Locust Radio
Episodes
Episode 31 - Lucky 13
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Loc...
Episode #30 - Evicted from Heaven and Earth
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Locust Radio episode #30, Tish Turl interviews fellow Locust comrade, Adam Turl, on their new book, Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from Heaven and ...
Episode 29 - Dead Bees on Hot Cement
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ser...
Ep. 28 - Anupam Roy + Irrealist Expressionism
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 par...
Ep. 27 - Escape from Capitalist Realism
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 26 - Omnia Sol + the Cinematic Rave
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
Ep. 25 - Dead + Born Again Labor
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep. 24 - “We’ve Heard the Voice”
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Locust Radio, we present a sound collage composed of people speaking in solidarity with Palestine at Carbondale (Illinois) City Cou...
Ep. 23 - Escape from Normal Island
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
Episode 22 - In The Year 2025
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Episode 21 - Mutation or Death
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 novel...
CARE: Trans + Queer Relocation Solidarity in So. ILL
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this Locust Radio “Special Report” — a preview of a segment from forthcoming episode twenty-one — we discuss organizing mutual aid and soli...
Episode 20 - Shake the City
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, recorded downwind from an increasingly immolated Canada, we interview Alexander Billet, author of the book, Shake the City: Experim...
Episode 19 - The Monsters Are Coming
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 18 - The Machine of Reward and Discipline
19 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 storie...
Episode 17.5 - Ring the Dollar Stores (Preview)
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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  ...
Episode 17 - We Are The Monsters We’ve Been Waiting For
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Halloween episode of Locust Radio, Tish and Adam discuss folk horror, folk devils, and ghosts, listen to music from Fat JackRabbit, Omni...
Episode 4.5 - The Cookie Monster Who Flew Into Space from Peoria, Illinois
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 3.5 - Hugo Gernsback Gets Pounded in the Butt by His Own Apolitical Scientific Utopianism
10 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 r...
Episode 2.5 - The Goths Are Alright
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the second half of our second episode — initially made available to our subscribers and patrons on December 11, 2020 — we discuss Edgar Allen...
Episode 16.5 - Abolish Wednesdays! (Excerpt)
28 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 16 - Irrealist Combat League
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this month is Alex McIntyre from the Irrealist Combat League, Revolutionary Education Distro, and formerly the Cooper Point Journal. We disc...
Locust Radio Ep. 15.5 - Utopia vs. Apocalypse (Preview)
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 15 - Starbucks vs. Utopia
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
Episode 14.5 - Art w/ Workers + Comrades (Preview)
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 epis...
Episode 14 - What if You Had Taken the Day Off?
18 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 13 - Glitch vs. Digital Funko Pops
09 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 12.5 - Breaking the Gaslights of Pandemic Realism (Preview)
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 12 - A Journal for the Plague Decade
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 di...
Episode 11.5 - I Live an Hour From My Body (Preview)
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Re...
Episode 11 - Locust Phenotype Plasticity
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Episode 10 - Richard Hamilton’s Discordant Will
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 numbe...
Episode 9 - Art + Propaganda
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 8 - Between Worlds
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ann...
Episode 7.5 - Barricades On Sunset (Preview)
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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, pa...
Episode 7 - Breaking Out of the Steel Cage!
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After Salvador Dali receives a well-deserved beat-down, Tish, Adam and Alex talk surrealism! Widely known, but frequently depoliticized in our current...
Episode 6.5 - Kenneth Goldsmith’s Seagulls vs. Punk Rock Pirates (Preview)
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 6 - Texas Ain't the Reason
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
Episode 5.5 - GameStop Never Happened (Preview)
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 5 - Norming In America
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lots has happened since our last episode: the storming of the Capitol, the fascists’ disorientation, and the inauguration of a new president who can...
Episode 4 - Make Acid Communist Again
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 3 - Four Seasons Totalitarian Landscaping
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Episode 2 - Death Becomes Us (A Very Locust Halloween)
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 1 - Art, Poetry, and Boomer the Three-Legged Piss Hero
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Locust Radio! The weird, the eerie, the irreal, the eldritch, the fantastical and just plain horrifying; they’re everywhere today as the ...