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DISGRACELAND
DISGRACELAND is an award-winning music and true crime podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. Jerry Lee Lewis's 5th wife? Dead. Sid and Nancy? Both dead. Why? Because musicians are insane, and insane things happen to them.
Why did we lose Amy Winehouse at 27? Was Debbie Harry really abducted by Ted Bundy as she claims? Is Patti Smith not just the "Godmother of Punk", but also the "Original True Crime Girl"? What really happened the night of the Jay Z nightclub…
Episodes
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Bonus Episode: We Are Starting Our Own Rock ‘n’’ Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame 2026 inductees were announced, and guess what? You’re pissed! So we are starting our own Hall of Fame. Plus, we are…
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Grace Jones: True Crime Magnet. Eighties Icon.
Grace Jones was one of the era-defining multihyphenates of the 1980s, an icon of the music, fashion, and movie worlds. From Jamaica to Studio 54, she broke…
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Bonus Episode: A Big Announcement, The True Crime and Grime of the Chelsea Hotel, and More
Disgos, we’ve got some big news—and you’re hearing it first. Also, Patti Smith has us asking (and answering), which movies about the Chelsea…
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Patti Smith: How True Crime Helped The “Godmother of Punk” Survive
The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping, Helter Skelter, the .44 Caliber Killers, the crime and grime of 70s New York; Central Park, the Chelsea Hotel, 42nd St., rape…
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Bonus Episode: A Music History Memoir and Rock ‘N’ Roll Autobiography Reading List
Fresh off of reading Patti Smith’s excellent memoir Just Kids in preparation of our upcoming Patti episode, we are discussing our favorite music history…
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Special Episode: New Artists/New Crimes Revealed
A special look at the new artists we’re covering in 2026, along with a peek back at how we got started, where we’re going, and some listener…
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Bonus Episode: Brit Pop and the Attempted Kidnapping of Two British Musical Icons
Yeah, admit it, you don’t like Suede either. Plus, you’re going to want to learn more about the British band that attempted to kidnap not one, but two…
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Bonus Episode: Underrated and Influential Women From Music History, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees, and our Inductee Picks
Why are women criminally absent from most of Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of 100 Greatest Artists? Your voicemails and texts on who you think the most…
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Chrissie Hynde: Punk at Ground Zero and the Birth of the Pretenders
Years spent at ground zero of UK punk. Years of almost-bands, near-misses, and stolen moments on the sidelines. Sex-shop violence, marriage schemes with the…
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Bonus Episode: What Music Do Serial Killers and the Worst People In The World Listen to?
Surprise! Jeffrey Epstein had predictable taste in music. But the Son of Sam? Gaddafi? John Wayne Gacy? We get into what the worst people in the world listened…
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Bonus Episode: The Murder Mystery Hinted At in the New Elvis Concert Film
We saw EPiC and it’s GREAT, but why didn’t Elvis perform outside the United States? Could an unsolved murder have been the reason? For more great…
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INXS Pt. 2: Rock ‘n’ Roll Riots, Radio Bans, and a Letter Bomb
The wild west of the Australian pub rock scene that ended in fire. A hit record stalled by controversy. A pilot passed out at 30,000 feet. And a bomb sent to a…
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Bonus Episode: The Grateful Dead Psyop Theory and the Laurel Canyon Pop Star Military Industrial Complex
In light of what the Epstein Files taught us about Bob Weir and Bohemian Grove, we ask the question: Is there any merit to the conspiracy theory regarding the…
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The Grateful Dead (Pt. 3): What The Epstein Files Tell Us About Bob Weir’s Bohemian Grove Ties and MK Ultra
Why was the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir a member of the secretive Bohemian Club? Maybe the answer lies in the Epstein Files or in early MK Ultra efforts?…
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Bonus Episode: The Epstein Files and Every Musician Mentioned In Them (We Think)
There are countless musicians mentioned in the “Epstein Files”; a dozen or so are bold-faced names. A whole lot more are not. Some of the mentions…
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Presenting Our New Video Podcast "This Film Should be Played Loud"
We're sharing the audio from our new video podcast "This Film Should Be Played Loud." "This Film Should Be Played Loud" is a new monthly video podcast where…
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Bonus Episode: A New Kurt Cobain Cause of Death Report and Artists Gone Too Soon
What can we take away from the new report on Kurt Cobain’s cause of death? And which rockstars gone too soon mattered to you the most? All this and more in the…
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Mia Zapata: Missed Connections, the Dark End of the Street, and an Uncompromising Voice with No Fear
An uncompromising voice, silenced at the dark end of the street. A city looking for a killer in all the wrong places. And a scene that suddenly made little…
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Bonus Episode: Turnstile and Why Hardcore Music is Now Pop Music plus Our Greatest Live Music Childhood Memories
Turnstile is the first hardcore band to ever win a Grammy award. Two grammys actually. And now hardcore will never be the same. Listen to this bonus episode of…
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Jane’s Addiction (Pt. 2): Nothing’s Shocking, Not Dead Teenage Girls or Onstage Brawls
An onstage brawl in Boston. A dead teenage girl turned into art. Warehouse shows and a freak scene bankrolled by transgression. Listen to find out how Jane’s…
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Bonus Episode: Conspiracies, Kanye, and Contrition
This week in the after party Jake consider's Ye's recent ad in the Wall Street Journal apologizing for his actions over the last few years. Is Kanye's…
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Lady Gaga (Pt.2): How Did Lady Gaga’s Friend and Collaborator Die? And Why Do The Conspiracy Theorists Refuse to let go of This Story?
Who was Lina Morgana? Why do people believe she was murdered by Lady Gaga? And what does the Illuminati have to do with Gaga’s seat at the table of…
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Lady Gaga (Pt.1): How She Manipulated the Conspiracy Theorists on Her Way to Becoming The Biggest Pop Star on the Planet
Lady Gaga not only manipulated her past, she manipulated the media into propping her up on her way to becoming one of the biggest stars in the world. She also…
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Bonus Episode: Grammy Snubs, Righting the NWA Wrong, Wild Award Show Buggery, and More
The Grammy are most interesting when they mess up—snubbing NWA, the Grateful Dead, Metallica and others. We get into all of it plus some extra awards show…
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The Runaways: Exploited by the Music Industry, Escape, and Excellent Rock ‘N’ Roll
This is the story of five teenage girls who used rock ‘n roll to escape their lives, their names, and their futures—only to find themselves trapped in a…
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Bonus Episode: Bob Weir, Bohemian Grove, more Orion, and First-Gen Punks
Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead has passed, and we celebrate his unique brand of American awesomeness on this episode and dig into the long, strange weirdness of…
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Johnny Thunders: Murder or Overdose?
A punk junkie nightmare in a New Orleans hotel. A turf war with Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers. A poisonous friendship with Dee Dee Ramone and a doomed alliance…
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Bonus Episode: Lady Gaga, Elvis Presley, and the Orion Conspiracy
What do Lady Gaga and Elvis Presley conspiracies have in common? Maybe the story of the mysterious Sun Records artist known as Orion will help us understand…
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Bonus Episode: Disgraceland Q1 2026 Preview
In this special bonus episode of the show, Jake and Zeth take you behind the scenes and into the editorial room to give you an exclusive preview of some of the…
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Bonus Episode: New Year’s Stories of Rock ‘n’ Roll Redemption
From Ozzy to Tina to the Chili Peppers, hope springs anew each New Year’s and has led to some of the most dramatic stories of redemption from music history. We…
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Bonus Episode: A Disgraceful Christmas List – Rockstars Set Up, Busted, and Sentenced During the Holidays
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, calls, and…
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Bonus Episode: Let’s Make a Non Traditional Christmas Mix and Load the Chamber for Russian Roulette
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 Stevens to…
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Bonus Episode: Happy Xmas (War Is Over) and Other Great Music History Christmas Moments
This After Party features a very special announcement plus a look into the greatest Christmas moments from music history, your voicemails, texts, emails, and…
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Phil Spector: Silent Night, Loaded Gun
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 Christmas…
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Bonus Episode: Are Rockstars Part of the UFO Disclosure Theory? Plus Psychopedia’s Brooke Slater on Slayer and Ed Gein
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 obsession…
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Merle Haggard (Pt. 2): Surviving Christmas, Cosmic American Aliens, and Cocaine Clarity
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 threats…
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Bonus Episode: Killer Concert Films
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 some…
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Martin Scorsese (Pt. 2): One Night. One Murder. Five Directors
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…
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Bonus Episode: A Brief History of Gun Violence from Music’s Past
“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 to iconic stars…
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Dr. John: A Shooting, Federal Prison, and Voodoo Healing
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 him, but…
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Bonus: From the Nitrous Mafia to the Italian Mafia, the Criminal Enterprises That Infiltrate Music Culture
Gangsters, rude boys, drug dealers, soviet bootleggers, ticket scalping syndicates, and psychedelic chemists—why do criminals like the “Nitrous Mafia”…
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Phish: Community, Hippie Crack, and the Nitrous Mafia
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 – and…
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Bonus: The Next Incel Killer Already Has A Playlist
This episode is being published for the first time on Friday, November 7th. An episode of the same title was mistakenly published previously. The media blamed…
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AC/DC Pt. 2: Dirty Deeds, Dead Friends, and Murder for Hire
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 … and nearly undone…
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Bonus Episode: Why Does Hollywood Ignore The Most Impactful Music?
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 Hollywood…
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Bonus Episode: Backmasking and the Death of the Dangerous Rockstar
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 stars were…
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Judas Priest: Satanic Panic, Censorship, Heavy Metal Suicide, and Defenders of the Faith
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 and in the…
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Bonus Episode: Music and Monsters
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 stories from…
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Bonus Episode: Musical Sherpas and Spooky Sounds
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 youth…
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Pentagram: Demons, Curses, and Doom
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 it would…
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Bonus Episode - Spooky Stories and Superbowl Shows
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 season, we…
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Disgraceland All Access - New Mini-Episodes Available Now
Big news for Disgraceland All Access Members! Rocka Rolla subscription members on Apple Podcasts and Patreon will now receive a special, exclusive mini-episode…
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Led Zeppelin Pt. 2: The Haunting at Headley Grange
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 they…
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Bonus Episode - Bad Men, Good Music, and the Developing D4VID Saga
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 movies and…
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Depeche Mode: Pleasure, Pain, Death, and Resurrection
Machines, eyeliner, ecstasy, and a West Hollywood overdose that left their frontman clinically dead—Depeche Mode were never just a synth-pop band. From…
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Bonus Episode - Rock 'n' Roll Movies, Music Headlines, and Buford Pusser
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 artists you…
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Jimmy Buffett: Escape Artist, Incorporated.
Key West drug traffickers, God’s Own Bad-Ass, flying bullets, and the billion-dollar business of escape. Jimmy Buffett wasn’t just the “Margaritaville Guy” –…
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Bonus Episode: Hanging with Hip Hop Stars, the VMAs, and the Return of the Biggest Band on the Planet
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 and the…
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50 Cent Pt. 2: Federal Raids, a Stabbing in the Studio, and a Dead Man’s Game
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 the original…
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Bonus Episode: Mystery Recordings and Tortured Geniuses
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, and…