This Week with David Rovics

This Week with David Rovics

This podcast features audio essays, interviews, concerts, and new topical songs.

Episodes

March 23, 2026 59 mins

You probably won't find a better hour-long primer on the US-Israeli war on Iran than this guided tour of our new album, Epstein Empire.  (And you surely won't find one that rhymes as much as this one does.)

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The brilliant Ron Placone interviewed me on the occasion of St. Patrick's Day 2026 for his One Thousand Podcast.  We talked about all kinds of things, with an emphasis on the St. Patrick Battalion.

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March 16, 2026 54 mins

Mostly songs from Insurrection Act, the album.

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March 14, 2026 32 mins

The latest album of the Ai Tsuno Project drops on all the music streaming platforms on March 15th. All lyrics that were written and songs that were rendered in the winter of 2026, introduced to you in this podcast.

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March 11, 2026 22 mins

Where is the antiwar movement we need?

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The USA.

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March 1, 2026 3 mins

After destroying Afghanistan and Iraq The empire strikes back To try to conquer the Noble Land Invading Iran

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February 22, 2026 2 mins

The whistle and the camera within everyone's phones have become emblems of resistance.

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February 21, 2026 2 mins

Ai Tsuno released a song about all of my albums being deleted from YouTube Music, and so there had to be one about my channel being deleted, too, for good measure.

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February 20, 2026 2 mins

It never ceases to induce shock and awe to consume the western media's coverage of Israel, which more and more bears all the characteristics of stenography rather than journalism.

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February 19, 2026 2 mins

As Mark Zuckerberg was preparing to go to court, the muses struck.

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February 5, 2026 55 mins

The Labor Heritage Foundation's weekly Labor Heritage Power Hour radio show/podcast hosts an annual "Labor Grammys," where listeners vote among the entries on the winner. I'm very gratified to say that this year Ai Tsuno's "No Contract, No Coffee" was the winner (with one of my favorite living artists, Maria Dunn of Alberta, Canada, the runner-up). During the first half of this latest episode, host Chris Garlock and I talk in betwe...

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January 29, 2026 37 mins

My latest collaboration with the Ai Tsuno Project drops on all the music streaming platforms on February 1st.  Here's a guided tour of the album.

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January 29, 2026 3 mins

Chad Westover is a man around my age, who also lives in Oregon. David first learned about Chad because of having kids, and living in the same city as Chad’s extended family.

Chad’s extended family is full of kind and loving people, which, by the accounts of all of them and many others, Chad is, too.

Chad’s generous nature was exactly what led him to want to stick up for his friend, who was being threatened and bullied by his friend...

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January 27, 2026 59 mins

Just before our Berkeley show last night, Kamala and I spent the hour with Dennis Bernstein as guests of Flashpoints on KPFA Community Radio. Along with us there were appearances via phone from the brilliant poet, Anita Barrows, and a report from the streets of Minneapolis as well.

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January 20, 2026 56 mins

I had a very nice and wide-ranging interview with Rebel Fagin on his Radio Resistance radio show recently, which was broadcast on his show on KBBF Community Radio on Sunday. Here's the podcast version.

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January 18, 2026 22 mins

A lot of people are saying a lot of things about AI to me, and in general.  Here I make a bit of effort to distinguish the baby from the bathwater.

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January 12, 2026 40 mins

The Ai Tsuno Project's latest album, Save the Humans, drops on all the music streaming platforms on January 15th.  Ai Tsuno’s 10th album includes such instant classics as “Disarm Israel,” “Message from Gaza,” and “Bisbee, Arizona, 1917.”

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January 12, 2026 2 mins

A song for Renee Nicole Good, killed by ICE in Minneapolis on January 7th, 2026.

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January 11, 2026 2 mins

As much as Trump is behaving in ways that could be characterized as unprecedented, in other ways his behavior is surprisingly consistent with the history of US imperialism.

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