This Week with David Rovics
This podcast features audio essays, interviews, concerts, and new topical songs.
Episodes
It's a sunny forecast for the rest of the weekend in Portland, Oregon. Our weekly neighborhood vigil for Gaza is happening Sunday at noon, and I wrote a jingle for it.
When YouTube Music deleted all of my albums from their platform the other day because my very existence apparently violates their terms of service, Ai Tsuno wrote a fairly blistering song about 1984/2025.
Ai Tsuno presents a guided tour to our album, Class War Zone, which drops on music streaming platforms on December 4th. Class War Zone consists of very recently-penned and tremendously catchy songs about things like the ongoing Starbucks workers strike, the Jeffrey Epstein files, the cost-of-living crisis, the campaign to bring the killers of Hind Rajab and her family to the ICC, and the nonexistent ceasefire in Gaza.
A guided tour of Ai Tsuno's album, Gaza Riviera, which drops on all the music streaming platforms on Thanksgiving Day (November 27th).
I had another scintillating conversation with Gorilla Radio host Chris Cook today. He interviews me for the last half of the hour. Mostly we talked about AI... (The first half of his show, interviewing another pro-Palestinian guy named David, was also very good.)
Kamala and I were guests for the better part of 2 hours on Graham Dean's Common Sense Songs show on Berkshire Community Radio a few days ago in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, along with our good friend, Massachusetts-based singer/songwriter Ben Grosscup. The live talk and music starts about 25 minutes in.
Sam and Amal are the hosts of a show on WUSB community radio in Stony Brook, New York called Unbound: the arts & culture of Palestine. They interviewed me for a very enjoyable hour the other day, in advance of the show we'll be doing on Long Island on October 26th!
My adopted home town of Portland, Oregon is once again in the international headlines, and this calls for a little primer.
Everything else happening in the world aside, we are at a fascinating juncture in the history of humanity. Assuming we live long enough to witness it, many people would say we're on the cusp of a new reality, represented by the three words, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Ai Tsuno's fourth album gracefully explores this theme. For this special edition of This Week with David Rovics I bring you Where the Algorithms Rule: ...
Chet Gardiner has delivered a remix of "Invisible Rulers" that sounds just like the collision of the rumor mill with the propaganda machine! And with that, the next album is coming. This'll be track #1.
When I heard on the news that the Global Sumud Flotilla was being attacked by drones and Abba music, I was struck by the muse.
As the Trump administration tries hard to capitalize on this latest instance of political violence in the USA, Chet Gardiner has for us a remix which vastly improves everything.
Renee DiResta's book, Invisible Rulers, does a brilliant job of introducing us to the modern online age -- an age which she characterizes as one during which the rumor mill and the propaganda machine have, in so many ways, collided.
He spent most of his short life feeding off of algorithms, and now the algorithms are feeding off of him.
We're at another one of those seismic moments in technological development as it applies to the arts and most other things.
With the addition of Amherst, Massachusetts, the Ministry of Culture's October tour of the northeastern US now includes 10 confirmed gigs! And I recorded a little musical October Tour PSA as well... Radio and other audio people please feel free to use!
Olympia's beloved Zahid Chaudhry remains in ICE detention in Tacoma. A wounded veteran of the US military, in his wheelchair, was detained by ICE. A cherished member of the community and a loving father, taken from his small children. Here's Chet Gardiner's lovely remix.
Most people in Olympia seem to know Zahid Chaudhry, and everyone who knows him loves him, including me. He's the most effusively affectionate leftwing military veteran in a wheelchair you're ever likely to meet. And now he's in ICE detention, being tortured in Tacoma.
More info: keepzahidhome.carrd.co
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