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| The Veneer of Respectability (W/ Nina Power) | 27 Aug 2024 | 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: | |||
| Algerian Boxing (w/ JJ) | 26 Aug 2024 | 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" | |||
| PREVIEW Bending the Knee to Luke Turner in 2024 | 16 Jul 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 | |||
| The Podcast of Disquiet Pt. 1 (w/ Guest Host Bimbo Ubermensch) | 22 Oct 2021 | 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. | |||
| Piano Studies (W/ Powell) (Preview) | 19 Oct 2021 | 00:15:59 | |
PREVIEW (Full Episode on Patreon): Electronic music producer, sound artist, and Diagonal Records head honcho Oscar Powell joins the show to discuss imminent fatherhood, his evolution from a burgeoning global DJ to a muted and surreal sound artist, his new album 'Piano Studies', working alongside the late Editions Mego head and experimental music god Peter Rehberg, drugs/psychedelic limit experiences, and mass media. Powell 'Piano Music': https://odbpowell.bandcamp.com/album/piano-music-1-7 | |||
| Many Taints (w/ Blauergeist!) | 14 Oct 2021 | 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 | |||
| Kanye, Leos, And Contempt For the Middle Class (W/ Bimbo Ubermensch and Ilydivna) | 22 Sep 2021 | 01:46:40 | |
In this episode, Adam is joined by Bimbo Ubermensch aka SANDRA and host of the Pleasure Helmet podcast Ilydivna aka Dana to talk about two recent pop culture spectacles equally flawed and fascinating. We are talking about Kanye West's 'DONDA' and the release parties that Kanye threw to celebrate its publication, as well as Leos Carax's new English language Sparks-soundtracked, Adam Driver-starring avant-musical film 'Annette'. While both art works are wildly imperfect, there is something about the spectacle around the art works themselves that creates a Debordian situationist spectacle that demands attention with outré ideas. This is something to be celebrated. We also shit talk the middle class, which is the worst class. SOUNDTRACK: Adam Driver and Sparks - Sympathy for the Abyss https://music.apple.com/us/album/sympathy-for-the-abyss/1577154280?i=1577154295 Kanye West - Junya https://music.apple.com/us/album/junya/1583449420?i=1583449436 Kanye - Welcome to Heart Break https://music.apple.com/us/album/welcome-to-heartbreak-feat-kid-cudi/1441410287?i=1441410305 Underground Resistance - Technology Gap https://music.apple.com/us/album/technology-gap/269752629?i=269752972 LINKS: Dana at twitter: https://twitter.com/Llydvina | |||
| Synthetic Miasma (W/ Will Samson) | 14 Sep 2021 | 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: | |||
| The Agony and Ecstasy of THE STOCK (w/ Alex Bienstock) | 20 Aug 2021 | 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: | |||
| Definitely Addictive, Very Potent | 06 Aug 2021 | 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 | |||
| They're All Gonna Fail (w/ Marc Horowitz) | 29 Jul 2021 | 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
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| An "UnWoke Racist Fantasia" (w/ Glen Rockney) | 21 Jul 2021 | 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 | |||
| Martin, Into the Corner (featuring Gio Pennacchietti) | 05 Jul 2021 | 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)
Image:
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 | |||
| Harm Reduction Mantra (W/ Shay Semple) | 11 Jul 2024 | 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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| Foucault Forgotten (W/ Geoff Shullenberger) | 29 Jun 2021 | 01:36:04 | |
Our old pal Geoff Shullenberger, writer and critic extraordinaire, is back on System of Systems to discuss his new piece for American Greatness – 'How We Forgot Foucault.' In it, Geoff describes the irony in Foucault's recent dip in citations and his abandonment as a "hero of the modern left," given that during the pandemic so much of Foucault's theories on biopolitics and biopower have proven to be utterly true. We discuss the aspects of Foucault's ideas that have emerged as inconvenient to a left and liberal establishment all too eager to abandon freedom and civil rights in the name of public safety and health. Fuck them! Aside from a long-winded Foucault chat, there's lots of discussion here on Agamben, the rise of toothless, mainstreamed "anti-woke" posturing becoming the new controlled opposition, and we talk about works of art that we're into (as always). Recommendations: Geoff: Roberto Calasso 'The Ruin of Kasch' (https://www.amazon.com/Ruin-Kasch-Roberto-Calasso/dp/0674780299), Phillip Roth 'Sabbath's Theater' (https://www.amazon.com/Sabbaths-Theater-Philip-Roth/dp/0679772596) Ben: St. John Maximovitch 'The Orthodox Veneration of the Mother of God' (https://music.apple.com/us/album/nightmare/678046222?i=678046559), Bruce Wagner 'Dead Stars' (https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Stars-Novel-Bruce-Wagner-ebook/dp/B0085DP2UW) Adam: Audrey Szasz 'Tears of a Komsomol Girl' (https://www.infinitylandpress.com/tearsofakomsomolgirl), Jacques Rivette 'Out 1' (https://mubi.com/specials/jacques-rivette-out-1), Bruno Dumont 'TwentyNine Palms' (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0315110/), Anna Kavan, Kentaro Miura SOUNDTRACK: Aseptic Void – "Psychosis" (https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/psychosis) Links: Geoff on Foucault: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/how-we-forgot-foucault/ Adam on Saul Fletcher and murder: https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/the-crime-of-saul-fletcher-by-adam | |||
| The Death Mask of Art (W/ DC Miller) | 15 Jun 2021 | 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 | |||
| CryptoFASHionable (w/ Walter Pearce) | 09 Jun 2021 | 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/ | |||
| The Impulse to Go Kamikaze (w/ Angie Speaks) | 25 May 2021 | 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 | |||
| Tumblr Revelations (w/ Jana Surkova and Zach Langley ChiChi) | 11 May 2021 | 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 | |||
| PREVIEW Lust4Life (W/ Udith Dematagoda) | 01 Jul 2024 | 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 | |||
| Based Safety/Cringe Propaganda 2024, pt 1 | 26 Jun 2024 | 00:44:39 | |
Adam discusses the good, the bad and the bewildering of 2024, as of June. | |||
| LARP LIFE (w/ Ben Werther) | 24 Jun 2024 | 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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| ANTIFAshionable (w/ Elena Velez) | 31 May 2024 | 01:37:09 | |
Famed fashion designer and high fashion's Dimes Square rep Elena Velez discusses her last two insta-iconic shows, the mud fight of SS 2024 and the Gone with the Wind Ball of FW 2024, and her resilience in the face of high and mighty fashion editors and her refusal to play along. We accept you One of US! | |||
| PREVIEW Laibach Merch Game (w/ Saul Adamczewski and another) | 28 May 2024 | 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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| No Fun to be Had (W/ Carlos Giffoni) | 20 May 2024 | 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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| 300 and Beyond (w/ Paul K and Kurt) | 15 May 2024 | 01:39:08 | |
After months of criticism about the fight card, 300 indeed ended up being the best martial arts card in history, and launched fan favorite and fighter's fighter Max Holloway to instant superstardom after he knocked out Justin Gaethje in the final five seconds of a five round right, for the coveted BMF title, arguably the grandest and most artistic knock-out in history. Alex Pereria, light heavy weight champion, also knocked out challenger Jamahal Hill in the first round. | |||
| REPOSTED Rapedman (W/ Damen Corrado) | 08 May 2024 | 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." | |||
| PREVIEW Tastefully Tasteless (w/ Ryan Simón) | 19 Aug 2024 | 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... | |||
| PREVIEW Roll the Black Dice (w/ Bjorn Copeland) | 03 May 2024 | 00:12:40 | |
Bjorn Copeland is a mixed media artist, sculptor, and musician perhaps best known as a founding member of the long-lived and ever shapeshifting experimental rock group Black Dice. | |||
| Safety Propaganda 101 | 24 Apr 2024 | 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. | |||
| Weebed Out | 22 Apr 2024 | 01:23:43 | |
Adam is back from Japan: tales of shopping, noise, fem-boys, etc | |||
| PREVIEW DECA DYKE | 01 Apr 2024 | 00:14:55 | |
Shortly before Adam's journey to Japan, he and Matthew discuss two trashy arthouse thrillers from the past and present: Ingmar Bergman's 1980 made for TV movie From the Life of the Marionettes and Rose Glass' 2024 bodybuilding lesbian romance thriller Love Lies Bleeding. | |||
| Spiced Out (W/ Benjamin Braddock and Monica Milkers) | 14 Mar 2024 | 01:28:19 | |
Dune: Part 2, Denis Villeneuve's second half of his adaptation of Frank Herbet's sci-fi masterpiece Dune, is out. It's huge. Everyone has an opinion. So do we. Dr. Benjamin Braddock and Mommy Milkers join the show to discuss the film. | |||
| The Avatar is a Pornographer (w/ Emma Stern) | 01 Mar 2024 | 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. | |||
| PREVIEW Welcome to Helltown (W/ Edward Giles and Max Julian Eastman) | 29 Jan 2024 | 00:20:13 | |
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| PREVIEW Barney Does it All (W/ Bjarne Melgaard) | 15 Jan 2024 | 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. | |||
| Poor Greek (W/Zane) | 10 Jan 2024 | 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. | |||
| Kanye Versus the Vultures (w/ Matthew Denicola) | 23 Dec 2023 | 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. | |||
| Journal Entries, Aug 2024 | 16 Aug 2024 | 00:54:01 | |
Adam documents observations, thoughts and dreams he had from July to August, 2024
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| PREVIEW Life Long Insomniac (W/ Stephen Tunney AKA Dogbowl) | 12 Dec 2023 | 00:14:01 | |
At the end of November, friends of SP Newton Gallery hosted an exhibition of paintings and cartoons by American artist Stephen Tunney. Many of those in attendance likely had no idea that these disorienting, vivid, and fantastical images were made by the same Stephen Tunney behind the indie rock solo project Dogbowl. When Stephen plugged his guitar in to perform some of those songs, the image completed itself.
Indeed, Tunney has had a long and fascinating career, from playing guitar with cult band King Missile, recording with godhead of New York weird music Kramer, writing what has been called one of the "most disturbing novels ever written in" with a novel called Flan, to writing and playing songs as Dogbowl, it's a career that a two hour conversation couldn't possibly do justice to.
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| Olympian Fall (W/ Laje Amare and William Landry) | 27 Nov 2023 | 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: Laje Amare at Bandcamp Laje at Instagram William Landry at Instagram | |||
| Worshipping at the Alter of the Boul God (W/ Boul God Records) | 13 Nov 2023 | 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. | |||
| And Usually Just a Syringe (with Conor Tomaka) | 06 Nov 2023 | 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. | |||
| Loads All Over Anne Hathaway (w/ Ryan Simon) | 12 Oct 2023 | 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. | |||
| PREVIEW Crankn Nuts (W/ Dan Baltic) | 04 Oct 2023 | 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. | |||
| At the Wall of Transgression: A Whitehouse Retrospective (W/ Xylon Otterburn) | 05 Sep 2023 | 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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| PREVIEW New Millennium Men (w/ Alex Kazemi) | 28 Aug 2023 | 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. | |||
| PREVIEW The Death of a Socerer (W/ Bradford Kessler and Benjamin Kellogg) | 17 Aug 2023 | 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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| All Along the Lonesome County Highway (W/ Walter Kirn) | 11 Aug 2023 | 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. | |||
| Cheap Shocks, Part 2: On P**N | 13 Aug 2024 | 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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