This week, Charles and Lisa pack their bags for a musical tour of fame, fortune… and very bad life choices.
Charles dives into the story of Valentín Elizalde — a man who may have accidentally dropped a diss track so hard it allegedly got reviewed by an entire cartel… with automatic […]
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What if some of the weirdest pop music ever recorded wasn’t just bad taste… but government policy?
In this episode of Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa dig into the suspiciously bizarre world of Popaganda — the possibility that certain bands weren’t just musicians, but carefully engineered cultural experiments.
Charles investigates the chrome-plated […]
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Some record labels say they’re nonprofit.
Which immediately raises the obvious question: nonprofit for who?
This week on Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa tumble down a particularly sketchy rabbit hole after discovering that their former band — Toadies — once signed to a “nonprofit” record label. A nonprofit… record label. Because nothing […]
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In this episode of Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa open a dusty filing cabinet labeled “Top Secret: Adult Contemporary.” Inside: two power ballads so suspiciously inspirational they may have been weaponized.
Lisa follows the whistling trail of the Wind of Change—a song that somehow floated over the Berlin Wall, slipped into […]
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The Grammys happened. Civilization limped away.
In this fever-dream episode of Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa wade knee-deep into the glittery wreckage of Grammy 2026 like raccoons rummaging through a rhinestone dumpster.
Charles dissects the gospel of glam gone wrong as he unpacks Chappell Roan’s now-infamous Grammy moment — the dress that […]
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This week, Charles and Lisa carve up the real main event of Super Bowl LX: the music. Forget who scored more touchdowns — we’re talking about the cavalcade of performers who tried to out-sing, out-anthem, or out-harmonize a football game that literally has cheerleaders dressed like pyrotechnic reject mannequins. From […]
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Some bands want you to feel the music.
Others want you to sign a waiver.
In The Show Must Go Wrong, Charles and Lisa dive headfirst into the beautiful disaster zone of live music where safety is optional, chaos is guaranteed, and the stage is just another weapon.
Charles breaks down the legacy […]
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Tapin’ Pennies is the sound of a nation learning—too late—that nothing in life is cheaper than “11 records for a penny.”
In this episode of Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa dig up the glorious scam-adjacent era of mail-order music clubs, when all you needed was a ballpoint pen, a form torn […]
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This week on Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa crank the amps, dim the lights, and wave hello to the invisible guy in the trench coat taking notes from across the street.
Lisa dives into the rumor-soaked paranoia buffet of Devo—a band so weird, so anti-normal, and so aggressively “we’re all devolving […]
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Some songs die with dignity. Others get dragged out of the grave by a 7-second video, a suspiciously sweaty dance trend, and a comment section full of people typing “WHAT IS THIS SONG???” like they just discovered music.
In “Brought Back By Thirst Traps,” Charles and Lisa dig up the tracks […]
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