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Locust Radio
by Locust Review
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 editors Tish Turl and Adam Turl, 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. Read more at locustreview.com. To get bonus content and subscribe to Locust Review, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/locustreview
Episodes
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Episode 31 - Lucky 13
In Locust Radio 31, Tish and Adam read poems from the forthcoming issue, discuss Trumpism and art in Venice, and try to unpack the editorial for Locust Review 13. Tish and Adam also listen to the song “Dortn” by Sister Wife Sex Strike. Discussed in this episode: Alma Allen; Suvrat Arora, “People...
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Episode #30 - Evicted from Heaven and Earth
In Locust Radio episode #30, Tish Turl interviews fellow Locust comrade, Adam Turl, on their new book, Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from Heaven and Earth (Revol Press, May 2, 2025). You can order the book from Revol Press, Amazon, or find it at other booksellers. Artists, ideas, books, writers,...
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Episode 29 - Dead Bees on Hot Cement
In this episode of Locust Radio, Adam Turl interviews R. Faze, author of the My Body series published in Locust Review. This is part of an ongoing series of interviews with Locust members and collaborators on contemporary artistic strategies. R. Faze’s My Body series in Locust Review: R. Faze, “I...
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Ep. 28 - Anupam Roy + Irrealist Expressionism
In episode 28 of Locust Radio, Adam Turl is joined by Anupam Roy – an artist based in Delhi and member of the Locust Collective. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. It is being conducted as research for a future text by...
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Ep. 27 - Escape from Capitalist Realism
In episode 27 of Locust Radio, Adam Turl is joined by Tish Turl – writer, editor, artist, poet and member of the Locust collective. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. This series is being conducted as research for a...
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Episode 26 - Omnia Sol + the Cinematic Rave
In episode 26 of Locust Radio, Adam Turl is joined by Omnia Sol – a comic, video, and sound artist in Chicago. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. This series is being conducted as research for a future book by Adam Turl...
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Ep. 25 - Dead + Born Again Labor
In this episode of Locust Radio we are flipping the script a bit. Instead of Tish, Laura and Adam interviewing someone, Tish and Adam are interviewed by Locust’s own Alexander Billet. They discuss, among other things, the Born Again Labor Museum, Adam and Tish’s ongoing sited conceptual art and...
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Ep. 24 - “We’ve Heard the Voice”
In this episode of Locust Radio, we present a sound collage composed of people speaking in solidarity with Palestine at Carbondale (Illinois) City Council meetings – as well as the city’s attempts to silence them. Community members had been lobbying the council for a ceasefire resolution as one…
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Ep. 23 - Escape from Normal Island
In this episode of Locust Radio, we hear an audio essay, “Escape from Normal Island,” by Locust comrade and author Adam Marks. Marks provides an extended exegesis of “normal island,” otherwise known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island. Discussion includes: the very normal...
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Episode 22 - In The Year 2025
In this episode of Locust Radio, we read excerpts from Bertolt Brecht’s War Primer (1950); listen to readings from Locust Review (2022-2023) — R. Faze’s “My Body’s Portal to Another Dimension;” Adam Marks’ “Rites of Obodena;” and Tish Turl’s “Immortality Beaver” (Stink Ape Resurrection Primer).…
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Episode 21 - Mutation or Death
Our first segment focuses on the history of socialism and science fiction (SF) in the early to mid-20th century United States, in particular the novels of George Allan England and the Popular Front SF of the Michelists in the 1930s and 1940s. Our second segment discusses the efforts of organizers...
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CARE: Trans + Queer Relocation Solidarity in So. ILL
In this Locust Radio “Special Report” — a preview of a segment from forthcoming episode twenty-one — we discuss organizing mutual aid and solidarity with trans and queer persons being forced to flee the increasingly draconian laws and regulations being put forward (and often passed) across the...
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Episode 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). We discuss music, the city, cultural fragmentation and the accelerated alienation of...
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Episode 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,” and how every...
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Episode 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...
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Episode 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. In...
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Episode 17 - We Are The Monsters We’ve Been Waiting For
In this Halloween episode of Locust Radio, Tish and Adam discuss folk horror, folk devils, and ghosts, listen to music from Fat JackRabbit, Omnia Sol, Hans Predator, and Worthless Scarecrow, and hear poetry from Mike Linaweaver and Leslie Lea. Our co-host Laura Fair-Schulz was out sick and we…
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Episode 4.5 - The Cookie Monster Who Flew Into Space from Peoria, Illinois
For the second half of our show -- which first aired for Locust patrons on December 29, 2020 -- Tish Turl and Adam Ray Adkins share more of their work. Adam Turl, Tish Turl, and Alex Billet also talk with Omnia Sol and Adam Ray Adkins about Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and narrative conceptual art…
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Episode 3.5 - Hugo Gernsback Gets Pounded in the Butt by His Own Apolitical Scientific Utopianism
In this second half of episode three (originally posted to our Patrons in December, 2020) Adam, Tish, and Alex share some of our current writing and research, including a report on a much-overlooked group of writers who tried to claim sci-fi for communism in the 1930s, and an overview of the work...
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Episode 2.5 - The Goths Are Alright
From the second half of our second episode — initially made available to our subscribers and patrons on December 11, 2020 — we discuss Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death and Roger Corman’s 1964 film adaptation, in light of then-president Donald Trump catching Covid. We also read a few...
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Episode 16.5 - Abolish Wednesdays! (Excerpt)
This is a preview/excerpt from the second half of Locust Radio 16. To get the full second-half subscribe to Locust or join our Patreon. In the second half of episode 16, Alex McIntyre, Tish Turl, Laura Fair-Schulz, and Adam Turl discuss demanding our mayors fight bears, abolishing Wednesdays,...
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Episode 16 - Irrealist Combat League
Our guest this month is Alex McIntyre from the Irrealist Combat League, Revolutionary Education Distro, and formerly the Cooper Point Journal. We discuss the idea of politics as theater, the irrealist rejection of the world as-is, Leninist fan-fiction, theatrical action (in a Brechtian sense) vs.…
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Locust Radio Ep. 15.5 - Utopia vs. Apocalypse (Preview)
Our guest for the second half of Locust Radio episode 15 is our very own Alexander Billet. Alex is a writer, artist, and editor at Locust Review. They join us in the virtual Locust studio to discuss the editorial for Locust Review 8, “The Utopia Principle,” which Alex took the lead on writing.…
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Episode 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...
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Episode 14.5 - Art w/ Workers + Comrades (Preview)
This is an excerpt from the second half of Locust Radio episode 14. To get the full episode subscribe to Locust Review. In the second half of the episode, we continue to talk to Crystal Stella Becerril about making art as a human compulsion vs. making art for pleasure, how pleasure is distorted…
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Episode 14 - What if You Had Taken the Day Off?
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...
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Episode 13 - Glitch vs. Digital Funko Pops
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...
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Episode 12.5 - Breaking the Gaslights of Pandemic Realism (Preview)
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,...
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Episode 12 - A Journal for the Plague Decade
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,...
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Episode 11.5 - I Live an Hour From My Body (Preview)
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...
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Episode 11 - Locust Phenotype Plasticity
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,...
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Episode 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). 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…
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Episode 9 - Art + Propaganda
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)…
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Episode 8 - Between Worlds
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...
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Episode 7.5 - Barricades On Sunset (Preview)
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...
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Episode 7 - Breaking Out of the Steel Cage!
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…
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Episode 6.5 - Kenneth Goldsmith’s Seagulls vs. Punk Rock Pirates (Preview)
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...
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Episode 6 - Texas Ain't the Reason
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...
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Episode 5.5 - GameStop Never Happened (Preview)
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...
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Episode 5 - Norming In America
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...
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Episode 4 - Make Acid Communist Again
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...
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Episode 3 - Four Seasons Totalitarian Landscaping
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...
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Episode 2 - Death Becomes Us (A Very Locust Halloween)
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...
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Episode 1 - Art, Poetry, and Boomer the Three-Legged Piss Hero
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...
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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 editors Tish Turl and Adam Turl, 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. Read more at locustreview.com. To get bonus content and subscribe to Locust Review, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/locustreview
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