"Who doesn't love underground tales from the rock'n'roll world - the story behind the story. This show is incredibly well written, sound designed and narrated. Ten out of ten."

- Jessica Young, Great Pacific Media/Curiouscast

Disgraceland is a riotous, swaggering romp through the criminal underbelly of music history, where rock stars behave badly—and often violently—and host Jake Brennan narrates it all with breathless, pulp-noir bravado. Each episode blends tabloid gossip, true crime, and pop culture mythology, offering tales of murder, overdoses, arson, and mayhem with the rhythm of a punk song and the excess of a Behind the Music fever dream.

Brennan’s style is half preacher, half barstool raconteur, barreling through stories of artists like Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Cooke, and Courtney Love with relish and just enough skepticism to keep it interesting. It’s all delivered in a kind of caffeinated patter that’s more performance than reportage—but that’s the point.

Disgraceland doesn’t pretend to be sober journalism; it’s the myth of rock ‘n’ roll told with the volume turned up and the facts occasionally fuzzed. It’s loud, messy, and occasionally indulgent—but it captures something essential about fame: its gravitational pull toward destruction. This is less a podcast than a backstage pass to the most chaotic corners of music history, and it’s irresistible.