This Week with David Rovics

Pandemic Songwriting Webinar

Here's the audio version of the livestreamed broadcast I did this morning on various platforms, at 10 am Pacific Time.  It's me yapping for an hour about songwriting, mostly, and answering related questions from folks who tuned in live on either YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, Linked In or VK. If you'd rather watch it, you'll find it archived on all those platforms.

Pandemic Review: An Audio Documentary with 11 Songs

Dateline: Planet Earth, April 12th, 2020. I have put together a special edition of my podcast, This Week with David Rovics, telling the story so far of the pandemic, from the vantage point of one songwriter (me). The 11 pandemic songs I've written since the beginning of March appear in order, sensibly strung together with commentary I recorded this morning.

SPECIAL EDITION: Viral Solidarity Concert (in full)

While we were doing a livestreamed concert from Big Red Studio, we were also making a high-quality recording of the show.  Here it is, in full, as a special edition of my podcast.  I have also edited out most of the talking and tuning, and turned the show into a live album, Viral Solidarity, which can be found now on Bandcamp, and will soon also be up as an album on Spotify and other streaming platforms.

Open Letter to My Landlord

We will not be paying rent for April, and we thought we'd let you know why.

Forms of Isolation

As we hunker down wherever we are, so many of us living in places with dysfunctional health care systems on a good day, as we wait for the waves of death currently occurring in Italy, Spain, and New York, to reach our regions, we are collectively having radically differing experiences of isolation.

Unprecedented Precedents

What do Donald Trump, 1848, Covid-19 and Winston Churchill have in common?  Some thoughts on the subject, in podcast form.

Anarchists For Bernie

Given the fact that the DNC just makes up the rules as they go along and they would prefer fascism to socialism, given the options, a Sanders nomination to be the Democratic candidate is a very long shot.  Getting the nomination and then winning the presidency is, for so many reasons, an even longer one.  A Sanders presidency, if he won, would then be violently opposed by the powerful elite and their pawns.  A successful Sanders presidency may, however, be the only thing that could prevent our complete descent into fascism in the US.

PDX: Taking City Hall

If Chloe Eudaly can keep her seat, and Margot Black wins hers, we could have a pro-worker, pro-renter majority in the Portland City Council.  Locals:  launch party today!

Waiting For Something To Happen: An Audio Memoir

This audio memoir consists of 16 episodes of about a half hour each.  They'll be going out to my paid subscribers weekly, until the end of April, 2020.  Here's a 10-minute sample.  You can find out more at davidrovics.com/audiomemoir.

Jock: prisoner in a captured state

Australian Jock Palfreeman has been in prison in Sofia, Bulgaria for over 11 years for a crime he didn't commit.  In October he got paroled, but so far this has just meant being transferred to another prison -- and powerful elements in Bulgarian politics are now aiming to get his parole canceled, through a process they're inventing as they go.