugend, the Turbonegro fanatic group. It's the only time I'll be president of anything. Everyone else in our Turbojugend is a vice president! We're going to sponsor some benefit gigs around town for community organizations, and also me and Destroyer are dj-ing a punk and rock record night once a month.

Today's show features some old, classic punk rock stuff like The Zeros, Angry Samoans, Gray Matter, The Damned and other bands in that late 70s/early 80s first generation. I've also been buying a lot of reissues of records I had only read about as a kid, but had never seen for real. After these records hit the cut-out bin, they were usually thrown away in the trash. So there's bands like The Heartbreakers, The Testors, The Dead Boys, Iggy and the Stooges, Death, The Saints and others on the show. I also put on some new stuff I like a lot like Zen Guerilla, Turbonegro, The Dirtbombs, The Red Aunts, Slant 6, David Nance, Broncho, Ex Hex, Chain and the Gang, Off! and other new punk/garage stuff.

The playlist for today is: Zombie vs. Shark, Queens of the Stone Age, Turbonegro, Off!, David Nance, Iggy and the Stooges, The Dead Boys, Adolescents, Jawbox, Turbonegro, Hot Snakes, The Heartbreakers, The Stooges, Green River, Gray Matter, Government Issue, Zombie vs.. Shark, The Zeros, Zen Guerilla, Turbonegro, Fire Party, Ex Hex, Drive Like Jehu, The Dirtbombs, The Detroit Cobras, Desert Sessions, Death, The Damned, The Cult, The Cramps, Code of Honor, Chain and the Gang, Turbonegro, Broncho Angry Samoans, Slant 6, The Testors, Scream, The Saints, The Red Aunts, Mojave Lords, and Queens of the Stone Age.

The show is about 120 minutes!

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Doc Rockavoy

Mythologies

Mythologies

Welcome to Episode 51 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! We had a dreary, rainy weekend so I decided it was time to put up another show. The show today tends towards psychedelia, experimental, space rock, and other ethereal types of music. Some of it is remarkable because it has no precedent in rock and roll and its compositional forms. However, you can hear the influence of jazz, R&B, and classical music compositions throughout the show made electric.

Many of the artists on the show who had begun making music in the late 80s/early 90s also do not tour extensively or play much anymore, since the proliferation of file-sharing, youtube, and other ways of making music available over the internet. They have full-time, day jobs. In many ways, this has undercut the basis of earnings and monthly income for recording artists, and has made it difficult for independent labels to continue and compete with the multi-integrated media corporations that control mass, musical taste in the United States and around the globe. Basically, music is currently in the "Era of Suck," and yes, I'm being judgmental because I'm not responsible for other people making crappy music, they are. Get past it and support independent music if you can.

As a result, I've made some improvements to my show page. To your Right, there is list of independent records labels, and some bigger music groups with subsidiary labels, where you can buy the Records/LPs that I play on my show. Every record on all my shows was recorded for the show, and I have a healthy collection approaching 1000 records. You have no excuse not to buy a cool record!

Fanzine writers once asked Ian MacKaye and Jello Biafra how they had so many records some years back. They replied, "we don't drink or do drugs, so I have a lot of records." Get your priorities straight and support your favorite bands and local bands.

On the show today is the new Preoccupations (ex-Vietcong) record that is just as stunning as their first LP "Vietcong." The first record, unnoted by any music journalist, was the great anti-war and socialist record of the 2010s, indeed 21st Century so far. How Pitchfork, Magnet, and its ilk missed this fact baffles me. I also put on some very local stuff like Aleister X, The Sinners, Purling Hiss, Broncho among others. I put on this wonderful cassette release by Jet Black  called "Dead Horse One" which has two great tracks, so check it out, it has a download.

The show is just pushing over 2 hours! The playlist for today is: Preoccupations, Broncho, Bardo Pond, Red Cities-ShaSha, Killing Joke, Jet Black, Kinski, Cheatahs, Aleister X, Lungfish, Vietcong, Kendra Smith, Lungfish, By Bloody Valentine, Flying Saucer Attack, The Sinners, Cheatahs, My Bloody Valentine, The Moon and the Melodies, Portishead, Mazzy Star, The Smiths, Flying Saucer Attack, The Smiths, Savages, and Purling Hiss.

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Doc Rockavoy