Locust Radio

Tish and Adam are joined by our new co-host Laura Fair-Schulz, our new co-producer Omnia Sol, and our guest, poet, writer, and comrade Crystal Stella Becerril. Crystal Stella Becerril collaborated for several years with Locust Radio co-producer Alexander Billet, Omnia, and Adam at the Red Wedge project in the 2010s. She is a freelance writer, podcaster, and an organizer with the National Writers U...

After Sewerbot rises into the city to take revenge on the surface meat, Tish and Adam talk to Locust collective member and artist Omnia Sol and their new album Sunshine Tapes . They discuss vaporwave, glitch art, NFTs (the “Funko Pops of digital art”), sabotage and strikes vs. scientific management/Taylorism as “glitch,” improvisation in glitch art, undermining capitalist conceptions of time, déri...

In the second half of episode 12 — for patrons and subscribers only — Tish, Adam and Holly Lewis focus on questions of art, culture and individual subjectivity as they relate to the pandemic, the idea of the working-class seizing virtual technologies, automatic writing vs. anxiety and death, haunting the rich, revenge and utopia, the sculpting of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary violence, t...

With the pandemic still crawling along, and with so much of the dominant narrative telling us it’s over, we thought it would be helpful to have a discussion about the plague. So our good friend, philosopher and writer and editor at Spectre Holly Lewis, joins us to talk disease, capitalism, ideology, and reclaiming our cultural experiences for the sake of resistance and joy. We discuss the repeated...

In the second half of the episode — for patrons and subscribers only — R. Faze reads their story, “I Live an Hour from My Body” from Locust Review #4. We then continue to discuss art and politics with Laura Fair-Schulz, including her works, “Song of the Barren Tree,” “Circuit Eye Vines,”and “Dysmorph Becoming Aware.” We also discuss Laura’s process in greater detail, NFTs and art world finance, Ma...

Why does this extraterrestrial on a talk show say the aliens want to “help us,” and why are they so interested in our water? Seems fishy… Adam and Tish speak with artist, writer, and Locust Arts & Letters Collective member Laura Fair-Schulz about her work, and how labor, identity, gender, abstraction, dysphoria, and liberation all inform it. At the end of part one, Tish reads a poem from the S...

In this episode Tish and Adam talk to the poet Richard Hamilton about his new book, Rest of Us (Recenter Press, 2021). Richard Hamilton shares a number of his poems. We also discuss, among other things, the relationship of the social and the subjective, absurdist aesthetic strategies, the afterlife of slavery, remixing time, the “MFA industry” and the Kenneth Goldsmith controversy , what it means...

In this episode begin with an excerpt from the Locust anthology series, Swarm Stories , and then Tish and Adam move on to discussing art, politics, and propaganda with Locust member Anupam Roy. Anupam Roy is an artist and propagandist with the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. We also discuss Anupam’s drawings, appearing in Locust Review #5, Excuse Me I Was Sharpening My Teet...

After the council of oil snakes convenes to discuss the worm spider rebellion, Adam and Tish review the theme of Locust Review’s first “theory annual,” Imago . Co-host Alexander Billet was on assignment during the recording of episode eight, but will return for the second half of the episode (for patrons only). To subscribe to Imago , sign up for the Locust Patreon! https://www.locustreview.com/ed...

In the second part of our show, available to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, Tish and Alex read some new poems. We also continue our discussion about surrealism, particularly how it might pertain to our organizations and the possibility of transformation. Can the odd and nonsensical allow us to envision our lives and cities dramatically reshaped? If you want to hear more than just the preview of this episode, t...

After Salvador Dali receives a well-deserved beat-down, Tish, Adam and Alex talk surrealism! Widely known, but frequently depoliticized in our current day, surrealism is a cornerstone of the critical irrealist project for us at Locust Review . We discuss its origins, missions and goals in liberating the mind from the fetters of capitalism and empire, and its communist activism. Morning Star , by M...

In the second part of our show, available to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, Mike and Leslie join us to talk about how utterly feeble most conceptual poetry and art are, and contrast it with their own vital experiences in Corpus Christi’s underground music and arts scenes. We ponder how the pandemic relief packages may have provided some breathing room for the working class to rediscover its creativity. And fin...

We’ve got Locust contributors and Texan communists Mike Linaweaver and Leslie Lea as guests this episode to talk about the disaster in Texas after winter storm Uri knocked out the whole state’s power. We discuss the uneven (and deadly) consequences of the catastrophe, the venality of the state’s conservative rulers, the ineptitude of liberals’ supposed alternative, and the slow unfolding apocalyps...

For the second half of our show, available to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, Alex reads a long excerpt from this massive essay in the newest issue of Salvage . Also, Tish, Adam and Alex talk about the aesthetics of the GameStop short squeeze, how capitalism presents us with the illusion of justice, and how we might see through the veneer. If you want to hear more than just the preview of this portion, you will...

Lots has happened since our last episode: the storming of the Capitol, the fascists’ disorientation, and the inauguration of a new president who can’t wait for us to get “back to normal.” Tish, Adam, and Alex discuss what it is about capitalism’s obsessions with normalcy that is so detrimental to working and oppressed people. Also, an unexpected guest shows up in the form of a dead coyote wearing...

We have guests! Artists Omnia Sol (whose music you will recognize as a regular feature at Locust Radio) and Adam Ray Adkins (a.k.a. Dirt: Son of Earth and co-host of the Acid Left videocast) come on the show to talk their own work, the impact of acid communism, and what it means to build a 21st century psychedelic reason. Each of our guests shares some of their poetry and music, and we hear some m...

Adam, Tish, and Alex discuss all manner of post-election oddities, and what they tell us about an imminent Joe Biden presidency. We also talk about the prospects for anti-fascism, the tasks of radical art, and why brunch is a stupid idea for a meal in the first place. Plus, poetry from Tish and fellow Locust editor Mike Linaweaver, and the final thoughts of two very presidential severed heads. For...

Happy Halloween! No surprise we love the scary season here at Locust Radio. To celebrate, Adam, Tish and Alex discuss some of their favorite artifacts of radical(-ish) horror: Larry Cohen’s Maniac Cop , Chuck Palahniuk’s Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey , and clipping.’s There Existed an Addiction To Blood . We also check in with some spooky pals defending an asylum from gentrifiers and read...

Welcome to Locust Radio ! The weird, the eerie, the irreal, the eldritch, the fantastical and just plain horrifying; they’re everywhere today as the world seems to fall apart. In this, our first episode, Tish, Adam and Alex discuss some of these ideas and others that went into the creation of this podcast and Locust Review . We talk about the history of non-realist radical art movements, and what...