Bonus Episode: A Music History Memoir and Rock ‘N’ Roll Autobiography Reading List
DISGRACELAND
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4.6 • 13.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Fresh off of reading Patti Smith’s excellent memoir Just Kids in preparation of our upcoming Patti episode, we are discussing our favorite music history memoirs and autobiographies, everything from Henry Rollins to Carrie Brownstein back to Henry Rollins via David Lee Roth and more plus, as always, your voicemails, texts, dms, emails and a new segment we’re calling “New Song Old Song”.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Discos, need a little more disgrace land in your life? |
| 0:05.0 | Just a touch to get you through? |
| 0:07.3 | Yeah, me too. |
| 0:08.7 | This is the podcast that comes after the podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | Welcome to Disgraceland bonus episode. A little thing we like to call the after party. |
| 0:32.9 | This is the show after the show, the party after the party, the bridge to get you from one full |
| 0:36.8 | episode of disgrace land to the other, the backyard to dig into the dirt. |
| 0:41.0 | Our mission to uncover the truth, to confront the myth, to reclaim the story on this bonus episode. |
| 0:46.5 | A look at our favorite music history memoirs and rock and roll biographies. |
| 0:50.9 | A new song you're going to love and an old song that you won't be able to stop listening to. We're previewing next week's episode on Patty Smith. Plus, we get into your |
| 0:59.4 | emails, comments, DMs, and as always, a whole lot of rosy. This is the podcast for the |
| 1:04.9 | musically obsessed, the outsiders, the independent thinkers who know that the best history is the history |
| 1:09.7 | that gets buried. |
| 1:15.9 | Disgraced land is where I tell the stories they didn't want told, the kind you'll end up telling someone else. |
| 1:19.4 | All right, discos, I'm back. |
| 1:34.0 | Once again, back in the chair, back behind the mic, back in your ears after some psycho-level |
| 1:39.7 | travel. |
| 1:40.5 | Last week, I flew out to Los Angeles from the East Coast, arrived, checked into the |
| 1:44.7 | hotel, got into an argument with room service over some salmon, woke up the next day, |
| 1:49.2 | headed out to a studio at an undisclosed location, filmed an interview that will be live on |
| 1:53.9 | one of the bigger streamers next week, and then I went straight back to the airport, |
| 1:58.2 | grabbed the red eye, and flew home. Nothing like cross-country travel for one night, but it was worth it. I can't wait for you to hear this |
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