Episodes
4 hours ago
New song: "35 Children A Day"
4 hours ago
4 hours ago
UNICEF says 35 children per day on average have been killed by Israeli bombs, snipers, or other such means since October 2023. Now the numbers will grow exponentially in the ongoing famine Israeli forces are imposing.
5 days ago
Being the Media, and Being the Publicist
5 days ago
5 days ago
Kamala Emanuel and I -- aka the Ministry of Culture -- are off on another tour of parts of Europe and the US. Details about all the gigs can be found at davidrovics.com/tour.
Sunday Oct 27, 2024
Songs for Jabaliya concert recording
Sunday Oct 27, 2024
Sunday Oct 27, 2024
With our spiffy new home internet connection, today's broadcast was not a disaster, for a change! I sang songs from the new album, Jabaliya, and other songs as well, mostly from the past year.
It was streamed live, this is what Streamyard calls the "Cloud recording," as opposed to the "Local recording," which is a WAV file that you can find on the Substack version of this podcast. For tech geeks out there, I'm singing through a Shure SM7B, and playing a Collings guitar with a K&K pickup, plugged into a Focusrite box, which then is connected to the laptop.
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
"Jabaliya" REMIX
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
On Day 21 in the genocidal siege of Jabaliya, as the hospital is being destroyed by tank fire and the children inside burned alive, here's a haunting, powerful remix of the song I just wrote, from Chet Gardiner's studio in Hawai'i.
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
America Throws A Tantrum Again
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
"Jill Stein" REMIX
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Chet Gardiner in Hawai'i has provided a gorgeous backup band for "Jill Stein." Complete with drums -- appropriately enough, since Jill herself is a fine percussionist!
So now if the song is so catchy that it causes a landslide vote for the Green Party, you can take your pick as to whether you want to blame me, Chet, or both of us.
Monday Oct 21, 2024
New song: "Jabaliya"
Monday Oct 21, 2024
Monday Oct 21, 2024
Sunday Oct 20, 2024
How Liberalism and Fascism Are Flip Sides of the Same Coin
Sunday Oct 20, 2024
Sunday Oct 20, 2024
From top to bottom, Americans can virtue-signal like nobody's business. But material conditions of most of society in the US indicate a total failure of governance.
Saturday Oct 19, 2024
"The Generals' Plan"
Saturday Oct 19, 2024
Saturday Oct 19, 2024
Bombing daily for well over a year
A death sentence for everyone here
The Lancet said it's 200K killed
Body parts strewn, mass graves filled
Shooting at families, then when medics arrive
Shoot again, leave no child alive
They announced their intentions, to clear the north
And they rolled in the tanks, firing forth
How many months now with nothing to eat
A twenty-mile strip of rubble-strewn streets
With no power, no water, schools destroyed
An occupying army completely devoid
Of one little trace of morality
After totally demolishing Gaza City
Beit Hanoun, Zeitoun, Jabaliya
Khan Yunis, Deir al Bala and Beit Lahia
Destroying everything everywhere
Producing their own footage as if to dare
Anyone else to do anything
To stop the destruction of everything
To stop them from killing everyone
Every daughter and every son
A zone of carnage, ruins and drones
That won’t even leave a living child alone
To starve them out is just what they say
As the air strikes are called in day after day
As the disembodied heads and hands
Scattered across this forsaken land
Get bulldozed into the ground to hide
The holocaust where everyone died
Killed by Biden, by Netanyahu
To colonize for the chosen few
The western media equivocates
Along with the leaders of the western states
Are they really aiming to kill them all?
Maybe we should do something to try to forestall
The end of this ancient civilization
But they just stand alongside the genocide nation
Who knew Jabaliya would end like this
The ghost of another apocalypse
They’re calling it the Generals’ Plan
Laying waste to whatever they can
Mechanized warfare run by AI
Where anyone living is subject to die
Higher-tech killing than ever before
Across the Atlantic, plans being made for
Condos on the Mediterranean sea
Where the people of Gaza used to be
Friday Oct 18, 2024
How the Left Shrank
Friday Oct 18, 2024
Friday Oct 18, 2024