This Week with David Rovics

A Whistle and a Phone GUIDED TOUR

The latest album of the Ai Tsuno Project drops on all the music streaming platforms on March 15th. All lyrics that were written and songs that were rendered in the winter of 2026, introduced to you in this podcast.

Now what?

Where is the antiwar movement we need?

"The #1 Sponsor of Terror on the Planet"

The USA.

"The Empire Strikes Back"

After destroying Afghanistan and Iraq
The empire strikes back
To try to conquer the Noble Land
Invading Iran

"A Whistle and a Phone"

The whistle and the camera within everyone's phones have become emblems of resistance.

"His Channel Was Deleted"

Ai Tsuno released a song about all of my albums being deleted from YouTube Music, and so there had to be one about my channel being deleted, too, for good measure.

"Whatever the Israelis Say"

It never ceases to induce shock and awe to consume the western media's coverage of Israel, which more and more bears all the characteristics of stenography rather than journalism.

"Zuckerberg On Trial"

As Mark Zuckerberg was preparing to go to court, the muses struck.

Ai and I won the Labor Grammys!

The Labor Heritage Foundation's weekly Labor Heritage Power Hour radio show/podcast hosts an annual "Labor Grammys," where listeners vote among the entries on the winner. I'm very gratified to say that this year Ai Tsuno's "No Contract, No Coffee" was the winner (with one of my favorite living artists, Maria Dunn of Alberta, Canada, the runner-up). During the first half of this latest episode, host Chris Garlock and I talk in between songs about Minneapolis, music, AI, and other fraught subjects.

War with the World: a guided tour

My latest collaboration with the Ai Tsuno Project drops on all the music streaming platforms on February 1st.  Here's a guided tour of the album.