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This Week with David Rovics
by drovics
If I do an interview, whether as the interviewer or interviewee, or a livestream event, new song, or various other things, it’ll often go out as a podcast.
Episodes
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Canceled to Death
Among the many terrible potential impacts of cancelation on a person, one of them is death.
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Gorilla Radio interview
Another scintillating conversation between me and Chris Cook for his Gorilla Radio Pod, in the second half.
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Jumpstarting a Cultural Revival
What if a very wealthy person said to me, "I've got the money if you've got the plan"? Here's the plan.
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Confessions of a Cyborg
Ai Tsuno progress report.
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Interview with WZRD Chicago
It was a wide-ranging and very enjoyable interview with Trudy Leong for WZRD Chicago the other day.
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Interview with the Velvet Unicorn
The Velvet Unicorn interviewed me for her show on CFUV in Victoria, BC. This is the full interview, rather than the nice edited version she'll be broadcasting.
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Interview with Dave Goodman on Sound and Fury
Dave Goodman and I talked for an hour or so for his radio show, Sound and Fury, on WMBR in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it was a damn fine conversation.
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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Randy Caravaggio, David Rovics June 10, 2026
Randy Caravaggio, shining light on Cuba in its darkest hour; David Rovics, minstrel of our Titanic times in the second half
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Free Ehsan Ali
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...
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Song of the Soul interview part 2
The second half of a two-part extensive interview with me for Mark Helpsmeet's Song of the Soul radio show/podcast is now up.
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Before the War: a guided tour
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.
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Song of the Soul interview part 1
The first of a 2-part interview Mark Helpsmeet did with me for his Song of the Soul radio show is up now!
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John Malkin interviews David Rovics
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.
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Epstein Empire GUIDED TOUR
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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Ron Placone interviews David Rovics
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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St Patrick's Day Antiwar Concert
Mostly songs from Insurrection Act, the album.
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A Whistle and a Phone GUIDED TOUR
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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Now what?
Where is the antiwar movement we need?
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"The Empire Strikes Back"
After destroying Afghanistan and Iraq The empire strikes back To try to conquer the Noble Land Invading Iran
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"A Whistle and a Phone"
The whistle and the camera within everyone's phones have become emblems of resistance.
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"His Channel Was Deleted"
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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"Whatever the Israelis Say"
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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"Zuckerberg On Trial"
As Mark Zuckerberg was preparing to go to court, the muses struck.
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Ai and I won the Labor Grammys!
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...
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War with the World: a guided tour
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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"Song for Chad Westover"
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,...
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The Ministry of Culture on Flashpoints
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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Radio Resistance interview
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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Of Babies, Bathwater, and AI
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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Save the Humans: a guided tour
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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"If the Rest of Us Could Be So Good"
A song for Renee Nicole Good, killed by ICE in Minneapolis on January 7th, 2026.
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"In This Very Old New World Order"
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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"Our Oil"
How is it that our oil is always underneath their soil?
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The Open Veins of Latin America, Revisited
What does the US invasion of Venezuela, the Cuba-Venezuela Solidarity Tent at the World Social Forum, and my visit to the US-Mexico border last weekend have in common?
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"In the Moments Before the Third World War"
Between abducting the Venezuelan president, killing scores of Cubans, boarding Russian tankers, and threatening to invade Greenland, the immediate future is feeling very sketchy.
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"Another War for Oil"
Venezuela, 2026.
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"They'll Starve the Children"
Meanwhile in Gaza, Israel is banning aid groups and starving all the children to death. Anyone going to kidnap Netanyahu and his wife?
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"Save the Humans"
Is there hope for planet Earth? Well, there's always the prospect of being saved by Aliens from Outer Space. Title track of Ai Tsuno's January 15th album release!
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"Disarm Israel"
Miko Peled was on Al-Jazeera the other day, making so much good sense, I had to write a song about it. “Disarm Israel” will be one of several catchy tracks about the ongoing US-Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people that will be part of Ai Tsuno’s January 15th album release, Save the Humans.
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Gorilla Radio Year-Ender 2025
Chris Cook did an absolutely wonderful wrap-up of 2025 for his Gorilla Radio podcast, consisting of snippets from interviews he did throughout the year, with a song of mine between each one!
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Bisbee, Arizona, 1917 -- and this weekend!
Perhaps the most broadly notable thing about Bisbee is the town's outsized role in US & Mexican labor history. And the most timely piece of information about Bisbee? I'm playing there this weekend!
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"When Luigi Goes on Trial"
One of the things that 2026 holds in store is what some are already calling "the trial of the century."
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The Red and the Blue GUIDED TOUR
A guided tour of Ai Tsuno's 9th album, which consists of 12 songs David Rovics created with Ai Tsuno over the course of December, 2025. Topics covered include the ongoing Gaza genocide, the trial of Luigi Mangione, the corporate internet, and the beauty of Bonoboville. The Red and the Blue drops…
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"Reality Awaits Outside"
If you're feeling hopeless, most likely the first thing you should do is leave all your devices in a hole somewhere and go outside. This will be one of the tracks on my next album with Ai Tsuno, The Red and the Blue, which, if all goes as planned, will drop on all the music streaming platforms on...
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"The Internet is an Ugly Place"
The modern internet, controlled as it is by the world's biggest corporations and their conflict-promotion algorithms, has become a nightmare of monolithic proportions. This will be one of the tracks on my next album with Ai Tsuno, The Red and the Blue, which, if all goes as planned, will drop on...
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The Red and the Blue [travelogue]
There's really no such thing as red or blue -- just lots of folks like me and you.
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"2026"
My biggest hope for 2026? That by the end of it we'll be experiencing a more or less normal winter in the northern hemisphere, and not a nuclear one. This will be one of the tracks on my next album with Ai Tsuno, which, if all goes as planned, will drop on all the music streaming platforms on...
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"When You Listen and You're Here"
What makes a piece of music good? What makes a song a good song? The music industry has, for a century or so, been obsessively oriented with creating mysterious and exciting identities for artists they want to turn into stars. The industry emphasizes the artist, rather than the art. The art…
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"The Red and the Blue"
I sat down this morning with the intention of writing a bit of a travelogue about my recent travels in Texas and Georgia, but then I wrote this song instead. I'll probably eventually write the travelogue, too.
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