The Devil's Music with Pleasant Gehman

The amazing Madame Pamita is a witch, tarot reader, musician, metaphysical teacher and author. Her latest work “The Book Of Candle Magic” is out now. In this episode, Madame Pamita and hostess Pleasant Gehman dish on everything from the Los Angeles music scene in the 1980’s to taking LSD in graveyards to Eastern European Slavic magick...from concerts by The Damned going very wrong. Madame Pamita a...

John Doe is a living rock’n’roll legend. Along with co-founding X, the driving force of the early LA punk scene, he’s had an incredible solo career as a musician and actor. With co-author Tom De Savia and friends, his books 'Under The Big Black Sun' and 'More Fun In The New World' are definitive first-person accounts of the Los Angeles Music scene from the late 1970s- early 1980’s. In this episode...

Dana Gould is an immensely talented comedian, actor, writer, and voice artist. He’s the mastermind behind the comedy horror series “Stan Against Evil” and “the Dana Gould Hour” podcast. In this episode, Dana and hostess Pleasant Gehman passionately explore a variety of topics, including-but not limited to-ventriloquism, clowns and puppets; old school punk rock and Charles Manson, plus the relation...

Selene Luna is a comedian, actor, dancer, voice over artist and all around Showbiz Entertainer. She’s the voice of Tia Rosita in Disney-Pixar’s Academy Award-winning Coco and the star of Selene Luna: Pretty Special, the world’s first female little person stand-up comedy extravaganza, directed by Margaret Cho. Selene and hostess Pleasant Gehman swap debauched tales of their globe-trotting showgirl...

Rob Zabrecky is a world famous magician; he’s also an actor, author, musician and songwriter. Hostess Pleasant Gehman and former Possum Dixon front man Rob discuss thirty years of shared experiences, including the rowdy experimental late 80’s-early 90’s underground “Silverlake Scene” in Los Angeles. Rob reveals how he went from playing house parties with Possum Dixon to signing with Interscope Rec...

Theresa Reed is a tarot expert, astrologer and author of three books. Theresa and hostess Pleasant Gehman chat about 80’s-90’s, rock’n’roll and clubbing, divination, Bowie, and the pandemic. In the last part of the episode, they both do tarot readings on Kanye West running for president, Donald Trump and the “Karen” phenomenon, before Theresa looks at the astrological aspects of the November 2020...

Award winning filmmaker, screenwriter and author Steve Balderson has directed everyone from Academy Award nominee Karen Black and John Waters superstar Mink Stole to rock stars Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Go’s, Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson and Mike Patton. Steve and hostess Pleasant Gehman-whose appeared in several of his films - share incredibly twisted tales of location film shoots and debauchery...

Guest Kristen Sollee is a hot witch, an author,  and a supreme purveyor of Pop Occulture. In this episode, Kristen and hostess Pleasant Gehman chat about the way rock’nroll and magick intersect, Kristen’s book “Cat Call: Exploring The Feral Feminine”, the best soundtracks for sex magick rituals, the power of pussy, their very first rock concerts, and Kristen’s obsessive adoration of cheesy 1980’s...

Guitarist extraordinaire Dave Catching (Eagles Of Death Metal, The Mojave Lords, Queens Of The Stone Age etc.) and hostess Pleasant Gehman share psychotic stories from their thirty-plus years of friendship. Topics include the early 1980’s Hollywood underground rock scene, touring with the two bands they were in together, psychedelics, hooker bars in New Orleans....and kidnapping human skeletons. M...

Multi-talented pop culture icon Margaret Cho and hostess Pleasant Gehman dish the dirt on everything from The Cramps and Lydia Lunch, weird cults, going on tour together and performing in haunted theaters, and…fantasies involving having sex in a time machine. Margaret Cho: https://margaretcho.com https://twitter.com/margaretcho More from Pleasant Gehman www.pleasantgehman.com www.facebook.com/plea...

In this premier episode of The Devil's Music, lifelong besties Belinda Carlisle and hostess Pleasant Gehman have a no-holds-barred conversation about the 1970’s LA punk scene, the early days of The Go-Go’s and their life as roommates in Hollywood’s most notorious rock’n’roll crash pad Disgraceland. Topics include everything from boyfriend swapping to acid dropping, blood magick, loitering in Sunse...