This Week with David Rovics
This podcast features audio essays, interviews, concerts, and new topical songs.
Episodes
Randy Caravaggio, shining light on Cuba in its darkest hour; David Rovics, minstrel of our Titanic times in the second half
Many people around the world are calling for the government of Pakistan to release the leader of the Awami Action Committee now, along with all of his unjustly-imprisoned colleagues.
I had never heard of Ehsan Ali, or the Awami Action Committee, or, to be honest, the region of Pakistan known as Gilgit-Baltistan, where Ehsan Ali is from.
After Ali's arrest, two months ago now, I began to hear from his supporters, who have embarked o...
The latest album from the Ai Tsuno Project to drop on the streaming platforms is BEFORE THE WAR. Here we have an audio tour of the album.
Audio interview with political singer-songwriter David Rovics originally broadcast on March 3, 2026 on Transformation Highway with John Malkin on KZSC 88.1 FM / kzsc.org at the University of California Santa Cruz.
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.)
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.
Mostly songs from Insurrection Act, the album.
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.
After destroying Afghanistan and Iraq The empire strikes back To try to conquer the Noble Land Invading Iran
The whistle and the camera within everyone's phones have become emblems of resistance.
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.
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.
As Mark Zuckerberg was preparing to go to court, the muses struck.
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...
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.
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 bul...
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