That Show – Dr. Jason Barr & The Music of SNL

Nick welcomes Dr. Jason Barr, Associate Professor of Music at Glenville State University, to talk about the history of music on Saturday Night Live, with a focus on the legendary live band that has been part of the show since it debuted in 1975. They get into the origins of […]

Jackalope Tales – Episode: K.K.K-TEL

Step right up, folks… to the absolute worst infomercial in human history.

This week on Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa crack open one of the music industry’s most vile, moldy corners—the world of racist record labels. That’s right… before SoundCloud rappers were embarrassing themselves online, there were entire labels proudly pressing […]

Celebrity Interview – Pamela Pulice (The Dick Biondi Film)

Pamela Enzweiler-Pulice is the documentarian who created the film The Voice That Rocked America – The Dick Biondi Story. Rick and Dave talk to her about the Radio Hall of Famer and her film about The Wild I-tralian. [Ep199]

Jackalope Tales – The Show Must Go Wrong

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 […]

Jackalope Tales – We Put The Fed In Feedback

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 […]

Jackalope Tales – Tales From The Rock n’ Roll Mercenary, Pt 2

Part 2 of our descent into the beautiful chaos that is Marky Ray—and this time, the guitars don’t survive.

In this episode, Marky pulls back the curtain on life on the road with Nine Inch Nails, where industrial rage wasn’t just a vibe, it was a line item in the budget. […]

Jackalope Tales – Tales From The Rock n’ Roll Mercenary, Pt 1

This week, Charles and Lisa crack open the tour-stained, whiskey-splashed saga of a true road warrior: Professor Marky Ray, Cleveland’s own Master of Music and the man lovingly (and fearfully) known as The Rock and Roll Mercenary.

For five decades, Marky Ray has been everywhere—onstage, backstage, under the stage, lost behind […]

Celebrity Interview – RE-RELEASE: May Pang (The Lost Weekend: A Love Story)

John Lennon’s companion during his infamous “Lost Weekend” in the mid-70s was May Pang, and she talks all about her relationship plus the film it inspired: “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story” coming soon to a theater near you.

Jackalope Tales – The Bear Necessities

In this week’s darkly educational episode, Charles and Lisa unzip the fur suit and expose one of the music industry’s most ridiculous, poorly-kept secrets: when a label says a musician was “attacked by a bear,” it usually means the only wildlife involved was cocaine, bad decisions, and a manager who’s […]

Jackalope Tales – Catch You On The B Side

This week, Lisa and Charles dig through the dusty grooves on the flip side of the record—where the strangest and sometimes darkest stories hide.

Lisa drops the needle on “Unchained Melody,” the iconic B side that soared without Phil Spector’s meddling hand—though he somehow strutted off with the credit anyway. She […]

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