38. Negativland
This episode, guest hosted and produced by Eli Moore, is an interview with Negativland co-founder Mark Hosler. Since the late 1970s, the art collective known as Negativland has been sticking it to the status quo through their albums, radio program, live performances and visual art for over 40 years. Hosler tells Eli of the group’s beginnings in the San Francisco suburbs, their inevitable involvement with the punk scene there, the lawsuits they have had thrown at them, the evolution of their creative process over the years, and collaborating on new material with bandmates who have passed away for their latest albums True False and The World Will Decide.
An extended, unedited version of this interview is available for Patreon supporters, at patreon.com/lowprofile.
Recommendations:
Sonic Outlaws, a documentary about Negativland can be viewed at archive.org:
This critique on the band U2 earned the boys plenty of trouble:
Here is a great video for one of their new songs, “Don’t Don’t Get Freaked Out.”
Many episodes of the group’s long-running radio program “Over the Edge” can be heard here.
More information and merchandise can be yours by visiting negativland.com.