Discograffiti

Sure, it’s a music commentary podcast—but when you’re friends with John Landis, you invite John Landis on the show. Not to mention the man is one of the foremost music directors who ever was—simply for The Blues Brothers and Michael Jackson’s Thriller Video alone. For the next 6 months, there will be one Landis episode a month, as we dissect his entire career, Discograffiti-style. We’ll learn abou...

Throughout the course of Bert Sommer's post-Woodstock career, we’re reminded over and over again how unfair fate can be. Join us, along with Bert Sommer’s biographer Sharon Watts and Music Expert Angie Pope, as we learn about the debilitating drug habit that led to Bert’s early 1970s incarceration, the honest-to-God Sid & Marty Krofft kids TV show on which Bert wound up later in the decade, th...

For this second installment of our “We Are Stardust, We Are Over” series, you are in for the ride of your life. Throughout the course of Bert Sommer's career--which seemed pre-destined for success--we’re reminded once again of how unfair fate can be. Join us, along with an unprecedented three guests, all of whom add gobs of insight into the mysterious figure who never was quite able to grab ahold...

De La Soul has one of the best catalogs in the history of hip hop, but due to legal problems with Tommy Boy, the majority of it’s been unavailable on streaming services. In late 2021, the group members announced that the catalog would finally be coming to streaming, but it took a year and a half for it to come to pass. Today's the day!! We’ll learn about all the crucial elements that producer Prin...

After a childhood jamming with Leslie West and touring in the road band of The Music Explosion, our guest Ira Stone answered a newspaper ad in May 1969 that changed his life—Bert Sommer needed a guitarist for a gig coming up in August, a little thing called Woodstock. We’ll learn about how Ira and Leslie West obtained their unique guitar sound together, the making of Leslie West’s “Great Fatsby” r...

The Private Press is the coveted jewel of our Patreon experience, but in the spirit of giving here’s an absolutely free primo sample! The tale of Dennis The Fox is a wild one, and serves as a bizarro world, subterranean parallel to the successfully orchestrated David Bowie/Tony DeFries starmaking machine. The main difference? Dennis’s machine didn’t launch a thing. Recorded in a vacated menswear s...

As the first band to play the infamous 1969 Woodstock Festival, you’d think you’d have heard more about Sweetwater. Let band expert Corbin Betleyoun help you understand why you probably haven’t! Next week: The Private Press with Paul Major presents DENNIS THE FOX's 1972 masterpiece "Mother Trucker!"   SUBSCRIBE NOW!: https://www.patreon.com/discograffiti   Official playlist curated by Dave on Spot...

Crosby’s passing feels like the end of something big. It’s hit us hard here at Discograffiti Central, and so everything got pushed two weeks, original co-host Joe Kennedy was harangued back into the ring, and so ensued the ultimate eulogy—an exploratory saunter through the man’s life and work that’ll allow us all to both commiserate and celebrate the fruits of Croz’s wild ride together. Part 2 tak...

Crosby’s passing feels like the end of something big. It’s hit us hard here at Discograffiti Central, and so everything got pushed two weeks, original co-host Joe Kennedy was harangued back into the ring, and so ensued the ultimate eulogy—an exploratory saunter through the man’s life and work that’ll allow us all to both commiserate and celebrate the fruits of Croz’s wild ride together. Part 1 tak...

An extremely special, normally Patreon-only podcast intro to THE PRIVATE PRESS WITH PAUL MAJOR TV SHOW! The series was always eventually intended to heavily feature the artists themselves, so this particular episode, then, serves as the ground-zero template for its televised incarnation…seeing as the man himself, Michael Farneti, helps Dave & Paul lift the lathe for what is quite unbelievably...

Music seeps outta this man’s soul, whether through his own brilliant tunes or through the lucky slew of artists whose outputs’ have been graced with Rado’s production touch: including Tim Heidecker, Whitney, The Lemon Twigs, Father John Misty, The Killers, Jackie Cohen...and Weyes Blood, whose new masterpiece "And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow" is chock full of Rado magic. No question is off limit...

Once upon a time, before there was even a thing called punk, along came a bunch of punks, a gang of servicemen stationed in Germany who shaved the tops of their heads and very briefly engaged in complete musical insanity, the reverberations of which I still feel in my innards when it’s cranked up high. Next week: An Interview With Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado!   SUBSCRIBE NOW!: https://www.patreon.com/...

What’s The Wrecking Crew without Don Randi? When original co-host Joe Kennedy and I taped our David Axelrod episode back in late 2021, we intentionally recorded an entire separate career-spanning non-Axelrod show with the man because, well…Brian Wilson, Lee & Nancy, Spector, The Monkees, Buffalo Springfield. Elvis. Be My Baby. The tales are fascinating and endless. Next week: Banjo ambient mas...

Our Christmas Special is a 2 1/2 hour “Greatest Sleep Albums Of All Time” behemoth recorded with special guest Sleep With Me host Drew Ackerman, and this thing’s scientifically designed—utilizing the latest in cutting-edge digression technology—to put you right to beddy-bye. Here, then, are the greatest LPs to which one can drift off, in a show designed to actually put you to sleep before it ends…...

And so it continues, the great primer on what not to do…and how signing to a major’s not the end of all your problems, it’s actually just the beginning! Plus, Randy ranks every last Jesus Lizard release!   SUBSCRIBE NOW!: https://www.patreon.com/discograffiti   Next week, we bring you Tryptophantasy: the 2 1/2 hour “Greatest Sleep Albums Of All Time” Holiday Supermix recorded with special guest Sl...

The Almighty Jesus Lizard get the respect they deserve, with a rollercoaster two-parter featuring towering rock god Randy Randall from the equally indomitable No Age ranking his idol’s discography like the teenage music fan we all still are inside, when it comes down to it. Look for the super-revealing interview with Randy coming down the Patreon pike on December 15th! Next week: Part Two.   SUBSC...

An intimate, soul-baring discussion with the great Bob Forrest, who presents a persuasive argument for throwing your life away over a heroin habit, then veers into his crazed days back in Thelonius Monster, the effect that sobriety has on creativity, and most importantly—acknowledging when you’re being a shitty dad, and having the strength of character to fix it.   SUBSCRIBE NOW!: https://www.patr...

Finally, on this action-packed finale of our four-part Black Sabbath series, Jim Florentine ranks the entire discography! Part 4 covers the Spinal Tap-inspiring musical territory that is Sabbath in 1983, and documents the straight slide down as they churn out some of the worst music of all time for 15 straight years…before pulling a classic out of their collective ass! Stay tuned for next week, as...

Black Sabbath November presents the ultimate & final word on this awe-inspiring behemoth of a band, the complete discography of whom is dissected & reviewed over the course of an unprecedentedly epic 5-hour interview. Part 3 covers the drug-addled disintegration of the Ozzy-led unit and the surprising rebirth of the early ‘80s Dio years, 1976-1981!   SUBSCRIBE NOW!: https://www.patreon.com...

I couldn’t in good conscience keep this one behind the paywall. Stonewall is quite possibly the greatest hard rock record ever made, as well as possibly the most expensive—a copy will net you more than 14 grand! In fact, the band themselves were such victims, they literally had no idea they’d even recorded an album. In conjunction with re-issue label Permanent Records, who’ve done an astounding jo...

Who more qualified to lead us through a super-detailed, crazily passionate quadruple episode series on Sabbath than host of That Metal Show & Ozzy’s Boneyard mainstay Jim Florentine? Strap yourselves in, because Black Sabbath November presents the ultimate & final word on this awe-inspiring behemoth of a band, the complete discography of whom is dissected & reviewed over the course of...

Who more qualified to lead us through a super-detailed, crazily passionate quadruple episode series on SABBATH than host of That Metal Show & Ozzy’s Boneyard mainstay JIM FLORENTINE? Strap yourselves in, because Black Sabbath November presents the ultimate & final word on this awe-inspiring behemoth of a band, the complete discography of whom is dissected & reviewed over the course of...

Including a new and essential intro with original co-host Joe Kennedy joining Dave Gebroe to chat, with emotional candor, about the long and winding road that led Discograffiti to your door. It’s not been easy, that’s for sure, but it’s definitely been worth it. Do you have any idea how few podcasts make it to a year? Thank you so much for your support. It means literally everything.   SUBSCRIBE N...

It’s been building up to this. Lou’s been worried that maybe he shouldn’t have been so candid. Come to think of it, we do tackle some hot topics: smoking weed & creating 4-track masterworks, battling his various demons & addictions, and the landmine-riddled battlefield that is Dino Jr. Miss at your own risk!   SUBSCRIBE NOW!: https://www.patreon.com/discograffiti   Next Sunday kicks off Bl...

Pre-teen juvey funk butt-wiggler from a group that easily could’ve ended up trailing in the Jackson 5’s comet tail stead. It's probably best they didn't, though. The tale behind this one is absolutely beyond batshit crazy, and is the main reason this week’s typically behind-the-paywall episode is free to the public! An absolute must-hear. Next week: “Circuit Rider!” Subscribe to imbibe—sign up for...