In this Locust Radio “Special Report” — a preview of a segment from forthcoming episode twenty-one — we interview two members of the Carbondale Assembly for Radical Equity about organizing mutual aid and solidarity with trans and queer persons relocating from increasingly hostile areas.
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep. 20 - Shake the City
In this episode, recorded downwind from an increasingly immolated Canada, we interview Alexander Billet, author of the book, Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis from 1968 Press (2022).
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Locust Radio Ep. 19 - The Monsters Are Coming
In this episode of Locust Radio, Tish, Laura, and Adam discuss the theme of, and editorial for, Locust Review #10, “The Monsters Are Coming,” the social construction of the monstrous, the idea of “solidarity with monsters,” differentiating between “their” monsters and “ours”…
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep. 18 - The Machine of Reward and Discipline
In this episode we listen to music from the Whistle Pigs, These Magnificent Tapeworms, The Flowers of Evil, and Omnia Sol, and have readings of stories and poetry from Tish Turl, Donald A. Wolheim, and Adam Ray Adkins. And Tish, Adam, and Laura discuss collective social PTSD, the public freakouts Reddit, an increasing intolerability of daily life…
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep 17.5 - Ring the Dollar Stores (Preview)
This is a preview of the second half of our Halloween episode. To hear the full episode become a Locust Review patron. In the second half of our Halloween episode our digital recording system continually glitches in a gesture of solidarity to help free us from the grip of capitalist machines.
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep. 16 - Irrealist Combat League
Our guest this month is Alex McIntyre from the Irrealist Combat League. Our music is by Pet Mosquito and Omnia Sol. And our featured readings come from Mike Linaweaver and the Stink Ape Resurrection Primer (by Tish Turl and Adam Turl).
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep. 15 - Starbucks vs. Utopia
After the opening reading, a sketch based on an excerpt from the Stink Ape Resurrection Primer, Tish and Adam interview Ken LeBlanc, a rank-and-file member of the Main Street Carbondale, Illinois Starbucks union organizing committee. The Starbucks Workers United organizing effort went public in Carbondale in late May. LeBlanc discusses organizing, how to start a union, the grievances of her co-workers, making food for folks as an art, the Restaurant Organizing Project, how uncontested corporate power breeds unethical behavior, the grassroots organizing in Southern Illinois around abortion rights and reproductive justice, and speculates — at our request — on her idea of utopia.
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep 10 Richard Hamilton’s Discordant Will
In this episode Tish and Adam talk to the poet Richard Hamilton about his new book, Rest of Us (Recenter Press, 2021) and 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 to write or make art for the working-class and oppressed, the relationship of visual art to poetry, and the discordant will of the revolutionary subject.
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep 4.5 The Cookie Monster Who Flew Into Space from Peoria, Illinois
For the second half of our show, available to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, Tish Markley and Adam Ray Adkins share more of their work. We also talk about Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and narrative conceptual art, and why the Peoria Cookie Monster mural is so much more interesting than those monoliths that have been appearing lately. If you want to hear this portion, and haven’t subscribed yet, do so now.
Read MoreEpisode 1 - Art, Poetry, + Boomer the Three-Legged Piss Hero
Locust Radio is Locust Review’s monthly podcast on the weird, the political, and where they intersect in fiction, art, poetry and creativity. Hosted by LR editors Tish Markley, Adam Turl and Alexander Billet, Locust Radio features discussions of the radical weird, history and current events, interviews with artists, writers, and musicians, and readings of conceptual art, poetry and fiction. Locust Radio is produced by Drew Franzblau. Music is by Omnia Sol.
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