System of Systems

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

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It truly is a Brave New World

Perseus Traxx "Late Night Calls"
Pagan Skull - Miehet Vastaan Maailma (Ramones) (attached)
Tony Molina "Change my Ways" 
Westside Connection "Do You Like Criminals" 
The Byrds "Wasn't Born to Follow" 
Foul Play "AI"

Tennessee based recording and performing artist duo MEINSCHAFT discusses art, music, political ambiguity, more

Meinschaft "This Kiss"
The Residents "Swastikas on Parade" https://music.apple.com/us/album/swastikas-on-parade/518757784?i=518758551
Laibach "Geburt Einer Nation" https://music.apple.com/us/album/geburt-einer-nation/828105914?i=828105929
David Greenberger "The Seven Dwarfs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOmxABJwHe4
The Knife "We Share our Mother's Health" https://music.apple.com/us/album/we-share-our-mothers-health/1489763587?i=1489763595
LINKS:
BUY Meinschaft 'It was a Very Good Year' https://meinschaft.bandcamp.com/album/it-was-a-very-good-year 
MEINSCHAFT at X: @____mein

Multi-hyphenate artist, musician and writer Chino Amobi calls in from Houston to talk about his masterful new album Eroica and the state of the whole goddamn world

LINKS:
Chino Amobi at Bandcamp
Chino's Eroica Flora
Chino At Instagram: @chinoamobi

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 Woodstock)
The Shadow Ring "Cold Coffee"
Bladee "WODRAINER" 
Pink Reason "Cranes are Flying" 
Morgan Garrett "Mercy and Grace" 

LINKS:
Morgan Garrett, Purity

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

Matt 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

OST
MIlli Vanilli "Girl You Know It's True"
Batrider "Tara" 
Skinny Puppy "Bites" 
Associates "Party Fears Two" 
The Lox "Money Power Respect" 

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

OST
Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley and Violent Onsen Geisha "Guitar"
Brainbombs "How to make an Adult Man Feel Sick" 
Kids See Ghosts "Feel the Love"
LINKS
Adam on Paul McCarthy 

The Safety Propaganda guide to style

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OST
VINCENT GALLO "HER SMELL THEME" 
LOU REED "METAL MACHINE MUSIC, PT 2" 
SUICIDE "CHEZZAZE" (LIVE)
MILES DAVIS "ORBITS"
NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS "JACK THE RIPPER" 

Inspired by Alex Gibney's recent documentary on David Chase, Adam finally tries to communicate what 'The Sopranos" means to him

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LINKS:
Adam's essay on The Sopranos