In this episode of Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa explore the musical equivalent of signing your own death certificate: inking a deal with a major label. Charles dives into the heartbreaking saga of Badfinger—where bad contracts, greed, and tragedy turned one of rock’s brightest hopes into a cautionary tale. Lisa […]
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Some performers leave the stage to thunderous applause. Others are escorted out by security while the crowd wonders if this is part of the act. In this episode, Lisa spills the hay-bale-scented tea on Dylan Marlowe, who somehow managed to get booted from a country music festival where he was […]
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In this spellbinding episode, Lisa and Charles grab their crystal balls and dive broom-first into the long, glittering trail of scorched bridges left behind by the one and only Stevie Nicks. From bandmates she’s hexed with silent treatments to fellow musicians she’s publicly shaded harder than a total eclipse, Stevie’s […]
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This week on Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa unzip the lip-syncing scandal vault in Our Lips Are Sealed.
Charles revisits the Mamas and the Papas’ chaotic appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, where Michelle Phillips famously “sang” into a banana—yes, a real banana. But it wasn’t just stoner antics or 60s […]
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This week, Charles and Lisa dive headfirst into the cigarette-scorched, mob-adjacent world of one of rock’s most feared figures: Don Arden. If Satan had a cigar budget and a talent roster, it might’ve looked a lot like this guy’s.
In “Thy Will Be Don,” we unravel the shady empire of the […]
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Welcome to Jackalope Tales, the podcast where music myths, legends, and label lies come to life. In this episode, Signed, Sealed, Screwed, we dive into the devil’s fine print—the kind that turned platinum records into lifelong prison sentences for the very artists who made them.
Charles tells the truly absurd tale […]
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Welcome to Jackalope Tales, where the only thing taller than our stories is the pile of lies musicians tell their fans. In this episode, Lisa dives into a Swiss band’s grand hoax: they convinced Phishheads that they were the band Phish themselves—undercover, incognito, and performing as a made-up alter ego. […]
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Is that Elvis Presley belting out “Jailhouse Rock” from a pulpit in rural Arkansas? Did Tupac really die, or did he just multiply? In this episode of Jackalope Tales, Lisa wades into the swampy legend of a small-town preacher who insists he’s the King himself – sideburns, swagger, and all. […]
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This week on Jackalope Tales, we crank up the static and tune into two rumors that blew up online louder than a dial-up modem at 3 AM. Charles digs deep into the endless game of social media telephone that turned Bruce Springsteen — a man who’s spent half a century […]
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In this episode of Jackalope Tales, Lisa and Charles sharpen their shears and take aim at pop industry puppet master Scooter Braun — or as they like to call him, the world’s most polite snake in a thousand-dollar suit.
Lisa kicks things off with the sad, weird saga of Lil Twist […]
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