DISGRACELAND
Episodes
Skip James: A Sawmill Shootout, Pimping, Bootlegging, and the Son of a Preacher Man
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Skip James’s most famous lyric was “I’d Rather be the Devil” and he put his money where his mouth was. He is believed to have shot a man dead,...
Derek & The Dominos: Clapton, A Christmas Shooting, Cocaine, and a Motorcycle Crash
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1960s London, for young guitar enthusiasts, believing that “Clapton is God” was practically the 11th Commandment. In 1970 he lent his big, stic...
Lou Reed (An Origin Story) Pt. 2
27 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lou Reed blurred the lines between fact and fiction when it came to his past. To him, it was all a walk on the wild side anyway. After exploring his l...
Lou Reed (An Origin Story) Pt. 1
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lou Reed is one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll characters of all time, one known to lie and exaggerate his own mythology during interviews about hi...
Bonus Episode: A Disgraceful Christmas List – Rockstars Set Up, Busted, and Sentenced During the Holidays
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake takes a look at all the disgraceful deeds committed by rock stars during the holiday season. Plus, your emails, ca...
Elvis Presley and Johnny Ace: A Deadly Christmas Story
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elvis Presley loved the Memphis singer Johnny Ace. Johnny died long before Elvis’ became the King of Rock ‘N’ Roll and the way in which Johnny A...
Enter the Shrine, from Fela Kuti: Fear No Man
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We couldn't get enough of the podcast Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, so to celebrate the show's finale, we're sharing another episode. As you might remember,...
Mariah Carey: Armed Guards, Gang Burglaries, and the True Meaning of Christmas
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mariah Carey once lived under constant surveillance in her own home. Her husband planted cameras and recording devices around their prison-like mansio...
Bonus Episode: Let’s Make a Non Traditional Christmas Mix and Load the Chamber for Russian Roulette
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You guys love non-traditional Christmas songs so Jake took all of your favs and put them into a special Non Tradish Christmas Disgo Mix. From Sufjan S...
Shane MacGowan: Outsiders, Underdogs, and Christmas Eve in the Drunk Tank
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shane MacGowan lived his life as an outsider. He was an Irishman living in England, a troublemaking jug-eared punk with rotten teeth and a voracious a...
John Lennon (Pt. 2): “The phony must die, said the catcher in the rye.”
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Lennon was a walking contradiction: a violent pacifist and a creative genius marred by creative inconsistency. Just as he was getting his groove ...
John Lennon (Pt. 1): “John Lennon, I’m going to kill you, you phony bastard.”
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Lennon was a walking contradiction: a violent pacifist and a creative genius marred by creative inconsistency. Just as he was getting his groove ...
Bonus Episode: Happy Xmas (War Is Over) and Other Great Music History Christmas Moments
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This After Party features a very special announcement plus a look into the greatest Christmas moments from music history, your voicemails, texts, emai...
Phil Spector: Silent Night, Loaded Gun
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A gun-waving showdown with the Ramones. A death threat from the Genovese crime family. A terrorized Ronnie Spector locked inside a gilded cage. And a ...
Blondie: Punk vs. Disco, Held Hostage by Phil Spector, and Riding with Ted Bundy
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Blondie got their start as part of New York’s fertile punk scene in the late ‘70s, a time of great musical innovation. Also a time of great fear. ...
Blink-182: Tom Was Right. Aliens Exist.
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone thought Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge was a joke, until he proved them all wrong. This is the story of government control, aliens, an arrest, a p...
Bonus Episode: Are Rockstars Part of the UFO Disclosure Theory? Plus Psychopedia’s Brooke Slater on Slayer and Ed Gein
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the heels of the release of the excellent new documentary The Age of Disclosure, and our own recent mini and full episodes on Merle Haggard’s UFO...
Merle Haggard (Pt. 2): Surviving Christmas, Cosmic American Aliens, and Cocaine Clarity
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A cosmic-country dust-up with Gram Parsons. A months-long cocaine spiral. An alien obsession, and a bleak Christmas single that wouldn’t quit. Death...
Merle Haggard (Pt. 1): A Christmas Robbery Leads To Hard Time at San Quentin
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Merle Haggard was what authorities liked to call a “repeat offender.” He was arrested for riding trains, for skipping school, for stealing cars, f...
Bonus Episode: Killer Concert Films
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why The Last Waltz is the greatest concert film of all time plus, in the exclusive section of this bonus episode, a long list of other favorites and s...
Martin Scorsese, The Band, and The Last Waltz: A Thanksgiving Story
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Scorsese’s death wish. Bob Dylan’s theft. Robbie Robertson’s cocaine purchase. Four thousand pounds of turkey. Two thousand pounds of ca...
Martin Scorsese (Pt. 2): One Night. One Murder. Five Directors
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hollywood:1975. Martin Scorsese sits in his apartment, enraged. He wants to literally kill the man who is ruining his to-be-released film, Taxi Driver...
Bonus Episode: A Brief History of Gun Violence from Music’s Past
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The Devil’s Right Hand" – the gun. Many have died by it in music history. From the unknown piano player who helped influence rock ‘n’ roll ...
Dr. John: A Shooting, Federal Prison, and Voodoo Healing
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A gunshot ended his career as a guitar player, but opened up a path to becoming an iconic piano man. Heroin, pimping, and federal prison nearly ended ...
Tommy James and the Shondells: Mony Mony and Mafia-Sanctioned Hits
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy James came up during a time when the music industry was in part controlled by New York’s Italian mafia. And for a period in the 1960s, that po...
Bonus: From the Nitrous Mafia to the Italian Mafia, the Criminal Enterprises That Infiltrate Music Culture
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gangsters, rude boys, drug dealers, soviet bootleggers, ticket scalping syndicates, and psychedelic chemists—why do criminals like the “Nitrous Ma...
Phish: Community, Hippie Crack, and the Nitrous Mafia
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A parking lot ruled by shady nitrous oxide dealers. And a bandleader whose addiction nearly killed him. This is the story of Trey Anastasio and Phish ...
U2: Death Threats, a Song that Inspired a Killer, and the Murder of Rebecca Schaeffer
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Years before a free album made them the most unpopular popular band on the planet, U2 ran into the arms of America. In 1987, touring behind their bloc...
Bonus: The Next Incel Killer Already Has A Playlist
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is being published for the first time on Friday, November 7th. An episode of the same title was mistakenly published previously. The med...
Bonus: The Next Incel Killer Already Has A Playlist
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The media blamed AC/DC for inspiring a serial killer. Rebecca Shaefer’s murderer claimed inspiration from a U2 song. When the next incel murder happ...
AC/DC Pt. 2: Dirty Deeds, Dead Friends, and Murder for Hire
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of the greatest rock ’n’ roll band on earth. AC/DC was forged in discipline, sharpened by grief, resurrected by obsession … an...
AC/DC pt. 1: A Satanic Serial Killer, A Police Man Hunt, and a Media Witch Hunt
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1980s, AC/DC’s biggest fan was a notorious serial killer. The band was an international best-selling hit machine, and members like the late B...
Bonus Episode: Why Does Hollywood Ignore The Most Impactful Music?
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake wonders why horror film soundtracks, despite their importance to the mood of their films, are so often ignored by H...
The Exorcist: Demonic Possession, Mass Hysteria, and NYC’s Unsolved Murders
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
William Friedkin's film The Exorcist terrified audiences upon its release in 1973. They fainted, vomited, and went into hysterics in the theaters. S...
Robert Johnson: Voodoo, Delta Blues, Cursing God, and a Crossroads
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Johnson didn’t just play the blues. He embodied them. He drank and womanized his way through the South, New York, and Chicago in the 1930s, u...
Bonus Episode: Backmasking and the Death of the Dangerous Rockstar
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake looks back at the 1980s satanic panic and the uproar over supposed "backmasking" – the spurious claim that rock s...
Judas Priest: Satanic Panic, Censorship, Heavy Metal Suicide, and Defenders of the Faith
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
They helped create the genre of heavy metal, and then Satan and the censors tried to destroy them. Judas Priest defended the metal faithful on stage a...
The Misfits: Robbing Graves, Night of the Living Dead and the Teenagers from Mars
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Misfits were truly unique. Scary. Violent. Angry. Nihilistic. These words can easily describe not only their music, but also the band as people, p...
Norwegian Black Metal: Satanic Rebellion, Murder and Worse
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Never has there been a more extreme form of musical rebellion than Norwegian Black Metal. The genre’s founding band, Mayhem, its sister act Burzum a...
Bonus Episode: Music and Monsters
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake is thinking about monsters – the fictitious kind and the kind that are all too real. Plus, we hear more spooky ...
Becoming Fela Kuti
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sharing an episode of the new podcast Fela Kuti: Fear No Man.When the world is on fire…what can music actually…do? Host Jad Abumrad recounts the t...
Harry Houdini: A Ghost Story
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Harry Houdini was the world's greatest escape artist and at the height of his powers was one of the world's most famous people. His unearthly ability ...
Brandon Lee: Hungry Ghosts, Cursed Movies, and a Goth Masterpiece
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Haunted by the legacy of his superstar father and by an old family curse, Brandon Lee tried to outrun the past. But the past came after him all the sa...
The Cramps: Zombies, Teenage Werewolves, and Rock ‘N’ Roll Saviors
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Cramps, led by the husband and wife team of Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, had one one mission: To save rock n' roll from the corporate mo...
Bonus Episode: Musical Sherpas and Spooky Sounds
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake suggests some songs for spooky season and wonders if ChatGPT will replace the musical sherpas who guided us in our ...
Pentagram: Demons, Curses, and Doom
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1971, a teenage metalhead named Bobby Liebling flipped a five-pointed star upside-down, gave his band a cursed name, and summoned a sound so heavy ...
Peter Tosh (Pt. 2): A Home Invasion, an Assassination, and No Compromise
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a reggae revolutionary who rejected peace in the name of truth and justice, and an outspoken critic of the Jamaican government, Peter Tosh's refusa...
Peter Tosh (Pt. 1): Legalizing It, Police Brutality, and the Steppin’ Razor
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Tosh was a reggae subversive who used his music as a means to fight corruption, oppression, and hypocrisy. Unlike his one-time bandmate Bob Marl...
Bonus Episode - Spooky Stories and Superbowl Shows
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake reacts to the news that Bad Bunny will perform at this year's Superbowl halftime show. And as we kick off spooky se...
Disgraceland All Access - New Mini-Episodes Available Now
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Big news for Disgraceland All Access Members! Rocka Rolla subscription members on Apple Podcasts and Patreon will now receive a special, exclusive min...
Led Zeppelin Pt. 2: The Haunting at Headley Grange
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1971, Led Zeppelin holed up in an old English house in the countryside to make the album that would crown them the biggest rock band on earth. But ...
Led Zeppelin Pt 1: Dark Power, Cocaine, Backstage Brawls and Heavy Metal Magick
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Led Zeppelin were the biggest band on the planet. The great white shark of the seventies. They defined excess. They designed the avatar for the heavy ...
Pantera’s Dimebag Darrell: A Murderous Fan, Brotherly Love and Cowboys from Hell
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gunned down onstage by a delusional fan who thought his metal heroes had stolen lyrics from him, Dimebag Darrell Abbott blazed a savage new trail in h...
Bonus Episode - Bad Men, Good Music, and the Developing D4VID Saga
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, takes a look at the latest true crime and music in the news. Plus, your voicemails, DMs, and emails on rock 'n' roll mov...
Ol’ Dirty Bastard (Wu-Tang Clan Chapter 8): An Attempted Murder Rap, Bloodthirsty Rottweilers, and Self-Immolation
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ol’ Dirty Bastard once saved a four-year old girl who was trapped under a Ford Mustang. He took a limo with an MTV news crew to collect his welfare ...
Scott Weiland: Psych Wards, Demonic Forces, and a Kidnapping in Paris
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Weiland was sent to a psych ward when he was just 16 years old. Thirteen stints at rehab within the span of three years. In and out of two huge ...
Ol’ Dirty Bastard (Wu-Tang Clan Chapter 8): An Attempted Murder Rap, Bloodthirsty Rottweilers, and Self-Immolation
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ol’ Dirty Bastard once saved a four-year old girl who was trapped under a Ford Mustang. He took a limo with an MTV news crew to collect his welfare ...
Bonus Episode - Rock 'n' Roll Movies, Music Headlines, and Buford Pusser
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake is thinking about movies that have a rock 'n' roll attitude. Plus, your voicemails, DMs, and emails on what artist...
Introducing Simpsons Declassified with Nancy Cartwright
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Simpsons fans —THE VAULT IS OPEN! I’m Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson for 35+ years, and I’m finally taking you inside Springfiel...
Jimmy Buffett: Escape Artist, Incorporated.
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Key West drug traffickers, God’s Own Bad-Ass, flying bullets, and the billion-dollar business of escape. Jimmy Buffett wasn’t just the “Margarit...
The Rolling Stones Pt. 2: Swinging London, Stolen Jewels, the Mars Bar Myth, and Busted at Redlands
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Establishment strikes back in this second installment of the Rolling Stones time in Swinging London. UK pop star Donovan is busted, a precursor to...
Rolling Stones Pt. 1: Swinging London, a Prison Break, East End Gangsters and the Anti-Beatles
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
London was swinging. Keith Richards was in jail. The Kray Twins were menacing about. Brian Jones was on too much LSD. Aristocrats were tripping over t...
Bonus Episode: Hanging with Hip Hop Stars, the VMAs, and the Return of the Biggest Band on the Planet
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake contrasts the cultural irrelevancy of the MTV Video Music Awards with the triumphant return of Oasis to stadiums an...
50 Cent Pt. 2: Federal Raids, a Stabbing in the Studio, and a Dead Man’s Game
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Curtis Jackson took his name from a stickup man – and then proceeded to play by that dead man’s rules. This episode traces the violent legacy of t...
50 Cent Pt. 1: Police Raids, Motorcycle Chases, and a Nine-Bullet Wake-up Call
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson was dealing crack by the age of 10, born into the height of the epidemic in Queens. He faced possession charges while sti...
Oasis Pt. 2: The Biggest Band on the Planet, Britop, Private Islands, A Drowning Rolls-Royce, Liam and Noel Off Their T*ts and at Each Other’s Throats
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oasis were the biggest band on the planet for a moment. They famously warred with Britpop rivals Blur, and the Brothers Gallagher feuded with each oth...
Oasis Pt. 1: Hooliganism, Hedonism, Rock Star Anthems and the “Greatest Rock ‘N’ Roll Band on the Planet”
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Few bands have come from as little and made as much of themselves as Oasis. Along the way they were wildly entertaining — unlike anything England or...
Bonus Episode: Mystery Recordings and Tortured Geniuses
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake takes a closer look at the tales of mysterious rumored recordings from music history. Plus, your voicemails, DMs, a...
Brian Wilson: Love and Mercy, Murder, Theft, and Manipulation
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Wilson was the quiet one. The genius in the bathrobe. The ghost at the piano bench. He wrote Pet Sounds, rewrote pop music history, and was near...
The Beach Boys Pt. 2: Endless Bummer, Hollywood Paranoia, Onstage Fist Fights, Incest, and Cocaine
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the aftermath of the Manson Family murders, Hollywood was gripped with fear. Various investigations stitched together a deluded White Album-inspire...
The Beach Boys Pt. 1: Endless Summer, LSD, Orgies, Charles Manson and a Steve McQueen Man-Crush
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1968, the Beach Boys’ drummer Dennis Wilson invited a hippie guru and his grungy harem to squat in his Pacific Palisades home. Denn...
Gram Parsons: A Stolen Body, Heroin, More Rolling Stones and Cosmic American Music
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gram Parsons is one of the most influential musicians in rock ‘n’ roll that you’ve maybe never heard of. He created a form of music that has bee...
Bonus Episode: Compton, Conspiracies, and Mercy
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake takes a look at the important musical history of Compton. Plus, your voicemails, DMs, and emails on subjects rangin...
Kendrick Lamar: The Streets, the Studio, and the Struggle for Mercy
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before Kendrick Lamar became one of the greatest lyricists of his generation, he was K.Dot—a kid from Compton with a front-row seat to trauma, loyal...
Willie Nelson (Pt 2): Grifters, Con Men, Thieves, and the Reinvention of the Outlaw
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Willie Nelson left Nashville and reinvented himself in Austin, Texas as the ultimate outsider. It was a metamorphosis from freak flag flier to mainstr...
Willie Nelson (Pt 1): A Shootout, a House Fire, and the Ballad of the Red-Headed Stranger
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Broke and depressed, Willie Nelson almost joined the 27 Club on a snowy Nashville street late one night – before he’d even sold a single song. ...
Bonus Episode: 80s Metalheads, Life-changing Concerts, and Ozzy Osbourne
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake looks into some of the rumors and conjecture surrounding the death of Ozzy Osbourne. Plus, we hear from you about y...
Motörhead: Speed, Sex, and Revenge
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Motörhead influenced some of the most important acts in heavy metal and punk rock history. Led by the inimitable Lemmy Kilmister, they invented a sou...
David Bowie: The occult, cocaine, orgies, arrests, exorcisms, a weird flirtation with fascism and a dead body.
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No musical artist better personified the hedonism of the ’70s than David Bowie. He captivated the imaginations of music fans all over the world with...
Bonus Episode: Suspicious Deaths, Small-Town Myths, and the Record Store That Helped Make Me
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, we’re digging up the stories they didn’t want told. Jake throws back to a formative encounter with a record store bu...
The Temptations Pt 2: The Tammi Terrell Tragedy
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Motown singer Tammi Terrell died at the age of 24, Marvin Gaye was the only one from her label allowed at her funeral. The rest – especially he...
The Temptations: Fame, Drugs, and Paranoia
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Temptations were one of Motown’s signature vocal groups, and they remain one of the most successful R&B acts of all time. But fame and drugs cor...
Britney Spears (Pt. 2): Lithium, Las Vegas, and a Long-Awaited Emancipation
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Britney Spears’ 13-year conservatorship was an arrangement so strict and unfeeling that it left her without any control of her career, loopy on lith...
Britney Spears (Pt. 1): Trauma Pop
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No musician owned pop music quite like Britney Spears at the turn of the century. After graduating from Mississippi tween queen to full-fledged Americ...
Bonus Episode: The Culture Changed Every Ten Years… Until It Didn’t
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the Beatles to Nirvana to Pulp Fiction and Friends, every decade used to bring a cultural reset—new sounds, new voices, new aesthetics that cha...
Run-DMC (Pt. 2): Loyalty, Betrayal, and Who Shot Jay
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay helped take hip-hop global, but behind the decks was a man under pressure – fiercely loyal yet financially strapped, and ...
Run DMC Pt. 1: Innovation, Evolution and the Mysterious Death of Jam Master Jay
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Run DMC is directly responsible for elevating hip hop to previously unimagined heights. They took rap music into an entirely different direction and h...
Jay Z: Street hustle, a Nightclub Stabbing, a Near Drug Bust and the God MC
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Z’s career defies easy categorization. His artistry and business sense are as influenced by his past career as a drug dealer as they are anythin...
Bonus Episode: Sanitized Biopics, California Wildfires, and Underrated Rock Stars
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake looks further into the CASSM (Corporate Algorithmic Studio Storytelling Machine) and explores the reasons behind t...
Mark Lanegan: Kurt Cobain’s Drug Runner, Liam Gallagher’s Tormentor, and Matt Dillon’s Firestarter
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Lanegan was grunge’s darkest secret – a gravel-voiced hellraiser who ran dope for Kurt Cobain, scared Liam Gallagher into quitting Oasis, and...
Ozzy Osbourne: The Prince of Darkness, Randy Rhoads’ Plane Crash and the Saving Grace of a Strong Woman
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ozzy Osbourne, along with his bandmates in Black Sabbath, invented heavy metal, and throughout Ozzy’s post-Sabbath solo career he would invent new, ...
Black Sabbath: Satanists, Severed Limbs, Dismembered Fingers, Mountains of Cocaine and the Invention of Heavy Metal
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Black Sabbath are solely responsible for conjuring the diabolical power of heavy metal. When guitarist Tony Iommi lost his fingertips as a teenager, h...
Bonus Episode: Uncovering Grift, Country Punks, and RIP Ozzy
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake looks into some possible malfeasance related to the proceeds of a benefit concert for the victims of the LA fires and shares his thoug...
Introducing: HOLLYWOODLAND…
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
…the Hollywood and true crime spinoff from the award winning music and true crime podcast, DISGRACELAND, and the newest expansion from the folks a...
Waylon Jennings: Surviving Buddy Holly, the DEA, and Himself
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Waylon Jennings’ musical career began with tragedy. On tour as the bass player for his friend Buddy Holly, Waylon gave up his seat on the tiny plane...
Presenting Hollywoodland - Robin Williams: A Manic Mind at Breakneck Speed, an Addiction to Laughter, and the Devil’s Dandruff
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robin Williams’ manic mind moved at such a breakneck speed that cocaine had the opposite effect than it had on most other people: it slowed him down...
Pink Floyd: Acid Overload, a Psychotic Breakdown, and a Crazy Diamond
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pink Floyd’s original frontman, Syd Barrett, did so much LSD that he experienced a mental breakdown just as the band began to achieve mainstream suc...
Bonus Episode: CASSM, Nikki Sixx, and the Gospel According to Jimmy Buffett
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake dives deeper into Nikki Sixx (Mötley Crüe, Part 2), calls out the Corporate Algorithmic Studio Storytelling Machine (CASSM), and exp...
Motley Crue Pt. 2: The Ballad of Nikki Sixx – Dead, Doped Up, and Running Naked with a Loaded .357
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
He was broke, strung out, and cleaning up other people's puke. Then he got stiffed by a gangster with ties to the infamous Wonderland Murders. A few y...
Mötley Crüe Pt. 1: Sex, Drugs, and Even More Sex and Drugs: How Are These Dudes Still Alive?
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil totaled his Ford Pantera on a beer run, and in the process took the life of his friend Razzle Dingley, drummer for H...