Rock Under Fire

Rock Under Fire

Rock Under Fire is a rock and roll podcast dissecting and discussing seven decades of rock in all its beautiful, wondrous, and despicable glory. Once upon a time, rock and roll music was the center of pop culture. Is rock really dead as some suggest? Or is it in a period of stagnancy existing on the fringe? What is its place in the 21st Century? These questions are the constant underlying theme to a different rock-related subject for each bi-weekly episode. Join hosts Mike Derrico, Patrick Ivanitski, and Stick Nixon for this unique ongoing dialogue through rock's past, present, and future.

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June 29, 2023 133 mins

Welcome to the Beehive!  It's the 100th and final episode ever of the Rock Under Fire podcast.  It's all about hot takes as Mike Derrico is joined by Marisa Baldassaro, Heather Drain and Michael Lee Nirenberg in over two hours of too many topics to list.  But we'll try...let's see...there's random takes on Chuck Berry, the early days of the Internet, Joy Division, Brian Eno, the Gun Club, Def Leppard, Michael Monroe, Iron Maiden, T...

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When you get to share a personal story with an author about one of his works 41 years later.  Some Rock Under Fire moments are worth their own bite-size episode.  From Mike's 2020 interview with Creem Magazine managing editor and author of Loudmouth, Robert Duncan.  

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June 19, 2023 96 mins

The conversation is all over the map in Episode 98 as Mike is joined by his cousin Paul to discuss vinyl records, jazz, lip-synching, live bands playing to tracks, Kiss, and Mike's highly-detailed take on John Lennon's murder. Paul Sisolak is a content editor and freelance writer specializing in personal finance, consumer trends and music.

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May 29, 2023 53 mins

From the outskirts of Viktoria Park in the heart of Kreuzberg, it's midnight in Berlin. Mike and an anonymous guest in a very random trail of assorted thoughts...some rock & roll...some not so rock & roll.

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May 14, 2023 53 mins

We're down to the final five Rock Under Fire episodes ever!  In Episode 96, John K and Greg return to flip the script on Mike in an attempt to interview him as well as talk London, green screens, our favorite concerts, the seat cushion trend of the mid-80s, the horrors of AI, indie book publishing and the closing of long time Fords institution, the Liberty Tavern.

ROCK UNDER FIRE...THE FINAL SEASON

The Locker Notes, a novel: 

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In Episode 95, Jesse Jackson, host of the Set Lusting Bruce Podcast joins Mike Derrico to discuss Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's 2023 tour. 

For the past 6 years, Jesse Jackson has been talking to Bruce Springsteen fans from around the world. He believes that every Springsteen fan has a story to tell and it's his job to record as many as possible. At 1000 episodes and counting, fans of Bruce (as well as fans of other music...

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March 26, 2023 105 mins

Mike Derrico and Heather Drain talk Blue Oyster Cult, Lester Bangs and Kiss in Episode 94 of the Rock Under Fire podcast. Heather Drain is a writer who veers between the worlds of esoterica film, wild music, heart-born words, and prose that is dark, rich, quirky, and often undefinable. In the nonfiction realm, her work has appeared on the print and digital pages of Dangerous Minds, Diabolique, Video Watchdog, Art Decades, just to n...

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March 12, 2023 63 mins

Baylee Avery, music journalist for Banded PR joins us for episode 93. As a podcast that has often catered to the dinosaur mentality, we step outside our comfort zone to talk about what's good and vital in rock music today as well as get a fresh perspective on the big picture.

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February 27, 2023 96 mins

London, Manchester, death tickets, Queen, Lemmy and karaoke. Mike is joined by Greg and John K...some musicians from the old neighborhood he found in a bar one dark and stormy night.

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February 12, 2023 23 mins

In response to the sudden 2022 popularity of Kate Bush with Gen Z, Mike shares his story of "meeting" Kate in 1993.

ROCK UNDER FIRE...THE FINAL SEASON E. 91

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December 22, 2022 14 mins

In this special one-off / year-end episode, Mike reads from The Locker Notes, a chapter called The Feast...a tribute to the power of music's imprint on memory and dedicated to family and friends we've lost. 

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December 18, 2022 73 mins

We pick four songs at random from every decade since the 1960s for discussion. This recording originally comes from our 2018 holiday special which amounted to a three-hour radio show. For copyright reasons, music has been omitted but the discussion left intact. After Youtube muted our 2016 version, Pat later joked that we should just leave the audio and let the audience imagi...

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December 11, 2022 38 mins

Just as the title says...we pick our favorite radio-friendly pop songs of the 1980s.  This one plays like a classic RUF episode from the early years of the podcast.  Mike Derrico and Patrick Ivanitski are your hosts.

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December 4, 2022 50 mins

Just as the title says...we pick our favorite albums of the 1980s.

Rock Under Fire...The Final Season

Episode 86...Mike Derrico and Patrick Ivanitski are your hosts.

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November 27, 2022 51 mins

Happy 40th to Kiss's most overrated album!  We discuss Creatures of the Night, an album that revisionist history has placed among the greatest albums of the Kiss catalog.  We touch on the great things about the album...but we also go where no Kiss fan will dare go...the many reasons why Creatures is the most overrated album in all of Kisstory.  An unpopular take that will sur...

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November 20, 2022 16 mins

Riffing on Bruce Springsteen's sixth album, Nebraska in celebration of its 40th anniversary this past October...and reading from AUTUMN AND EVERYTHING AFTER: The Murder of John Lennon, Evolution of Bruce Springsteen and the Birth of the Reagan Era...Mike Derrico's 2020 book examining Bruce Springsteen and John Lennon during the last months of 1980 while assessing conservative right-wing vilification of both artists over the years. 

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November 13, 2022 29 mins

Original Rock Under Fire cast member Stick Nixon returns to talk about recent vinyl record acquisitions as well as a conversation about what we've been listening to.

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November 6, 2022 14 mins

Another fun bite-size episode from the unreleased archives. A peek behind the scenes! Random nonsense before the edit as we prepared for a show back in 2019.  Never meant for release, Pat talks about Rival Sons and Mike and Marisa wax poetic on Def Leppard's Pyromania. 

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October 30, 2022 18 mins

A brief snippet of the unreleased season premiere, recorded in August but scrapped for technical issues.

Ep. 81

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October 23, 2022 57 mins

Friend and fellow podcaster/radio host Aaron Novak returns to talk about his longtime radio show Memphis, Egypt with Aaron and Todd, and his decision to leave the show. For over a decade, Memphis Egypt with Aaron and Todd was a Tuesday night staple to WDCE 90.1 out of Richmond, Virginia. Other discussion topics include a Pearl Jam concert review by Pat, Counting Crows, Bob Dy...

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