In the early 1980s, Tommy Tutone and Columbia Records unleashed “867-5309/Jenny,” a power pop hit that sparked a telecommunications meltdown and a nationwide harassment epidemic. What began as a fabricated story about a bathroom wall number turned into a disaster when millions of teenagers dialed the digits, tormenting innocent families […]
The Breeders Story. This week, we delve into the explosive rise and chaotic collapse of The Breeders, the 90s alt-rock band that started as a middle finger to a control-freak frontman and ended in a hotel toilet full of heroin. Kim Deal spent years standing in the back of the […]
This week we’re talking about the Toadies — the band from Fort Worth, Texas that wrote one of the creepiest, most addictive rock songs of the 90s and then watched their own record label bury them alive. Vaden Todd Lewis and the guys ground it out in sweaty Texas bars […]
This week we’re talking about Radiohead — the band that got famous for a song they hated, then spent the next thirty years trying to burn their own career to the ground. It starts with five awkward guys at a boys’ school in Abingdon who can only practice on Fridays. […]
The Glenn Danzig Story. This week, we pick up where the Misfits story left off — Glenn walks away in 1983 and spends the next forty years building (and demolishing) his solo legacy. From Samhain’s dark basement shows to Rick Rubin discovering him and launching the Danzig band, from “Mother” […]
The Portishead Story. This week, we explore the band that sold two million copies, watched their sound get photocopied by every perfume ad in America, and then refused to make another record for eleven years — not because of drugs or lawsuits, but because they didn’t feel like it. When […]
The Nine Inch Nails Story. This week, we explore how a janitor in Cleveland recorded demos after hours, signed a deal that gave him complete creative control, used it to make an album inside the house where the Manson family murdered five people, and then almost died in a London […]
The Prodigy Story. This week, we delve into the explosive, terrifying rise and devastating end of The Prodigy — the Essex rave act that weaponized pure noise, pissed off the entire British establishment, and burned down every rule in the music industry. What happened to The Prodigy begins in 1990, […]
