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Season 18 Episode 187
Motörhead influenced some of the most important acts in heavy metal and punk rock history. Led by the inimitable Lemmy Kilmister, they invented a sound and a style that didn’t exist before the origin…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Bonus Episode: Teenage Obsessions, Your Suggestions, and Great Singers
Season 18 Episode 186
This week in the After Party, Jake talks about how his sixteen-year-old self influenced who he is today. We want to know: What were you listening to when you were a teenager? Whose poster was on your…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Bonus Episode: "Crazy" Artists, Ultraterrestrials, and Arnt Poppy in the Gararge
Season 18 Episode 186
This week in the After Party, Jake talks about the artists who have faced challenges to their mental health and wonders if they actually have a truer perception of reality beyond what the rest of us …
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Donny Hathaway: Angels, Demons, and Unexplained Visions
Season 18 Episode 186
Donny Hathaway was a singer, songwriter, and performer so inspiring that he compelled Stevie Wonder to change the way he sang, got Amy Winehouse to name-check him in her lyrics, and made musical gian…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Bonus Episode: Crime and Grime in 1977 NYC, Great Music Cities, CBGB Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Season 18 Episode 185
This week in the After Party, Jake talks about the unique social conditions that created the vibrant 1970s NYC music scene that birthed Talking Heads, the subject of this week's episode. Crime, grime…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Talking Heads: Punk Rock, New Wave, Blackouts, and Psycho Killers
Season 18 Episode 185
From 1976 to 1977, unsuspecting young people in New York City were snuck up on in the darkness and shot in cold blood. Six dead, murdered by David Berkowitz, AKA the Son of Sam, a serial killer who h…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Gianni Versace: Sly Stallone, Madonna, Elton John, a Serial Killer, and the Death of the Sun King
Season 18 Episode 184
Gianni Versace was a runway iconoclast who outfitted the likes of Madonna, Demi Moore, Prince, Sylvester Stallone, and Don Johnson. He lived like Louis XIV and counted Princess Di and Elton John amon…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Bonus Episode: Scene Showdown, Partying With Tyson, and Juvenile Stickups
Season 18 Episode 182
This week in the After Party, Jake talks different music scenes, balancing points of view, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on Bobby Brown, and of course your emails, texts, DMs, and voicemails. What…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Waylon Jennings: Surviving Buddy Holly, the DEA, and Himself
Season 18 Episode 183
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 that, just hours later, crashed, killing Buddy and…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Bobby Brown: Cocaine Chicken, Horny Ghosts, and His Prerogative
Season 18 Episode 182
Bobby Brown thrusted and gyrated his way to the top of the charts with Don’t Be Cruel, one of the biggest records of the late 1980s and an album that brought hip-hop’s hard-knock sensibilities to R&B…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago