ROCK AND/OR ROLL artwork

ROCK AND/OR ROLL

520 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 149 ratings

A podcast about rock and/or roll. Part of Pantheon Podcasts

Music Commentary Music Music History
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Episodes

020 - HEAVY SEVENTIES PART 2

October 26, 2013 00:52 - 1 hour - 101 MB

BJ and Fistful of Dave play some of their favorite heavy seventies rock.

019 - HEAVY SEVENTIES PART 1

October 18, 2013 00:48 - 1 hour - 80.6 MB

BJ is joined by author Martin Popoff and Fistful of Dave to discuss just what heavy means and how heavy rock developed over the course of the seventies.

018 - The Great Lost KISS Album of 1978

October 10, 2013 22:00 - 1 hour - 72.9 MB

It's the PodKISSt and/or Roll! BJ and an esteemed panel discuss the KISS album that never was.

017 - BADFINGER

October 05, 2013 21:47 - 1 hour - 63 MB

BJ takes a close look at the tragic career of a truly wonderful band.

016 - SUNSET STRIP PART 2

September 28, 2013 21:18 - 1 hour - 101 MB

BJ plays a bunch of rare recordings from the Sunset Strip glam explosion of the late eighties/early nineties.

015 - SUNSET STRIP PART 1

September 19, 2013 21:04 - 1 hour - 83.2 MB

BJ takes a look at the development of the Sunset Strip hard rock scene in the seventies and early eighties.

014 - COVER SONGS

September 12, 2013 20:16 - 1 hour - 92.2 MB

BJ examines the art of the cover song, what exactly is a "cover" and what makes for a great cover song.

013 - SEAN SPILLANE (ARLO, THE WOMAN)

September 08, 2013 04:32 - 1 hour - 94.4 MB

BJ has a conversation with Sean Spillane from the Sub Pop band Arlo and more recently the artist behind the soundtracks for films The Woman and Jug Face.

012 - THE FIRST SONG ON SIDE TWO

August 30, 2013 04:14 - 1 hour - 98.4 MB

BJ pays tribute to what an "album" used to be, when it meant something.

011 - AOR? AOK!

August 23, 2013 04:07 - 1 hour - 102 MB

BJ plays some of his favorite AOR songs. They'd be wearing their hearts on their sleeves if their shirts had any sleeves!

010 - PROGRESSIVE ROCK

August 16, 2013 03:56 - 2 hours - 121 MB

BJ and his co-host D. Plov attempt to answer a question asked by Indiana punk band The Gizmos--"Progressive Rock, it really sucks, don't it? Don't it really suck?"

009 - KORY CLARKE

August 09, 2013 03:25 - 1 hour - 67.5 MB

BJ has a conversation with Kory Clarke of Warrior Soul about his career in rock and roll.

008 - DETROIT ROCK CITY

July 25, 2013 03:10 - 1 hour - 78.4 MB

BJ examines the importance of the city of Detroit in the history of rock and roll.

007 - O CANADA: THE SEVENTIES

July 13, 2013 02:21 - 1 hour - 66.9 MB

BJ plays some of his favorite Canadian rock from the seventies.

006 - PUB ROCK

July 05, 2013 02:16 - 1 hour - 71.5 MB

BJ examines the history of the Pub Rock movement in the UK in the seventies.

005 - JIMME O'NEILL (FINGERPRINTZ/THE SILENCERS)

June 29, 2013 01:58 - 2 hours - 118 MB

BJ has a conversation with Jimme O'Neill, frontman for the classic bands Fingerprintz and The Silencers.

004 - AMERICAN GLAM

June 23, 2013 01:48 - 1 hour - 56.6 MB

BJ investigates how glam rock manifested itself in the US in the seventies.

003 - GLAM ROCK

June 14, 2013 01:45 - 1 hour - 79.9 MB

BJ gives an overview of the Glam Rock phenomenon that overtook the UK in the mid-seventies and plays some of his favorite Junk Shop Glam.

002 - POWER POP

June 08, 2013 01:38 - 1 hour - 86.6 MB

BJ plays some of his favorite power pop songs.

001 - INTRO & POWER POP

May 27, 2013 18:22 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MB

On the debut episode BJ gives a sort of introduction to himself and then presents a short history of the genre of power pop.

Guests

Matt Wallace
1 Episode

Books