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 hi...
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 Story...
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 Coba...
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’...
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 guitari...
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 fo...
Introducing: HOLLYWOODLAND…
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
…the Hollywood and true crime spinoff from the award winning music and true crime podcast, DISGR...
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 Budd...
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 th...
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 breakdow...
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 Algori...
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 wit...
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 th...
Bonus Episode: The Greatest Band That Never Was
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the after party, Jake looks at the bands that could've been huge, but never were, and h...
The Replacements: Stink Bombs, Broken Guitars, and Self-Sabotage
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A teenage bass-playing f*ck-up prodigy. A big brother in an ill-fitting bodysuit on national televis...
Studio 54: Disco Decadence, a Dead Body and Bags of Cash
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the late seventies, Studio 54 was the place to be for musicians and celebrities alike. John Lenno...
Bonus Episode – The Verdict is in
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the after party, Jake hears from you about your favorite singer/songwriters and which a...
Frank Sinatra Pt 2: New Evidence, Secret Favors, and Three Dead Men. This is Frank Sinatra — Connected, Compromised, and Cornered
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Sinatra was never just a pop star. In this second chapter of his story, Frank isn’t merely b...
Frank Sinatra Pt. 1: Frankie Is the Reason...That the President's Dead
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Sinatra had it all, then lost it all, then got it all back tenfold. He was a man of extreme ta...
Bonus Episode – True Crime Songs, Singer Songwriters, and the Worst Draft Pick in NBA History
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the after party, Jake is thinking about great singer songwriter albums - what is your f...
Bonus Episode – Concert Tragedies, Concussions, and Brian Wilson
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the after party, Jake reflects on the recent deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, and ...
The Who Pt 2: A Crowd Crush, a Death Trap, and a Tragedy in Cincinnati
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
They came for the loudest rock band in the world. They got a death trap. In a freezing plaza outside...
Introducing: Clues with Morgan Absher & Kaelyn Moore
Sun, 15 Jun
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Join hosts Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore as they take you deep into the world of the most notoriou...
Bonus Episode – Obsessions, Earworms, and RIP Sly Stone
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake goes down a rabbit hole as he thinks about great songs about obse...
Bjork: The Package, the Fan, and a Deadly Obsession
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A deranged fan. A deadly package. And one of the most innovative musicians on the planet. This is th...
Bonus Episode - Suffering Souls, Subversion, and More Great Girl Groups
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake is thinking about the connection between psychopathy, artistry, a...
Marilyn Manson: A Car Crash, a Planned Murder, Nihilism, Abuse, and Inhumanity
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Discover the controversial story behind Marilyn Manson, aka Brian Warner. Accused by multiple women ...
Bonus Episode - Great Girl Groups au Go Go
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake ponders the greatest girl groups of all time and wonders about ou...
The Go Go’s: Serial Killers, Drug Addiction, an Historic Album, and “the Rumor”
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Serial killers, drug addiction, avoiding death, destruction, punk rock cliches and surviving an unme...
Bonus Episode – Upcoming Episodes, the Diddy Trial, and More Mount Rushmore
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake takes a look at the upcoming slate of episodes in Disgraceland an...
Bonus Episode - Sign o' the Times: the Diddy Trial Begins
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake shares his thoughts on the start of the Diddy trial and (of cours...
Prince (Pt. 2): Bodyguards, Guns, Gangs, and a Revolution
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
1984. Prince is at his commercial and creative peak. "Purple Rain" – the album, the soundtrack, an...
Bonus Episode: The Mount Rushmore of Guitarists
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake hears from you about the Mount Rushmore of Guitarists and opines ...
Van Halen Pt. 2: Pulling a Gun on Fred Durst, Racing Ferraris and Lambos, and Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Most Faithful Servant
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1985, David Lee Roth was out and Sammy Hagar was in. One of the biggest lead singer shakeups in m...
Bonus Episode: Gen X Actresses and Getting to Know You
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake reflects on Wynona Ryder and her iconic status among Gen X. Plus...
Party’s Over, from Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Wed, 30 Apr
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
You know on Disgraceland we bring you dark stories of musicians getting away with very bad behavior....
Winona Ryder: Drowning, Designer Theft, and a Deadly Kidnapping
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Between beatnik parents, an LSD guru godfather, and an unconventional upbringing in Northern Califor...
Bonus Episode: Rock 'n' Roll Second Acts
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake looks at second acts in music history. Which artists went on to ...
Chris Cornell: Bad Trips, Crooked DEA Agents, and Four Octaves of Sheer Power
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a teenager, Chris Cornell was traumatized by a bad PCP trip that turned him into a recluse for ye...
The Eagles Pt. 1: International Drug Smuggling, Endless Cocaine, and California Excess
Fri, 18 Apr
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
From games of chicken on private planes to one member surviving a private plane crash, the Eagles as...
Bonus Episode: Books They Don't Want You to Read and Books We Want Them to Write
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake takes your calls on the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame and wonders wh...
Bonus Episode: 2025 Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame Nominees and Helter Skelter
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oasis, Bad Company, Black Crowes, OutKast, White Stripes, Joe Cocker, Joy Division / New Order, Chub...
Billy Idol: A Motorcycle Crash, a Rude Awakening in Bangkok, Sexual Deviancy, and Rock ‘n’ Roll Animals
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With his spiked blond hair, perpetual sneer, and gloved hands clenched in defiance, Billy Idol seeme...
Introducing: HOLLYWOODLAND…
Mon, 07 Apr
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
…the Hollywood and true crime spinoff from the award winning music and true crime podcast, DISGR...
Bonus Episode: JFK, Watergate, and More From Seattle
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake shares his thoughts on the recent release of formerly classified ...
Bob Dylan (Pt.2): BREAKING–New JFK Files Link Dylan to Richard Nixon’s Watergate Scandal
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Within the recently released "JFK Files” there is a reference to a “Bobby Dyllon” and informa...
Bonus Episode: F#ck, Marry, Kill with Your Favorite Seattle Bands
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake hears from you about the greatest Seattle artists of the grunge e...
Alice in Chains' Layne Staley: The Rooster, the Jungle, and Dying Young
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Though they were one of the first so-called “grunge” bands to sign to a major label, Alice in Ch...
Bonus Episode - Video Directors, MTV stars, and Big News From Hollywood
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake looks at video directors from the 80s and 90s who went on to have...
George Michael: Lewd Acts, Guilt, and Freedom
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Seven arrests in twelve years and more than a couple sleepless nights inside a London prison. This r...
Bonus Episode - Irish Artists, Def Leppard and Huey Lewis
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, all the stars come out to play: Def Leppard, Huey Lewis, Gene Hackman,...
Thin Lizzy: Gangsters, Drugs, Punks and St. Patrick
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What made the band Thin Lizzy different from your standard 1970s rock and punk? Crime, that’s what...
Bonus Episode: RIP David Johansen and Gene Hackman
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake reflects on the recent passing of two legends: David Johansen and Gene Hackman. Plus...
Dennis Hopper: Dynamite, Cocaine, Cheating Death, Subverting Hollywood, and Life on the Fringe
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dennis Hopper revolutionized American cinema by bringing the counterculture to the mainstream with h...
Bonus Episode: The Madness of Moviemaking
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake talks about his experience trying to get a movie made and reflects on the obsessive ...
Martin Scorsese (Pt. 2): One Night. One Murder. Five Directors.
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hollywood:1975. Martin Scorsese sits in his apartment, enraged. He wants to literally kill the man w...
Dorothy Stratten: A Playboy Pinup, a Private Investigator, and a Chilling Murder
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dorthy Stratten went from Dairy Queen counter girl to Playboy pinup to murder victim – in just two...
Bonus Episode: Jay-Z Developments, Sid and Nancy, and a One Buck Utopia
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake shares some surprising developments in the Jay-Z case and their ramifications for th...
Bonus Episode: Satchmo and Secret Agents
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake is thinking about the CIA and its role in our culture. Has the CIA played a part not...
Louis Armstrong: Gangsters, the CIA, and Hot Music
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You know Louis Armstrong, right? Jazz icon? Satchmo? Nice guy from the movies with the trumpet? Did ...
Bonus Episode: Strange Celebrity Deaths, Great Comedians, and Hot Takes
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake is thinking about Richard Pryor. If Pryor had died after setting himself on fire, wo...
Richard Pryor: Stabbing, Shooting, F***ing, Burning, and Freebasing
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Pryor was one of the funniest people who ever lived. He elevated stand-up comedy to an art f...
Bonus Episode: Are We Alone in the Universe?
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake wonders what might be coming in future disclosures about UFOs, the JFK assassination...
Blink-182: Tom Was Right. Aliens Exist.
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone thought Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge was a joke, until he proved them all wrong. This is the s...
Bonus Episode - Official Narratives, Influence, and Telling the Whole Story
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake discusses the Beastie Boys and the challenges of creating an episode about a band th...
Beastie Boys: How They Inspired A Crime Wave, Caused New Laws to be Written, and Influenced Culture
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The news called the London crime wave an “epidemic." The Beastie Boys inspired it. Liverpool wante...
Bonus Episode - The Allegations Against Bill Murray, Your Bill Murray Stories and More
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jake wrestles again with the idea that an artist whose work he admires may, in fact, be a...
Bill Murray: Airport Drug Busts, Backstage Brawls, and Crashing Elvis’s Burial
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before Bill Murray was busting ghosts and living in a loop of deja vu, he was a drug-dealing premed ...
Bonus Episode - From Charlie Sheen to Caligula, Hedonism Throughout History and More
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who is the most hedonistic entertainer from throughout history? Hint: his name might rhyme with “D...
Sean “Diddy” Combs (Pt. 2): The Explicit Story Behind the Indictments
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does a music mogul satiate himself when he’s rich, famous, and can have whatever he wants? Whe...
Bonus Episode - Disgraceful Music and Movie Recommendations and More
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's After Party, Jake shares some music and movie recommendations based on the research t...
Bonus Episode – What You Guys Have To Say This Christmas
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Your wild tales of rock ‘n’ roll animalism, UFOs, Christmas songs, SNL characters, Jay Z and Did...
Chris Farley: Raging Bulls, Insatiable Appetites, Dead Comics, and a Four-Day Plunge off the Edge
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Everything about Chris Farley was larger than life. His comedy, his laughs, the risks he took in fro...
Bonus Episode – The Cocaine Enema Was Real and More Rock ‘N’ Roll Truths and Mythbusting, Plus Ken and Barbie Did WHAT On Christmas?
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake gets into the great rock 'n' roll myths: we're talking cocaine en...
Elvis Presley and Johnny Ace: A Deadly Christmas Story
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elvis Presley loved the Memphis singer Johnny Ace. Johnny died long before Elvis’ became the King ...
Bonus Episode - Chilling Words Diddy Allegedly Said Before Jay Z and He Did What? Plus Shane MacGowan and More
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake dives into the recent allegations against Jay-Z and hears from yo...
Shane MacGowan: Outsiders, Underdogs, and Christmas Eve in the Drunk Tank
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shane MacGowan lived his life as an outsider. He was an Irishman living in England, a troublemaking ...
Bonus Episode - Preserving Rock n' Roll, Solo Beatles, and Remembering John Lennon
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake looks back at John Lennon and gets your take on which Beatle had ...
Bonus Episode - The Band, Concert Films, and Giving Thanks
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake reflects on Thanksgiving and The Last Waltz. Plus, Jake hears fro...
Martin Scorsese, The Band, and The Last Waltz: A Thanksgiving Story
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Scorsese’s death wish. Bob Dylan’s theft. Robbie Robertson’s cocaine purchase. Four t...
Bonus Episode - Disgraceful Disclosures, Conspiracies, and 11.22.63
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake looks forward to the possibility of 2025 being a year of disgrace...
Woody Harrelson: Contract Killers, JFK Conspiracies, and Fathers & Sons
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of Hollywood’s most eclectic and unpredictable actors, Woody Harrelson has played a hayseed ba...
Bonus Episode - More Sports, Celebrity Politics, and Diddy's New Digs
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake wonders about celebrities and the sincerity of their political co...
Aaliyah: Married Illegally at 15, Drugs, Corruption, and a Fiery Crash
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Married to R. Kelly at 15 years old and dead by the age of 22. Aaliyah was supposed to be as big as ...
Bonus Episode: Sports Towns, Sports Films, and Diddy's Birthday
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake talks about the 1986 New York Mets and what made them such a spec...
The ‘86 Mets: Cocaine, On and Off-field Brawls, and a Murder Outside Shea Stadium
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The World Series-winning 1986 New York Mets were, in a word: assholes. But their fans loved them any...
Bonus Episode: Horrifying Books, Disgraceful Diddy Developments, and the Power of Imagination
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Halloween, disgos! This week in the After Party, Jake hears from you about the scariest books ...
The Exorcist: Demonic Possession, Mass Hysteria, and NYC’s Unsolved Murders
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
William Friedkin's film The Exorcist terrified audiences upon its release in 1973. They fainted, v...
Bonus Episode - Scary Movies and an Interview with Low Cut Connie's Adam Weiner
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake sits down with Adam Weiner of Low Cut Connie to discuss the state...
Poltergeist Curse: Paranormal Activity, a Plane Crash, and Murder
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Four different actors from the 1980s horror franchise Poltergeist died within a 6-year span. Domin...
Bonus Episode: Dangerous Music, Great Rock n' Roll, and More Shocking Allegations
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake wonders if every disgraceful story covered in Disgraceland is mer...
The Cramps: Zombies, Teenage Werewolves, and Rock ‘N’ Roll Saviors
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Cramps, led by the husband and wife team of Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, had one one m...
Bonus Episode: Heart Issues and Hurricanes
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake hears from you on which artists were taken from us too soon, and ...
Brandon Lee: Hungry Ghosts, Cursed Movies, and a Goth Masterpiece
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Haunted by the legacy of his superstar father and by an old family curse, Brandon Lee tried to outru...
Bonus Episode: More Diddy Allegations, Travis Scott and Tony Buzbee
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake weighs in on the latest development in the explosive Diddy saga: ...
Travis Scott and Astroworld: The Devil Went Down to Houston
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Travis Scott’s 2021 Astroworld music festival turned out to be a deadly disaster. Was it greed? Sa...
Bonus Episode: Deep in the Diddyverse and Sci-Fi Curious
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake takes a closer look at the Diddy indictment and gets your recomme...
Sigourney Weaver: A Goddess, Beasts and Demons, and Paying Tribute from Death Row
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In classic ‘80s films like Ghostbusters and Aliens, Sigourney Weaver battled demons and beasts. Bu...
Bonus Episode: Freak Offs, Great Television, and a Waitress in the Sky
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the After Party, Jake gets into the latest news on the indictment and arrest of Sean "D...
Matthew Perry: The One Where He Dies
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friends star Matthew Perry battled addiction through the white-hot glare of fame while having the nu...