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System of SystemsNot So IndustriousWe’re back after an extended hiatus, Adam’s paternity leave included, and a massive thanks to the subscribers who bore with us through this transitional phase. “Going legit with a bigwig media gig has its upsides, like making money,” says the boss man. “But it’s also made it harder to keep up with the projects that first launched me to infamy. I’m still trying to strike the balance, and a fussy baby boy isn’t making that any easier.”The easiest way to get us to prioritize this project, of course, is to subscribe. So try to do that...
2026-01-161h 01
System of SystemsThe Prodigal Jasian Son (w/ David Jager)Since we last posted, Adam became a father. Writer David Jager joins the show and he, Adam and Matt wade into some of his recent writing topics, like the origins of the Palestarded suicide martyr Aaron Bushnell and the brilliance of Gavin McInnes. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON OST:Acid Mothers Temple "Mammary Intercourse"Merzbow "Nil Vagina Mail Action 4"Boyd Rice "Disney Land Can Wait"Amen Corner "Black Thorn"Mac Miller "Cinderella" Follow David on X: @highroadjivesDavid's Website: https://www.davidhiroshijager.net/
2025-11-251h 40
System of SystemsAdam's Third 36th Birthday (w/ FRIENDS)Adam celebrates his 36th birthday for the third time, with a rotating cast of friends. SOUNDTRACK:Crime Mob "Ain't No Joke" Circle of Ouroboros "Malaainnen..." Thee Headcoats "All my Feelings Denied" Guru Guru "Der-LSD Marsch" The Dream Syndicate "Boston"
2025-11-071h 41
System of SystemsMonologue: 'The Apprentice'Adam discusses Ali Abbasi's Trump biopic, Sebastian Stan's incredible performance, and portraiture in general, and finds in the film a surprisingly and perhaps accidentally positive portrait of the President Elect
READ THE ESSAY HERE and HERE
2024-11-2136 min
System of SystemsDada Disturbed (w/ Morgan Garrett)Philly based musician and artist Morgan Garrett's excellent recent album Purity has been compared to bands as unrelated as Korn and the Shadow Ring by midwit rock writers. Nevertheless, there is something interesting about the references, and Adam found himself shocked by how fascinated he was by this strange, disorienting and highly original music.
Morgan joins the show to discuss the album as well as the very upsetting personal experience that inspired it
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Morgan Garrett "Suck" Korn "ADIDAS" (Live at...
2024-10-161h 23
System of SystemsPREVIEW Abuse of THE SUBSTANCE (w/ Jack Mason and Ryan Simón)With Jack Mason of the Perfume Nationalist and Ryan Simón American Vulgaria Magazine
OST:Raffertie "The Substance" Butthole Surfers "Dum Dum" Endor "Pump it Up" JJ Band "Live I Kungston" CLOSER Raffertie "French Cuisine" LINKS:Adam on The Substance
2024-10-1140 min
System of SystemsHermanos MenendezMatt and Adam discuss Ryan Murphy's second season of Monsters on the Menendez Brothers, the Gary Indiana novel Resentment also about the case, and other goings on
OSTMIlli Vanilli "Girl You Know It's True"Batrider "Tara" Skinny Puppy "Bites" Associates "Party Fears Two" The Lox "Money Power Respect"
2024-10-091h 37
System of SystemsYe and 'The Painter'Inspired by Ye's recent posting of clips from the iconic video piece by Los Angeles conceptual and performance artist Paul McCarthy, 'The Painter', Adam shares his writing on McCarthy originally published in 2021
OSTPaul McCarthy, Mike Kelley and Violent Onsen Geisha "Guitar"Brainbombs "How to make an Adult Man Feel Sick" Kids See Ghosts "Feel the Love"LINKSAdam on Paul McCarthy
2024-09-2737 min
System of SystemsTHOUGHTS on 'Wise Guy'Inspired by Alex Gibney's recent documentary on David Chase, Adam finally tries to communicate what 'The Sopranos" means to him
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREONLINKS:Adam's essay on The Sopranos
2024-09-1513 min
System of SystemsDesire to Destruct (w/ Jukka Siikala)Finnish multimedia artist, painter, and recent author Jukka Siikala joins SOS by SP to discuss his zine series Seksnobyl, new film work, doing album art, the differences and similarities between writing and making visual work, and the state of Finnish politics.OSTCannibal Corpse "Born in a Casket" Pharoah Overlord "Verbi" Impaled Nazarene "The Horny and the Horned" Bizarre Uproar "Purification" (ATTACHED)Rattus "Sodan Tragedia"LINKS:Jukka websiteBuy SeksnobylAdam interviewed by SP
2024-09-061h 11
System of SystemsTHOUGHTS: Art Market CrashWhy 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
OST: Omit "Restrain""Nuit Noire "Mystery I"LINKS: Adam's text on the art market crash HERE Art Newspaper on the Crash HERE The ridiculous shit that Nina Hartmann says HERE
2024-09-0214 min
System of SystemsJournal Entries, Aug 2024Adam documents observations, thoughts and dreams he had from July to August, 2024
OSTJandek "Blue Blister"Non "Fire in the Organism"The Vaselines "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" Van Morisson "Streets of Arklow" Read Adam's text at Substack
2024-08-1654 min
System of SystemsCheap Shocks, Part 2: On P**NIn the second part of a two-part series, Adam laments a culture where eroticism has collapsed and content is all porn...
OST:Meatshits "Forced to have Sex"Coil "Paint me as a Dead Soul" The Cure "The Holy Hour" READ THE ESSAY AT SUBSTACK
2024-08-1322 min
System of SystemsCheap Shocks, Part 2: On PornIn the second part of a two-part series, Adam laments a culture where eroticism has collapsed and content is all porn...
OST:Meatshits "Forced to have Sex"Coil "Paint me as a Dead Soul" The Cure "The Holy Hour" READ THE ESSAY AT SUBSTACK
2024-08-1222 min
System of SystemsCheap Shocks, Part 1: On GoreIn the first of a two-part series, Adam looks at the mainstream's insistence on buckets of goreOST:Regurgitate "Fleshfeast"Unit Moebius "The Groove" The Smiths "Cemetry Gates"
READ THE FULL TEXT AT SUBSTACK
2024-08-0913 min
System of SystemsPREVIEW The Gen-X Problem (W/ Jack Mason)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...
SOUNDTRACKDouglas Coupland on Gen-X Madonna "Pray for Spanish Eyes" Burzum "Dunkelheit" Kool Keith "Blue Flowers" Trump on Stern Aphex Twin "Digeridoo" LIVE Nirvana "Aneurysm" LIVE LINKSThe Perfume Nationalist on Patreon Follow Jack at X: @lotus__p...
2024-08-0541 min
System of SystemsThe Teflon DonSelf-medicated on benzos and weed, Adam hits up Matt to discuss the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's lifeLINKS:Adam on Trump
2024-07-2327 min
System of SystemsPREVIEW Bending the Knee to Luke Turner in 2024Adam 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.
FULL EPISODE at PATREON
SOUNDTRACKCoroner "M...
2024-07-1603 min
System of SystemsHarm Reduction Mantra (W/ Shay Semple)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.
SOUNDTRACK:Blasphemy "N...
2024-07-112h 14
System of SystemsPREVIEW Lust4Life (W/ Udith Dematagoda)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 2FULL EPISODELINKS Buy Udith's novel Agonist Follow Udith on SubstackThe cast of Trainspotting reunites
2024-07-0208 min
System of SystemsBased Safety/Cringe Propaganda 2024, pt 1Adam discusses the good, the bad and the bewildering of 2024, as of June. WRITE-UP LINK
2024-06-2744 min
System of SystemsLARP LIFE (w/ Ben Werther)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 th...
2024-06-241h 46
System of SystemsANTIFAshionable (w/ Elena Velez)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!Soundtrack: Total "You'll Get Yours Yet" Lungfish "Amnesiax" Andy Stott "Dark Details" Nico "You Forgot to Answer" Goldie "Angel" LINKS: Elena Velez websiteAdam Lehrer on Elena VelezElena Velez at Twitter: @_velcel
2024-05-311h 37
System of SystemsPREVIEW Laibach Merch Game (w/ Saul Adamczewski and another)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
OSTSaul Adamscewski "Gulag"Syd Barrett "Rats" Insecure Men "All Women Love Me" Laibach "Brat Moj" Country Teasers "Country Fag"
2024-05-2807 min
System of SystemsNo Fun to be Had (W/ Carlos Giffoni)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. Carlos discusses his discovery of noise living in Miami in the '90s, creating the best noise festival of all time, his many collaborations with some of the best artists of the last few decades, and his new, tranquil album Dream Walker.
SOUNDTRACK:Carlos Giffoni "Saltas"Incapacitants "Living Zombie is Abo...
2024-05-201h 22
System of SystemsREPOSTED 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 evi...
2024-05-081h 59
System of SystemsSafety Propaganda 101At 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 UNCENSORED NY
2024-04-241h 17
System of SystemsSafety Propaganda 101At 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 UNCENSORED NY
2024-04-231h 23
System of SystemsWeebed OutAdam is back from Japan: tales of shopping, noise, fem-boys, etc OST Merging Moon "Blackout before Shadow" Prurient and Linkekraft "Container of Souls" Beherit "Sadomatic Rights" LLoyd Banks "Empathy" Blancmange "Living on the calling" LINKS: Hospital NWN Fest
2024-04-221h 23
System of SystemsPREVIEW DECA DYKEShortly 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 ro...
2024-04-0214 min
System of SystemsPREVIEW 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 w...
2023-12-1214 min
System of SystemsOlympian 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...
2023-11-271h 27
System of SystemsLoads 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 "Home" Christ Agony "Inceremonial" Aphex Twin "Xtal" Lungfish "Samuel" Charley Patton "Tom Rushen Blues" Duffy Power "Love's Gonna Go" LINKS: American Vulgaria Magazine Follow Ryan Simón on X: @ryandsimon Follow American Vulgaria on Instagram: @americanvulgaria Ryan interviews Adam for...
2023-10-121h 42
System of SystemsPREVIEW 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. FULL EPISODE HERE LINKS: Nutcrankr New Write Pod New Write on Twitter: @NewWritePod Dan on Twitter: @baltic_dan Watch Adam's short play, Celebutante Rape Therapy
2023-10-0417 min
System of SystemsAt 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 '90...
2023-09-051h 51
System of SystemsPREVIEW 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...
2023-08-2843 min
System of SystemsPREVIEW 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...
2023-08-1711 min
System of SystemsAll 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...
2023-08-111h 44
System of SystemsFucked 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...
2023-07-121h 27
System of SystemsPREVIEW 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 ev...
2023-07-0610 min
System of SystemsProbable 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...
2023-06-282h 01
System of Systems(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...
2023-06-2415 min
System of SystemsCommunication 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...
2023-05-251h 22
System of SystemsPREVIEW 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 "Follow" Seigneur Voland "et autres germes de pourriture" Eyeless in Gaza "The Decoration" Smell and Quim "Anatomy Shatterme" The Homosexuals "My Night Out" L...
2023-04-2815 min
System of SystemsAspirational 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...
2023-04-201h 50
System of SystemsUNLOCKED 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...
2023-04-181h 50
System of SystemsRaver 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 "Why Don't you do me Right" Criminal Mafia "Eternal Sleep" The 28th Day "25 Pills" LINKS: Tom at Instagram: @dieamerican Studio visit with Tom Tom...
2023-04-031h 32
System of SystemsRiding 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...
2023-03-241h 22
System of SystemsShadow Ring Covers (W/ Eric Schmid and Connor Tomaka) 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 "...
2023-03-141h 49
System of SystemsPREVIEW Fear of Lewdness (w/ Cliff Sargent) 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 "...
2023-02-2713 min
System of SystemsRomping and Stomping (w/ Marika Thunder)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... OST: Spike in Vain "God on Drugs" https://music.apple.com/us/album/god-on-drugs/1556150663?i=1556150666 The Sensational Alex Harvey Band "Rock and Rool" https://music.apple.com/us/album/rock-rool-remastered-2002/1575434405?i=1575434590 Bushwick Bill "Ever so Clear" https://music.apple.com/us/album/ever-so-clear/698937345?i=698937498 Skrewdriver "Pulling on the Bo...
2023-02-211h 56
System of SystemsCopenhagen Cowpunks (W/ Bradford Kessler and Glen Rockney)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. Other topics include feminism, bodybuilding, Friedkin,Spengler, and I don't remember what else. Love. Hate. Can ya feel it? CAN YOU FEEL IT? SOUNDTRACK: Cliff Martinez "Miu Stretches" The Skeptics "Notice" Aaliyah "Are you that Somebody" Anti-Cimex "Victims of a Bombraid" Thy Serpent "Curtain of Treachery" OUTRO Sisters of Mercy "More" LINKS: Bradford Kessler artist page...
2023-01-271h 36
System of SystemsPREVIEW 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...
2023-01-0921 min
System of SystemsEmperor Bezos (W/ Lev Parker)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. SOUNDTRACK Excerpt from the Patheticist Manifesto...
2023-01-061h 54
System of SystemsPREVIEW Flame it All (W/ Kevin Kautzman and Brad Kelly)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. FULL EPISODE HERE SOUNDTRACK: Outpatients "TV Violence" Big Flame "Debra" Radical Retards "Elvis" DJ Freak "Analogue Terror" Ike and Tina "I Idolize You" LINKS: Art of Darkness at Twitter: @artofdarkpod Kevin at Twitter: @kautzmania Brad at Twitter: @bra...
2022-12-1614 min
System of SystemsMostly Gut and Nut (W/ Kevin Tobin)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. SOUNDTRACK: Die Kombination "Leibenbluster" Normil Hawaiians "Martin" Ectomorph "In Dreams" Eric's Trip "Eyes Shut" OUTRO Kevin Tobin and Jesse Siminski "Abigil IsIsn't Real" LINKS: Kevin Tobin at Lubov Kevin Tobin interview at Safety Propaganda
2022-10-251h 49
System of Systems(PREVIEW) Damaged Blonde Ambition (W/ Jack Mason and Filthy Armenian)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! Two of the most discussed cultural artifacts right now revive the damaged blonde to Promethean proportions! First, we have Ryan Murphy's new Netflix series, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, in which Evan Peters the titular iconic cannibalistic serial killer. A disjointed and weird program, the show often feels like two diametrically...
2022-10-0608 min
System of Systems(PREVIEW) Hellenic Glory (W/ Zach Brown)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. FULL EPISODE HERE SOUNDTRACK: Beat Happening "You Turn me On" Bruno Cossano "Violent Desire" Nation of Ulysses "Spectra Sonic Sound" Boyd Rice "Silence is Golden" Mgla "Groza II" Mott the Hoople "Thunderbuck Ram" LINKS: Zach Brown's website Zach Brown Instagram
2022-09-2316 min
System of SystemsImmersed in Death (W/ Worth)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...
2022-08-271h 21
System of Systems(PREVIEW) Satanic Art Phag Propaganda (W/ Psyop Resistor)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. FULL EPISODE SOUNDTRACK: (Psyop's pick) Vothana "Vi Muon Tra Thuo" (Adam's pick)Torgeist "Devoted to Satan" (Psyop's pick)Hate Forest "Elder Race" Boyd Rice "An Eye for an Eye" (Adam's pick) Abruptum "Feci Factum Sanguine Gladios Made Fieri Factus" (Psyop's pick)Arizmenda "Beyond the Shadows...
2022-08-0310 min
System of SystemsReady to Fight (W/ Udith Dematagoda)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: Los Llamarada "Gone Gone Cold" Blod "Raw Meat Perfume" Arditi "Legionnaires" Clandestine Blaze "Chambers" Negative Approach "Ready to Fight" LINKS: Follow Udith at Twitter: @Udematagoda Hyperidean Press Anti-Cringe, by...
2022-07-261h 29
System of SystemsThe Diving Man (W/ Brad Kelly)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. Soundtrack: Plastikman "Outbak" Circle X "Current" Bobby Beausoleil "Hellion Rebellion" KMD "What a Nigga Know" Intolitarian "Allegiance to the Self" Elvis Presley "U...
2022-07-161h 52
System of SystemsNot Human (PREVIEW) (W/ Madeline Kuzak) 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...
2022-07-0511 min
System of SystemsCharlie Sheen's Trigger Threshold (w/ Will Sheldon)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...
2022-06-261h 29
System of SystemsThe Gay Cowboys of Contemporary Politics (PREVIEW) (W/ Kelby Losack and J. David Osborne)In this episode, Adam and Will are joined by the writers and co-hosts of the Agitator podcast, J. David Osborne and Kelby Losack. Both of these honorable men have new book projects out. Kelby's new novel is 'Letting out the Devils'. And David's new book is a hallucinatory essay called 'You Pray for Dry Weather at the Sight of the Sun'. We discuss those new works, video games, Cronenberg, cooming, and more. This is a preview. Full episode for patrons Soundtrack: Angry Samoans "Wild Hog Rhyde" Archie Shepp "Abstract" Zoviet France "Gesture, S...
2022-06-2210 min
System of SystemsGod Damn It Feels Good to Look Like a Gangsta (PREVIEW) (With Mikey MDC)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...
2022-06-0710 min
System of SystemsPREVIEW Alien Possessed Demon People (w/ Benjamin Kellogg)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: Benjamin at Instagram: @benjamin_kellogg Benjamin for Cultured:
2022-04-2812 min
System of SystemsThe Resurrection of St. John (w/ Glen Rockney and Joel Jensen)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
2022-04-141h 43System of SystemsCollectin' Scalps w/ Stock Pt. 6 (w/ Poorspigga)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: The Chills "Pink Frost" Thrones "Nostos Algos" Mystikal "That's The Nigga" Pharoah Sanders "Love is Here 2" Barathrum "Necromantical Ritual" Bladee "Be Nice 2 Me" LINKS: Sofia at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poorspigga/?hl=en
2022-04-051h 34
System of SystemsUNLOCKED Kids See Ghost Jail (W/ Berto) 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: Autechre - Further Eric’s Trip - Universe Prurient - Mask of Claws Forgotten Woods - In My Darkest Visions Buffalo - Freedom ...
2022-03-231h 29
System of SystemsPREVIEW Kids See Ghost Jail (W/ Berto)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. FULL EPISODE HERE SOUNDTRACK: Autechre - Further Eric’s Trip - Universe Prurient - Mask of Claws Forgotten Woods - In My Darkest...
2022-03-1414 min
System of Systems(PREVIEW) Collectin' Scalps w/ Stock Pt. 5: Vilified and Demonized (w/ John David Ebert)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...
2022-03-0913 min
System of SystemsFurniture Activism (w/ Alex Hampshire)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. SOUNDTRACK: Emerson Lake & Palmer "Lucky Man" Adam and the Ants "Feed me to the Lions" The Fall "R.O.D." XX Committee "Metal Worker"
2022-03-041h 14
System of SystemsUNLOCKED Cinema of Transgression (w/ Michael M. Bilandic)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 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...
2022-02-271h 35
System of SystemsReality BitesAdam 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. SOUNDTRACK: Deha "Better to Reign in Hell" Boyd Rice & Death in June "Black Sun Rising" Children of the Corn "Down For Mine" Bestial Summoning "Evil Will Prevail" SPK "Victim (live)" S...
2022-02-091h 30
System of Systems(PREVIEW) Filthy Good (w/ Filthy Armenian)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 c...
2022-01-3115 min
System of SystemsCollectin' Scalps w/ 'Stock Pt. 4: Hallucinogenic Figuration (w/ Bradford Kessler) 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:...
2022-01-241h 43
System of SystemsCinema of Transgression (PREVIEW) (w/ Michael M. Bilandic)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...
2022-01-211h 18
System of SystemsLivin' With a Gun Adam, Will, and Sandra discuss the two most undeniable masterpieces from Van Morrison's oeuvre. Adam had heard Van as a kid, but wouldn't become acquainted with the total mastery and genius of the songwriter until reading Lester Bangs' essay on Van's '67 swan song Astral Weeks and finally listened to the entirety of the record himself. It totally changed his life. Van recorded Astral Weeks, ranked by critics overall as the 4th greatest album of popular music history, when he was only 22 fucking years old! It is shocking the extent to which this young man was in...
2022-01-191h 14
System of SystemsWe Are Avatars (PREVIEW) (w/ Katherine Dee)Happy New Years, Motherfuckers! For the first show of 2022, Adam, Will and reoccurring guest host Sandra are joined by writer Katherine Dee, aka Default Friend, specifically to discuss the limitations of the "dissident" branded publishers that have sprouted up throughout Covid in response to a renewed enthusiasm for anti-mainstream thought. Can there be genuine dissidence when art is tethered to political backing of any kind? Who the fuck knows. Whatever. We also talk about cinema and celebrity and plastic surgery and Zac Efron's fake jaw making him look like a mongoloid. Sorry for...
2022-01-0514 min
System of SystemsCollectin' Scalps with Stock Pt. 3: World's Tiniest Man (w/ Laje Amare) 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 "Chime...
2021-12-241h 14
System of SystemsThe Persistence of... (W/ Yeerk. P) Friend of the show Yeerk. P joins the show and..... this is a weird conversation to summarize. It started with a thread that Yeerk posited about his belief that techno is a form of hard rock. This led to much discussion about genre, genre codification, the nature of art in late modernity, the persistence of wiggerdom, nu-metal, noise's absorption into broader pop music tendencies, David Lynch, and Antifa's hatred of art. Listen and enjoy, motherfuckers! SOUNDTRACK: Blunt Force Trauma - Schreklichkeit Slipknot - "Prosthetics" Gai - Liar Shackleton - Shimmer, Then Fade Charli XC...
2021-12-101h 24
System of SystemsThe Jouissance of the Micro-Cop UNLOCKED (w/ Nina Power and Lev Parker)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...
2021-12-021h 42
System of SystemsCollectin' Scalps with Stock Pt. 2: Cash Money Thousandaires (w/ Ben Morgan-Cleveland)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...
2021-11-221h 13
System of SystemsThe Jouissance of the Micro-Cop (PREVIEW) (w/ Nina Power and Lev Parker)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...
2021-11-1815 min
System of SystemsJanie Got a Gun (KYLE IS INNOCENT) (w/ Janie)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. SOUNDTRACK: Alvarius B "...
2021-11-161h 19System of SystemsThe Podcast of Disquiet Pt. 2 (w/ Guest Host Bimbo Ubermensch)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:Dead Reptile Shrine 'Burning Black Infinity' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bdVJfwmB34) Ligeti 'Volumina 1961-2' (https://youtu.be/wbLcI9-Js0U) Sandra: Halim El-Dabh's 'Crossing Into the Electromagnetic' (https://youtu.be/WR2YprO04zk) Will: Whitehouse 'Quality Time' (https://youtu.be/i4D...
2021-11-011h 53System of SystemsCollectin' Scalps with 'Stock Pt. 1 (w/ Alice Aster)(Preview)In 'Collectin' Scalps with 'Stock', a System of Systems side project, Adam takes second mic handing over creative direction to none other than based swaggot, artist, and former guest Alex Bienstock. In this series, the boys go undercover in the scourges of the New York art world, interviewing friends and foes alike to get to the bottom of the transgressively creative id that drives us to do this shit. In the first episode, we interview artist, puppeteer and sex worker Alice Aster to talk about her work, her philosophy, her side hustles, and more. Enjoy! ...
2021-10-2716 min
System of SystemsThe Podcast of Disquiet Pt. 1 (w/ Guest Host Bimbo Ubermensch)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. Tune in next week for part 2, where we will discuss our favorite scary records and visual art works. Favorite Horror Films: Adam: Juraj Herz The CrematorWill: Psychic TV First Transmission, Mr. Bungle "Quote Unquote" video Sandra: Pawel Pawlikowski Ida Favorite Horror Novels: Adam: Arthur Machen The Great God Pan, Gabrielle Wittkop The...
2021-10-221h 39
System of SystemsMany Taints (w/ Blauergeist!)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 t...
2021-10-141h 24
System of SystemsKanye, Leos, And Contempt For the Middle Class (W/ Bimbo Ubermensch and Ilydivna)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 b...
2021-09-221h 46
System of SystemsSynthetic Miasma (W/ Will Samson)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 Throbbing Gristle - Discipline (live) https://music.apple.com/us/album/discipline-reprise-live/1412909636?i=1412909785 Throbbing Gristle - Dead Souls Live https://music.apple.com/us/album/dead-souls-live/1412909636?i=1412909776 Captain Beefheart - Dachau Blues https://music.apple.com/us/album/dachau-blues/1579587935?i=1579588371 Pere Ubu - Chinese Radiation https://music.apple.com/us/album/chinese-radiation/1061144951?i=1061144960 Public Enemy Night of the Living Bassheads https://music.apple.com/us/album...
2021-09-141h 31
System of SystemsThe Agony and Ecstasy of THE STOCK (w/ Alex Bienstock)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...
2021-08-201h 38
System of SystemsDefinitely Addictive, Very PotentAdam 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 "I...
2021-08-061h 27
System of SystemsThey're All Gonna Fail (w/ Marc Horowitz) 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...
2021-07-291h 36
System of SystemsMartin, Into the Corner (featuring Gio Pennacchietti)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 "Shi...
2021-07-051h 46
System of SystemsFoucault Forgotten (W/ Geoff Shullenberger)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 na...
2021-06-301h 36
System of SystemsThe Death Mask of Art (W/ DC Miller)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...
2021-06-151h 58System of SystemsCryptoFASHionable (w/ Walter Pearce)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...
2021-06-101h 41System of SystemsTumblr Revelations (w/ Jana Surkova and Zach Langley ChiChi)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: ...
2021-05-112h 03