Before the Velvet Underground, before Zappa, The Fugs were the first underground band, sort of, or a series of bands, but it was really a subversive art project, obnoxiously irreverent, a direct challenge to the establishment, investigated by the FBI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

It's time for another digital mix tape ripped from BJ's vinyl collection. RON BOLTON BAND - WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT TRICKSTER - BUMP IN THE NIGHT TABOO ZOO - BLUE EYES BIG STREET - CAMOUFLAGE RADIO BANDITS - SUZY JIM QUEALY BAND - BUSTED THE ONES - TOMORROW'S HEROES (ARE TODAY'S JERKS) ROBIN LANE - HARD COVER IDLE TEARS - FINGERS ON THE PULSE OF AMERIC…

Just in time, a Christmas playlist for you to enjoy, or put on in the background. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Originally released in 2013. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Originally released February 2015: BJ gets down deeper and down with one of his favorite rock bands of the seventies--Status Quo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

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Same name, different band. METELICA - TRAIN METELICA - TIME AND TIME AGAIN NIRVANA - PENTECOST HOTEL NIRVANA - SATELLITE JOCKEY NEW EDITION - SUNSHINE SATURDAY OASIS - SMILE FOR THE SUN KID ROCK - ICE CREAM MAN THE EAGLES - YOUR ENEMY CAN'T HURT YOU THE SUPREMES - JUST FOR YOU AND I PANTERA - I CONFESS CINDERELLA - FROM TOWN TO TOWN THE RUNAWAYS - …

Originally released Aug 2016: BJ is once again joined by Julian Gill from the KissFAQ podcast, this time for a discussion about the roller coaster career of legendary sleaze rocker Zodiac Mindwarp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

In 2014 a certain record sold on ebay for $14,000. The lucky seller purchased the album at a Goodwill in New Hampshire for $1.00. As it turned out, very few copies existed because the majority of whatever had been pressed had most likely been shipped straight to a landfill by the label as a shady tax write off. And this wasn't a one-off scam. Learn…

In BJ's opinion Bad Company were, well...bad. That is, until Brian Howe replaced singer Paul Rodgers in the mid-eighties. Then they were kind of good, for awhile. On this episode BJ tells the story of the band's awkward transition from the seventies to the eighties, and counts down his top ten favorite Bad Company songs...with Brian Howe. Learn mor…

Originally released August 2015: It was a great year for rock and roll so on this episode, which is episode number 89, BJ discusses not his top ten but his top fifteen favorite albums to be released in the corresponding year of 1989. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

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Part four in a four part series: BJ traces the demise of hard rock and heavy (hair? glam?) metal in the nineties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Part three in a four part series: BJ traces the demise of hard rock and heavy (hair? glam?) metal in the nineties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Part two in a four part series: BJ traces the demise of hard rock and heavy (hair? glam?) metal in the nineties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Part one in a four part series: BJ traces the demise of hard rock and heavy (hair? glam?) metal in the nineties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Originally released May 2016: Burn a building! Burn! Burn! Burn! For this episode BJ is joined by frequent guest Greg Renoff, author of Van Halen Rising, to discuss Def Leppard's smash hit album from 1983. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Originally released September 2013: Holy shit, finally here it is, the Sunset Strip Part 2, 48 songs by the best, poppiest, glammiest bands to have infested the Strip in the eighties and early nineties, handpicked by BJ: his favorite songs by his favorite bands from that Sunset Strip glam scene. Have fun! CANDY - WHATEVER HAPPENED TO FUN CANDY - AM…

Originally released September 2013: The Sunset Strip is a mile and a half stretch of Sunset Blvd which lies outside the jurisdiction of the LAPD. On today's episode we take a look at the amazing hard rock scene that sprung up on the strip in the seventies and the heavy metal scene it spawned in the eighties. VAN HALEN - THE ROVER VAN HALEN - HERE'S…

Never mind Nevermind, BJ picks his top ten Nirvana songs not included on that iconic release. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Originally released August 2013: This episode is a tribute to the concept of an "album" as a work of art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

For many, like BJ, the 1971 dark comedy film Harold and Maude was their introduction to British songwriter Cat Stevens. If you're unfamiliar, may this episode be your introduction to either or both. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

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Originally released July 2016: The sixties were a time of strong emotions and social change and the music spoke. Now Rock and/or Roll brings back the spirit of the sixties with the greatest songs of an unforgettable era! Spirit of the sixties brings you songs which live on as symbols of free expression. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap…

Originally released July 2016: The sixties were a time of strong emotions and social change and the music spoke. Now Rock and/or Roll brings back the spirit of the sixties with the greatest songs of an unforgettable era! Spirit of the Sixties brings you songs which live on as symbols of free expression. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap…

Inspired by his recent Day By Day series, BJ counts down his top ten favorite Foo Fighters songs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Day Eleven: Foo Fighters - But Here We Are (2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Day Ten: Foo Fighters - Medicine At Midnight (2021) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Day Nine: Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold (2017) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Day Eight: Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways (2014) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Day Seven: Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (2011) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Day Six: Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Day Five: Foo Fighters - In Your Honor (2005) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Day Four: Foo Fighters - One By One (2002) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Day Three: Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose (1999) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Day Two: Foo Fighters - The Colour and The Shape (1997) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Day One: Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters (1995) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Death SS were an Italian metal band formed in 1977. They performed whilst clad in the most basic children's Halloween costumes. How many in the audience were laughing? None, according to the band's less than modest "visionary," Steve Sylvester, who wrote a book about the band's early days called The Necromancer of Rock. BJ got his hands on a copy. …

Originally released February 2018: BJ has a conversation with Rob Zabrecky from Possum Dixon about that great band's tumultuous decade and the career in magic he has cultivated since. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

On this episode BJ celebrates the 30th anniversary of an album very near and dear to his heart, Bee Thousand from Guided By Voices, explicitly laid out like a fruitcake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

Originally released May 2018: BJ and guest co-host Greg Renoff, author of Van Halen Rising, are joined by drummer Jimmy D'Anda of the Bulletboys for an in depth discussion about the band's killer second album Freakshow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

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BJ examines how the rest of the eighties went for AC/DC after the monumental success of Back In Black and then counts down his top 15 favorite eighties AC/DC songs post-BIB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

One small podcast for a man, one giant podcast for mankind. THE IDLE RACE - DAYS OF THE BROKEN ARROWS THE SHOCKING BLUE - SEND ME A POSTCARD LOVE SCULPTURE - NOBODY'S TALKING MAN - MY NAME IS JESUS SMITH TIMEBOX - YELLOW VAN NAZZ - FORGET ALL ABOUT IT FUSE - PERMANENT RESIDENT TERRY REID - SPEAK NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE FAMILY - SECOND GENERA…

Originally released June 2013: B.J. revisits seventies glam rock, this time focusing on the American version of the phenomenon. It's a hair-raising, gender-bending good time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

BJ is joined once again by Brian Sword, who just relaunched his podcast The Double Stop, to discuss their least favorite Bon Jovi songs from the eighties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll

From There But For Fortune by Michael Schumacher: John Train appeared without warning in the early weeks of summer 1975, quickly asserting himself into the Greenwich Village scene like an unwanted stranger who refused to go away. For the next few months he would anger, confuse, shock, sadden or frighten nearly everyone who crossed his path. Learn m…

Originally released June 2013: On the first half of the third episode your reluctant host B.J. walks us through a timeline of glam rock's dominance in the UK from 1971 to 1975. The second half of the show is a "Junk Shop Glam" smorgasbord. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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The life and death of Jesus Christ "G.G." Allin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAf Rock and/or Roll