Originally released June 2014: On this episode BJ plays some of his favorite songs from all of the indie rock seven inches that he collected in the nineties.

BJ is joined by Bob Gifford from the Boston band The Rings for another tale of the trials and tribulations of the flirting with success in the music industry in the seventies going into the eighties. The episode includes great music, as usual.

Originally released in March, 2020. A collection of songs from obscure UK glam rock bands from the seventies.

For this episode BJ is joined by Stuart Harper, the frontman for Junk Shop Glam cult favorites Iron Virgin. After Iron Virgin split up Stuart fronted two more bands in the late seventies, Miami and Orchid. For this episode Stuart was gracious enough to share with us unreleased recordings of original songs from both of those bands. It's quite a treat!

Unicorn were a UK country rock band produced by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour who made great records but failed to break through. Hear their story and music on this episode.

It's a power pop triple threat as BJ talks to Scott Krueger from The Shivvers, John McMullan from The Trend and Vance Brescia from The Mosquitos.

Originally released: June 2015 BJ presents a short history of the 8 track tape cartridge and then raids his 8 track collection to play some great songs ripped directly from the 8 track tapes. Why? Why not?

Scottish singer-songwriter Brian Spence shares the story of his musical journey, from a seventies glam rock band called Bilbo Baggins to a pair of classic AOR albums in the late eighties.

Originally released August 18, 2016:In this intentionally dichotomous episode BJ plays the heaviest songs he could find by some of the bands or artists often labelled, rightfully so or not, as "soft rock."

BJ is joined by guitar player Jeff Summers from the eighties hard rock bands Weapon, Wildfire and Statetrooper.

BJ presents an hour of cartoon theme songs from the eighties (with commercials).

Long before he joined Megadeth Marty Friedman was already making great and groundbreaking heavy metal music with his bands Deuce, Vixen, Aloha and Hawaii. On this episode B.J. discusses those early metal bands with him and you'll get to hear some of the great music that they made.

BJ presents a sampling of thirty more great AOR songs. They'd be wearing their hearts on their sleeve if their shirts had any sleeves!

For this episode BJ is joined by Parthenon Huxley, whose power pop career stretches all the way back to Chapel Hill in the late seventies, alongside the likes of Don Dixon and Mitch Easter. It's an inspirational tale of making it without making it in the music business.

Hear conversations BJ had with Coleman York from Canadian power pop band the Numbers and Graham "Kidder" Hammonds from punky UK power poppers the Incredible Kidda Band. And the songs on this episode? Proof positive that even material of the highest quality did not result in success for many bands.

Legendary Dead Boys guitarist Cheetah Chrome graces Rock and/or Roll with his presence. Listen to hear Cheetah discuss: the evolution of punk rock, Peter Laughner, Cheap Trick, Stiv Bators, GG Allin, Ron Weasley...all this and more.

Continuing the power pop series, BJ presents conversations he had with Brent Hoad from Kansas City's The Secrets* and Jeff Root from Boston's Hot Dates.

BJ wrote a book, available now! It's called This Band Has No Past: How Cheap Trick Became Cheap Trick.

I wrote a book! It's called This band has no past: How Cheap Trick Became Cheap Trick. For this very special, one of a kind episode, BJ presents various clips from some of the many interviews that he conducted for the book.

Episode 70, originally released April 2, 2015: Since this is episode number seventy BJ decided to take a look at his own personal top ten favorite albums that were released in the corresponding year of 1970. Episode 74, originally released on April 30, 2015: Since this is episode number seventy-four BJ decided to take a look at his own personal top ten favorite albums that were released in the corresponding year of 1974.

BJ is joined, separately, by guitarist Steve Allen and bassist Ron Flynt from power pop pioneers 20/20 to cover the story of the band and its music.

BJ is joined by Steve Butler from Quincy and Phil Solem from Great Buildings. Both tell very engaging stories. Topics tackled include: murder, lawsuits and Randy Rhoads.

BJ has enlightening conversations about power pop (and the music business) with guitar player Marco Delmar from The Elektrics (who released two albums with Capitol) and keyboardist Dave Hearn from HAWKS (who released two albums with Columbia). What role did a young Jon Bon Jovi play in creating a unique percussion sound? Who turned down a tour with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers? Listen to find out.