RoCM Alternative July 4th Weekend Playlist: 05 July 2025
Happy 4th of July weekend everyone – and since the show is close enough to 4th of July, we’re bringing back the Alternative Fourth of July Playlist. Hopefully, you’re getting a long weekend and a brief respite from the horrors of reality.
Here is the playlist. Don’t forget that you can listen to the RoCM online at KCSB-FM’s website and there’s an online archive available for two weeks after the show airs.
| Time | Artist | Song | Release | Song note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00:16 PM | Swamp Dogg | God Bless America For What | Uncut and Classified | |
| 4:13:07 PM | Archie Shepp | Attica Blues | Attica Blues | |
| 4:17:55 PM | Irreversible Entanglements | Blues Ideology (feat. Moor Mother) | Who Sent You? | |
| 4:26:17 PM | Nina Simone | Strange Fruit (Live In New York 1965) | Pastel Blues | |
| 4:29:47 PM | Kain | Loose Here | The Blue Guerrilla | |
| 4:33:17 PM | The Malcolm X College African-American Jazz Ensemble | Malcolm X College Song | The Malcolm X College African-American Jazz Ensemble | |
| 4:40:30 PM | The Advanced Workers With The Anti-Imperialist Singers | You Was Dancin’ Need To Be Marchin’ So You Can Dance Some More Later On | You Was Dancin’ Need To Be Marchin’ So You Can Dance Some More Later On | |
| 4:46:11 PM | The Beatnigs | Television (Radio Edit) | The Beatnigs | |
| 4:50:34 PM | Mark Ribot & Tom Waits | Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful) | Songs of Resistance 1942 – 2018 | |
| 5:00:18 PM | Sekou Sundiata | Droppin’ Revolution | Long Story Short | |
| 5:07:06 PM | Amnesty | Mister President | Free Your Mind: The 700 West Sessions | |
| 5:11:25 PM | James “Blood” Ulmer | Are You Glad To Be In America? | Odyssey | |
| 5:16:19 PM | Max Roach | Triptych: Prayer / Protest / Peace (Remastered) | We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite (Remastered) | |
| 5:24:22 PM | Jayne Cortez & The Firespitters | U.S. / Nigerian Relations | There It Is | |
| 5:28:22 PM | Claudia Rankine | Stop & Frisk | ||
| 5:34:46 PM | Don Byron | Blinky | Nu Blaxploitation | |
| 5:41:43 PM | World Saxophone Quartet | Spy on Me Blues | Political Blues | |
| 5:49:41 PM | Abdullah Ibrahim with Carlos Ward | Anthem for the New Nation | Live At The Sweet Basil |
