The Rocklopedia Fakebandica

Marissa Flaxbart, creator of the Sweet Valley Diaries podcast, joins us for a belated tribute to Francine Pascal, creator of the Sweet Valley High series of young adult novels (and a few fake bands, too).

Take a ride on the Korean Wave as Charles and two guest experts (Michal Cohen and Kelli Rempel) delve into the fake bands in Doona!, Hospital Playlist, Castaway Diva, and Lovely Runner.

This week, we supplement our usual brand of gibberish with exciting new forms of gibberish from the far future (The Jetsons) and the exotic, erotic, episodic(?) world of Sweden and/or the Muppets Theatre.

Our 20th episode (woot!) focuses on two recent shows that took us way back to the '90s heyday of girl bands: Girls5Eva and Queens.

Every hero (and supervillain, we guess) has an origin story. This week, we present the story of the guy who created the site that birthed the podcast whose description you are reading RIGHT NOW! 

They say that everyone dreams of being a rock star, but what do real rock stars dream about?  They dream about being real fake rock stars, of course.  We discuss how Jimmy Cliff, Huey Lewis, Paul Simon, David Bowie, and Ludacris made their fake-band dreams a reality.

In this guest star-filled episode, we create six fake band supergroups. Whose is the best? And why is it Alan’s? Dammit Charles, stop letting him write these episode descriptions!

This week we dive into the story of the most famous Liverpudlian foursome of all time! No, not those guys--we're talking about Eric Idle and Neil Innes's Rutles.