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Back to SearchBonus Episode: Happy Xmas (War Is Over) and Other Great Music History Christmas Moments
Season 25 Episode 259
This After Party features a very special announcement plus a look into the greatest Christmas moments from music history, your voicemails, texts, emails, and as always a whole lotta (Christmas) Rosie…
Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Phil Spector: Silent Night, Loaded Gun
Season 25 Episode 259
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 record crushed by one of the darkest da…
Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Blondie: Punk vs. Disco, Held Hostage by Phil Spector, and Riding with Ted Bundy
Season 14 Episode 152
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. Violent crime had the five boroughs in a stranglehold…
Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Blink-182: Tom Was Right. Aliens Exist.
Season 21 Episode 219
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 plane crash, a cancer diagnosis, redemption, and (of…
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Bonus Episode: Are Rockstars Part of the UFO Disclosure Theory? Plus Psychopedia’s Brooke Slater on Slayer and Ed Gein
Season 25 Episode 258
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, we discuss the likelihood that rockstar…
Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Merle Haggard (Pt. 2): Surviving Christmas, Cosmic American Aliens, and Cocaine Clarity
Season 25 Episode 258
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, pistols, pardons, and “Pancho & Lefty.” L…
Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Merle Haggard (Pt. 1): A Christmas Robbery Leads To Hard Time at San Quentin
Season 12 Episode 138
Merle Haggard was what authorities liked to call a “repeat offender.” He was arrested for riding trains, for skipping school, for stealing cars, for robbing gas stations, and for attempting to knock …
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Bonus Episode: Killer Concert Films
Season 25 Episode 257
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 criminally overlooked live gems with Jake and…
Published on 1 month ago
Martin Scorsese, The Band, and The Last Waltz: A Thanksgiving Story
Season 20 Episode 209
Martin Scorsese’s death wish. Bob Dylan’s theft. Robbie Robertson’s cocaine purchase. Four thousand pounds of turkey. Two thousand pounds of candied yams. Eight hundred pounds of pies and ninety gall…
Published on 1 month ago
Martin Scorsese (Pt. 2): One Night. One Murder. Five Directors
Season 22 Episode 223
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. Scorsese’s friends, filmmakers Stephen Spielber…
Published on 1 month ago