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David Rovics
Person · male · United States · New York City · born 1967 · recording since 1996
American musician
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Also known as David Stefan Rovics · Дэвид Ровикс
Timeline
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1960s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Make It So
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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2000s
2010s
2020s
Biography
English biography592 words · 5 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1365971389
Biography
David Stefan Rovics ( ROH-viks; born April 10, 1967) is an American indie singer/songwriter. His music concerns both topical subjects such as the Iraq War, anti-globalization, anarchism, and social justice issues, and also labor history. Rovics has been an outspoken critic of former president George W. Bush, the Republican Party, John Kerry, and the Democratic Party.
Rovics is critical of the United States government's policies and claims that the "U.S. government's foreign policy represents U.S. corporate interests" and that "the U.S. government does not like democracy either at home or abroad."
Although some of Rovics' work is not self-published, and much of it is commercially distributed, Rovics has made all of his recorded music freely available as downloadable mp3 files. He encourages non-profit, free distribution of his work by to spread political messages, and speaks out against websites that charge for downloading his songs. Rovics has also advocated the performing of his songs at protests and demonstrations and has made his sheet music and lyrics available for download.
Biography
David Rovics was born in New York City. His family moved to Wilton, Connecticut when he was young. Rovics was politically inspired during his adolescence by his experiences with the conservative-oriented, Christian milieu of his home town. His parents, both classical musicians and educators, were liberal in their outlook. Perhaps for this reason, while in his teens Rovics acquired interests in nuclear disarmament, vegetarianism and other counterculture issues. He has described himself as an "anti-Zionist Jew from New York".
In 1985, Rovics enrolled at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, but dropped out and moved to Berkeley, California. He worked in occupations such as a cook, barista, secretary and typist, while pursuing his musical interests as a street and subway performer and in small clubs and bars. He immersed himself in leftist counterculture and made contact with other songwriters and performers on the underground circuit. By the early 1990s he was a full-time busker in the Boston subways.
From the mid-1990s, Rovics has spent most of his time on concert tours around the world. Rovics tours regularly on four continents, playing for audiences large and small at cafes, pubs, universities, churches, union halls and protest rallies. He has had his music featured on Democracy Now!, the BBC, Al-Jazeera, Acik Radyo and other networks. His essays are published regularly on CounterPunch and Truthout and the 200+ songs he makes available on the web have been downloaded more than a million times. Although Rovics' work has not gained major commercial success, it has been acclaimed in sections of the press.
Personal life
He currently lives in Portland, Oregon with his family and has a daughter, Leila, who was born in 2006.
Political activism
Rovics has also written a song on Francis Hughes, a Provisional IRA combatant who died in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike, in his song "Up The Provos".
In 2021, Rovics interviewed white nationalist activist Matthew Heimbach and posted it on his YouTube account, and hosted a conversation with Israeli musician Gilad Atzmon on the same account, as well as appearing on the podcast of conspiracy theorist Kevin Barrett. As a result, Rovics has been accused by anti-fascist activists It's Going Down and Shane Burley of promoting individuals associated with white nationalism, antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Rovics temporarily removed the interview with Heimbach from his site, but responded that Atzmon is not an antisemite and Heimbach not a fascist, and that it is important to understand why people are drawn to the far-right.
Children's albums
Har Har Har! Pirate Songs for Kids (CD Baby.Com/Indys, 2008)
Ballad of a Dung Beetle (2011)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 9 | 54.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 62 | 95.7th |
| Studio albums | 48 | 99.2th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 49 | 98.8th |
| Recording span (years) | 29 | 64th |
| Genres | 17 | 99.2th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (62 release groups · 48 studio albums)
Albums · 48
1996 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:02:07
1The Boston Burglar3:212Make It So2:423People Used To3:324If You Love the Water, Let it Rain3:155Vigilante Man3:236Song of the Rail2:187The Bicycle Song2:348Field of Summer's Gold5:189In the Eyes of Hollywood3:4010In the Heat of the Summer2:4011The Bluegrass Fiddler of London2:4712Me and My Uncle3:1313Only Our Rivers Run Free2:5814Talkin' Union3:0315Enola Gay2:3416Whiskey-Drinkin' Mama1:5517Ghost Dance Lullaby4:2918Big Rock Candy Mountain2:1819Glory and Fame6:071998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 47:18
1Minimum Wage Strike3:402We Just Want the World3:053The Death of David Chain2:424Judi Bari2:235Cannabis Cafe2:296Parking Lots and Strip Malls1:537Song for Boxcar Betty3:358Contras, Kings and Generals3:029Henry Ford Was a Fascist1:5010Song for Hugh Thomson3:1311T-stop Cafe3:0812Too Proud to Beg3:2813Glory and Fame (edited)4:3314If I Die Tomorrow8:172002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:10:14
1The Next Attack1:562Hang a Flag in the Window4:043Drink of the Death Squads3:074The Village Where Nothing Happened3:325Bomb Ourselves4:136Jenin4:097Good Kurds, Bad Kurds3:128Song for Basra3:529I Have Seen the Enemy4:0110One Night in Greece2:4911The Pirate Radio Song3:0812Ballad of a Cluster Bomb2:5713Vanguard4:3414Mi Amor2:4215Sit Down to Piss2:5516By the Time They Nuke DC2:4517Song for the ELF3:0718Outside Agitator3:4419In One World4:2320We Are Everywhere2:5721Behind the Barricades2:072003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 18:13
1Welcome to the European Union4:222The Best Democracy Money Can Buy3:383IRV2:304Benton Harbor4:285Behind That Gate3:152003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 57:17
1After the Revolution5:322Palestine3:443Occupation4:094The Death of Rachel Corrie2:505So Many Years Ago3:026Resistance3:417Reichstag Fire4:448Promised Land4:069Times Gone By3:5210Strike a Blow Against the Empire5:0311Song for Ana Belen Montes3:5212Hiroshima5:4213The Key5:0214Return1:582003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 36:04
1Hot Tub Song2:022Sixty Thousand More3:233Everything Looks the Same3:014Beyond the Mall2:555Free (Song for Jeffrey Luers)3:196Election3:047Time for You to Go2:468Black Flag Flying3:399Santiago2:5210Welcome to the European Union2:5511The Best Democracy Money Can Buy3:3812IRV2:302004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:04:20
1Miami3:012Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL)2:463The Face Of Victory3:404Song The Songbird Sings3:335They're Building A Wall3:236Who Would Jesus Bomb?3:487Evening News2:128Here At The End Of The World3:079Used To Be A City3:0410More Gardens Song3:0311Butcher For Hire3:0212Trafalgar Square2:2813Song For The SOA #22:3914All The Ghosts That Walk This Earth4:0815Korea3:1016I Wanna Go Home2:5217Moron2:1318The War Is Over3:1119The Battle Of Blair Mountain4:1320Oppositional Defiance Disorder2:2021What If You Knew2:272005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 38:28
1Song for Cindy Sheehan2:532Paul Wolfowitz2:113Mama's Royal Cafe2:274Before the Oil Wells Ran Dry2:015Four Blank Slates3:436Hummer2:007Waiting for the Fall3:048Life is Beautiful2:259When Johnny Came Marching Home3:1710How Far Is It From Here to Nuremberg2:1011Wookey Hole Inn1:5812Hills of Tennessee2:3713Friends2:1914Crashing Down2:0015Age of Oil3:232005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:06:32
1After We Torture Our Prisoners2:162Falluja5:073The Draft Is Coming2:454Berlin2:415Song for Hugo Chavez3:036Guantanamo Bay2:167Spanish Journalist Strike3:428They're Building a Wall4:279The Scar Upon Your Face2:5410Saint Patrick Battalion5:0311Unknown Soldier4:3612Like I Think About You3:2913Mi Amor3:0714More Gardens Song3:1015My Daughter4:1216I Wanna Go Home3:3817Whoever Wins in November2:3618After the Revolution4:3319Every Minute of the Day2:57Halliburton Boardroom Massacre
2006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 34:05
1Crashing Down2:252How Far Is It From Here to Nuremburg?2:163New Orleans4:194Tsunami2:155Halliburton Boardroom Massacre2:236When Johnny Came Marching Home3:177R.P.G.2:238Four Blank Slates3:479Song for Cindy Sheehan3:0410Waiting for the Fall3:1911Paul Wolfowitz2:0212Life Is Beautiful2:352008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 42:49
1Walking On the Ceiling2:472Roller Coaster Train2:443Punk Rock Baby3:254The Fruit That Got Away2:135The Pirate Song1:506Fly Around the World3:597Boogers2:178Tappety Tippety2:289Two Mommies and Two Daddies1:5510Bullies3:0211I'm Gonna Fly3:0212Daddy's Camper Van1:5013Don't Fall Into the Toilet2:2514I'm Running Away3:0715Owl Dream2:4716Together2:58Waiting for the Fall: A Retrospective
2009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 23 tracks · 1:18:34
1Song for Hugh Thompson3:122Song for My Broken Heart4:033The Dying Firefighter4:124Jenin4:105Times Gone By3:506The Death of Rachel Corrie2:507They're Building A Wall3:228Saint Patrick Battalion4:529What If You Knew2:2410The More Gardens Song3:0211Everything Looks the Same3:0012Burn it Down3:2313Like I Think About You3:2614Waiting for the Fall3:2015Falluja4:1016Four Blank Slates3:4817When Johnny Came Marching Home3:1818Crashing Down2:2719New Orleans4:2120Black Flag Flying3:4821I’m a Better Anarchist Than You2:3422Behind the Barricades2:0723Life Is Beautiful2:552009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:01:24
1Travelodge2:072In the Name of God2:503Song for the Eureka Stockade3:334Brad3:145Floating Down the River2:286Now That You're Gone2:487Berkshire Hills4:148Atif and Sebastian2:329Pirates of Somalia2:4310Lebanon (2006)2:2311John Brown4:0512Luis Posada1:3113Guanajuato3:4114Free1:3115East Tennessee3:0916Land of the Midnight Sun2:2917I Know a Man2:2818Santiago2:5219Song for Ginger Goodwin3:4720Song for Al Grierson3:4321World of Broken Dreams3:162010 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 38:07
1Cordova3:072If I Were Captain of the Pirates2:103Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler3:434Song for the Mavi Marmara6:075The Last Lincoln Vet5:016I'm Taking Someone With Me When I Go2:327Sugihara4:348Riot Dog2:269Up the Provos (Song for Francis Hughes)5:4010Union Makes Us Strong2:472011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 54:50
1Tunisia 20115:492Song for Bradley Manning4:223Riot Dog2:004Cordova3:265Sugihara5:066I'm a Better Anarchist Than You2:177East Tennessee3:208John Brown4:269Burn It Down3:0010Song for Mavi Mamara6:0211Pirate Santa3:4012Up the Provos6:1413The Last Lincoln Veteran5:082012 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 46:46
1Breivik3:412Holy Land Five4:033Israeli Geography 1013:194London Is Burning3:375Adelaide4:526Syrian Princess4:367Meanwhile in Afghanistan4:048Watch Out for the Cops3:159If Only It Were True3:2810Steal This MP33:0111He Called Me Dad5:0612Why Don’t They Play You on the Radio?3:442013 · studio album
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Tracklist · 23 tracks
1Everything Can Change2Prism3If I Had a Hammer4Spies Are Reading My Blog5Trayvon6Song for Pelican Bay7Anthony's Weiner8Four More Years9Demorats Make Me Wanna Vomit10The Man Who Burned the White House Down11Flight 80012Pipeline13Oil Train14Syria, 201315Between You and That Harpoon16Landlord17Before Their Ship Arrived18Vanunu19What Do You Call It?20Kick It While It's Down21Trade War22Wal-Mart23Christmas Eve in Bethlehem2013 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 49:50
1What Do You Call It2:422Khader Adnan, Bobby Sands3:543Vanunu3:324Corporations Are People, Too3:325Kick It While It’s Down3:376A Dream Foreclosed3:137Ballad of Eola Park3:238Everything Can Change2:329Comets of Kandahar2:3810Pipeline2:2311Houseboat2:3812Aurora Massacre2:1013Wal-Mart2:0214Four More Years3:2215Democrats Make Me Wanna Vomit2:2816Sunshine2:5417A Christmas Song2:502013 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 47:00
1Prism2:342Landlord4:173Assata2:314The Man Who Burned the White House Down2:055Egyptian Rag3:006Someone’s Got Their Ear2:507Henk4:308Barack Obama2:219American Rag2:5310Flight 8003:1211A Brief History of the Orange Line3:4012Vasili4:2813Bonobo Song2:0214God Bless the USA4:2415What Am I Doing Here2:132013 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 41:52
1Between You and That Harpoon2:382Syria, 20132:183Before Their Ship Arrived3:184Anthony’s Wiener1:465If I Had a Hammer3:356Trade War2:507Iceland, 20083:368Song for Pelican Bay4:139Trayvon3:4210Oil Train2:2311Spies Are Reading My Blog2:2612Pebble Mine2:5413Has the Bombing Begun3:2414Christmas Eve in Bethlehem2:49All the News That’s Fit to Sing
2014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 51:40
1All the News That’s Fit to Sing2:452TPP 1014:023Dead4:194Mudslide2:545Mitch Daniels3:386Bubbling Up3:337Hoarder Song2:318The Dam2:529Eat the Rich1:4410Song for Oscar Grant4:1311Moazzam2:5912Invisible Man2:4913Tax the Sun3:0714Welcome to the Working Class3:3115Judy3:2516Sachin3:18When I’m Elected President… / Wayfaring Stranger
2014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 22 tracks · 1:00:22
1When I’m Elected President2:392Statue in the Harbor2:033Gentrification Town2:314Barbara Lee3:135Neither King nor Kaiser2:086Captain Kruger Is a Nazi2:527Gaza2:138Terrorist in Chief1:599Sometimes I Walk the Aisles2:3010152:0111US Embassy2:1312His Hands Were in the Air3:5213Who’s the Criminal Here?2:3114Wayfaring Stranger3:1715Bella Ciao2:1616Hallelujah4:1217The Workers’ Song2:0918We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years2:5219Solidarity Forever2:3520Playa Giron3:0121Lakes of Pontchartrain4:2722When I’m Gone2:482015 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 26:22
1Ballad of a Dung Beetle2:442Baby in a Bag1:293Rockin’ in a Rocking Chair2:194Owie1:395My Backyard2:146Pretty Puppies1:127Babies Are a Mess1:518I Lost My Hat1:539When That Kitten Started Playing1:5010I Just Wanna Climb a Tree1:1911Leila’s Birthday Song2:2412If I Was a Dog1:2013It’s So Windy1:4514Halloween Parade2:232015 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 49:56
1Waiting for the Hurricane2:582I Can’t Breathe2:293Liberty and Justice for All3:264Before the War Came Home3:095Denmark, 19432:256Angry White American Man2:287State House Lawn3:398They All Sang the Internationale4:419Kobane3:1510Joe Hill3:4411Facebook Song2:3712Douglas MacLeod3:4713Frieden und Freiheit3:2814Ballad of CeCe McDonald2:4915Christmas in a Tent2:5216The Ball is Round2:092017 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 35:35
1Just a Renter2:55218482:093Age of the Robber Barons1:594Gather Round3:435If You Bomb Somebody2:046If This Were a War2:537Song for a Refugee2:188Oklahoma, 19172:179Orlando2:4310The Ghost of Ethel Rosenberg2:4511So You Want to Flip a House2:0412Do Not Kill Your Landlord2:1713Standing Rock2:4014America Has Never Been So Great2:482017 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 42:00
1Ballad of a Wobbly4:092Today in Charlottesville2:513Cheese and Bread2:484Names and Addresses2:535Commandante Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz3:476Rod Monroe Campaign Song2:017Leila and Majnun3:328Rojava2:409On the Train3:3510Text Messages of the Apocalypse2:1811Famine, Flood and Fire3:0712On the Streets of Copenhagen2:3613Failed State3:0214Make the Planet Earth Great Again2:412018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 37:24
1Ballad of a Wobbly (Live)3:502East Kilbride (Live)3:053Famine, Flood and Fire (Live)3:024Iceland, 2008 (Live)3:195Helen Keller, Revisited (Live)2:226Failed State (Live)2:387I'm a Better Anarchist Than You (Live)2:338Stock Exchange (Live)2:179If Only It Were True (Live)3:0410St Patrick Battalion (Live)3:3511Song for a Refugee (Live)2:2012The War Is Over (Live)2:5413Make the Planet Earth Great Again (Live)2:252019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 46:36
1Just a Renter2:552Failed State3:033Gather Round3:434Names and Addresses2:545East Kilbride3:21619333:347Mawda Was Her Name3:378Letter to My Landlord2:299If This Were a War3:0210St Patrick Battalion2:5911Send Them Back1:4712Leila and Majnun3:3213ICE2:4214Cheese and Bread2:4915Ballad of a Wobbly4:092019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 38:25
1Somewhere on Spotify2:502Winnipeg3:443In Venezuela2:194When the Nazis Came to Rotherham3:275Jeremy Corbyn2:516My Great Grandparents3:127Is That a Girl or a Boy?2:038Behind Closed Doors3:099In '683:2310A Song for My Professor2:4511Ballad of John McCain2:5912Today in Yemen3:0213A Penny a Play2:412019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 37:52
1Living on the Streets of LA2:332Just a Renter2:333So This Is What It's Like1:194When the Nazis Came to Rotherham3:265My Great Grandparents3:116Reality Winner2:267Jock Palfreeman2:538Failed State2:229Oil Blockade2:4510In Venezuela2:0911I Was a Stranger3:4912The Time to Act2:0213A Penny a Play2:4614If There's a Tomorrow3:382020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 43:02
1Viral Solidarity2:362I Was a Stranger3:363Cheese and Bread2:284Iceland, 20083:215Living on the Streets of La2:256Do Not Kill Your Landlord2:507Letter to My Landlord2:438Across the Ocean Wide2:009East Kilbride2:5410Behind These Prison Walls4:0711St Patrick Battalion3:4112The Pandemic of 19182:0113Everything Can Change1:5514Normandy2:0815They All Sang the Internationale4:172020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 33:15
1Precipice2:152As I Watch Minneapolis Burn2:263Essentially Expendable3:194As I Walk On By3:225Each Couch By the Street2:186Don't Pay the Rent2:397Rent Party2:538When the Students Took the Embassy2:009Ballad of Alvaro Luna Hernandez3:2510The Pogroms of 19693:0211And the Earth Spins Round Again2:4312Our Imagination2:532020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 33:03
1Anarchist Jurisdiction2:312I Think I Saw Somebody Die2:193The FOP On Fire2:424The Flames of History2:455Say Their Names2:256Elijah Played the Violin3:127Ballad of Lachlan Macquarie2:468Resign (Ballad of Tear Gas Ted)2:249Born on the Fourth of July2:1810Song for Michael Reinoehl2:3211Ballad of the Oregon Employment Department2:1812The Books of Howard Zinn2:2113East of the 2052:302021 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 40:12
1They Lied2:462To All the Jared Kushners of the World2:593Say Their Names2:304Essentially Expandable (The Death of Jason Hargrove)3:505There’s Water on the Moon3:536Behind These Prison Walls4:057The Pandemic of 19183:038When This Fertile Valley Was Stolen2:389With Masks Upon Their Faces and Leaf-Blowers in Their Hands2:2310Don’t Pay the Rent3:0611Our Imagination3:2012The Pogroms of 19693:0513Patreon2:342021 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 36:37
1There Is A Cage3:212When Jesus Came to Laurelhurst Park4:233It's Been A Year3:004Dying on the Sidewalk4:415Kelly Butte4:266In the Hills of Forest Grove5:587A Song for Laurel3:208American Dream Ponzi Scheme3:339Woke1:3910Shoplifting at Whole Foods2:162021 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 25:46
1116 Degrees3:312Watch the Buildings Crumble2:353If A Song Could Make Your Troubles Go Away3:214It's Been A Year3:005I Dreamed I Saw Anne Feeney2:176In the Name of Freedom3:027When Chevron Came to Ecuador2:028Greenwood3:249When the Workers of the World Combine2:342024 · studio album
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Tracklist · 20 tracks · 59:32
1As the Bombs Rain Down2:152Stop the Genocide2:533From the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea3:504Wounded Child No Surviving Family4:465Humanitarian Pause2:516Once the Last Palestinian's Killed3:277Famine and Disease2:328Pogroms of Judea and Samaria2:549The Apocalypse Will Be Televised2:3810Baby Jesus Lying in the Rubble3:2311Just Like the Nazis Did4:0412They're Killing Off the Journalists of Gaza2:5313They Were Raising A White Flag2:0114Where Did All These Terrorists Come From?2:2315Song for the Houthi Army3:2216Land and Freedom2:4817Indiscriminate2:2818It's Christmas Eve2:4119Antisemite2:2320If A Song Could Raise An Army3:002024 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:04:11
1This Is Genocide2:162Song for Aaron Bushnell2:553Song for Gaza3:204Taking to the Waves2:305Flour Massacre2:146Lines Are Drawn2:267Airdrop3:058What I Learned from the Hasbara Trolls4:059Smashing Elbit Systems2:4310Hollywood Bread4:1511Centralia3:5412East Palestine2:3913The Last Time the US Invaded Russia2:3014It's Not A Trade War2:5315Russian Influence (Hands Off Uhuru)2:4116Without Henry Kissinger3:0217Ballad of the TikTok Ban3:4018Pedie Perez2:5019St Patrick Battalion3:2120The Last Words of Kevin Zeese2:3221In One World4:202024 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 55:23
1The Ballad of the USS Liberty (When Israel Attacked the USA)3:312Boycott, Sanction, and Divest2:393Since Long Before October2:154The House Un-Israeli Activities Committee2:325Hani Mahmoud and Tareq Abu Azzoum3:286The Ballad of UK Lawyers for Israel3:187Keep on Eating til the Card's Maxed Out2:218The Poor People's March on Washington2:439Rent Strike2:5410Tolpuddle2:1211Join the Mob3:0112Gough Whitlam3:0713The Murdered and the Missing (Song for Chelsea Poorman)4:0414I Heard a Rumor2:2515My Techno-Fascist God2:2016Divide and Rule3:1817Twitter Troll Jig3:0118Cancel Culture Commander (Ballad of an Anarcho-Puritan)3:0519Aotearoa3:09Ministry of Culture: Live at Ecosocialism 2024
2024 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 51:21
1Failed State2:462Ballad of Lachlan Macquarie2:243Song for the Highland Clearances3:204Song for Gaza3:165St Patrick Battalion3:096The Murdered and the Missing (Song for Chelsea Poorman)4:017Smashing Elbit Systems2:538Leila and Majnun2:489Woomera (Free the Refugees)2:4810I'm A Better Anarchist Than You2:5211This is Genocide2:2012Song for the Houthi Army3:1213Rent Strike2:5414Landlord (Song for the Rent Strike Wars)3:4615If a Song Could Raise an Army3:1916Another World3:4817Behind the Barricades1:45Ministry of Culture: Live on the Big Island
2024 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 51:04
1And the Earth Spins Round3:092Just a Renter3:133When Julian Met Stella1:584Behind These Prison Walls4:065Killing the Messenger3:056At the End of World War Three3:387As I Walk on By3:228Across the Ocean Wide3:139When the Students Took the Embassy2:0410Elijah Played the Violin3:0111I'm A Better Anarchist Than You2:5112Mawda Was Her Name3:2313As the Planet Floods and Burns3:1014Winnipeg4:0415Another World4:5816Behind the Barricades1:492024 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 31:58
1The Constitution Is My Permit2:282In Wisconsin in 1854 (Song for Joshua Glover)4:263Section 12 (Do You Support the Resistance)2:394On the Streets of London (Free Sarah Wilkinson)2:165Aysenur3:406Ballad of Donald and Kamala (When It Comes to Israel)3:297Whatever They'll Pay (Ballad of Lars Fruergaard Joergensen)2:298Jill Stein2:449The Generals' Plan2:0710Arc of Justice2:4111Jabaliya2:592025 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 29:28
1The Siege of Kamal Adwan Hospital2:41235 Children a Day2:153In Amsterdam3:184Blinken's Last Press Conference (Song for Sam Husseini)3:035The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI4:096Across the Street from Ebenezer (Song for Cornelius Taylor)2:117Ashes of LA2:358Canceled2:579So Many Ways to Kill a CEO2:4010Trump 2.03:39Make The Planet Earth Great Again
2025 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 29:26
1The Apocalypse Will Be Televised3:40214925:073Make The Planet Earth Great Again2:444As The Bombs Rain Down2:445If A Song Could Raise An Army3:466Little Crow4:027Ballad Of The Columbia Eagle4:098Life Is Beautiful3:142025 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 42:51
1Where Were You3:052As We Watched a Million Children Die2:443This Is What Genocide Looks Like3:184The Pilgrims Were Immigrants Too3:125The Piper for the San Patricios2:076In the Name of God2:497Sending an SOS from Krome2:428If We’re All Palestinians3:339Israel’s War on Children3:5510Survivors3:0711The War Machine2:5212Gunning Down Little Girls and Boys2:3813You Can’t Bomb Your Way to Peace3:5214In Our Dreams2:572025 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 28:04
1From Auschwitz To Gaza3:292The Food Lines Are The Front Lines Now1:583Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Hunger Games2:484Israel And Its Nuclear Arsenal2:365I Support Palestine Action2:506Maha Almassri2:497International Law3:148The World According To MAGA3:069Jeremy Corbyn (Reprise)2:5010St Patrick's Day In Churubusco2:242025 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 36:31
1Invisible Rulers2:452Zahid Chaudhry3:263Charlie Kirk2:114Song for a Photograph3:055The Genocidal Democratic Senators Song3:026Now They Say It's Time to Recognize Palestine2:287Tortuguita's Playlist3:228Little Crow3:319We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years2:5010Solidarity Forever2:3211I'm At My Wit's End1:5712At the End of World War Three Remix5:22— · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks · 1:11:44
1Berkshire Hills4:152St. Patrick Battalion4:523John Brown4:064Song for the Eureka Stockade3:345Song for Ginger Goodwin3:486Battle of Blair Mountain4:137The Last Lincoln Veteran5:018Sugihara4:349Song for Hugh Thompson3:1310Santaigo2:5311Up the Provos (Song For Francis Hughes)5:4012Cordova3:0713Trafalgar Square2:2814Miami3:0115New Orleans4:1916In The Name Of God2:5017Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler3:4318Song For Mavi Marmara6:07
Album · 11
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Pay Day at Coal CreekSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 15 tracks · 50:111Pretty Boy Floyd3:04 2Death of Mother Jones2:39 3(The Lowell) Factory Girl3:28 4The Popular Wobbly3:06 5Spancil Hill4:32 6Pay Day at Coal Creek3:06 7Big Rock Candy Mountain2:26 8The Beggin'3:48 9Sacco and Vanzetti5:11 10Massacre of 19133:16 11We Shall Not Be Moved2:39 12Draft Dodger Rag2:18 13Candle for Durruti3:55 14Yellow Ribbon2:38 15Hobo's Lullaby4:05 | Compilation | 1998 | |
| 2000 | Live at Club PassimSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 22 tracks · 1:03:171Song for Big Mountain4:21 2Intro to Song for the BBB0:58 3Song for the BBB3:48 4Song for my Broken Heart4:05 5Intro to the Alligator Song0:33 6The Alligator Song3:13 7Terror in the Skies2:34 8Intro to Henry Ford was a Fascist0:26 9Henry Ford was a Fascist2:02 10Song for Eric3:34 11Cannabis Cafe2:43 12Intro to Deadhead in Prison1:46 13Deadhead in Prison3:19 14Song for the SOA3:18 15Minimum Wage Strike3:49 16Intro to Morning at Minnehaha0:37 17Morning at Minnehaha2:55 18Song for Boxcar Betty4:02 19Pray for the Dead and Fight Like Hell for the Living6:08 20Intro to the Flag Desecration Rag0:52 21The Flag Desecration Rag3:42 22Hobo's Lullaby4:32 | Live | 2000 | |
| 2001 | Living in These TimesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 17 tracks · 1:07:511The Dying Firefighter4:12 2From Kabul to Khartoum3:12 3St. Patrick Battalion5:21 4Who Will Tell the People5:47 5The Rinky Dink Song4:44 6Shut Them Down3:44 7Behind the Barricades1:55 8Song for Basra3:36 9International Terrorists2:56 10Trading With the Enemy3:38 11No One Is Illegal4:43 12My Daughter3:52 13I Remember Warsaw4:46 14Children of Jerusalem4:05 15DU3:31 16Polyamory Song4:23 17The Jewel of Bucharest3:26 | Live | 2001 | |
| 2003 | Behind the BarricadesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 21 tracks · 1:06:371Shut Them Down3:46 2Drink of the Death Squads3:06 3Saint Patrick Battalion5:22 4We Are Everywhere2:56 5Minimum Wage Strike4:04 6Hang a Flag in the Window4:04 7Jenin4:08 8In One World4:22 9Behind the Barricades2:06 10Song for the Earth Liberation Front3:07 11Intro to: Song for the BBB0:57 12Song for the BBB3:45 13I Remember Warsaw4:44 14Intro to: Henry Ford Was a Fascist0:23 15Henry Ford Was a Fascist1:59 16If I Die Tomorrow3:32 17Intro to: The Flag Desecration Rag0:49 18The Flag Desecration Rag3:39 19Who Would Jesus Bomb?3:54 20Operation Iraqi Liberation2:50 21I Wanna Go Home3:04 | Compilation | October 2003 | |
| 2007 | The CommonsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 17 tracks · 58:361Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL)3:55 2Falluja4:09 3New Orleans4:25 4I’m a Better Anarchist Than You2:33 5Halliburton Boardroom Massacre2:37 6Oppositional Defiance Disorder2:39 7Who Would Jesus Bomb?3:52 8Burn It Down3:24 9Jenin4:02 10Black Flag Flying3:47 11The Cannabis Cafe2:49 12Saint Patricks Battallion4:52 13They’re Building a Wall3:21 14Life Is Beautiful2:56 15The Commons2:59 16Behind the Barricades1:51 17After the Revolution4:25 | Live | 2007 | |
| 2014 | Falasteen HabibtiSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 21 tracks · 1:15:511Gaza2:40 2Occupation4:09 3Israeli Geography 1013:19 4Bubbling Up3:33 5What Do You Call It2:42 6Holy Land Five4:03 7Lebanon, 20062:28 8Song for the Mavi Marmara6:02 9They’re Building a Wall3:21 10Christmas Eve in Bethlehem2:49 11Khader Adnan, Bobby Sands3:54 12Jenin4:09 13Vanunu3:32 14Palestine3:42 15I Wanna Go Home3:38 16The Key5:02 17The Death of Rachel Corrie2:50 18Song the Songbird Sings3:33 19Children of Jerusalem4:05 20In One World4:23 21Return1:57 | Compilation | 30 July 2014 | |
| 2016 | 1939Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 22 tracks · 55:131God’s Gift to the Caliphate2:34 2Send Them Back1:40 3If/Then1:22 4One Day in Kenya3:07 514924:39 6Anthony Hill1:36 7Sunset Laws2:17 8They Couldn’t Stand By2:45 9Rasmea1:30 10Ballad of Saed Bannoura2:20 11Aleppo2:56 12Lola Aglialoro3:53 13Stolperstein2:32 14Beneath These Stars3:07 15Song for Alistair2:33 16It’s Legal Now2:36 17Eagles of Death1:37 18Upon Our Shores2:01 19The Irish Spring3:24 20Rent Control2:11 21Die Moorsoldaten3:03 22Behind the Barricades1:30 | Live | 11 January 2016 | |
| 2016 | Letter to My LandlordSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 1:21:111One Day in Kenya3:48 2God’s Gift to the Caliphate3:04 3Send Them Back2:15 4No One Is Illegal4:31 5They Couldn’t Stand By3:33 614925:29 7I’m a Better Anarchist Than You3:09 8If Clinton’s a Progressive2:12 9They All Sang the Internationale6:41 10When Johnny Came Marching Home3:22 11Letter to My Landlord4:07 12Joe Hill4:31 13Free Abu Sakha4:49 14It’s Legal Now3:08 15Sunset Laws3:25 16The Man Who Burned the White House Down3:41 17Denmark, 19432:48 18The Biggest Windmill4:29 19Die Moorsoldaten4:45 20St Patrick Battalion7:24 | Live | 28 March 2016 | |
| 2017 | Live in RostrevorSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 14 tracks · 36:281Letter to My Landlord2:40 214924:30 3If This Were a War1:12 4Liberty and Justice for All2:15 5They All Sang the Internationale1:00 6Joe Hill2:26 7John Brown3:42 8Landlord4:06 9I’m a Better Anarchist Than You1:19 10Send Them Back1:50 11No One Is Illegal4:01 12St Patrick Battalion4:27 13Denmark, 19432:04 14Behind the Barricades0:56 | Live | 26 June 2017 | |
| 2018 | Live at De LoftSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 18 tracks · 54:531Failed State2:51 2I’m a Better Anarchist Than You2:33 3Land Day2:15 4Iceland, 20083:28 5If You Bomb Somebody1:48 6Leila and Majnun3:08 7If Only It Were True3:16 8Song for a Refugee (I Am)2:34 9St Patrick Battalion3:53 10Watch Out for the Cops2:31 11Last Lincoln Veteran4:40 12The Dam2:49 13Do Not Kill Your Landlord2:26 14Rojava2:05 15Make the Planet Earth Great Again2:30 16Denmark, 19432:10 17Commandante Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz4:14 18No One Is Illegal5:42 | Live | 23 May 2018 | |
| 2023 | Live in BoulderSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 22 tracks · 1:26:291Hang a Flag in the Window (Live)4:36 2Operation Iraqi Liberation (Oil) [Live]4:25 3The Face of Victory (Live)3:55 4Here at the End of the World (Live)3:47 5Oppositional Defiant Disorder (Live)3:40 6Who Would Jesus Bomb (Live)4:14 7I Wanna Go Home (Live)4:37 8Drink of the Death Squads (Live)3:09 9St Patrick Battalion (Live)5:24 10The Death of Rachel Corrie (Live)3:11 11After the Revolution (Live)4:32 12The Battle of Blair Mountain (Live)4:51 13Used to Be a City (Live)3:43 14The Alligator Song (Live)3:01 15Hiroshima (Live)5:22 16Song for the Soa #2 (Live)2:56 17All the Ghosts That Walk This Earth (Live)4:30 18Cannabis Cafe (Live)2:32 19Minimum Wage Strike (Live)3:26 20Shut Them Down (Live)4:29 21Strike a Blow Against the Empire (Live)4:25 22Behind the Barricades (Live)1:44 | Live | 3 August 2023 |
EP · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Take the Power BackSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 6 tracks · 20:481Just a Renter3:03 2Power 2 the Public3:08 3Gather Round3:44 4Vampire3:17 5Free Em All4:36 6Right 2 Survive3:00 | 11 February 2022 |
Single · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
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| 2022 | Free Em AllSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 1 track · 4:361Free Em All4:36 | 4 March 2022 |
Other · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Deport The BillionairesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 10 tracks · 28:311Mahmoud Khalil2:30 2Deport The Billionaires2:37 3It's A Coup2:47 4Meanwhile In Gaza2:34 5What's Going On Here, Montreal?2:53 6When The People United3:09 7Toddlers-In-Chief2:08 8The Richest Man In The World Says So3:30 9The Man Who Burned The White House Down2:03 10God Bless The USA4:20 | 18 March 2025 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put David Rovics head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 9 | 54.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 62 | 95.7th |
| Studio albums | 48 | 99.2th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 49 | 98.8th |
| Recording span (years) | 29 | 64th |
| Genres | 17 | 99.2th |
Awards & honours
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rovicsbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
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Image: Christian Hufgard · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q1176398 · MusicBrainz: 4d56eb9f-13b3-4f05-9db7-50195378d49f
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