EXCLUSIVE: Jake Brennan, the man behind the hit rock n roll true-crime podcast Disgraceland, and his production company Double Elvis, have signed with Range Media Partners.
The company will manage Brennan, whose stable of podcasts also includes Badlands and Badlands. Brennan, who continues to be repped by UTA’s Oren Rosenbaum, has been making episodes of Disgraceland, a true crime podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly, since 2018.
It is currently in Season 12. It has told stories about the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Cooke, GG Allin, John Lennon, Grateful Dead and, most recently, Jeff Buckley. “I didn’t want to do just another music podcast and I don’t think there’s a lot of great music podcasts,” Brennan, who was a member of punk band Cast Iron Hike, told Deadline in 2018. “The best podcasts are all about telling stories.
I knew a lot about the general aspects of these stories from being a music fan – I first read the Jerry Lee Lewis story in Rolling Stone magazine when I was 15 – but the details come from research.
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