PODCASTS
Dear Alex,
Here are a list of my favourite podcasts, what they're about and some of my fav episodes :)
Beautiful, moving, thought provoking stories and interviews with artists and weirdos. This might be my number one absolute favourite. You should listen to The Pandrogyne, an interview with Genesis P-Orridge, and Another Planet, an interview with Clyde Casey also known as the Avant Guardian.
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
This one is broadly about life, but lately has included a lot of stories about technology and politics. It's funny with a slightly paranoid point of view and blurs lines between real and imagined by mixing and giving equal weight to traditional interviews with fantasy scenarios. A recent good one is Art Districts, about the gentrification of minority and lower class neighbourhoods by artists. Also recommend the series The Dislike Club, about his problems with social media and New York After Rent, about living in New York.
KCRW's Here Be Monsters
This one reminds me of Love and Radio. Usually each episode is an interview with one person about a journey 'into the unknown'. Some of my favs are The Near Death of Sir Deja Doog, The Evangelists for Nudism, and Deep Stealth Mode (how to be a girl).
This is a podcast about the intersection of the internet and life. It's real good. Check out Storming The Castle, about an anonymous surrealist prank call artist, Zardulu, about another anonymous reclusive artist and her pet rats, and Stolen Valor, about people in the US who dress up as veterans to get free stuff and the people who hate them. That last one really blew my mind. Really interesting stuff about identity.
This one is basically a podcast biography. Emil tells the story of his life and it's pretty interesting. A lot of stuff about drugs, music and philosophy. He alternates between biographical and music episodes. I haven't listened to most of the music ones but love the biographical ones.
Enjoy! :D