Cult. Magazine Podcast

Pod back. Join this time with poet, musician, performer, lover, and most importantly guy from Boston Lucas Restivo. We talk about a lot of important stuff: drunk driving, townie mysticism, Lamelo Ball, using AI to write a novel to get laid, his band/corporation Intac, Ozempic literature, and much much more. You're gonna want to listen to this right freaking now kihd.

That's rightt pod backkkk. Joined with MVP guest PJ Lombardo to talk about his recently published book The Blue Cherub. We get into all the important points about the book so if you really want to get it and not be a complete idiot you sorta gotta listen. Sorry dog.

Pod is BACK. No Jake on this one. Spencer, Jenkin, and Matt incited a coup.  They riff about horny zoo animals for like a half-hour, but then get serious about the controversies surrounding AI in literature, particularly Mia Ballard's slop horror novel, Shy Girl. Spoiler: it sucks no matter what.  Fight AI, feed your soul, and stick this bad boy in your ears. Update: Jake shall return. 

poooooddddddd. oscars, stabbings,  Denver, that statue they have at the Denver airport, climate collapse, Frazer doesn’t really know about any states or cities besides Boston, world war thwee, and some other shit too.

The master of mashups has locked, loaded, and blown our brains into a pink mist with 43 minutes of chaotic bliss.

Podddddd backkkkkkkkkk. Joined this time by big time super mega special guest dj sensitive jock. Following the release of his mix "a page from my diary" Jacques joined us on the pod to talk about his inspiration behind the mix and talk about a bunch of other stuff too. 

Pod back. Okay yeah so this one is not what you would call timely or thoughtful or prescient or groundbreaking or however else you might typically describe our podcast. But what you can definitely call this episode is long. That’s right folks this is two episodes we’ve been sitting on for too long and thought fuck it let’s just slam these babies together and be done with it. Idk maybe you could cl...

Hot on the heels of an election that happened almost two months ago we bring you BREAKING coverage of the NYC Mayor election. Okay yeah you caught us we sort of had this one sitting on the shelf for a bit and are throwing it out there because we didn't record over the holidays but don't let that patina full you folks this shit is still gold. Also some good lore here: this was the first t...

Yeah you read the caption I don't have to explain this shit to you asshole. It's a real interview with Ben Gore who put out a really good sculpture book. Listen please it's actually a great book and Ben has a lot of things to say about making compelling things of and within the contemporary moment. I didn't mean to talk to you like that it's just been a long day. I love yo...

Pod back. Matt saw on Facebook that Charles Bukowski was bisexual so we riffed about that for like forty minutes. Highlights: Would Bukowski be more into video poker and guns instead of writing novels and confessional poetry had he lived today, general confessional crutching in literature, America has been bad forever, accutane, playing on your phone vs writing, and then Matt read two poems. Then...

Pod back pod back pod back. Frazer made it out of the woods and onto the pod. So this is the "how was the trail pod" for the most part. We're talking isolation, smoking cigs and eating bad shit, the illusion of breaking away from society, and the freedom and tragedy of American neglect. Put dat in your ears bb.

Pod... it's back. Jenkin and Jake duo pod and this one is sorta crazy style and chopped and screwed. Topics are the following: trains and New York geography, the hype-gay FIDI Burger King poetry reading, William S. Burroughs, was Luigi an Adderall guy, how the hell do watches work, the AI bubble as it relates to people who make less than 50k a year, Stephen Paddock, Faulkner stolen valor, and...

Pod back. Sorta late posting this one but also sorta cooked on this shit so shut up. Seriously. Starting to piss me off fr. Umm but we got into the following: ICE, the end of Best American Poetry (bless up), adolescent cartoon porn experiences, technology as a parallel and antagonistic force to humanity, Harold Bloom is a little bitch, a "poetic lifestyle", Israel fake peace talks, and t...

Okay okay okay I know what you're thinking. Where da pod been? Shit man my computer broke so pod had to wait. But, guess what, POD IS BACK. Joined this time by poet Sam Robinson to talk about his new book Man With Head Removed. We also talk about the pros and cons of self-publishing, creating art "en plein air" during a time of constant atrocity and mass degradation, a rat that kill...

Pod is back inshallah pod is back. Joined by very special guest this week poet and musician June Mota. We get INTO IT on this one lemme tell ya. Talking about MFA psyops, Drake, self flagellation as the only viable means of gaining acceptance for expressions of resistance, the inherently skeptical ways we approach art and the inherently cynical way it approaches us, and much much more. Go on and e...

Ummm that's right baby... POD IS BACK. We were supposed to have a guest this week but they canceled so we said fuck it, full riff pod. Welcome back to the slop zone people; we don't give a shit anymore. Ended up getting into some good stuff actually: the self eating nature of the left in the face of fascism, Mary Oliver as a psyop, the necessary burden of eating the woe of a declining em...

Podddddd isssss back. Joined this time by poet Michael Chang to talk about his book "Things a Bright Boy Can Do". We talk about humor in poetry, fake vulnerability, utilizing contemporary speech, and just generally talk a bunch of shit. Buy Michael's book it's really good. Alright get dat in your ears.

Ah shittt the pod is back. Can you believe it? We sat down with Soloman Gottfried, the music and programming director of Close Up NYC, a new jazz bar in LES, on the heels of their one year anniversary and the closing out of their "Roots in Sound" music festival. Sol had a lot to say about community, artist attention, the atmosphere garnered by particular institutions, and a whole bunch m...

Pod is back. We were joined by Lebanese visual artist, comics author, and musician Mazen Kerbaj to talk about his new book "Gaza in My Phone". We get into a lot with Mazen including effective and ineffective expression of atrocity, the current climate of daily anticipated mass death and how an artist is to react to it, as well as the many facets of repression one faces if they decide to...

Little treat for y'all here. This is the full "The Depravity of Vegandale" essay from our most recent issue, Vol. 3 Issue 1, written and read by managing editor, co-founder, big dawg, Matt Gillick. If you haven't gotten a copy of the issue you still can on our online store. Enjoy souljuhs.

Thank you to everyone that made it out to Honey's the other night. Such an incredible reading. Thank you to everyone that read and thank you very much to Maya and everyone at Discount Guillotine for creating such a special space to share work. Featured readers: Mira Shane, Nestan Nikouradze, Iva Moore, Jordan Devroux, Matt Gillick, June Mota

OH HOT DAMN them cult boys came back with a banger. We were joined by Grotto co-founding editor and Baltimore HEAVY HITTER PJ Lombardo and got the chance to speak about the Surrealist-Grotesque, Grotto, poetics of the American wasteland, and much much more. Gonna wanna put this one in your head right freaking now man. 

Awww shittttt the cult boys are back with a banger. It's pod time and we got the original recipe (Jake Frazer and Matt) cooking up for this one. Plus, hold on now, a very special treat! Coming all the way from the lake of fire, the ghost of Jeffery Epstein joined us to talk about our forthcoming issue! (Which, I'll remind you, you can buy on our website right now!) But it's not all...

Yeah yeah yeah you know what I'm gonna say... POD IS BACK BABY! This week we were joined by Taylor Stout the head editor at Copy Magazine. We got into some STUFF with this one: how evil large magazines are, the necessity of making community-based publications, the pitfalls of influencing others online, and a bunch more stuff. And, oh shit, listen to this... Copy just dropped a new issue! And...

That's right folks! The pod is back and it's podder than ever. To celebrate our 20th episode – that's right 20! – we decided to go ahead reach out to our dedicated listeners to hear what was on their minds. I'm talking Q&A people. We got some good stuff and some not so good stuff but thank you for everyone who decided to send us a question.  Oh also, check this out, we did...