DISGRACELAND

You know the myths. You’ve seen the biopics. But if you’re the kind of music fan who craves the rest of the story—the stuff they buried or cleaned up for streaming and theaters—this is your podcast. DISGRACELAND is the award-winning show that reveals the deeply human, highly dramatic, true crime–fueled chaos behind legendary musicians like Amy Winehouse, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sean “Diddy” Combs, the Grateful Dead, Blondie, and more. While we dig into the dark side, we do so with reverence for the artists—and an understanding of the extreme highs, lows, and personal costs that come with fame and making great art. This is music history like you’ve never heard it—edge-of-your-seat stories exploding with drama and the kind of information that’ll make you dangerous at dinner parties.

New, fully scripted and sound-designed episodes drop every Tuesday. On Thursdays, we hand the mic to you—and feature listener voicemails, texts, and emails in our interactive bonus episodes. And on Fridays, we revisit the wildest stories from our 250+ episode archive with “Rewind” drops that’ll transport you back into music history’s most entertaining moments.

DISGRACELAND is not a journalistic podcast—it’s an entertainment podcast inspired by true events. Certain dialogue and scenes are occasionally fictionalized for dramatic effect, as is common in scripted entertainment based on real stories. Sources and credits for each episode are available at www.disgracelandpod.com.

To hear every episode ad-free––and get access to exclusive exclusive, bonus, and behind the scenes content––the stories they don't want you to hear—become a Disgraceland All Access member at www.disgracelandpod.com/membership.

Music
True Crime
Society & Culture
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Prince (Pt. 1): Dark Funk and Fentanyl
36 min
352
Studio 54: Disco Decadence, a Dead Body and Bag...
37 min
353
Nipsey Hussle: A Crenshaw Murder, Community Act...
31 min
354
Ozzy Osbourne: The Prince of Darkness, Randy Rh...
40 min
355
Run DMC Pt. 1: Innovation, Evolution and the M...
37 min
356
Joe Exotic: Tiger King, Budding Country Star, C...
Joe Exotic, the gun toting, mullet wearing, polyamorous subject of the hit Netflix series, Tiger King was more than just a murder-minded conman. He could sing! You saw those videos. We did too. As a singer, Joe’s voice belied the tortured Everyman experience of some of the best country music crooners, hinting at deep trauma resulting from unspeakable loss, assault and violence. Most of which was for the most part, left on the cutting room floor of the popular Netflix series and is on display in this special Covid-19 bonus content episode of Disgraceland.
36 min
357
John Denver: A Folk Singer, a Sniper and Americ...
54 min
358
Little Richard: Sex and the Duality of the King...
Little Richard is the originator. Without him it’s hard to imagine the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elton John or even Led Zeppelin. He blazed a trail through popular culture that previous to him did not exist. His music was completely original for the time, the essence of rock ‘n’ roll, filled with impassioned energy, fueled at times by large quantities of drugs and always brimming with sex. The sex, the drugs, and the party for Little Richard, it was as endless as the manic energy that drove his music and it all nearly derailed him––several times––landing him behind bars and on the wrong side of the gun. 
39 min
359
Jay Z: Street hustle, a Nightclub Stabbing, a N...
44 min
360
Guns N’ Roses Pt. 2: Real life Rocket Queen, Ra...
38 min
361
Guns N’ Roses Pt. 1: Brawling with Bowie, Juven...
37 min
362
The Beach Boys Pt. 2: Endless Bummer, Hollywood...
38 min
363
The Beach Boys Pt. 1: Endless Summer, LSD, Orgi...
41 min
364
The Rolling Stones at Altamont: Bikers, Blood, ...
43 min
365
A$AP Rocky: Love Sex Dreams/LSD and Locked Up O...
A$AP Rocky’s upbringing; Harlem, Riker’s, and his own instincts and sense of history informed his world view: A view that included not only a healthy respect for the healing powers of LSD, but also a healthy distaste for the political maelstrom surrounding cartoon president Donald J. Trump. The irony is that A$AP Rocky’s own behavior led him straight into the political fray—jailed in an international incident and, in the end, in need of the unlikeliest of political allies to help him escape.
45 min
366
Whitney Houston: Cracks in the Mirror, Crack o...
Whitney 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’t answers, just ways to avoid the question: what was the private tragedy of Whitney Houston?
33 min
367
Eminem: Taking His Shot, Pulling a Glock, and F...
On a single Saturday in 2000, Marshall Mathers assaulted two separate men with a pistol and fought with his wife outside a nightclub, resulting in lawsuits and charges that hung over the completion of his original trilogy of albums. For that one day, the rap persona Slim Shady had escaped into the real world. How had Slim Shady come to be, and why had he gotten out?
32 min
368
Madonna: Music as Sex and Sex as Power in the R...
38 min
369
Iggy Pop: Mad Artistry, Mental Wards, and Gapin...
37 min
370
Motown Records: Pimps, Prostitutes, the Detroit...
Motown Records is one of the most successful musical industry endeavors or all time. The music and the megastars Motown produced; Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5 defined a generation. But that success is marred by rumors. Rumors that the record label and its innovative owner were controlled by the quote unquote black hand of the white American mob.
38 min
371
Led Zeppelin Pt 1: Dark Power, Cocaine, Backsta...
42 min
372
N.W.A Pt. 2: Beatdowns, Band Beef, Death Row an...
36 min
373
N.W.A Pt. 1: Street Hustle, Reality Rap and Cul...
38 min
374
Frank Sinatra Pt. 1: Frankie Is the Reason...Th...
28 min
375
The Rolling Stones: Fugitives in Exile
33 min