You’re workin’ all day, and so are we. Right after Big John, we go into Rock At Work mode…. Playin’ a bunch of the hardest rockin’ tracks we can get our hands on all day! It might even make that crappy job of yours suck a little less….. eh, probably not. Why don’t you just quit?

Rock At Work on Rock 102…. Weekdays from 10a-5p

Mandatory Metallica is an amazing amalgam of the greatest rock band in history. Every weeknight at 6pm, Rock 102 will play 3 tracks from the entire Metallica catalog. Not just the radio singles…. The album cuts you might have never heard on the radio before. From “Kill ‘Em All” to “ Death Magnetic”, if it’s badass Metallica, you’ll hear it on Mandatory Metallica, weeknights at 6pm on the only station with enough balls to make Metallica required listening… Rock 102!

Lou Brutus was born (on probation) in the Garden Spot of the Garden State Newark NJ, a city known for its diverse ethnic community, fiery race riots, and high number of prostitutes with STD's. His father, a dyslexic who was fortunately named "Dad," moved the Brutus clan from the crumbling inner city to the tiny farming community of Englishtown NJ where young LB learned about nature, cow tipping, and forest fires at a tender age.

Before his tenth birthday little Lou's pea brain had been mutated sufficiently by public schooling to make him susceptible to the evil siren song of Rock Music. Starting with his sisters ancient copies of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" and KISS: Alive, LB began traveling down a long, twisted road from which he has shown no desire to turn. The first concert Lou attended was Black Sabbath at New York's legendary Madison Square Garden where he culminated the evening by downing an entire bottle of Boone's Farm Strawberry Wine and then throwing up all over his childhood friend Carlos Sanchez. Carlos grew up to become one of California's most renowned microbrewers (and the inspiration behind Lou-in-Brau Beer and Brew Loutus Ale) although he refuses to give Brutus a drop citing Lou's long ago Technicolor Yawn on his person.

By the age of twelve LB had become a regular on the concert scene in New York City and Philadelphia cutting his teeth on bands like KISS, The Ramones, Cheap Trick, The Clash, AC/DC, Van Halen, Motorhead, Aerosmith, The Dead Kennedys, and Frank Zappa. Lou would form friendships with many of these artists in the years to come, writing liner notes for Zappa and actually having Eddie Van Halen name a side project after him (The Lou Brutus Experience). Since then Brutus has attended over 2000 concerts, seeing virtually every major and minor recording entity of the last fifteen years.

Besides going to concerts Brutus spent his high school days avoiding homework and earning money at the nearby Englishtown Auction flea market (where he sold black light posters of large breasted women). Lou also became active in his school's theatre program where he feels his finest moment came while starring in the production of "Dracula." Some would argue, however, that LB's greatest moment in high school theatre was getting laid onstage, during class hours (behind an enormous movie screen) while over five hundred of his classmates watched a film about highway safety on the other side.

Following high school it was time for college where Brutus once allegedly attended class. While academics didn't make his list of importance the college radio station did. Taking any shift he could get his vocal chords on, LB dove into the diverse free form nature of the station playing Hard Core Punk, Techno, Big Band, Thrash, Comedy, Experimental, Blues, Metal, Bluegrass, Jazz, Hillbilly Yodeling, and any other style of music that existed. Lou ended up getting a unique sonic education he would not have gotten under most other circumstances. Brutus' only regret from his college radio days is that he still can't say the station's call letters W-BJ-B without snickering.

It was during his college radio time that Lou, working as a soundman at a local concert hall, ran into Rod Carson. Carson, of Philadelphia's legendary rock station WMMR, was among the growing legions of fans of Brutus' college radio work and arranged a meeting for Lou to interview for an internship. Lou got the internship and became the first intern in the stations 20+ years to join the airstaff. Since those humble beginnings LB has gone on to be the very first to give airplay to some of the best bands in Rock including Slipknot, Sevendust, Limp Bizkit, Stone Sour, System of A Down, Korn and Tool. You can read the rest of the (sordid) details of Brutus' radio career in the Shit He's Done and Where the Hell Wuz He sections.

Lou Brutus lives out of a suitcase traveling the world to bring his listeners the finest in interviews and concert coverage. He has lots of hobbies that you wouldn't be interested in and a family that makes fun of him because he threw up every Thanksgiving after eating too much and then playing football. He has never, ever wanted to do anything but be on the radio, listen to music, and go to concerts.