Latest Disgrace Podcast Episodes
Bonus Episode: Teenage Obsessions, Your Suggestions, and Great Singers
DISGRACELAND - July 23, 2024 07:01 - 35 minutesThis 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 wall? How did your cultural obsessions when you were a teen shape who you are today? Jake takes y...
REWIND - Slick Rick: Hustle, Iconic Flow and a Menacing Tormentor
DISGRACELAND - July 19, 2024 07:09 - 40 minutesSlick Rick has one of the most iconic voices in hip hip history. His style is completely his own, and his success owes as much to his delivery as it does to his hustle. Slick Rick worked hard to get to the top, and once he made it he was nearly cut down by drugs and violence - violence inflicted ...
Bonus Episode: "Crazy" Artists, Ultraterrestrials, and Arnt Poppy in the Gararge
DISGRACELAND - July 18, 2024 07:01 - 34 minutesThis 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 can see. Jake takes your emails, texts, and voicemails, and explains the origins of his unique acc...
Donny Hathaway: Angels, Demons, and Unexplained Visions
DISGRACELAND - July 16, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutesDonny 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 giants like Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin stand up and take notice. But he was as troubled as he was...
REWIND - James Brown: Papa's Got A Brand New Bag... Of Meth
DISGRACELAND - July 12, 2024 07:12 - 34 minutesWhat happens when the hardest working man in show business takes a break? Idle hands are indeed the devil’s workshop. This episode will detail James Brown’s scorching career as well as the scorching high speed chase he led cops on that led to his arrest and jail sentencing for drugs and firearms....
REWND - James Brown: Papa's Got A Brand New Bag... Of Meth
DISGRACELAND - July 12, 2024 07:12 - 34 minutesWhat happens when the hardest working man in show business takes a break? Idle hands are indeed the devil’s workshop. This episode will detail James Brown’s scorching career as well as the scorching high speed chase he led cops on that led to his arrest and jail sentencing for drugs and firearms....
Bonus Episode: Crime and Grime in 1977 NYC, Great Music Cities, CBGB Qu'est-ce que c'est?
DISGRACELAND - July 11, 2024 07:01 - 38 minutesThis 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, sanitation strikes, baseball, blackouts - Jake covers it all, plus your emails texts, and voicem...
Talking Heads: Punk Rock, New Wave, Blackouts, and Psycho Killers
DISGRACELAND - July 09, 2024 07:01 - 47 minutesFrom 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 held all five boroughs in the grip of fear for one year. A year in which punk rock and new wave too...
REWIND - Whitney Houston: Cracks in the Mirror, Crack on the Mirror, and One Fateful Choice
DISGRACELAND - July 05, 2024 07:08 - 38 minutesWhitney Houston was The Voice. A stunning beauty. An early MTV star and leading actress. But when she passed away in a hotel suite bath, the music industry gala downstairs that she was supposed to attend went on without her. How did it all come to this? The drugs and her husband Bobby Brown weren...
REWIND - Ray Charles: Busted for Heroin and Busting Genres with the Best Damn R&B
DISGRACELAND - July 04, 2024 07:02 - 43 minutesRay Charles was hooked on heroin, arrested by federal agents, and once survived a near-death plane ride by helping the pilot - as a blind man. He invented R&B. He was powerful enough to bring black and white culture into one. He was a genre-melding musical genius. Despite being born into a litera...
Gianni Versace: Sly Stallone, Madonna, Elton John, a Serial Killer, and the Death of the Sun King
DISGRACELAND - July 02, 2024 07:01 - 49 minutesGianni 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 among his friends. He was plagued by rumors of ties to the Calabrian mafia and a secret health diagnos...
REWIND - Prince: Control, Ecstasy, Dark Funk and Fentanyl
DISGRACELAND - June 28, 2024 07:11 - 45 minutesFew pop artists achieved the dizzying creative and career highs that Prince did. An artist who famously stayed away from drugs and most anything that would cause him to lose control, Prince was aided in his legendary musical output by a small army of creative alter egos, who helped him maintain c...
Bonus Episode: Scene Showdown, Partying With Tyson, and Juvenile Stickups
DISGRACELAND - June 27, 2024 07:02 - 31 minutesThis 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 is the greatest music scene of all time? Let Jake know at 617-906-6638, [email protected]...
Presenting DISGRACELAND - Bobby Brown: Cocaine Chicken, Horny Ghosts, and His Prerogative
BADLANDS - June 26, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutesBobby 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. But fame did not change the Boston bad boy. At the height of his superstardom, Bobby Brown was a...
Presenting DISGRACELAND - Bobby Brown: Cocaine Chicken, Horny Ghosts, and His Prerogative
BADLANDS - June 26, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsBobby 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. But fame did not change the Boston bad boy. At the height of his superstardom, Bobby Brown was a...
Bobby Brown: Cocaine Chicken, Horny Ghosts, and His Prerogative
DISGRACELAND - June 25, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutesBobby 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. But fame did not change the Boston bad boy. At the height of his superstardom, Bobby Brown was a...
REWIND - Van Morrison: Astral Weeks, Movement and Murder
DISGRACELAND - June 21, 2024 07:05 - 31 minutesIn 1968, Van Morrison was hiding out from the New York City Mafia in Boston, Massachusetts. Recently the victim of a physical attack from a Genovese crime family member, Morrison was desperately trying to piece together a band to complete what would become his landmark creative statement, Astral ...
Bonus Episode: Boring News, Eighteen Banners, and Ghostwriter Grandstanding
DISGRACELAND - June 20, 2024 07:02 - 27 minutesThis week in the After Party, Jake talks boring versus exciting news, charitable organizations, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on OJ Simpson, and of course your emails, texts, DMs, and voicemails. What charitable organization benefiting victims of drunk driving should Jake donate to? Which thre...
Bonus Episode: Justin Timberlake, Eighteen Banners, and Ghostwriter Grandstanding
DISGRACELAND - June 20, 2024 07:02 - 27 minutesThis week in the After Party, Jake talks boring versus exciting news, charitable organizations, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on OJ Simpson, and of course your emails, texts, DMs, and voicemails. What charitable organization benefiting victims of drunk driving should Jake donate to? Which thre...
Presenting DISGRACELAND - O.J. Simpson: Stolen Memorabilia, Armed Robbery, and Fake Gangsters
BADLANDS - June 19, 2024 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsThis is not the O.J. Simpson story you were expecting. This is the story of what happened after the former running back was acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife and her friend. It’s an insane story that involves sports memorabilia, ex-cons, a gun, a simple plan gone horribly wrong, and one of t...
Presenting DISGRACELAND - O.J. Simpson: Stolen Memorabilia, Armed Robbery, and Fake Gangsters
BADLANDS - June 19, 2024 07:00 - 40 minutesThis is not the O.J. Simpson story you were expecting. This is the story of what happened after the former running back was acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife and her friend. It’s an insane story that involves sports memorabilia, ex-cons, a gun, a simple plan gone horribly wrong, and one of t...
O.J. Simpson: Stolen Memorabilia, Armed Robbery, and Fake Gangsters
DISGRACELAND - June 18, 2024 07:01 - 39 minutesThis is not the O.J. Simpson story you were expecting. This is the story of what happened after the former running back was acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife and her friend. It’s an insane story that involves sports memorabilia, ex-cons, a gun, a simple plan gone horribly wrong, and one of t...
Badlands is Now Disgraceland
BADLANDS - June 18, 2024 07:00 - 46 seconds ★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsAre you a fan of edge-of-your-seat storytelling about Hollywood icons getting caught up in wild scandals and true crimes? About athletes falling from grace? Rockstars getting away with murder and more? All of these types of stories can be heard in the DISGRACELAND podcast feed, hosted by award wi...
Badlands is Now Disgraceland
BADLANDS - June 18, 2024 07:00 - 46 secondsAre you a fan of edge-of-your-seat storytelling about Hollywood icons getting caught up in wild scandals and true crimes? About athletes falling from grace? Rockstars getting away with murder and more? All of these types of stories can be heard in the DISGRACELAND podcast feed, hosted by award wi...
REWIND - XXXTentacion: Mellow Beats and Ultra Violence
DISGRACELAND - June 14, 2024 07:06 - 44 minutesXXXTentacion was one of Generation Z’s most talented hip hop stars but his ascent was marked by violence and drama; beatdowns, beefs (what’s up, Drake?) and abuse. XXXTentacion’s music quickly rose from Soundcloud to the top of the charts due in part to the relative loneliness and alienation he r...
Bonus Episode: The Punk-Rock Dock Ellis, Canseco the Troll, and "a Gorilla in a Zoo"
DISGRACELAND - June 13, 2024 07:00 - 31 minutesThis week in the After Party, Jake talks the super-fame of José Canseco, the exploits of Dock Ellis, performance... altering? drugs, this week's DISGRACELAND episode on José Canseco, and of course your emails, texts, DMs, and voicemails. What athletes embody the rock star vibe? Get in touch at 61...
Presenting DISGRACELAND - Jose Canseco: SWAT Teams, Smuggled Drugs, and 'Roid Rage
BADLANDS - June 12, 2024 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsJose Canseco was a big league slugger who gave the people what they wanted. Not just massive home runs and a whole lot of stolen bases. He provided entertainment. And his audience, not just baseball fans but the world, ate it up. The private encounter with Madonna in her apartment that nearly cos...
Presenting DISGRACELAND - Jose Canseco: SWAT Teams, Smuggled Drugs, and 'Roid Rage
BADLANDS - June 12, 2024 07:00 - 40 minutesJose Canseco was a big league slugger who gave the people what they wanted. Not just massive home runs and a whole lot of stolen bases. He provided entertainment. And his audience, not just baseball fans but the world, ate it up. The private encounter with Madonna in her apartment that nearly cos...
Jose Canseco: SWAT Teams, Smuggled Drugs, and 'Roid Rage
DISGRACELAND - June 11, 2024 04:01 - 40 minutesJose Canseco was a big league slugger who gave the people what they wanted. Not just massive home runs and a whole lot of stolen bases. He provided entertainment. And his audience, not just baseball fans but the world, ate it up. The private encounter with Madonna in her apartment that nearly cos...
Jose Canseco: SWAT Teams, Smuggled Drugs, and Roid Rage
DISGRACELAND - June 11, 2024 04:01 - 40 minutesJose Canseco was a big league slugger who gave the people what they wanted. Not just massive home runs and a whole lot of stolen bases. He provided entertainment. And his audience, not just baseball fans but the world, ate it up. The private encounter with Madonna in her apartment that nearly cos...
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