Presenting Badlands Season 7: Hollywoodland (Trailer)

Thieves, guns, dropping acid in the desert, cozying up to the Church of Satan, living life on the lam – and living fast, dying young, and leaving behind a haunted car. It's all happening in a brand new season of Badlands. Badlands Season 7: Hollywoodland launches May 3, 2023, with new episodes on Richard Pryor, Chris Farley, James Dean, Paris Hilton and the Bling Ring, Carrie Fisher, Will Smith, Anna Nicole Smith, Mel Gibson, Marlon Brando, Hugh Grant, Jayne Mansfield, and Roman Polanski. New episodes are released every Wednesday, with bonus episodes released every Friday. Badlands is a true-crime anthology podcast from Jake Brennan, creator and host of the award-winning music and true crime podcast DISGRACELAND.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In 1966, Brian Wilson planned to follow up the Beach Boys' groundbreaking album Pet Sounds with an even bigger musical statement. He was writing a teenage symphony to God. That album, Smile, was never finished. Instead, Brian slowly unraveled, as the pressure to make something profound weighed heavy on him. He worried that he wasn’t good enough. He worried that he was a failure in the eyes of the record company, his band, his peers, and his own father. He thought his house was bugged. He thought the music he was making conjured some strange voodoo that had a disastrous impact on the real world. He became paranoid. He self-medicated with amphetamines, hash, and LSD. He held meetings in his swimming pool. He imagined people who weren’t there. And eventually, in 1967, he went off the proverbial deep end. Did the real Brian Wilson ever resurface? Part true crime, part historical fiction, part spoken word lo-fi beat noir brought to you by Jake Brennan, and featuring the fictionalized voice Brian Wilson, BLOOD ON THE TRACKS sounds like nothing you’ve heard before. Because you can’t push the needle into the red without leaving a little blood on the tracks.