Archive - This Week with David Rovics

Tonight in Topanga, then across the Atlantic!

Our one gig on this tour in southern California is tonight in beautiful Topanga, and I thought I'd tell everyone, on the theory that most people know…

5 hrs ago •

The Piper for the San Patricios

Ballad of the guy who might have played the pipes for the St Patrick Battalion.

22 hrs ago •

2:07

Viva Mexico! Viva los San Patricios!

A travelogue about five wonderful days in Mexico.

Mar 21 •

2:28

New album: Deport the Billionaires

New album out now!

Mar 18 •

"Mahmoud Khalil" REMIX + the world tour begins today in Mexico!

As we wait to hear whether Mahmoud Khalil will be given a trial, be deported without one, sent to Guantanamo, or who knows what, here's Chet Gardiner's…

Mar 13 •

2:33

The Disconnected 20% That Runs It All

Some thoughts on that majority element of top-quintile US society that persistently refers to itself as "the middle class."

Mar 12 •

18:23

New song: "Mahmud Khalil"

Free Mahmoud Khalil

Mar 11 •

2:40

Trump 2.0 Playlist

Songs you can play at the protests.

Mar 10 •

1:42

"Toddlers-in-Chief" REMIX

Another fab remix from Chet Gardiner, of a song that's at least as relevant as it was a few days ago, when I wrote it, after that meeting in the Oval…

Mar 9 •

2:09

"Meanwhile in Gaza" REMIX

On Day 5 of Israel's complete blockade of all aid into Gaza, here's Chet Gardiner's ominous remix of the song I wrote when the blockade was imposed.

Mar 7 •

2:35

March 15-16 the Make the Planet Earth Great Again WORLD TOUR begins in MEXICO CITY!

The Ministry of Culture is thrilled to be kicking off our 2025 bout of touring with the St. Patrick's Weekend events in Mexico City!

Mar 6 •

6:20

New song: "Toddlers-in-Chief"

I'm constantly unable to decide whether they're brilliantly theatrical, Machiavellian coup-plotters or just bumbling billionaires whose emotional…

Mar 5 •

2:19

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