This Week with David Rovics

New song: ”Tortugiata’s Playlist”

Tortuguita was 26 years old and inside a tent at the Stop Cop City encampment of forest defenders in Atlanta, Georgia when they were killed in a hail of gunfire by highly militarized state police doing one of their many heavily-armed raids of the encampment, on the morning of January 18th, 2023.  I'll have much more to say.  But for now, a song.

”Unprovoked”: War Talk

After a year of the brinksmen using Ukraine as their venue for global hegemony, some reflections.

Chris Cook interviews David Rovics

I had another scintillating conversation with Chris Cook for his radio show/podcast, Gorilla Radio. The first half of his one-hour show is a review of the recent antiwar protests in Washington, DC, and the second half is the first part of a conversation with me. The next part of that conversation coming soon...

”At the End of World War 3” remix

For the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the bloodbath in Ukraine that is bringing us closer to Armageddon with each new morning, here's a song I wrote last March.  

This is getting closer to the final mix for this song that will be on the album that will be out very soon, on all the streaming platforms, and as a folder of songs to download for all my patrons/CSA members.  

The album will be called Killing the Messenger.  All of the songs other than this one feature me as the main vocalist and bouzouki player, but on this song, Chet Gardiner sings the main vocals, with Lorna McKinnon and Kamala Emanuel forming the chorus, as they do on all the songs on what will be a wonderfully harmony-laden album.

Album cover art by the great Eric Drooker.

Communications for Indy Musicians, Then and Now

After a quarter century of the internet being a household phenomenon, and 17 years of domination of it by corporate social media platforms, some reflections on what's changed in the lives of musicians.

New song: ”East Palestine”

As people fall ill and animals die, the EPA rushes to tell the poisoned people of East Palestine, Ohio their air and water are clean, in the wake of yet another freight train full of toxic chemicals derailing and burning in the USA.

Tour Reflections: Hawai’i and the West

I spent the last half of January making an album in Hawai'i, and nine days during the first half of February on tour, mostly in California. This podcast version of my missive on the subject ends with a sneak peek at the upcoming album, in the form of the song, "As I Walk On By."

New song: ”Russian Influence”

The African People's Socialist Party, based in St. Louis, Missouri, is under attack across the US by the FBI, with heavily-armed feds in armored vehicles ransacking homes and arresting senior citizens, among others, on charges that have not been made clear, supposedly involving Russians. For more info: handsoffuhuru.org.

Remembering Robert Hoyt

My old friend Robert Hoyt -- singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, organizer, nurse, father, lover of the wild -- died on the morning of February 1st, 2023, at the age of 68.

Album preview: Killing the Messenger

The recording project for the new album is still in progress here in Hawai'i, but we have a little preview of the title track, "Killing the Messenger," which is one of several songs on the album related to the ongoing imprisonment and persecution of award-winning Australian journalist, Julian Assange.