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The Feast Dec 23, 2022

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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.

Ep. 90

ROCK UNDER FIRE...THE FINAL SEASON

We've now reached the midpoint of our final season. We thank all who have supported us since 2016 and especially thank those who have stayed. Happy Holidays and see you in 2023 for our final ten episodes!

Mike's second book and first novel, The Locker Notes, was published in October 2021 and is available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and everywhere else online where books are sold.

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Through the Decades in Random Songs Dec 18, 2022

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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 imagine that we're playing music. Well, here it is...for fun we've done just that for this special double episode. Mike Derrico and Patrick Ivanitski are your hosts. Again, this is from 2018...don't be thrown by misplaced cultural references! Little Richard, Eddie Van Halen and Neil Peart were still with us when this was recorded, and Do the Right Thing was only 29 years old!

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Our 10 Favorite 80s Pop Songs Dec 11, 2022

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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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Our 10 Favorite 80s Albums Dec 04, 2022

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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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Creatures of the Night 40 Nov 27, 2022

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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 surely ruffle some feathers.

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In Search of Nebraska Nov 20, 2022

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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.

E. 84

Derrico's book AUTUMN AND EVERYTHING AFTER can be found through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and everywhere books are sold online...or his website below.

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What Are We Listening To? Nov 13, 2022

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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.

Ep. 83

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Stagefright Nov 06, 2022

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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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Tickets Oct 30, 2022

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

Ep. 81

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Aaron Novak Returns Oct 23, 2022

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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 Dylan, Lizzo and Brandi Carlile. Mike Derrico and Pat Ivanitski are your hosts.

E. 80

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