Dear Young Rocker
Dear Young Rocker
Dear Young Rocker is a scripted non-fiction storytelling and audio memoir podcast featuring stories from women and trans musicians. In seasons 1 and 2, host/creator Chelsea Ursin tells her own story of finding an outlet for anxiety and her place in the world via falling in love with listening to and playing rock music. Along the way she writes letters of advice to her younger self on topics from m…Social links:
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Presenting Disgraceland Season 12 (Trailer)
Mafia assassinations, drag racing, extortion, eternal life, and doing time at Rikers Island and San Quentin. Find out which music legends are featured in Season 12 of Disgraceland. New episodes drop every Tuesday starting May 16th, with bonus After Party episodes dropping every Thursday. Subscribe …
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E48: Weekday Weekend
Dear Young Rocker: you can spend your whole life wondering, obsessing over the “what if’s” -- but no matter the circumstances, it’s still your life. In the Dear Young Rocker Season 4 finale, Nadia catches up to her 23 year old self and reflects on how it all happened -- her own weekday weekend. N…
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E47: Lemonworld
Dear Young Rocker: the most challenging times can also be the most beautiful times. Someday you’ll look back and realize it all passed so quickly, just like youth. Nadia reflects on her time spent in New York City and how she ended up finding exactly what she needed - herself and music. This seas…
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E46: Grievous Angel
Dear Young Rocker: there will be things that you will spend the rest of your life trying to piece together and figure out. Certain things you just never get over. And you don’t have to! It’s ok... to not be ok. Nadia revisits the event that pushed her, once again, back into music, and how it be…
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E45: Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
Dear Young Rocker: Make a note — keep a diary that you share with your friends, the ones you love and random people you meet. Nadia spends time looking back on the moments that shaped her most... Sometimes the things in life that feels like setbacks, lead to the most incredible moments of your lif…
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E44: It's A Hit
Dear Young Rocker: It's okay to feel restless. You'll bounce around a lot and feel that no one knows you, except your new friends on the internet and the people who watch you sing — the ones you think you'll never meet IRL, and maybe will, decades later. In this episode, Nadia plays her first show,…
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E43: Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Dear Young Rocker: Sometimes, when you least expect it, you meet someone who changes everything, who shifts your life's path forever. Finding herself at her seventh school in eight years, Nadia enters eight grade to a surprise: Everyone thinks she's someone else. This episode contains themes that…
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E42: Konstantine
Dear Young Rocker: No matter how many places you move to, your closest friends are always in the exact same place—right on your computer screen. In this episode, we flashback to LiveJournal and the dawn of the social-media age, as Nadia breaks a limb, receives her first guitar, and draws out the pa…
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E41: Nothing Gold Can Stay
Dear Young Rocker: The restlessness you feel in amnesia is similar to the restlessness you felt in youth—stuck, begging time to pass as quickly as possible. There will be moments that will feel new and fun, and other moments that will be painfully, catastrophically, slow. In this episode, Nadia mov…
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E40: Self Esteem
Dear Young Rocker: Is anyone ever really an adult? Nadia reflects on the sounds and feelings of childhood freedom. She brings us back to growing up on 90’s MTV, McDonalds happy meals and punk music while she pieces together how to regain her own independence. This season of Dear Young Rocker is w…
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