System of Systems (Adam Lehrer, Matthew Denicola)
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| 09 Feb 2022 | Reality Bites | 01:30:43 | |
Adam and reoccurring guest host Sandra , the beauty formerly known as Bimbo Ubermensch, discuss reality TV. That's it really. What is reality tv? What is its function? If you are a reality TV producer, please listen to this entire episode. Sandra and I have ideas for the greatest shows that have still never been made.
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| 12 Jul 2023 | Fucked Up in 20 Different Ways (w/ Jack Skelley) | 01:27:01 | |
Jack Skelley is a writer and a poet that has been publishing books since the 1980s. His career began in the early '80s in LA when he worked at the Venice-based literary and arts center Beyond Baroque. Beyond Baroque was put on the map by Dennis Cooper who created a scene around it that included late poet and performance artist Bob Flanagan, the late conceptual artist Mike Kelley, the hilarious late poet Ed Smith, Guggenheim Fellowship winning poet Amy Gerstler, painter and novelist Benjamin Weissman, and Jack himself. | |||
| 24 Jun 2024 | LARP LIFE (w/ Ben Werther) | 01:46:18 | |
Ben Werther is a conceptual artist, born in Nashville and living in New York, whose new exhibition at No Gallery, “WHEN YOU CAN NO LONGER SPEAK, SING ME A SONG.” , presents a fascinating sequence of photographs that initially look like on the ground photojournalistic documents of armed combat. Upon further inquiry, however, you learn that these images were captured during Werther's attendance at a number of MilSim LARP rituals, in which Americans don military fatigues and arm themselves with airsoft rifles and pantomime military conflict. The exhibition also offers the work in book form, along with the cryptic writing of the artist complicating the images' meaning.
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| 10 Jan 2024 | Poor Greek (W/Zane) | 01:34:35 | |
Yorgos Lanthimos has not been a preferred filmmaker of the Safety Propaganda universe. Too self-consciously "weird". Too Letterboxd. His new film Poor Things, starring Emma Stone in a virtuosic performance as a young woman with the brain of an infant, is a comic masterpiece. Based on a story by surrealist Scottish author Alsadair Gray, 'Poor Things' is an absolute delight to watch. Riotously funny. A must-see. | |||
| 13 Nov 2023 | Worshipping at the Alter of the Boul God (W/ Boul God Records) | 01:10:32 | |
Boul God records is a Philadelphia-based bizarre music label that traffics in all manner of surreal and mind-bending contemporary styles of music. From the cavernous, early Death in June influenced post-punk/neofolk of Gorseddd FM, to the disorienting blend of head fucked techno and garbled BM vocals of Grail Wizard, to the brutal and frightening electronics of Incluse, to the dadaist, Kiwi-influenced fucked guitar pop of Flying Mausoleum , Boul God is less concerned with genre than it is the cultivation of an AESTHETIC and an atmosphere. You see, underground labels function best when they are approached as conceptual art projects. The best underground labels — Siltbreeze, Harbinger, Bunker Records, Darker than Black, Hospital Productions — understand this, and when we think of them we think of a certain aesthetic. Boul God is establishing itself upon that list. | |||
| 06 Jan 2023 | Emperor Bezos (W/ Lev Parker) | 01:54:00 | |
Old friend, colleague within the Counter-Agency of the Avant-Garde, and editor of Morbid Books Lev Parker stops by SOS by SP once more to discuss collaborating with Adam on the Morbid Books-published Safety Propaganda Manifesto for Conceptual Warfare. There is also much discussion about the absolute collapse of competence in the modern world, and the possibility that a Bezos emperorship might be the only thing that can make things work again. Finally, Lev talks about his collaborative musical and multimedia project with Saul from the Fat White Family: The Patheticist Manifesto. | |||
| 05 Aug 2024 | PREVIEW The Gen-X Problem (W/ Jack Mason) | 00:41:07 | |
Jack Mason, the iconic creator of the Perfume Nationalist podcast, joins the show to definitively define what we call "The Gen-X Problem", with numerous digressions into topics like Huysmans, Nan Goldin being a junkie hag, Gavin McInnes, Satanic Panic, Howard Stern, Steve Albini, Brat, Kamala and more...
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| 21 Feb 2023 | Romping and Stomping (w/ Marika Thunder) | 01:56:26 | |
Marika Thunder is a New York-based artist who befriended the crew somewhere during the pandemic. Here, her and Adam discuss heroin, hard drugs, creative development, and Marika regales him with tales of her bohemian childhood as the only daughter of visual artist Rita Ackermann and experimental musician David Nuss... | |||
| 21 Jul 2021 | An "UnWoke Racist Fantasia" (w/ Glen Rockney) | 01:48:13 | |
Friend of the show and co-host of the Rare Candy podcast Glen Rockney joins the boys to discuss the career of who we think is the best American filmmaker to emerge in the 2010s, S. Craig Zahler. Discussing all three of his films — Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, and Dragged Across Concrete — the trio pinpoints the artistically interesting formal qualities that have separated Zahler from his contemporaries as one of the emerging film artists to celebrate: extreme length, genre subversion, hyperviolence, dialog, and more. They also try and parse Zahler's unique ideological viewpoint that seems to cross a Marxian critique of political economy with dissident right and conservative analysis of the lost values in American life. The career of Mel Gibson is also given the once-over.
We also briefly discuss the low energy cancellation of Dom Fernow. Soundtrack: Kool Keith "Plastic World" https://music.apple.com/us/album/plastic-world-feat-kutmasta-kurt/1341877896?i=1341878734 Mars "Tunnel" https://music.apple.com/us/album/tunnel/1032781493?i=1032782129 The Stranglers "Black and White" https://music.apple.com/us/album/tank/696004821?i=696004907 Thergothon "Everlasting" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/everlasting/306282150?i=306282168) Ted Nugent "Stranglehold" https://music.apple.com/us/album/stranglehold/197914607?i=197914626 Lil B "Mel Gibson" https://youtu.be/Jo9Hjzu3BSs William Basinski "O My Daughter, O My Sorrow" https://youtu.be/oOYYmgXWUkw "Four Doomed Men Ride Out" from the Bone Tomahawk soundtrack: https://youtu.be/ssmYt8vL540
LINKS: Glen Rockney on twitter: https://twitter.com/GlenRockney Rare Candy on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf-OCbm2KZQvZFt5YkmdbWw Rare Candy on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rare-candy/id1504917580 S Craig Zahler interview: https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/3/22/18276913/s-craig-zahler-dragged-across-concrete-brawl-in-cell-block-99 S. Craig Zahler canceled by zoomer: https://youtu.be/WmdwJ5XMfLo Black Antonio Negri cancels Dom Fernow: https://jeanhugueskabuiku.substack.com/p/about-vatican-shadow-link-with-the | |||
| 03 Apr 2023 | Raver Symbolism (W/ Tom Koehler) | 01:32:19 | |
Friend of the show and visual artist Tom Koehler brings Adam into his studio in Ridgewood, shows him some new landscape paintings, and discusses his art, the gallery that he runs, plastic surgery, weed paranoia, quitting nicotine, and even his stint as a member of the power electronics group Sharpwaist. Dig on it... | |||
| 20 Aug 2021 | The Agony and Ecstasy of THE STOCK (w/ Alex Bienstock) | 01:38:45 | |
Alex Bienstock is an artist from Brooklyn, a PARTY BOY, a domestically violent sociopath who hates women, a based swaggot, a tender hearted lover of women, a racist, a homophobe, a homo, a hypochondriac who cant get sick, das ubermensch, a jew, an anti semite, the first person to do art ever. THE STOCK! Bienstock is an IRL friend and his new book of writing and illustrations 'Da Bitch Gave Me Jew Balls' is the FIRST PUBLICATION EVER BY ADAM's NEW PUBLISHING IMPRINT SAFETY PROPAGANDA BOOKS. We are out of the first run but we are printing more copies that can be purchased through contacting Bienstock, Adam, or through the SP e-commerce site www.safetypropaganda.store. SOUNDTRACK: DEAD REPTILE SHRINE "Alpha Qabalstica" https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xPxsr8jh-rE LINKS: | |||
| 26 Aug 2024 | Algerian Boxing (w/ JJ) | 01:22:27 | |
Combat sports expert JJ discusses the peculiar psyop that was the Algerian "intersex" boxer competing in the women's division of the 2024 Olympics Chrome "Wranglers" | |||
| 05 Apr 2022 | Collectin' Scalps w/ Stock Pt. 6 (w/ Poorspigga) | 01:34:18 | |
In the sixth edition of Alex Bienstock's SOS side project, Bienstock and Adam interview compulsive poster and Instagram artist Poorspigga, aka Sofia, discussing the intricacies of posting, when posting becomes a kind of art and how it functions as such, Bataille, being a fed and more. OST: LINKS: | |||
| 24 Oct 2022 | Mostly Gut and Nut (W/ Kevin Tobin) | 01:49:44 | |
Friend, artist, and the lone homosexual attendee of Adam's bachelor party Kevin Tobin joins SOS by SP. We discuss his current solo show at Lubov Gallery, his unique marital situation, art world lore, and the absolute worst in contemporary painting. | |||
| 28 May 2024 | PREVIEW Laibach Merch Game (w/ Saul Adamczewski and another) | 00:07:08 | |
Musician and former member of the Fat White Family Saul Adamczewski and another lowly Brit join the show to finally settle their score with Adam and America
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| 24 Jan 2022 | Collectin' Scalps w/ 'Stock Pt. 4: Hallucinogenic Figuration (w/ Bradford Kessler) | 01:43:48 | |
For the fourth edition of Alex Bienstock's SOS side project Collectin' Scalps with 'Stock, Bienstock and Adam interview their friend Bradford Kessler. Kessler, a NY-based artist known for his work in sculpture, painting, illustration, and video, is currently plotting an emergence as a feature film director. The three men discuss their work, drugs, cinema, and the importance of constructing a collective of likeminded creative individuals. SOUNDTRACK: The Virgin Prunes "Don’t Look Back" The Velvet Underground "The Black Angel’s Death Song" live Accept "Demon’s Night" the Shadow Ring "Man" Impetigo "Dis-Organ-Ized" The Sonics "The Witch" LINKS: Bradford Kessler website Bradford Kessler Instagram @bradfordhurstkessler Bradford Kessler interview Paul Thomas Anderson interview on 'The Master' | |||
| 04 Oct 2023 | PREVIEW Crankn Nuts (W/ Dan Baltic) | 00:17:47 | |
Dan Baltic, writer and co-host of the New Write podcast, releases his debut novel Nutcrankr for Terrorhouse Press. It is a contemporary novel about masculinity and male delusion; one man's plummet into debasement. Baltic joins the show to discuss the novel, masculinity, cope, writing, classic rock, some other stuff, I can't remember. | |||
| 12 Oct 2023 | Loads All Over Anne Hathaway (w/ Ryan Simon) | 01:42:41 | |
Montana's most avant-garde good ol' boy and the editor of the magazine American Vulgaria, Ryan Simón, joins the show to discuss him and Adam's adventures in Los Angeles, Terry Richardson, art history as a history of cooming, and the circumstances and horniness that led to the creation of his magazine. | |||
| 23 Mar 2022 | UNLOCKED Kids See Ghost Jail (W/ Berto) | 01:29:38 | |
We are joined by Berto – the founder and co-creator of Ghost Jail (W/ Ortant and Dillard), the ninth episode of which "Science" is out now and features bits by both Adam and Will, and we discuss Kanye West's post-divorce life, musical interests, the new Batman film and the evolution of superhero films after Joker, the metaphysical castration of male artists, and the future of Berserk after Kentaro Miura's death. | |||
| 25 May 2023 | Communication Medium (W/ Max Julian Eastman) | 01:22:25 | |
Max Julian Eastman is a noise musician known for recording music under his own name and with projects like Greathumour and Tantric Death as well as the proprietor of what we consider to be one of the best American noise labels currently in existence. In contra to countless other labels that endlessly put out everything that comes out of "the scene", Max approaches Tribe Tapes with an aesthetic and conceptual theory. There is a general sense of discovery here, with reissues of artists that you certainly have never heard of, and a strong, unmistakable visual aesthetic. A welcome addition to the Counter-Agency of the Avant-Garde, indeed. Max discusses the label, his label's reissuing of classics from the late Marco Corbelli's Slaughter Productions label, the avant-garde and post-punk beginning of industrial and noise music, Smell and Quim, Atrax Morgue, the Haters, and much much more. | |||
| 18 Nov 2021 | The Jouissance of the Micro-Cop (PREVIEW) (w/ Nina Power and Lev Parker) | 00:15:55 | |
In this new episode, Morbid Books editor and writer Lev Parker joins the show for the second time, this time bringing along none other than the divine philosopher and poet Nina Power, who of course just wrote a beautiful afterword for Adam's new book 'Communions'. A wide variety of topics are addressed, from the middle class tendency towards being a micro-cop, to gender extremism, to the role for art against such dismal sociopolitics. Lev has a new novel out called '4th Industrial Revolution Pimp' that none other than NY-based transgressive writer Supervert has called "the first great work of Covid literature." Nina's new book is coming out in early 2022, 'What Do Men Want?' finds Nina exploring the dilemma held by men in the 21st Century. This is only a preview. The Full episode is available on Patreon. Soundtrack: Prince "Jack U Off" Public Image Limited "Graveyard" LINKS: Lev's '4th Industrial Revolution Pimp' at Morbid Books: Pre-order Nina's 'What Do Men Want?' Nina lectures on men Lev interviewed by Luke Cohen on Safety Propaganda | |||
| 13 Aug 2024 | Cheap Shocks, Part 2: On P**N | 00:22:02 | |
In the second part of a two-part series, Adam laments a culture where eroticism has collapsed and content is all porn...
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| 09 Mar 2022 | (PREVIEW) Collectin' Scalps w/ Stock Pt. 5: Vilified and Demonized (w/ John David Ebert) | 00:13:54 | |
In the fifth edition of Alex Bienstock's curatorial SOS Side Project, Collectin' Scalps w/ 'Stock, 'Stock and Adam interview the brilliant independent philosopher and poet John David Ebert. The author of books like Art After Metaphysics, and The Age After Catastrophe, Ebert covers a vast array of topics: culture, science-fiction, cinema, ancient myth, modern technology, love and romance and much more. In a fascinating talk, Ebert here outlines the NATO failures that led to the crisis in Ukraine and how it fits into the concept of Hypermodernization, discusses women and sex, and has fascinating things to say about the state of film and art. SOUNDTRACK: LINKS: | |||
| 16 Jul 2022 | The Diving Man (W/ Brad Kelly) | 01:52:53 | |
Writer and co-host of the Art of Darkness podcast Brad Kelly is here. Brad's writing plays with the genre of sci-fi and pushes it to the outer realms of the weird, as evinced by his latest novel 'House of Sleep' from 2021. Here we discuss that novel, sci-fi, Phillip K. Dick, and more, as well as the opioid epidemic, Jim Jones and the People's Temple and Baz Luhrmann's Elvis biopic. | |||
| 21 Dec 2021 | Sour, Bitter, Hateful Loser (W/ Jack and Ortant) | 01:53:14 | |
In our last main episode of 2021, we are joined by two great men, brothers, and creators of The Perfume Nationalist Jack and Ortant. What the fuck did we talk about? I don't know. Last year, Jack came on the show to discuss our favorite movies of 2020, but we didn't have that many great movies to talk about this year. So, compensating for the lack of good flicks, we talked about other shit. The three season arch of The Perfume Nationalist and the show's bravura third season finale with Zack and Amanda Milius. The long-coming schism in the Twitter sphere. Being a cult leader. Media soap opera narratives. Apoliticism collapsing beneath the weight of leftism. And more. Enjoy. SOUNDTRACK: Fleetwood Mac "What Makes You Think You’re The One" The Godz "White Cat Heat" Juvenile "Flossin Season" The Caretaker "Haunting Me" The Country Medical Examiner "Expeditious Evisceratory Mishap" Coil "Disco Hospital" LINKS: The Perfume Nationalist Season 3 Finale with Amanda Milius and Zach Langley Chi Chi | |||
| 06 Jun 2022 | God Damn It Feels Good to Look Like a Gangsta (PREVIEW) (With Mikey MDC) | 00:10:16 | |
Mr. Mikey MDC, gangsta' stylist and menswear sartorial genius, joins the program to discuss one of our crypto fascinations: style and fashion. Style icons. Style in films. How do we dress? Is fashion design, at its best, a form of art, or should it be? All this and more. SOUNDTRACK: Masonna - Sonic Devil 1 Darkstyle - Behind the Rainbow Silver Chalice - Hot Tears Stretchheads - Anal Beard William Basinski - Melancholia IV Ghostface Killah - Shakey Dog LINKS: Mikey MDC at Instagram: @mikeymdc https://www.instagram.com/mikeymdc/ Mikey MDC interview Mikey MDC on I'm so Popular Adam on Gaspar Noé for Compact Mag | |||
| 22 Apr 2024 | Weebed Out | 01:23:43 | |
Adam is back from Japan: tales of shopping, noise, fem-boys, etc | |||
| 20 Apr 2023 | Aspirational Mid (w/ Eva and Elena Sullivan) | 01:50:53 | |
During Art Basel Miami Beach 2022, Hadrian Belove asked Adam to meet up with him at Soho House, where he was with two young ladies Eva and Elena Sullivan. When Adam arrived, he was immediately taken with the gals' intelligence and savvy. Turns out, Eva and Elena are fashion designers behind the new brand Sullivan, which creates beautiful and elegant clothing for women at a price point that is much less depressing than something like, say, The Row. | |||
| 22 Nov 2021 | Collectin' Scalps with Stock Pt. 2: Cash Money Thousandaires (w/ Ben Morgan-Cleveland) | 01:13:51 | |
In Alex Bienstock's second edition of his SOS side project, Collectin' Scalps with Stock, Alex and Adam converse with artist, curator, and former Real Fine Arts co-director Ben Morgan-Cleveland. For 10 years, Ben was the co-proprieter (alongside artist Tyler Dobson) of Real Fine Arts. Arguably the most interesting gallery in New York during the 2010s, Real Fine Arts helped launch the careers of friends of the show and great artists including Mathieu Malouf and Heji Shin, not to mention Sex Magazine editor Asher Penn, Sam Pulitzer, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Maggie Lee and many more. In his own work, Ben works in a vast array of media and consistently deconstructs the limits of the gallery space, whether it's making a "gallery of words" or exhibiting a massive, hand-built couch, this guy is always doing his damn thing! In this chat, the bros discuss the legacy of Real Fine Arts, Ben's work, and Adam and Ben's shared history of growing up art phag in suburban Massachusetts. SOUNDTRACK: Laibach "Ein Untergang" Guided By Voices "The Great Blake Street Canoe Race" Mudhoney "Touch Me I’m Sick" Blink 182 "Josie" Shackleton "Stalker" Corrupted "Sisto" LINKS: Ben Morgan-Cleveland on the machinations of language Adam Lehrer Art World Undercover #1 | |||
| 31 Jan 2022 | (PREVIEW) Filthy Good (w/ Filthy Armenian) | 00:15:31 | |
Adam and Will are joined by friend Filthy Armenian in the wake of the release of his podcast Filthy Armenian Adventures's recent episode in which Armenian followed Adam around a tour of the New York art world recording the entire ordeal over five hours. It is a truly epic work of audio art, and Armenian's podcast to us represents an exciting new development in the form where a heaping of cinema verité style reportage bleeds into the restrictions of the audio format, creating a surrealist effect that makes for delightfully delirious listening. Due to the podcast discussions, this conversation steers towards the coterie of Twitter accounts that seem to orbit podcasts while claiming to never listen to them, and finally.... They talk about comedy. Armenian's work in stand-up, but moreover the death of humor. Also, this episode is a comedy of technical errors Full Episode available here Filthy Armenian recommends: Eve Babitz Will recommends: Peter Sotos, Goethe Adam recommends: novelist Matthew Stokoe, critic/poet M. Kitchell, 'German Angst' Blu-Ray trilogy Soundtrack: Staccato du Mal "Plea Bargain" Necrodeath "Necrosadist" Navicon Torture Technologies "Pyrokinesis" Marco Shuttle "W.E.I.R.D." Shadow Huntaz and Kareem "Snake Bite" Angelo Badalamenti "Audrey’s Dance" The Cramps "I Was A Teenage Werewolf" Links: Filthy Armenian Twitter: @FilthyArmenian Filthy Armenian's Adventures | |||
| 19 Aug 2024 | PREVIEW Tastefully Tasteless (w/ Ryan Simón) | 00:42:16 | |
Montana's own avant-garde good ol' boy and sturdy lad Ryan Simón joins SOS by SP once more to discuss his magazine's upcoming 4th issue, The Girl Issue... | |||
| 09 Sep 2024 | PREVIEW SEX Pod (w/ Asher Penn) | 00:40:31 | |
Sex Magazine is now in its 14th issue and its 4th since it was reborn as a print journal, and it's a doozy. Sam Hyde, the man who started it all, and Million Dollar Extreme grace the cover . Sex Mag editor Asher Penn joins to discuss the new issue, as well as the differences between the art movement of the 2010s that the project was born out of and the reactionary avant-garde that ushered in its print rebirth
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| 23 Jul 2024 | The Teflon Don | 00:27:30 | |
Self-medicated on benzos and weed, Adam hits up Matt to discuss the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life | |||
| 28 Apr 2022 | PREVIEW Alien Possessed Demon People (w/ Benjamin Kellogg) | 00:12:52 | |
Artist Benjamin Kellogg and Adam discuss aliens, conspiracies, getting bogged down in the details, the art world, Lynch, the occult, the uselessness of political philosophy, architecture, and surrealism. Links: | |||
| 11 Jul 2024 | Harm Reduction Mantra (W/ Shay Semple) | 02:14:25 | |
People have been telling me for years that the artist Shay Semple and I would get along. Finally, we started bonding on Instagram over a shared contempt for the Tumblr art of Nina Hartman. Shay, who hails from the Fentanyl cesspool of Vancouver, is the OG MAGA art world figure, known equally for his irreverent paintings, his provocative zines, and his hilarious rants, discusses with Adam his art world cancellation, the downfall of all that is punk rock, moral and intellectual weakness, demographic shifts, the Opioid Crisis and more.
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| 24 Jun 2023 | (PREVIEW) Ritualistic Humilation (W/ Sven Loven) | 00:15:34 | |
Artist Sven Loven joins Adam in his living room where they consume edibles and discuss Sven's new show, 'Humiliation Ritual', at No Gallery in New York. For the exhibition, Sven turned to portraiture and creates a time capsule, or perhaps a capsule of a moment in which time has lost meaning, of the Dimes Square meme. Subjects include: Black Dean Kissick, Art Basel Miami stabber Siyuan Zhao, Reena Spaulings Gallery and Dimes Square spiritual mother Emily Sundblad, Peter Thiel as angel, and more. Exhibition texts are written by previous guest Dana Dawud and Sierra Armor. Sven and I discuss the surrealism of digital life, Dimes Square as simulacra of art scene, new age ketamine therapy, transgenderist ideology, reality television, and more. | |||
| 27 Jul 2023 | PREVIEW Married Mid (w/ Scott Litts) | 00:14:54 | |
Scott Litts is a New York-based writer, linked tangentially to Expat Press who also publishes a literary site called Violence Café. While the reason for this discussion was Scott's excellent piece on the Angelicism01 movie, Film01, we ended up discussing drugs and writing far more. | |||
| 29 Jul 2021 | They're All Gonna Fail (w/ Marc Horowitz) | 01:36:29 | |
In this exclusive interview, Adam talks to California-based artist Marc Horowitz (husband to previous guest Petra Cortright, a kind of full circle) to talk about his career and his life. Marc grew up "poor as fuck" in Middle America before moving to California to get a degree in business. One thing leading to the next, Marc eventually transitioned to being an artist after taking a painting class during his senior year. The first half of his career saw Marc staging elaborate conceptual projects that forced the art world to confront its own financial and cultural contradictions. But at some point, painting called him back. Since then, Marc has developed his own singular aesthetic in painting that blends modernist history with pop cultural tropes. He's also a rad dude and a good gossip, so enjoy! Marc has a book coming out in the Fall, which will include a text written by your faithful host Adam Lehrer. ANOTHER COUNTER-AGENT OF THE AVANT-GARDE MEETS HIS HANDLER Soundtrack: Joy Division "Shadowplay (Live)" https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-coming-of-the-black-legions/1264216171?i=1264219080 Inade "The Coming of the Black Legions" https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-coming-of-the-black-legions/1264216171?i=1264219080 Funkadelic "Super Stupid" https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-coming-of-the-black-legions/1264216171?i=1264219080 Cecil Taylor "Crossing II" https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-coming-of-the-black-legions/1264216171?i=1264219080 Eyehategod "Methamphetamine" https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-coming-of-the-black-legions/1264216171?i=1264219080 LINKS: Marc Horowitz at Johannes Vogt Gallery http://www.johannesvogt.nyc/marc-horowitz/ Marc's archive: http://1833marcive.com/ Marc interviewed by his best professor and great surrealist photographer Charlie White: https://youtu.be/WiaQ0fJjzpc | |||
| 14 Mar 2022 | PREVIEW Kids See Ghost Jail (W/ Berto) | 00:14:52 | |
We are joined by Berto – the founder and co-creator of Ghost Jail (W/ Ortant and Dillard), the ninth episode of which "Science" is out now and features bits by both Adam and Will, and we discuss Kanye West's post-divorce life, musical interests, the new Batman film and the evolution of superhero films after Joker, the metaphysical castration of male artists, and the future of Berserk after Kentaro Miura's death. SOUNDTRACK: LINKS: | |||
| 08 Apr 2022 | The Struggler (W/ Joel Jensen) | 02:19:28 | |
Friend of the show, illustrator, and designer of the logos for both System of Systems and Safety Propaganda joins the show to discuss the legacy of Kentaro Miura a year after the manga legend's death and that of his epic, transcendent, and perfect long-running manga series Berserk. When Miura died in 2021, he had just revealed that Berserk was more than half of the way complete and that he had the rest of the story plotted out. Now the future of Berserk, perhaps the most perfect cultural product of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries, is uncertain. Other topics include Burroughs, Nietzsche, the Xenomorph, Les Rallizes Denudes, Pitchfork rock, and more. Soundtrack LINKS: | |||
| 17 Aug 2023 | PREVIEW The Death of a Socerer (W/ Bradford Kessler and Benjamin Kellogg) | 00:11:11 | |
One of the greatest American film artists, William Friedkin, has passed away at the age of 87. The son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrant parents (who fled their country after the antisemitic pogroms of the early 20th Century), Friedkin was a shitty student and a great basketball player until he discovered cinema in the '60s. He then rose from a Hollywood journeyman doing shitty films for studios until it all came together with The French Connection and the greatest horror film of all time in The Exorcist. Friedkin would evolve from being the most celebrated auteur in America, to a scrappy indie arthouse director who warred with studios with financing, to an even scrappier arthouse auteur adapting transgressive plays in his later life. What. A. Fucking. Career.
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| 14 Sep 2021 | Synthetic Miasma (W/ Will Samson) | 01:31:19 | |
Writer Will Samson hangs with Adam to discuss Public Enemy, Throbbing Gristle, industrial and rap music more broadly, and his recent article for Apocalypse Confidential. SOUNDTRACK LINKS: | |||
| 27 Aug 2024 | The Veneer of Respectability (W/ Nina Power) | 00:41:12 | |
With some months separating now between her exit from Compact Magazine, Nina Power discusses the chaos of post-cancellation cultural life, RFK, Jr's Trump endorsement, the extinction of education, and the battle between good and evil LINKS: | |||
| 16 Aug 2024 | Journal Entries, Aug 2024 | 00:54:01 | |
Adam documents observations, thoughts and dreams he had from July to August, 2024
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| 09 Jun 2021 | CryptoFASHionable (w/ Walter Pearce) | 01:41:12 | |
Walter Pearce revolutionized casting in the New York fashion industry as the casting director for the early Hood by Air shows before co-founding the Midland Agency. Recently, however, Walter has gotten hella BASED! Off opiates, he felt serious discontent with the liberalism of the fashion industry. He has now been posting memes, throwing bombs, quoting Adam and Benedict Cryptofash, and brings a refreshing perspective to the System of Systems oeuvre. Also, we should mention that this is the beginning of System of Systems 2.0. From here on out, we will start evolving our aesthetic visually, as well as appropriating our favorite based music. This show's soundtrack: Rotary Connection "Amen" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tilgHVpRBnA) Walter on Instagram: @walterpearce https://www.instagram.com/walterpearce/ Walter on twitter: @walt_knows_best https://twitter.com/walt_knows_best Midland Agency: https://midland.agency/ | |||
| 27 Nov 2023 | Olympian Fall (W/ Laje Amare and William Landry) | 01:27:16 | |
We are now a few weeks passed the 2023 Mr. Olympia contest. Bodybuilding seems to have reached its pinnacle, with Phil Heath being the champion who set the standard for what a bodybuilder should look like in the 2010s. Since then, conditioning has gone down hill, no one is getting in shape, and the one guy who does get in shape (Nick Walker) was injured right before the show, tragically. To discuss all of this, Adam brings on music producer and bodybuilding enthusiast Laje Amare and competitive bodybuilder William Landry. Note: I fully understand that most of our audience will have no fucking clue what we are talking about. Accept it as a good bit of provocateur theater FULL LINK Soundtrack: Rasputin's Stash "Take me on Back" God's Gift "These Days" Kreator "Blind Faith" Monkey 101 "French Feelings" Unit Black Fight "Imprint Manifestation" Links: | |||
| 22 Oct 2021 | The Podcast of Disquiet Pt. 1 (w/ Guest Host Bimbo Ubermensch) | 01:39:44 | |
We're celebrating Halloween, fear, terror and disquiet for this two part episode folks! Announcing herself as a new reoccurring guest host, fan favorite Bimbo Ubermensch joins Adam and Will to discuss our favorite horror-tinged novels and films. | |||
| 24 Apr 2024 | Safety Propaganda 101 | 01:17:13 | |
At the end of 2023, Adam took to the podium to explain the Safety Propaganda ideology and the Counter-Agency of the Avant-Garde to a small but captivated audience. | |||
| 05 Jul 2021 | Martin, Into the Corner (featuring Gio Pennacchietti) | 01:46:04 | |
The boys are joined by friend, artist, writer and co-host of the Break the Rules Podcast Gio Pennacchietti to discuss PAINTING. Painting, so much and so little to say. Its history, its dreary present. The tendency towards what Dean Kissick calls "zombie figuration" and what separates the brilliance of Matthew Barney from the average new media artist. But mostly, we discuss four artists to emerge out of postmodernism or later that we believe are upholding some nobler archetype of the painter historically: Anselm Kiefer, Justin Mortimer, Martin Kippenberger, and Michael Krebber.
Soundtrack: Skullflower "Shit Strasse" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/shit-strasse/1058051213?i=1058051222) Mobb Deep ft. Nas and Raekwon "Eye for an Eye" (https://youtu.be/OOPjFkVJbew) Grouper "Wind and Snow" (https://youtu.be/1OPm1LU2cbA) Grouper "Vapor Trails" (https://youtu.be/U_rxkLzcTg0) The Hymn of Kassiani (https://youtu.be/JrJnbtTSywY) Fairuz "Estantere" (https://youtu.be/GlOVmZx_qu0) Test Dept. "Fist" (https://youtu.be/w4yQnunUqSw) Dead Can Dance "Black Sun" (https://youtu.be/VPd-MSr19qI) The Rolling Stones "Stray Cat Blues" (https://youtu.be/oOSYB38y2xA) Brian Eno "Tal Coat" (https://youtu.be/10uVS6ssCxU) Erik Satie "Gnossienne No.3 " (https://youtu.be/3c_RU2NcJ9c)
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Martin Kippenberger "Martin Into the Corner, You Should be Ashamed of Yourself"
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Gio on Twitter: https://twitter.com/giantgio?lang=en Gio's Wordpress: https://gioscontentcorner.wordpress.com/author/giopennacchietti/ Break the Rules: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPKaSxQ7frxGAwgaQ29P9Eg Alastair Mackinven interviewed by Adam: https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/safety-propagandist-3-alastair-mackinven Justin Mortimer's website: http://justinmortimer.co.uk/ Anselm Kiefer at Gagosian: https://gagosian.com/artists/anselm-kiefer/ Martin Kippenberger at Gagosian: https://gagosian.com/artists/martin-kippenberger/ Michael Krebber at Greene Naftali: https://www.greenenaftaligallery.com/artists/michael-krebber | |||
| 02 Dec 2021 | The Jouissance of the Micro-Cop UNLOCKED (w/ Nina Power and Lev Parker) | 01:42:30 | |
In this new episode, Morbid Books editor and writer Lev Parker joins the show for the second time, this time bringing along none other than the divine philosopher and poet Nina Power, who of course just wrote a beautiful afterword for Adam's new book 'Communions'. A wide variety of topics are addressed, from the middle class tendency towards being a micro-cop, to gender extremism, to the role for art against such dismal sociopolitics. Sightings "Hate Take Hate" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/hate-take-hate/285018097?i=285018174) Soft Cell "Seedy Films" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/seedy-films/1444125350?i=1444125518) Sonic Youth and Yamatsuka Eye "No Song 2, part 3" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/no-song-2-pt-3/303175693?i=303175706) Scritti Politti "Absolute" (https://youtu.be/L7Mk_JgesEM) Disembowelment "Slaughtered Remains" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/slaughtered-remains/190215227?i=190222112) | |||
| 23 Jul 2024 | Deserted (W/ Gary Beauvais aka Mammal) | 01:22:55 | |
Gary Beauvais is a Michigan based artist and musician who has been recording beneath the name Mammal since the beginning of the '00s. This year, however, he released a new album called Deserted. I shit you not, this is one of the best records of the year. Haunting and emotive.
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| 09 Jan 2023 | PREVIEW Attacking the Castle from Within (W/ BILLY CORGAN) | 00:21:31 | |
Around August of 2022, Adam opened up his email to find what was a message of profound encouragement, and could hardly believe it when it was addressed from "William Patrick Corgan," otherwise known as the frontman of Adam's first ever favorite band The Smashing Pumpkins. But that's exactly who it was. Billy had read Adam's 2021 book 'Communions' and, from there, a creative camaraderie developed. | |||
| 20 May 2024 | No Fun to be Had (W/ Carlos Giffoni) | 01:22:49 | |
Amongst the many legends Adam met in Osaka, experimental musician, comics writer/illustrator and creator of the now legendary and historic No Fun Festival, which captured noise and experimental music at the peak of its power in the 2000s.
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| 14 Mar 2023 | Shadow Ring Covers (W/ Eric Schmid and Connor Tomaka) | 01:49:46 | |
Artist/philosopher/mathematician Eric Schmid and artist, researcher, and member of industrial music collective Ono Connor Tomaka join SOS by SP. We discuss Connor and Eric's recent collaborative essay on Dimes Square, in my mind the only one of many Dimes thinky pieces to get it right, as well as the connections between mathematics and art, Reza, Brassier, the state of noise music, Shadow Ring covers, Fassbinder, and a whole lot more... Soundtrack: Mauthausen Orchestra "The Hole" (attached) Shadow Ring "Brainage" Russell Haswell "One take Tub" The Deviants "Child of the Sky" John Frusciante "Estrus" The Gerogerigegege "Wreck of Former Rock n Roll" Van Halen "Why Can't This Be Love" LINKS: Eric at Twitter: @jeanpierreserre Eric at Instagram: polymath_chicago Eric Schmid website Eric Schmid 'Social Mobility' Eric Schmid 'Hans Ulrich Obrist' Eric Schmid 'Dedicated to Adam Lehrer' Connor at Instagram: @buzzw_arl_ord Eric Schmid, Laszlo Horvath, Connor Tomaka Dimes is of the Essence: Gardeners of the creative Eric Schmid and Connor Tomaka 'Mathematical Structuralism' Ono 'Your Future is Metal' | |||
| 23 Dec 2023 | Kanye Versus the Vultures (w/ Matthew Denicola) | 01:50:12 | |
Kanye is trying to release a new record, Vultures, with Ty Dolla $ign, and his enemies are refusing to get its samples cleared, leaving the record unreleased. Kanye, of course, isn't staying quiet about what's happening behind the scenes, and treated the world to a 15 minute rant against his many enemies, ranging from LVMH CEO Bernard Arnaut, the Rothschilds, Jay-Z, and Drake among them, as well as the abandonment of the family that has left him adrift. It's powerful stuff, and of course he isn't exactly taking it easy on Zionists either. | |||
| 28 Aug 2023 | PREVIEW New Millennium Men (w/ Alex Kazemi) | 00:43:35 | |
Writer Alex Kazemi wrote his first novel, Your Truly, Brad Sela, back in 2013 when he was only 19-years-old. In a true time capsule of the 2010s, Alex published an excerpt of that manuscript on his Tumblr page, and it exploded. He got 132,000 views and signed a book deal with MTV Books. For whatever reason or another, the book didn't come out when it was planned for. Instead, Alex embarked on several interesting projects in the media: contributing to magazines such as The Observer, Dazed and Autre, working as managing editor at Prim Magazine, releasing a series of video ads for Marilyn Manson, and founding the Advisor which collected letters contemporary male icons to young men, with contributions from heroes like Richard Kern, Bruce LaBruce, and Moby. | |||
| 27 Aug 2022 | Immersed in Death (W/ Worth) | 01:21:26 | |
Adam speaks with American harsh noise master Worth, aka William Van Gorder, who has a new record on White Centipede Noise called Sacred Violence Noise. Will recorded the album while on residency in Thailand, and throughout the conversation relays the experiences he had there and in his Southeast Asia journey more broadly. What is it like to make noise for an audience that has no fucking clue what is happening? MAGIC! Duh. Talking about Thailand and Southeast Asia leads these two artists to discussion of another shared interest: writer New Juche. Juche is also an artist who finds transcendence in beauty in abjection and decay – the decay of the Southeast Asian landscape, and the abjection in his own perverse sexual habits. | |||
| 21 Jan 2022 | Cinema of Transgression (PREVIEW) (w/ Michael M. Bilandic) | 01:18:02 | |
Adam and filmmaker Michael M. Bilandic have been mutuals on social media for a little while now, but it wasn't until Mubi recently made Michael's films available on its streaming platform that Adam found himself burning through Michael's work and was thoroughly impressed. A frustrated artist exploits a rural horrorcore group in 'Hellaware', a raving delivery man accidentally kills a famous client in 'Jobe'z World', a performance artist locks himself in a cell as the Floyd riots rage outside in last year's 'Project Space 13'; while taking place in a tightly contained and well-crafted cinema universe, Michael's films mirror the reality of living in the contemporary culture industries to an uncanny degree. Michael joins Adam and Will here to discuss not only his own films, but also Adam and Michael's shared love of Nick Zedd and the Cinema of Transgression, Michael's time working at legendary defunct East Village shop Kim's Video and Music, the crypto-transgression of Todd Phillips and 'Joker', and Bilandic's work with film art icon Abel Ferrara. SOUNDTRACK: Young Torture Killaz "Cut Yo Dick Off" LINKS: | |||
| 25 Feb 2022 | PREVIEW Disney Land Death Penalty (w/ Rob Doyle) | 00:18:14 | |
We are joined by Irish novelist Rob Doyle, who is now best known for his work of delirious auto-fiction Threshold, a series of vignettes documenting the writer's drug usage and travels, and more recently Autobibliography (2021), which collects various essays on books that Rob has held closely throughout his career and becomes a kind of memoir told through the books that made him: Marcus Aurelius, Houellebecq, Nietzsche, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and more. Rob is currently posted up in Sinagapore on a residency, and tells us about the bizarrely functional control society that the city has become. LINKS: Rob at Twitter: @RobDoyle1 | |||
| 26 Jul 2022 | Ready to Fight (W/ Udith Dematagoda) | 01:29:30 | |
Writer, Hyperidean Press publisher, and Adam's editor Udith Dematagoda joins the show once more. This time we're discussing the cultural resonance of Fight Club over 25 years down the line, and the importance of revolutionary violence to the masculine psyche. Other topics include the mindblowing year for American indie film that was 1999, Ukraine, why BAP is the Rob Halford of pseudo-philosophy, and some other shit. SOUNDTRACK: LINKS: | |||
| 01 Jul 2024 | PREVIEW Lust4Life (W/ Udith Dematagoda) | 00:08:01 | |
Udith Dematagoda, editor of Hyperidean Press and author of the stellar new novel Agonist, joins Adam and Matt to discuss his home country of Scotland's greatest cultural export: Trainspotting and Trainspotting 2 | |||
| 25 May 2021 | The Impulse to Go Kamikaze (w/ Angie Speaks) | 01:23:19 | |
After a host of media hacks are deployed to fear monger the specter of the post-left, Angie Speaks of the Low Society podcast joins the boys to discuss the histrionics of the pseudo-dissidents, lies, smears, cruelty, the kayfabe, and internet censorious fervor. The temporal loop continues spinning. There is also discussion on religion, spirituality, the occult, christianity, paganism, and David Lynch. We also talk about the divinely kooky Nikole-Hannah Jones' denial of tenure, and the media libs' reaction to it. Links: Low Society: https://soundcloud.com/low-society | |||
| 06 Nov 2023 | And Usually Just a Syringe (with Conor Tomaka) | 01:14:13 | |
Artist, musician, academic, and member of legacy American experimental band ONO Conor Tomaka joins the show once more, but with a specific purpose this time around. John Frusciante is already a God-level figure in the oeuvre of Safety Propaganda, but this time we are going back to the virtuoso guitarist of the Chili Peppers and experimental solo artist's infamous and masterful first two albums: Niandra Lades and Usually just a T-Shirt and Smile from the Streets you Hold. | |||
| 09 Aug 2024 | Cheap Shocks, Part 1: On Gore | 00:13:05 | |
In the first of a two-part series, Adam looks at the mainstream's insistence on buckets of gore | |||
| 24 Dec 2021 | Collectin' Scalps with Stock Pt. 3: World's Tiniest Man (w/ Laje Amare) | 01:14:04 | |
Based swaggot Alex Bienstock produces his third episode of his SOS side-project Collectin' Scalps w/ Stock. In this new episode, 'Stock and Adam interview music producer Laje Amare. What are we talking about here? All sorts of shit: body building, male dysmorphia, vanity, pop music, experimental music, the woes of internet temptations in the world of romance, and the fear of being fat projected as fatphobia. SOUNDTRACK: Laje Amare "Tim Hecker Can Suck My Cock" Autoerotichrist "Slyvania" Anal Massaker "Vision Of Fear" Sadokist "Enter The Devil" Tim Hecker "Chimeras" Laje Amare "I Just Told My Mom I Will Never Fall In Love" LINKS: Laje Instagram: @lajeamare Alex Bienstock website: http://www.alexbienstock.com/ Alex Bienstock Instagram: @wholesomecreativeguy Alex Bienstock Twitter: @escbas | |||
| 01 Mar 2024 | The Avatar is a Pornographer (w/ Emma Stern) | 01:21:36 | |
A week before the opening of her exhibition the Pond Society in Shanghai, artist Emma Stern discusses her work, porn, ABBA and the creation of avatars. | |||
| 02 Sep 2024 | THOUGHTS: Art Market Crash | 00:14:17 | |
Why is the art market tanking? Economic instability is obviously mostly responsible, but Adam thinks there might be a more spiritual quandary at the root of it
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| 18 Apr 2023 | UNLOCKED Attacking the Castle from Within (W/ BILLY CORGAN) | 01:50:32 | |
Around August of 2022, Adam opened up his email to find what was a message of profound encouragement, and could hardly believe it when it was addressed from "William Patrick Corgan," otherwise known as the frontman of Adam's first ever favorite band The Smashing Pumpkins. But that's exactly who it was. Billy had read Adam's 2021 book 'Communions' and, from there, a creative camaraderie developed. Now, Billy is on SOS by SP and completing the circle. Here, the icon of rock discusses fatherhood, the experience of being at the zeitgeist only to watch the zeitgeist fracture and tether, the new Smashing Pumpkins album Atum and the podcast that Billy has used to launch each of its track in its three-part rock opera song cycle, Judas Priest, the Scorpions, attacking the castle from within, AND MORE!! | |||
| 28 Jun 2023 | Probable Mossad (W/ Thomas Moore and Audrey Szasz) | 02:01:56 | |
Writers Audrey Szasz and Thomas Moore have both just released new novels for Philip Best's Amphetamine Sulphate. Audrey's novel is called Counterillumination, a wildly psychedelic collection of prose where agents and counter-agents wage psychological warfare upon one another against an abstract dystopic landscape. It's rather hard to describe so I suggest you just read it. Thomas's new book is Your Dreams – perhaps the author's best exploration of the human need for connection and understanding with a protagonist forced to come to terms with a friend's disturbing desires. | |||
| 27 Feb 2022 | UNLOCKED Cinema of Transgression (w/ Michael M. Bilandic) | 01:35:01 | |
In memoriam to the Cinema of Transgression pioneer Nick Zedd's passing, we have removed the paywall from this episode with filmmaker Michael M. Bilandic | |||
| 14 Oct 2021 | Many Taints (w/ Blauergeist!) | 01:24:08 | |
System of Systems, at long last, is back. First things first, Ben AKA the Perpetual Self Optimizer is no longer the producer/co-host, and we want to thank him for all the great work done on this program. Replacing him is none other than former guest Will Samson, who takes over production duties and second mic. Welcome him! In our first episode back, we have Ellroy Boys co-host and Apocalypse Confidential editor Blauergeist! specifically to take on the colossal disaster that is The Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark. Somehow, as bad as this film could be (cheesy as fuck casting, thin plot, aesthetically flat and gross) it's somehow so, so, so much worse. It's the kind of spinoff film that complicates the entire legacy of its source material. The great work of American pop art reduced to a shitty, faux edgy dirtbag leftist meme. SOUNDTRACK: Alabama 3 "Woke Up This Morning": https://music.apple.com/us/album/woke-up-this-morning-the-sopranos-mix/667102458?i=667102844 Mystifier "The Witch Resides Our Goat": https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-witch-voisin-recites-our-gloat-osculum-obscenum/299352750?i=299352756 Fusitsusha "Magic IV: https://youtu.be/Oy0njwl-AHc Souls of Mischief "A Name I Call Myself": https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-name-i-call-myself/369570847?i=369570888 Black Humor "Undancing in the Dirt": https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-name-i-call-myself/369570847?i=369570888 LINKS: Will Samson's Twitter: @_Will_Samson_ https://twitter.com/_Will_Samson_ Blauergeist at Twitter: @blauer_geist https://twitter.com/blauer_geist Apocalypse Confidential: https://apocalypse-confidential.com/ Ellroy Boys podcast: https://soundcloud.com/ellroyboys Adam on Many Saints of Newart: https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/based-safetty-vs-cringe-propaganda | |||
| 26 Jun 2022 | Charlie Sheen's Trigger Threshold (w/ Will Sheldon) | 01:29:56 | |
Adam and Will are joined by New York-based artist and tattooer Will Sheldon. Will discusses his work with us: paintings and drawings of fantastical and fairy tale imagery but with a uniquely troubling and dark iteration fitting for our times. Will is also a tattooer and in contra to others working between the art world and tattoo culture (others typically tend to make clear distinction between the craft of tattooing and high art OR end up making tattooish art work) manages to create a clear communicative language between art and tattoos. We discuss this idiosyncrasy, Will's recent exhibitions, Will's recent collaborative book with British writer Charlie Fox, Hans Bellmer, and a shared appreciation for manga artist and filmmaker Hideshi Hino and Charlie Sheen's issues with Hino. Enjoy. SOUNDTRACK: LINKS: | |||
| 03 Aug 2022 | (PREVIEW) Satanic Art Phag Propaganda (W/ Psyop Resistor) | 00:10:25 | |
A long anticipated episode, Adam and crew delve into the history and culture of black metal, enlisting the help of metalhead Psyop Resistor. The crew explains how they came to find intrigue in the genre, and then dive into some of their favorite and most evil albums of the canon. | |||
| 03 May 2022 | The Final Nail (w/ Sean Kilpatrick) | 01:45:58 | |
The boys are joined by poet and novelist Sean Kilpatrick to discuss the state of literature, the cultural shift, the force feeding of Toni Morrison, Darius James, Charlie Rose, the Northman, Fresh, Jim Goad, the Gen X cool girl era, the Depp/Heard defamation case and the end of #MeToo. | |||
| 16 Nov 2021 | Janie Got a Gun (KYLE IS INNOCENT) (w/ Janie) | 01:19:04 | |
In this episode, we are joined by Janie, a young poet operating in the realm of Substack and a young singer who recently started posting songs to a Soundcloud page. We discuss poetry here, mostly, everything from Robert Desnos to Ghostface Killah to John Asheberry to Darby Crash, and try and ponder a role for poetry in liquid modernity. Adam also expresses disgust over the politicization of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, and can't believe the erosion of due process that has been leveled at an innocent young man who defended himself against violent assailants. The Germs "Lexicon Devil" (https://youtu.be/08MqYvU-yuM) US Maple "Letter To ZZ Top" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/letter-to-zz-top/1082950697?i=1082950707) Buttechno "Bbbase" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/bbbase/1483216773?i=1483216774) Masayuki Takayanagi "Mass Hysterism 1" (https://music.apple.com/us/album/mass-hysterism-1/200813560?i=200813616) Janie Diamond "Heart Burst" LINKS Janie's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ JanieDied Janie's Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-175981317 | |||
| 08 May 2024 | REPOSTED Rapedman (W/ Damen Corrado) | 01:59:41 | |
Damen Corrado is a Chicago-based writer and actor with old school links to Adam Parfrey and the broader American underground. In 2019, the late Parfrey's Feral House publishing imprint published a book co-written by Damen and James "Jinx" O'Connor. Entitled Compliments of Chicagohoodz: "A rare, private collection of photos, calling cards, and ephemera serves that analyzes the unique visual language and graphics of Chicago’s gangs, drawing upon decades of interviews, documentation, and collecting of memorabilia, and featuring commentary from gang members and Chicago artists." | |||
| 06 Aug 2021 | Definitely Addictive, Very Potent | 01:27:59 | |
Adam and Ben kick it old school. No guests, all killer, no filler. Topics of discussion include the removal of Ben's wisdom teeth, Benjamin Bratton's Covid totalitarianism advocacy, the rise of a new medical authoritarianism, and the passing of the great musicians Joey Jordison (Slipknot drummer) drummer and Peter Rehberg (electronic music producer PITA). SOUNDTRACK: PITA "Acid Udon": https://music.apple.com/us/album/acid-udon/262236237?i=262236373 Slipknot "Disasterpiece": https://music.apple.com/us/album/acid-udon/262236237?i=262236373 Ultravoxx "Slow Motion": https://music.apple.com/us/album/slow-motion/1444010165?i=1444010336 Sandwell District "Immolate" https://music.apple.com/us/album/immolare-function-version/470488354?i=470488357 Howlin Wolf "Evil is Goin On" https://music.apple.com/us/album/evil-is-going-on/1425203542?i=1425203977 LINKS: Peter Rehberg remembered: https://thequietus.com/articles/30268-peter-rehberg-obituary Gisele Viéne and Dennis Cooper sounftracked by Peter Rehberg and Stephen O' Malley https://vimeo.com/61087138 Joey Jordison eulogy https://www.nme.com/news/music/slipknots-founding-drummer-joey-jordison-has-died-at-46-3004210 Benjamin Bratton shittalks Agamben https://www.versobooks.com/books/3787-the-revenge-of-the-real Nicolas Hausdorf takesdown Bratton https://im1776.com/2021/07/20/epidemic-epistemes/
CJ Hopins on the propaganda machine and how to fight it https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-propaganda-war-and-how-to-fight
Connor Kelly and left lockdown skeptics https://leftlockdownsceptics.com/2021/07/collaboration-or-resistance-part-1-our-brand-new-shiny-fascist-state/?doing_wp_cron=1626901842.8362779617309570312500 | |||
| 23 Sep 2022 | (PREVIEW) Hellenic Glory (W/ Zach Brown) | 00:16:35 | |
Adam has returned from his travels abroad. To inaugurate the return of System of Systems by Safety Propaganda, artist Zach Brown joins the show to discuss his work, his time at RISD, pussy, travel, Melrose Place, Vince Gilligan, ancient Greece and more. | |||
| 05 Oct 2022 | (PREVIEW) Damaged Blonde Ambition (W/ Jack Mason and Filthy Armenian) | 00:08:14 | |
Enlisting the incendiary voices of old friends Filthy Armenian, of Filthy Armenian's Adventures and the Back Wall, and Jack Mason, of the Perfume Nationalist, the conversation turns towards the formerly retired pop cultural trope that is the damaged blonde, once again alive and well! | |||
| 28 Apr 2023 | PREVIEW Fantasy Core is Over (W/ Grant Tyler) | 00:15:05 | |
Our friend from Los Angeles, the curator of the new LA gallery Imperial as well as online editor of Caesura Magazine Grant Tyler, joins the show to discuss the inability of the modern subject to properly look at art, the genius of Cezanne, Giacometti, Cy Twombly, the most consequential historical pinpoints of the last 50 years, the art world after the pandemic, Kanye (always some Kanye) and so much more. | |||
| 15 Jan 2024 | PREVIEW Barney Does it All (W/ Bjarne Melgaard) | 01:01:14 | |
Regularly referred to as "The most famous Nordic Artist since Edvard Munch," painter, sculptor, filmmaker and installation artist Bjarne Megaard joins the audiocast to dish on decades in the art world. | |||
| 14 Apr 2022 | The Resurrection of St. John (w/ Glen Rockney and Joel Jensen) | 01:43:27 | |
As many listeners/readers might already know, Adam's favorite musician of all time is John Frusciante. Thus, when the guitarist re-joined Red Hot Chili Peppers for the SECOND TIME, he has left the band twice now (once in 2009 and once in 1993), he was elated. Now, the Chi Peps are back in their true form with their first record featuring John on guitar since their magnum opus double album Stadium Arcadium in 2007. Does it stack up to the band's masterpieces? To investigate, we brought on illustrator Joel Jensen and Rare Candy co-host Glen Rockney. LINKS RHCP Unlimited Love | |||
| 01 Nov 2021 | The Podcast of Disquiet Pt. 2 (w/ Guest Host Bimbo Ubermensch) | 01:53:03 | |
We're celebrating Halloween, fear, terror and disquiet for this two part episode folks! Announcing herself as a new reoccurring guest host, fan favorite Bimbo Ubermensch joins Adam and Will to discuss our favorite horror-tinged records and visual art works. Favorite Horrific Records: Adam: Sandra: Will: Favorite Horrific Art Works: Adam: Heji Shin "Baby" photographs (https://www.fraeulein-magazine.eu/the-brutality-of-nature-an-interview-with-heji-shin/) Rudolf Shwarzkogler "3rd Aktion" (https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/schwarzkogler-3rd-action-t11848) Sandra: Goya "Disasters of War" lithographs (https://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21l/21l.430/s13/MIT21L_430S13_Goya_1.pdf) Will: Richard Prince "Spiritual America" (https://www.guggenheim.org/teaching-materials/richard-prince-spiritual-america) | |||
| 27 Jan 2023 | Copenhagen Cowpunks (W/ Bradford Kessler and Glen Rockney) | 01:36:56 | |
In this episode, brothers in arms Adam, Will, artist Bradford Kessler and Rare Candy co-host Glen Rockney convene to discuss Nicolas Winding Refn's new six-hour Netflix series Copenhagen Cowboy, and the broader career arc of the Danish auteur. | |||
| 11 May 2021 | Tumblr Revelations (w/ Jana Surkova and Zach Langley ChiChi) | 02:03:47 | |
Two of our favorite of gal pals, the beautiful Jana Surkova (of the Hate Fiction podcast) and the lovely Zach Langley Chi Chi (of the I'm so Popular podcast) join System of Systems to discuss the flattening of sexuality in cinema and, by extension, the collapse of eroticism in our society. The crew discusses Tumblr aesthetics (Adam comes out of the closet as a once Tumblr user), and their favorite sex scenes in cinema. Films discussed include: Blue is the Warmest Color, Showgirls, Crash, Crimes of Passion, and our namesake Network, and much more. LINKS: Jana's new podcast Hate Fiction: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50892957 | |||
| 27 Feb 2023 | PREVIEW Fear of Lewdness (w/ Cliff Sargent) | 00:13:19 | |
Cliff Sargent runs the very popular Youtube literary show Better than Food where he offers his candid thoughts on the books he reads. He has excellent taste, and is capable of communicating his thoughts in a refreshingly legible manner: Bataille, Clarice Lispector, Cormac McCarthy and even Adam have all been reviewed on his show (and his influence is proven by the spike in book sales Communications enjoyed following his review.) Here, Adam and Cliff talk about Bataille, books, black metal, bodybuilding, and more, baby! Always more. FULL EPISODE HERE SOUNDTRACK: Type O Negative "Christian Woman"Rude 66 "Horrified"Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry "Intermede Suicide" "Sister Ray Says"Vlad Tepes War Funeral March Royal Trux "The Sewers of Mars" LINKS: Books Better than Food Cliff at Instagram: @BOOKSBETTERTHANFOOD Cliff on Adam's Communions | |||
| 24 Mar 2023 | Riding the Trenwave: Safety Propaganda Records (W/ Zac Davis) | 01:22:02 | |
What started as a Substack and a podcast but became a prolonged conceptual art project IS NOW a full-circuit multimedia assault! Making good on his promise to broaden Safety Propaganda's reach, Adam launches SAFETY PROPAGANDA RECORDS in more attempts to aesthetically unbrainwash the masses. Text, image and NOW SOUND to break the programming and see the truth, for real. | |||
| 06 Jul 2023 | PREVIEW Rapedman (w/ Damen Corrado) | 00:10:16 | |
Damen Corrado is a Chicago-based writer and actor with old school links to Adam Parfrey and the broader American underground. In 2019, the late Parfrey's Feral House publishing imprint published a book co-written by Damen and James "Jinx" O'Connor. Entitled Compliments of Chicagohoodz: "A rare, private collection of photos, calling cards, and ephemera serves that analyzes the unique visual language and graphics of Chicago’s gangs, drawing upon decades of interviews, documentation, and collecting of memorabilia, and featuring commentary from gang members and Chicago artists." | |||
| 16 Jul 2024 | PREVIEW Bending the Knee to Luke Turner in 2024 | 00:03:42 | |
Adam explains his experiences as a contributor of Compact Magazine, how it was pitched to him versus what the magazine has become, based around the recent resigning of friend of the show Nina Power as an editor of the project after Luke Turner leaked private communications between her and former guest Daniel Miller that were presented as evidence during their legal battle with the sociopathic British artist Turner.. Hate to have to be acknowledging Luke Turner in 2024, but that's where we are. SOUNDTRACK | |||
| 05 Jul 2022 | Not Human (PREVIEW) (W/ Madeline Kuzak) | 00:11:36 | |
Prior to the day of our independence, Adam calls up his friend, the artist from Detroit and soon to move to New York Madeline Kuzak. Maddie works in painting and illustration, as well as performance and more conceptual driven work. When Adam introduced his theory of Crytographic Transgressive art in in Amphetamine Sulphate's 'Human Rights' anthology, Maddie was one of the artists he used to bolster his concept. Maddie's work is cloaked in the tropes of femininity, and feminist curators are often all too enthusiastic to drag her work into their theories. But there is actually a very interesting subversion going on here, where the theme of female victimhood is constantly being deconstructed and challenged. Sountrack: Artificial Peace "Artificial Peace" Archgoat "Angel Cunt" ZZ Top "Move me Down the Line" Hidious in Strength "Torture #2" Townes Van Zandt "Snake Mountain Blues" LINKS: Maddie at Instagram: | |||
| 05 Sep 2023 | At the Wall of Transgression: A Whitehouse Retrospective (W/ Xylon Otterburn) | 01:51:52 | |
Adam has been re-reading David Keenan's historical biography on the rise of Industrial Music, England's Hidden Riverse, after it was re-published with extended material over the summer. That book primarily looks at the rise and legacies of Coil, Nurse with Wound, and Current 93 (and suspiciously, only passingly mentions Douglas Pearce and Death in June.) There is also, however, a plethora of material dedicated to William Bennett and what led the British artist to create the pioneering power electronics project Whitehouse. Formed by Bennett in 1980 and joined by Philip Best in the '80s and Peter Sotos in the '90s, Whitehouse developed both the sound (throbbing bass, ear searing and abused synths, washed out white noise, brutal and screamed vocals) and content (power, abuse, serial murder, war crimes) of the style that we now call power electronics. Though PE has since given us several iconic artists and acts — Con-Dom, Grey Wolves, Genocide Organ, and Ramleh among them — there is still something about the conceptual rigor, thematic depth, and historical mythos of Whitehouse that makes the group an enduringly fascinating area of study. To discuss the legacy of Whitehouse as well as the philosophy and history of industrial music, Adam and Will converse with friend and noise musician Xylon Genesis Otterburn, back for the second time on the show.
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| 04 Mar 2022 | Furniture Activism (w/ Alex Hampshire) | 01:14:45 | |
Alex Hampshire is a writer with a cause. Deeply concerned about the unhealthy state of the furniture we live with, he has penned a manifesto of sorts: 'Furniture Activism'. Alex discusses his book and explains how you can change your life just by being more mindful of the furniture that you adorn your living space with. Personal responsibility. Personal responsibility. What's the best piece of furniture? Find out here. | |||
| 12 Dec 2021 | The SQ (w/ Beyond Woke and Problematic) (PREVIEW) | 01:21:42 | |
Meme account extraordinaire Beyond Woke and Problematic Discusses the Thiel/Soros pipelines, Kali Yuga, BAP, Kantbot, and the mesmeric allure and insidious confusion of niche internet ideology. Royal Trux - Teeth (Live) LINKS: BWAP Instagram: @bwap_2 | |||
| 16 Dec 2022 | PREVIEW Flame it All (W/ Kevin Kautzman and Brad Kelly) | 00:14:21 | |
The men of Art of Darkness podcast, Brad Kelly and Kevin Kautzman, join Adam to discuss Kanye and the legacy of endurance based performance art, the appeal of performance enhancing drugs, the late playwright Sarah Kane, Emil Cioran and the upcoming third season of their show. LINKS: | |||
| 15 Jun 2021 | The Death Mask of Art (W/ DC Miller) | 01:58:41 | |
A long sought-after guest joins System of Systems to discuss a number of artistic, philosophical, and political topics. Adam and the writer, critic and philosopher DC Miller became internet-linked after Adam demonstrated public interest in DC's writing. The result was that Adam was fired from The Quietus, where he wrote a regular column on the noise music underground and critical theory, and lost a number of other writing contracts. How did DC become such a controversial figure? Well, it mostly stems from the extreme Antifa-led overreaction to the now defunct British gallery LD50 and its 2017 exhibition that examined the imagery of what was then being called the alt-right and hosted talks by thinkers like Nick Land and Brett Stevens. DC heroically defended the gallery's right to tackle sensitive ideas and art. For that commitment to freedom of expression and fundamental enlightenment values, DC lost all of his positions in the art world. Seemingly overnight, he went from a known regular art critic for Frieze and Art Monthly to persona non grata. But we believe that DC is among the most misunderstood thinkers and creative people currently in the discourse. Though Adam and DC do have some differences in their view points, they also agree on a lot, specifically when it comes to diagnosing what is WRONG in our culture. In this chat, DC and Adam discuss art, psyops, the left, the elite, and recent work by the writer. DC recently wrote a response article to the essay that Adam published, 'Marxist Defends the Great Reactionaries,' that will be also published by American Greatness soon. DC is now publishing regularly on his Substack, is a contributing editor to im1776, and also publishes with The Conservative Woman. Enjoy the show!
SOUNDTRACK: Drexciya "Neptune's Lair" (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLryJ-4UNwXnfNR1h7RHPT2_TT6hu91G1o) Scott Walker "Farmer in the City" (https://youtu.be/zIJzTWk6bSw) Ghoulbog "Tredje Stycket" (https://styggelsetapes.bandcamp.com/track/tredje-stycket-viddernas-h-rskare)
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DC's Substack: https://cryptogram.substack.com/ DC debates Zeroh HP Lovecraft: https://im1776.com/2021/06/08/dialogue-dc-miller-vs-zero-hp-lovecraft/ "The Occult Left": https://cryptogram.substack.com/p/the-locusts-have-no-king DC Miller "The True Story of LD50": https://medium.com/@dctvbot/no-platform-for-aristotle-867a04c5da50 Jonathan Jones on LD50: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2017/feb/22/art-galleries-free-speech-ld50-dalston Adam's statement on being fired from the Quietus: https://www.adamlehrer.com/blog/2020/8/11/a-statement-on-my-severed-relationship-with-the-quietus DC, Justin Murphy, and Nina Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvUcO8sQZSI | |||
| 30 Jul 2024 | Paved w/ Good Intentions (W/ Ron Morelli) | 01:28:37 | |
DJ, producer and founder of iconic NY techno label L.I.E.S., Ron Morelli, makes the honorable decision to redeem his entire generation and join in the effort to save America | |||
| 11 Aug 2023 | All Along the Lonesome County Highway (W/ Walter Kirn) | 01:44:31 | |
Celebrated novelist and essayist Walter Kirn, author of works of fiction like Up in the Air and non-fiction such as Lost in the Meritocracy and veteran of major media outlets ranging from GQ to Esquire to Vanity Fair and beyond, has seen his place in the media landscape evolve in the last few years since he was early to recognize the truth about the hysteria driving the Covid "pandemic". Since then, he's written important essays for Compact (where Adam has a monthly column) and started a podcast with Matt Taibbi called America this Week. | |||
| 08 Dec 2022 | Conservacucking (w/ Glen Rockney) | 01:34:19 | |
Old friend Glen of Rare Candy and Back Wall pods joins us once again to further stuff the digital void with some more content: Balenciaga, pedos, Kanye. You know the drill. | |||
| 29 Jan 2024 | PREVIEW Welcome to Helltown (W/ Edward Giles and Max Julian Eastman) | 00:20:13 | |
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| 27 Jul 2022 | (TEASER) Anal Blunt (W/ JJ Ruiz) | 00:13:51 | |
JJ Ruiz is an Austin-based musician who has played with several punk and hardcore bands since the 2000s. With one of those bands, Naw Dude, he opened for Anal Cunt. In this episode, he relays his stories about AC's late iconic frontman and one of the greatest American performance artists of the last two decades Seth Putnam. This episode is all about Seth, an artist as important to us as Vito Acconci or Wyndham Lewis, for real. | |||
