Episode #235 | 5.27.25
The Go-Go’s: Serial Killers, Drug Addiction, an Historic Album, and “the Rumor”
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In this episode
Serial killers, drug addiction, avoiding death, destruction, punk rock cliches and surviving an unmentionable “rumor” all while doing something no group of female musicians had ever done before.
Sources
The Go-Go’s (2020, dir. Alison Ellwood)
All I Ever Wanted: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir, by Kathy Valentine
Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk, by John Doe with Tom DeSavia and Friends
The Decline of Western Civilization (1981, dir. Penelope Spheeris)
How the Go-Go’s Perfected Pop-Punk (NPR)
DISGRACELAND (Pleasant Gehman)
The Tragedy of Jane King: How a Murder Spree Collided with Hollywood’s Punk Revolution (Vanity Fair)
Kathy Valentine’s hair-raising memoir ‘All I Ever Wanted’ recounts the Go-Go’s wild ride (LA Times)
Finding the Beat with the Go-Go’s (Los Angeles Magazine)
Yo go-go, girl! Jack E. interrogates Belinda Carlisle (Edge)
The Go-Go’s “Sex Tape” (Cosmic American Blog)
Credits
Hosted by Jake Brennan.
Written by Jake Brennan.
Mixed by Matt Beaudoin.
DISGRACELAND theme song, “Crenshaw Space Boogie,” written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava, and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.
*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak