This Week with David Rovics

Winning Hearts and Minds in August

It is in these bleak times that people need community and music more than ever -- they just don't tend to realize it.  The choir actually needs to be preached to on a regular basis, or it starts singing out of tune.

Truth, Lies, and Will Van Spronsen

I have lost track of the number of times in the past few days that I have been told by openly fascist YouTube viewers that I deserve a bullet in my head for writing my most recent song.

Embargoes and Other Acts of War

The war between the United States and Japan began with a US-enforced oil embargo against the Japanese Empire.

Concentration Camps of America

Many people in the US are gradually waking up to the reality that we are now the "Good Germans" of contemporary fascism.

The United Tent Cities of America

The condition of homelessness is quite often fatal.

The Joy of Touring

There are many ways to learn a whole lot about the world without leaving home. But it sure helps if you do. After being home almost all winter and spring for a sort of improvised paternity leave which I have enjoyed immensely, I find myself nonetheless looking forward to the next big tour in a way that I haven't in a long time.

Remembering Gerd Berlev

I got word last weekend, in the afternoon of June 1st, 2019, Denmark time, that my friend and comrade, extremely talented organizer and much-loved grandmother and horn player, Gerd Berlev died. There is so much that can be said about Gerd, but as I sat in my apartment in Portland, Oregon, taking in this news, I wrote these words.

SPECIAL EDITION: Songs For Today, an Album Tour

The initial roll-out of my latest solo acoustic studio album is exclusively for members of my Patreon-style Community-Supported Art program, or CSA, which you are most welcome to join at davidrovics.com/subscribe. But for listeners to my podcast, here's an album tour.

The Winnipeg General Strike

In these troubled times, around the world people seem to be asking each other, how do we fight back against this madness?  In May, 1919 in Winnipeg, the working class answered this question by shutting down the city and running it themselves.

Taking On Spotify: Why We Need A Global Campaign

How should independent musicians survive in the streaming age?  There seems to be mostly a lot of hopelessness, along with a few dead-end ideas.  I have another idea:  demand streaming justice.  Fight back against the vulture capitalists of Stockholm.  How did we get to this point?  Here are my two cents.