This Week with David Rovics

All Your Days interview part 1

James O'Brien is one of the best interviewers I've ever had the pleasure of talking to. His podcast is a series of explorations of the lives of lots of different artists, and for this week and next week's episodes he's talking with me. This is part one. You can find lots of other interviews James has done with other artists (including a number of my friends) by looking for All Your Days on any of the usual podcasting platforms, such as Apple Podcasts. Part 2 coming next week!

Europe Tour Prequel

A few songs from my living room on the last day I have time alone in the apartment before I leave for Europe.

Anatomy of a Concert Tour

When I start circulating propaganda about an upcoming tour, people often ask me how I organized it. Here's an attempt at a real answer to that question, about the tour that's coming right up.

Priced Out Fight Back

Here in Portland, Oregon there's a referendum on the ballot to fund legal representation for all tenants facing eviction.  How much more than this might it take to truly address the housing crisis we face?

New song: ”Ballad of the Columbia Eagle”

One of the things I got to do while I was on the east coast last week was spend some time with Al Glatkowski.  In March of 1970 he and fellow merchant marine Clyde McKay led a mutiny aboard the SS Columbia Eagle, in an effort to prevent a massive delivery of napalm bombs from reaching the port of Saigon, where the US Air Force would be loading it onto planes in order to drop on Vietnamese villages.  I wrote this song over the course of a couple days after I got home from the trip.

Communication or Excommunication: a Question for Our Times

An open letter to my Fellow Workers.

James Brennan interviews David Rovics on 3CR

During my March/April 2023 visit to Australia, James Brennan interviewed me over the phone for his show on 3CR Radical Radio in Melbourne.

Andy Payne interviews David Rovics on 4ZZZ Community Radio

Andy Payne is a great songwriter in the folk punk tradition based in Brisbane, Australia, where he hosts a show called Paradigm Shift on the community radio station, 4ZZZ. He interviewed me for his latest show, earlier this month. Here's the MP3!

From Brisbane to Ballarat and Back

A few recollections from three weeks in southeastern Australia.

Embracing Reality and Finding Solutions vs. Sowing Division and Spreading Disinformation

A response to Shane Burley's latest piece of disinformation in Truthout, along with related thoughts on Al-Jazeera's Labour Files exposé, Scandinavian economics, and the future of civilization.