"Tickled Ivories" originally released June 2014: BJ plays some of his favorite piano-centric rock songs...and they're not all ballads! "Unplugged" originally released March 2014: It's RA/OR UNPLUGGED as BJ plays 25 of his favorite acoustic songs.

The Pop released a pair of singles and album independently before signing with Arista for their 1979 album Go! They managed one more EP with Rhino before splitting up in 1981. Hear David's story of moving from Chicago to LA in the early seventies to pursue his rock and roll dreams.

BJ is joined by Arthur Alexander, guitar player and singer/songwriter from the classic power pop bands the Poppees and Sorrows.

Gary Valentine was an early member of Blondie, performing on the band's first album before leaving to form his own band in Los Angeles called The Know. Hear Gary's story on this episode, with lots of great music interspersed throughout.

BJ is joined by Steve Brigida, drummer from Artful Dodger, for a discussion about the band's career, and their place in the history power pop.

BJ presents an interview with Jonathan Paley from power pop pioneers The Paley Brothers.

BJ presents interviews with two former members of pub rock band the Kursaal Flyers, Graeme Douglas and Will Birch, who each went on to make power pop history with, respectively, Eddie and the Hot Rods and The Records.

Episodes originally released in 2013 and 2016.

For this episode, the second in the power pop series, BJ delves into the story of Big Star via interviews with drummer Jody Stephens and two more people who were there to witness the band's early days, Jon Tiven (from the bands Prix and The Yankees) and Van Duren, who also discusses his classic 1978 album Are You Serious?

For this episode, the first in what will be an extended series about the development of the power pop genre, BJ presents a brief overview, including interviews with Bob Jackson, who joined Badfinger towards the end of that legendary band's original run, and Cyril Jordan, who wrote the iconic "Shake Some Action" for The Flamin' Groovies.

Yes, this is actually the 20th episode of AOR? AOK! Meaning, at this point, BJ has exposed RA/OR listeners to melodic rock songs by more than 450 different bands or artists. IAN CUSSICK - THE SUPERNATURAL GUIDO MINEO - ROSES ROULETTE - ONLY THE STRONG PALACE - NEVER WANNA SAY GOODBYE STEVEN MCCLINTOCK - WHEN LOVE BREAKS SILENT RUNNING - FLAME OF LOVE DAVID J. PETOVAR - IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT 6AM - TIME'S RUNNING AMONG THIEVES - THE SUN STILL SHINES WIZ KIDZ - DOWN ON MY LUCK CHINA - HOT LOVIN' NIGHT P.M. HEAT - COULD IT BE YOU BILOXI - ONE IN A MILLION MONSTERS - RIOT IN THE NIGHT DE-ARROW - CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY MIND MANITO PARK - SURRENDER BRICKYARD - BREAK THE ICE OSLO - STRANGERS EYES VALOR - FOOL NO MORE PAUL COTTON - ONE LONG LAST LOOK MAGGIE BELL - I'M ON THE EDGE OUTRIDER - LOVE IS KILLING ME BLONZ - MIRACLES GENE WALK GROUP - LONG ARM OF LOVE FRICTION - DOWN AND LONELY CHRIS ANDREW - HOLDIN' ON TOWER CITY - WHEN IT ALL FALLS DOWN ROBIN MILLER - FOREVER ERIC RUSSELL - DON'T SLOW DOWN TERRI NUNN - CONFESSION TIME

Originally recorded in 2018 as a Rocknpod exclusive: BJ is joined by Craig Smith from the Pods & Sods Network, Ian Wadley from Rock & Metal Combat, Steven Michael from Growin' Up Rock and Wallygator from the CGCM Podcast for a roundtable discussion about Warrant's unfairly maligned 1990 album Cherry Pie.

Believe it or not...a lot of TV theme songs from the eighties were...good? This episode was ready to go when the RIAA sent its threatening letter, and has been gathering dust since.

BJ is once again joined by Fistful of Dave and Joey Haynie for a shameless sequel to the most downloaded episode of Rock and/or Roll, episode 91: SAD BUT TRUE, a dismantling of the Black Album. On this episode they take apart Metallica's misguided follow-ups to that Diamond seller, LOAD and RELOAD.

Originally released in October 2013 and September 2014.RA/OR 17:Badfinger were the first band signed by The Beatles when they launched their own record label Apple Records in 1968 and the band had several hits before the harsh reality of the corrupt record industry came crashing down on their hopes and dreams. The band's song "Baby Blue" was prominently featured in the finale of Breaking Bad and sold 5300 downloads that night on iTunes. On this episode BJ tells the tragic story of the band but also celebrates the amazing songwriters that they were, especially true genius Pete Ham.RA/OR 51:BJ presents an overview of the lamentably short career of one of his favorite unsung rock bands of the seventies, a terrific band called Artful Dodger.

BJ is joined by Eric Miller and Jon Lamoreaux for the resurrection of the Songs of the Knight series originally presented by the Pods & Sods Network. For this episode they have an in depth discussion about Billy Squier's seventh album Creatures of Habit from 1991. Hear the previous episodes here: https://podsodcast.com/?s=songs+of+the+knight

This is a re-edited version of an episode I had finished and ready to go when the RIAA brought the smackdown in August 2020.  An answer song is a song made in response to a previous song, normally by another artist. The concept became widespread in blues and R&B recorded music in the 1930s to the 1950s. Answer songs were also extremely popular in country music in the 1950s and 1960s, most often as female responses to an original hit by a male artist. In Rock Eras: Interpretations of Music and Society, Jim Curtis says that: "Answer songs rode on the coattails, as it were, of the popularity of the first song, and resembled parodies in that their success depended on a knowledge of the original. Answer songs were usually one-hit flukes by unknown singers whose lack of identity did not detract from the success of the record since only the song, and not the performer, mattered."

A special encore presentation of a classic episode from 2016. It's about time! BJ is once again joined by Craig Smith and Eric Miller from The Pods & Sods Network for another round of No Shame

BJ and Brian Sword, along with special guest Greg Renoff, author of Van Halen Rising and Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer’s Life in Music, reluctantly select the five worst songs from the David Lee Roth era, then enthusiastically malign the five worst Van Hagar songs.

Rock and/or Roll is back for the attack with tunes from 30 more great, obscure power pop bands for your listening enjoyment.

Rock and/or Roll is back for the attack with a sampling of 30 more great AOR tunes from the eighties and nineties.