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Disgraceland is a new true crime podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly.

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Rebels hang @doubleelvis

Rising up or falling mightily, wrestling with the status quo leaves a mark.

Meet our friend Chelsea, creator and host of the podcast Dear Young Rocker. This show explores the serious issues of body image, gender power dynamics, and social-anxiety, and how these issues are severely magnified during the most confusing years of our lives. It brings us back to the singularly-intense passion of falling in love with a favorite band as only a teenager can, the freeing feeling of picking up a guitar for the first time, and how truly awful a first kiss can be. We couldn’t be more proud to team up with her on this show and we can’t wait for you to hear it later this fall! 🎤🎸🤟🏼
“Watch our for your ears!” - Jimi Hendrix, before launching into his rendition of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, in front of Sir Paul just days after the album was released. “It would be one of his first gigs in London. Jimi was a sweetie, a very nice guy. I remember him opening at the Saville on a Sunday night, 4 June 1967. Brian Epstein used to rent it when it was usually dark on the Sunday. Jimi opened, the curtains flew back and he came walking forward, playing 'Sgt. Pepper', and it had only been released on the Thursday so that was like the ultimate compliment. It's still obviously a shining memory for me, because I admired him so much anyway, he was so accomplished. To think that that album had meant so much to him as to actually do it by the Sunday night, three days after the release. He must have been so into it, because normally it might take a day for rehearsal and then you might wonder whether you'd put it in, but he just opened with it. It's a pretty major compliment in anyone's book. I put that down as one of the great honours of my career. I mean, I'm sure he wouldn't have thought of it as an honour, I'm sure he thought it was the other way round, but to me that was like a great boost.” - Paul McCartney
“I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise conventional in anything, even the arts.” - Hedy Lamarr. Ever discover a story and wonder how it took you this long to hear about it? When we came across the story of Hedy Lamarr we had to hear more. That’s why we asked Haley Hamilton, one of our favorite emerging writers, to share her take on the incomparable actress/inventor. Here’s an excerpt from her piece, “Fight Like a Girl.” 🔎 There was very little actress Hedy Lamarr wouldn’t do for money: She performed the first on-screen female orgasm in 1932, was briefly married to an Austrian arms dealer, and was the first Hollywood icon to make plastic surgery a weekend habit; but she never saw a dime for her most enduring legacy - the “frequency hopping” technology on which our current WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS technology are all based. Born November 9, 1914 in Vienna, Austria, Hedy Lamarr (originally Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler) began starring in Austrian and Germ films at 17 and achieved superstar status in 1932 with Exstase, who’s nudity and sex scenes were unparalleled at the time. It was her Exstase performance and unparalleled good looks that brought her a contract with MGM Studios in Hollywood. She went on to star in over 30 films and acted alongside the likes of Judy Garland, Clark Gable, and Ava Gardner. Yet while her appearance was her true claim to fame, Disney’s Snow White and the original Catwoman were both modelled after her, Lamarr had a whole lot more going on behind the scenes — literally. Her trailer housed not only her clothes and makeup (of which there were piles on piles) but small chemistry sets and books on physics, design, and mechanical engineering. When her sometimes-boyfriend Howard Hughes, an aviator and pilot, told her he was looking for ways to create a faster plane, Lamarr studied books of animal physiology, pulling inspiration from the fins of fish and birds’ wings to offer her beau something to work with. Hughes took one look at her designs and was blown away.
Today it seems like everyone’s a critic.... Ok, we take this creative stuff seriously. But it‘s also a hell of a lot of fun. That’s why you’ll hear a little comedy mixed into the Double Elvis network. Shows like Citizen Critic where we’ll highlight the absurdity of the always present/ever-growing global opinion culture. Whether it be a professional critic taking down Miles Davis’ "on the corner" for being "repetitious crap", an amateur critic on Trip Advisor giving the cherry blossom festival in DC one star because the trees blossomed a week before he got there (the fucking nerve of them!), or a confused diner on Yelp savaging the Chipotle staff for chanting, "Moe's, Moe's, Moe's" repeatedly, not realizing he was actually eating at Moe's and not Chipotle, there is no shortage of venues for people to launch their criticisms into the void and this show is there to catch them.