Music History Podcasts

Dolly Parton's America

12 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 9.9K ratings
In this intensely divided moment, one of the few things everyone still seems to agree on is Dolly Parton—but why? That simple question leads to a deeply personal, historical, and musical rethinking...

DISGRACELAND

65 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 9.3K ratings
Murder, infidelity, suicide, arson, addiction, religious cults, drug trafficking; this podcast explores the alleged true crime antics and criminal connections of musicians we love like Jerry Lee Le...

Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music

15 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5.4K ratings
The podcast about 20th Century Country Music and the lives of those who gave it to us.

Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

58 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
What makes a song a smash? Talent? Luck? Timing? All that—and more. Chris Molanphy, pop-chart analyst and author of Slate’s “Why Is This Song No. 1?” series, tells tales from a half-century of char...

Digging Deep with Robert Plant

13 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 641 ratings
Robert Plant is celebrating S2 of his hugely popular podcast, Digging Deep with Robert Plant, with the release of a very special limited edition 7’’ singles box set. DIGGING DEEP includes 1...

Frank Turner's Tales From No Man's Land

15 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 313 ratings
Telling the stories of rock & roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, dance hall singer Dora Hand, WW1 spy Mata Hari and more, singer-songwriter Frank Turner talks to historians, poets and fellow musi...

Political Beats

75 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 299 ratings
Scot Bertram and Jeff Blehar discuss ask guests from the world of politics about their musical passions.

Pantheon

639 episodes - Latest episode: about 7 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 230 ratings
The Music Podcast Network. The music audio magazine featuring shows: Rock N Roll Archaeology, History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Dad Bod Rap Pod, Rock n Roll Librarian, Muses, Art of Rock, F...

Bizarre Albums

41 episodes - Latest episode: about 24 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 195 ratings
Tony Thaxton explores the weirder side of music, celebrating and telling the story behind those strange albums that make you wonder how and why they exist. Doing deep dives on albums released by pr...

Rock & Metal Combat Podcast

280 episodes - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 183 ratings
Hard Rock and Metal Reviews

DaUnknownAdmin Podcast

94 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 120 ratings
Freestyle, House, Electro, EDM Podcast Mixes

185 Miles South

60 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 119 ratings
A hardcore punk rock podcast documenting the undertold stories of regional CA hardcore scenes and beyond.

ROCK AND/OR ROLL

323 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
A podcast about rock and/or roll.

Sail On: The Beach Boys Podcast

47 episodes - Latest episode: 18 days ago - ★★★★★ - 97 ratings
Leading you further and further down the Beach Boys rabbit hole as gently and as thoroughly as humanly possible since 2017!

Rightnowish

17 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 76 ratings
Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We’ll dance in warehouses in the...

Three Sides of the Coin Video

101 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 60 ratings
This is only our opinion… it is neither right nor wrong.

Promotion Man Podcast

27 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
Fred Meyers shares his stories with L.A. Lloyd about his adventures from his days at Warner Bros Records and Virgin Records and his relationships with some of the most influential bands that Fred w...

Post-Pinkerton

83 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Post-Pinkerton examines every Weezer song released after the band's 1996 album Pinkerton.

Final Sessions

5 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
Every album tells a story. Introducing "Final Sessions," a new audio documentary series about music's most notable releases. The first season is a 4-part limited series detailing the long ...

Another Kind of Mind: A Different Kind of Beatles Podcast

19 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Welcome to Another Kind of Mind: A Different Kind of Beatles Podcast. We're a collective of artists, musicians, and professionals across a spectrum of fields who dissect and challenge established ...

Listening to Fletcher C Johnson

7 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
A storytelling podcast about the lows and lows of being a musician. Each episode premieres a song from Fletcher’s upcoming album, Are You Feelin’ It, while divulging tales of addiction, homelessnes...

Let It Roll

105 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 24 ratings
"Let it Roll" is a podcast about the history of popular music from the 19th Century to the 21st.

Holding Things Together

8 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
Holding Things Together is an unofficial aftershow to Country Music: A Ken Burns Film. Your hosts Don, Becky and Nick bring years of experience as classic country music radio DJs for a spirited con...

Deadhead Cannabis Show

45 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Candid discussions about cannabis inspired music, great past and upcoming concerts and the social implications of legalized cannabis. Old-school Grateful Dead fans,.cannabis CPA Jim Marty & cannabi...

Rare & Scratchy Rock 'N Roll Podcast

109 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
"Rare & Scratchy Rock 'N Roll" is a rockumentary podcast series that tells the greatest rock and roll stories on record. This includes the untold tales of some great hits that time forgot, but mayb...

Satan and Rainbows

73 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
An in-depth music history podcast dedicated exclusively to the critically reviled genres of heavy metal and progressive rock! ...Please listen anyway

DOODcast

47 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
DJ Fitz finally hits the online community with his Psychedelic storming tunes gathered lovingly by hand from all around the globe. Sidekick DJs Bucko and Mike Stoke hold hands, as we prepare oursel...

Behind the Song

38 episodes - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★ - 19 ratings
Dig deep into the lyrics of classic rock songs and the storytellers that created them in "Behind The Song," a podcast by The Drive's Janda Lane. Hear what was happening behind the scenes while some...

Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here

40 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Talking about Weezer: The band, the music and just how weird it all is.

Throwback Music Video Review

74 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Join music lovers/musicians Al, Ryan and Louie as we have fun discussing music videos from many genres and generations.