Podcast Episodes

Bonus Episode: Mystery Recordings and Tortured Geniuses

Season 24 Episode 248

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 emails!

On Tuesday, we're bringing you a new e…

Published on 9 hours ago

Brian Wilson: Love and Mercy, Murder, Theft, and Manipulation

Season 24 Episode 248

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 nearly destroyed for it. This is the story of how mer…

Published on 2 days, 9 hours ago

The Beach Boys Pt. 2: Endless Bummer, Hollywood Paranoia, Onstage Fist Fights, Incest, and Cocaine

Season 4 Episode 48

In the aftermath of the Manson Family murders, Hollywood was gripped with fear. Various investigations stitched together a deluded White Album-inspired explanation of the killing spree. But Dennis Wi…

Published on 3 days, 9 hours ago

The Beach Boys Pt. 1: Endless Summer, LSD, Orgies, Charles Manson and a Steve McQueen Man-Crush

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. Dennis was the handsome California surfer that his brot…

Published on 4 days, 9 hours ago

Gram Parsons: A Stolen Body, Heroin, More Rolling Stones and Cosmic American Music

Season 7 Episode 68

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 been copied by everyone from the Eagles to Ryan Adams. He …

Published on 6 days, 9 hours ago

Bonus Episode: Compton, Conspiracies, and Mercy

Season 24 Episode 247

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 ranging from mercy to Lemmy to Frankie Goes to Hollywo…

Published on 1 week ago

Kendrick Lamar: The Streets, the Studio, and the Struggle for Mercy

Season 24 Episode 247

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, loyalty, violence, and survival. This is the story of go…

Published on 1 week, 2 days ago

Willie Nelson (Pt 2): Grifters, Con Men, Thieves, and the Reinvention of the Outlaw

Season 11 Episode 128

Willie Nelson left Nashville and reinvented himself in Austin, Texas as the ultimate outsider. It was a metamorphosis from freak flag flier to mainstream mainstay that is rife with tales of drug smug…

Published on 1 week, 4 days ago

Willie Nelson (Pt 1): A Shootout, a House Fire, and the Ballad of the Red-Headed Stranger

Season 11 Episode 127

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. He drank, smoked, and cheated his way through multiple m…

Published on 1 week, 6 days ago

Bonus Episode: 80s Metalheads, Life-changing Concerts, and Ozzy Osbourne

Season 24 Episode 246

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 your concert going experiences!

On Tuesday, we're …

Published on 2 weeks ago