This Week with David Rovics

Pirate Santa

I participated in a wonderful holiday-themed concert with Emma's Revolution and so many other stellar artists yesterday. This song, "Pirate Santa," was my humble contribution to an otherwise beautiful collection of songs. You can see and hear the whole concert on Emma's Revolution's YouTube channel.

West Coast Tour Reflections

It was a busy and thought-provoking week touring parts of Oregon and northern California, with the "accountability-seeking" cancellation campaigners failing to cancel any of the gigs, much as they tried.

New song: ”David Rovics Is A Nazi”

I'm on a west coast tour this week, and as usual, someone's trying to get my gigs canceled.  Gig hosts are generally horrified to hear from someone telling them they're hosting a Nazi performer, but in the end they find the argument unconvincing.  I thought my critics needed a theme song, to get their message across more effectively, so I wrote one.

The Trolls’ Toll

I'm doing a west coast tour next week, and the wackos are back, trying to intimidate gig organizers into canceling my little acoustic gigs, calling up farmers and people hosting house concerts to tell them I'm a Nazi.  Welcome to my life in 2022.

Last Saturday Live

For Saturday, November 26th, 2022,  I introduce you to the NS Designs 5-string fretted electric cello.  If anyone wants to form a punk rock string quartet, hit me up, for real.  These are some of the cello parts, which I think should ideally be complemented by other stringed instruments.

Teaser for Saturday’s livestream

My monthly Last Saturday concert from my living room this time will be a little exploration of the five-string fretted electric cello.

Trolls, Mastodons, Wikipedians, and the Condition of Our Communications

Various recent developments remind many of us that we live in an information landscape dystopia.

Failure’s Silver Lining

After 27 rounds of annual talks that amount to just a bunch of corporate hot air, we're hopefully that much closer to the tipping point when people give up on relying on the capitalists to save us.

Sitting At A Broken Table in Portland, Los Angeles, and Sharm El-Sheikh

It's been an especially farcical week on Planet Earth.

Why the Neofascists Are Winning the Argument Against the Neoliberals

While they're nursing the wounds caused by shooting themselves in their own feet so much, I'm sure some of them are well aware that if they hadn't spent the past 50 years stabbing the working class in the back, the working class might support their party.