System of Systems
"You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no Third Worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petrodollars, electro- dollars, multi-dollars, Reichsmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today." This podcast System of Systems, the audio misinformation arm of Safety Propaganda, is hosted by writer/artist Adam Lehrer and writer/musician Will Samson and deconstructs art, culture and politics, attempting to understand the pervasive conformism that has saturated it all. Links: SOS at Patreon: www.patreon.com/systemofsystems SOS at Libsyn: directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/systemofsystems SOS at twitter: twitter.com/SystemofSystem3 Adam at twitter: twitter.com/SafetyPropagan1 Will at twitter: twitter.com/_Will_Samson_?s=20 Adam's personal website: adamlehrer.com Adam at Instagram: @adamlehreruptown Safety Propaganda: safetypropaganda.substack.com/ Email: [email protected]
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Safety Propaganda 101
04/24/2024
Safety Propaganda 101
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. This event was sponsored by
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Weebed Out
04/22/2024
Weebed Out
Adam is back from Japan: tales of shopping, noise, fem-boys, etc OST Merging Moon Prurient and Linkekraft Beherit "Sadomatic Rights" LLoyd Banks Blancmange LINKS:
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PREVIEW DECA DYKE
04/01/2024
PREVIEW DECA DYKE
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. From the Life of the Marionettes is a disturbing slow burn of a masterpiece – restrained and haunting in equal measure. Love Lies Bleeding, however, takes a good narrative conceit and then destroys it with every Tumblr millennial girl trapping: shallow Lynch wannabe surrealism, style suffocating substance, and an obnoxious girl power message. It also owes Adam royalties. Soundtrack Martin Rev Hanatarashi "Ultra Cocker" (attached) E-40 GISM My Bloody Valentine LINKS
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Spiced Out (W/ Benjamin Braddock and Monica Milkers)
03/14/2024
Spiced Out (W/ Benjamin Braddock and Monica Milkers)
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. SOUNDTRACK: Herbie Hancock Reverend Bizarre John Frusciante UGK Hans Zimmer LINKS: Ben at X: Monica at X:
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The Avatar is a Pornographer (w/ Emma Stern)
03/01/2024
The Avatar is a Pornographer (w/ Emma Stern)
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. Matthew Denicola is the new producer and co-host of SOS by SP. We thank Will Samson for his two years of work Soundtrack Y$ Controlled Bleeding Blue Cheer Omni Trio Abba LINKS:
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PREVIEW Welcome to Helltown (W/ Edward Giles and Max Julian Eastman)
01/29/2024
PREVIEW Welcome to Helltown (W/ Edward Giles and Max Julian Eastman)
Conceptual artist, musician, and founding member of iconic NYC power electronics group Final Solution, Edward Giles, joins the Safety Propaganda network. The primary topic is the reissue of Edward's industrial project Helltown Inc on former guest Max Julian Eastman's label. The release not only comes with hours of music, art inserts and otherwise, but a memoir of sorts in which Edward recounts the underground culture of New York of the '80s. Edward and Max discuss the release of Helltown Inc and Edward discusses his history in art, losing his friends and bandmates from Final Solution, and his overall viewpoints about the modern world. SOUNDTRACK Helltown Inc. "Guard of Life" Suicide Final Solution Cro-Mags Pierre Henry Max Julian Eastman Helltown Inc, "Oh the Sweet" 2pac LINKS:
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PREVIEW Barney Does it All (W/ Bjarne Melgaard)
01/15/2024
PREVIEW Barney Does it All (W/ Bjarne Melgaard)
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. Topics covered: Bjarne's new film Barney Does it All based on his time as a whore in Sydney, his interview with porno actress Rae Lil Black in the new issue of Richardson Mag, the perpetual antagonism between him at the art world and the cowardice of curators, his former financial backers who fucked him out of millions, drug addiction, ketamine therapy, fashion, anabolic steroids and being asked to be Mr. Miami, hanging out and working with the stars of Norwegian black metal, and much more... Bjarne's new film and exhibition opens at Faurschou Gallery in NY on Feb 7 SOUNDTRACK: Darkthrone Larm "Chemical Suicide" Thorns Miss Kittin and the Hacker Pure "Nigredo" Eric's Trip LINKS: Bjarne at Instagram:
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Poor Greek (W/Zane)
01/10/2024
Poor Greek (W/Zane)
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. Joining us to discuss this massive leap in Lanthimos' artistry, as well as other new films (The Iron Claw, The Zone of Interest etc,) is our friend Zane. A true HEAD if there ever was one. Soundtrack: Vaurien Instant Automaton Bloody Cumshot Axemen Venom LINKS:
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Kanye Versus the Vultures (w/ Matthew Denicola)
12/23/2023
Kanye Versus the Vultures (w/ Matthew Denicola)
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. The controversy and aura around a Kanye release is what makes him the most important artist alive. He is perhaps the only living CONTEMPORARY artist, one who channels the multitudes and contradictions and informational channels crossing over of digital culture. He is the richest and most powerful artist of our lifetimes, one who has made billions not just for himself but for others, but he still manages to embody the rebel spirit of industrial music culture or dada. He's Artaud, Bowie, Michael Jackson, and William Benett at once. With all of us excited about Vultures coming out, we brought out another Kanye head — the photographer Matthew Denicola — to discuss the man. SOUNDTRACK: Kanye West "The Blame Game" Kanye "Love Lockdown" Kanye "I'm in It" Aphex Twin "Avril 14" Kanye "Famous" Sombre Chemin "Hiems" Children of the Corn "Call You Bitch" Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign "Vultures" LINKS:
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PREVIEW Life Long Insomniac (W/ Stephen Tunney AKA Dogbowl)
12/12/2023
PREVIEW Life Long Insomniac (W/ Stephen Tunney AKA Dogbowl)
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. Nevertheless, Adam here is going to try... LINKS
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Olympian Fall (W/ Laje Amare and William Landry)
11/27/2023
Olympian Fall (W/ Laje Amare and William Landry)
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 Soundtrack: Rasputin's Stash God's Gift Kreator Monkey 101 "French Feelings" Unit Black Fight Links:
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Worshipping at the Alter of the Boul God (W/ Boul God Records)
11/13/2023
Worshipping at the Alter of the Boul God (W/ Boul God Records)
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. The anonymous curator/owner/auteur of Boul God joins us here to discuss the label, his own personal taste, covering the Grateful Dead, and the decline of the music scene in his home city of Philly. SOUNDTRACK: Flying Mausoleum Grail Wizard Incluse Gorseddd FM Bizarre Carnival LINKS:
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And Usually Just a Syringe (with Conor Tomaka)
11/06/2023
And Usually Just a Syringe (with Conor Tomaka)
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. Both of these albums were recorded on a 4-track tape recorded in the early '90s when Frusciante was closing in on death due to intensely high and daily usages of heroin and crack cocaine. Video documents of the artist at his home show the once handsome and vivacious punk rock LA kid as a death shadow of his former self: cheeks sank all the way into his jaw, teeth falling out, ghastly white and pallid, anything resembling muscle tone vanished. He was disintegrated, and these albums are gorgeous-avant pop ballads disintegrating into the abyss. Niandra was partly recorded in Frusciante's bedroom at the mansion where he and the Chi-Peps recoded Blood Sugar Sex Magick at night time, and the second more ambient and abstract side was recorded after he'd left the band and plunged into addiction. Smile was recorded during similar sessions, he says, and includes vocals by the ghost of the late movie star and brother to the current greatest American actor Joaquin – River Phoenix. While both albums are masterpieces in differing ways, channeling Frusciante's enthusiasm for Beefheart, Zappa, Syd Barrett, and other weirdo troubadours, it is only Niandra that is still reissued and available for purchase. Frusciante has let Smile fall into obscurity – perhaps it is just too painful for him to listen to. Hail Frusciante. OST (All songs by Frusciante) (featuring River Phoenix) LINKS: Infamous John Frusciante
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Loads All Over Anne Hathaway (w/ Ryan Simon)
10/12/2023
Loads All Over Anne Hathaway (w/ Ryan Simon)
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. SOUNDTRACK: Home Blitz Christ Agony Aphex Twin Lungfish Charley Patton Duffy Power LINKS: Follow Ryan Simón on X: Follow American Vulgaria on Instagram: Ryan for American Vulgaria
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PREVIEW Crankn Nuts (W/ Dan Baltic)
10/04/2023
PREVIEW Crankn Nuts (W/ Dan Baltic)
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. LINKS: New Write on Twitter: Dan on Twitter: Watch Adam's short play,
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At the Wall of Transgression: A Whitehouse Retrospective (W/ Xylon Otterburn)
09/05/2023
At the Wall of Transgression: A Whitehouse Retrospective (W/ Xylon Otterburn)
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. SOUNDTRACK Whitehouse Whitehouse Coil Whitehouse Nurse with Wound Whitehouse Current 93 Whitehouse Waylon Jennings LINKS Xylon on Instagram: A Conversation Between Buy
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PREVIEW New Millennium Men (w/ Alex Kazemi)
08/28/2023
PREVIEW New Millennium Men (w/ Alex Kazemi)
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. The initial novel, however, NEVER DIED. And it now LIVES. Alex's debut novel is New Millennium Boyz and it is published by none other than Permuted Press, a sub-division of Simon & Schuster. It is a fast, frenetic and hilarious read, and finds its protagonist Brad Sela as a senior in high school. Brad is a popular good looking kid who feels alienated and bored by his stereotypical and normie friends. His life forever changes when he strikes a friendship up with the Hot Topic'd, gothified new kids Lu and Shane and embarks on a journey of self-discovery and self-destruction. Adam immediately identified with the novel because it takes place in the year, 1999, when he came into his full pop cultural awareness: Manson, Eminem, Columbine, Y2K fear, Corgan, consumerism aglore! Here, Adam and Alex discuss their peculiar shared work histories, millennials, masculinity, '90s pop culture, Gen X, Gen Z, sociopathy, New Millennium Boyz and much more... SOUNDTRACK: Marilyn Manson The Prodigy Blink 182 Tool Eminem Fiona Apple Limp Bizkit LINKS: Alex
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PREVIEW The Death of a Socerer (W/ Bradford Kessler and Benjamin Kellogg)
08/17/2023
PREVIEW The Death of a Socerer (W/ Bradford Kessler and Benjamin Kellogg)
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. To discuss his entire oeuvre, Adam brings on his friends and former guests: artist Benjamin Kellogg and artist and filmmaker (and director of the Botched Chadification Masculinity Under Threat music video.) SOUNDTRACK: National Philharmonic Orchestra (from the OST to the Exorcist) Peste Noire (accoustic live in Kiev) David Kilgour Wang Chung (from To live and Die in LA OST) Jugra Tangerine Dream from Sorcerer OST) LINKS: Bradford Kessler on Instagram: Benjamin Kellogg on Instagram: Botched Chadification , by Adam Lehrer
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All Along the Lonesome County Highway (W/ Walter Kirn)
08/11/2023
All Along the Lonesome County Highway (W/ Walter Kirn)
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. Most recently, Kirn has teamed up with the celebrated writer and journalist David Samuels to found a new publication called A County Highway, which is in the style of a 19th Century newspaper and will focus on the totality of America, not just its primary cities. Walter and Adam here discuss that new publication, the middle of America, Cape Cod, San Francisco, Covid, psy-ops, the opioid epidemic, Danny McBride and much more. SOUNDTRACK: Thin Lizzy Swervedriver The Dead C The Velvets Mercyful Fate LINKS:
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PREVIEW Married Mid (w/ Scott Litts)
07/27/2023
PREVIEW Married Mid (w/ Scott Litts)
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. Links: Follow Scott on Twitter: Scott
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Fucked Up in 20 Different Ways (w/ Jack Skelley)
07/12/2023
Fucked Up in 20 Different Ways (w/ Jack Skelley)
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. The crux of this conversation revolves around the publication of Jack's new book, The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker, which was released by Semiotext(e)in May. Jack started writing the book in the 1980s, and as such follows a protaganist named Jack as he traverses the Los Angeles art world of the eighties that Jack himself was indeed a part of. The figure of the late writer Kathy Acker who provides the book's namesake only actually appears briefly in the novel but her method of postmodern literary collage is assumed as a means for Jack to deconstruct the signifiers of the Los Angeles dream factory and the formation of mass culture as the protagonist flits from book readings to punk rock shows to art openings to misbegotten sexcapades. It's a weird and thrilling novel. Jack and Adam here discuss this new book, Los Angeles, Kathy Acker, locating an avant-gardist sentiment in pop culture, the problematization of male heterosexual desire in literature, fictionalizing historical figures, Mike Kelley, SST records, punk rock, and much more. SOUNDTRACK Black Flag Blasphemy Mike Kelley, Violent Onsen Geisha, and Paul McCarthy "Upstairs" Eddie Crisis Group Lawndale LINKS Jack at Twitter: Jack at Instagram: Purchase Jack interviewed by
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PREVIEW Rapedman (w/ Damen Corrado)
07/06/2023
PREVIEW Rapedman (w/ Damen Corrado)
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." Here we discuss that book, Adam's kneejerk contempt for graffiti, Dean Koontz, the evils of music critic Brandon Stosuy and music dickhead Steve Albini, the Ukraine and LGBT shilling of Douglas P, the heroism of Jim Goad, the hideous growing pains of Generation X, the fortitude of Dominick Fernow, and more... There were technical difficulties with this recording. DEAL WITH IT! SOUNDTRACK Terminal Cheesecake Organum and the New Blockaders Dean Blunt The Kosmik Kommando Electric Eels Necrovore LINKS Follow Damen on Instagram: Follow Damen on Twitter: Purchase
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Probable Mossad (W/ Thomas Moore and Audrey Szasz)
06/28/2023
Probable Mossad (W/ Thomas Moore and Audrey Szasz)
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. The three of us discuss those new books, as well as writing on drugs, Arnold Schwarzenegger, chatGPT and artificial intelligence, pornographic intake, the pornification of culture, and much more. SOUNDTRACK: Smog Bassholes Morta Skuld Horace Andy PiL Guns N Roses LINKS: Audrey Szasz Thomas Moore Follow Thomas on Twitter: Follow Audrey on Twitter: Follow Amphetamine Sulphate on Twitter:
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(PREVIEW) Ritualistic Humilation (W/ Sven Loven)
06/24/2023
(PREVIEW) Ritualistic Humilation (W/ Sven Loven)
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. SOUNDTRACK: Disclose Streicher Klaus Schulze Forest Monoshock Brian Eno and John Cale LINKS: Sven Loven Sven Loven for
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Communication Medium (W/ Max Julian Eastman)
05/25/2023
Communication Medium (W/ Max Julian Eastman)
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. SOUNDTRACK: Max Eastman Die Sonne Satan Smell and Quim/Expose Your Eyes Ashtray Navigations Atrax Morgue LINKS: Tribe Tapes Instagram:
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PREVIEW Fantasy Core is Over (W/ Grant Tyler)
04/28/2023
PREVIEW Fantasy Core is Over (W/ Grant Tyler)
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. SOUNDTRACK Eric's Trip Seigneur Voland Eyeless in Gaza Smell and Quim The Homosexuals LINKS: Grant at Instagram: Grant Grant Grant Adam Grant's
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Aspirational Mid (w/ Eva and Elena Sullivan)
04/20/2023
Aspirational Mid (w/ Eva and Elena Sullivan)
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. Given that we seldom discuss fashion around here despite an interest in the industry, who better to come on than Eva and Elena. The girls discuss the absence of creative vision in the algorithmically driven modern fashion industry, and explain what they're doing to combat the trend towards "aspirational mid" that plagues modern beauty standards. Soundtrack: Death SS The Good Missionaries Dan Melchior Stalingrad "Hatred" Velvet Cacoon OUTRO: Crime Mob "Knuck if you Buck" LINKS: Sullivan at Instagram: Elena at Instagram: Eva at Instagram:
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UNLOCKED Attacking the Castle from Within (W/ BILLY CORGAN)
04/18/2023
UNLOCKED Attacking the Castle from Within (W/ BILLY CORGAN)
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!! SOUNDTRACK Smashing Pumpkins Smashing Pumpkins Smashing Pumpkins Judas Priest Scorpions The Cure LINKS Adam Lehrer's Communions Adam
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Raver Symbolism (W/ Tom Koehler)
04/03/2023
Raver Symbolism (W/ Tom Koehler)
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... SOUNDTRACK: Sharpwaist "Amyl Nitrate" (attached) The Sadist "Penis in Pussy" (attached) Ravendark's Monarhical Canticle "Anti-Hunamismo Patrio" (attached) Alternative TV Criminal Mafia The 28th Day LINKS: Tom at Instagram:
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Riding the Trenwave: Safety Propaganda Records (W/ Zac Davis)
03/24/2023
Riding the Trenwave: Safety Propaganda Records (W/ Zac Davis)
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. And who better to launch the label with than one of our best friends Zac Davis, he of Lambsbread and assorted experimental noise and punk rock fame, with a new project: Clearance. The Clearance record is called, appropriately, Information Warfare. "Memories of screenworld Hybrid chains of rhetoric forming broadly cast codex Chakra frequency blasting, soul into text, mind into vector Scalar soul in 9G, the last word heard always remains law for the time of being The reenactment of the procession (learning to embrace degradation), graduation to grammar, leaping over logic A new grammar to be learned and destroyed" Zac and Adam sit down to discuss propaganda, rhetoric, info warfare, January 6 and the genre codification of atonal music SOUNDTRACK: Merzbow SPK Clearance "011" LINKS: Clearance
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