William Bennett joined us at the RE/Search headquarters to talk about art, music, technology, religion, and other miscellaneous thoughts that streamed through the consciousness of Bennett, Vale, and Wallace. Part 1 of 2.

Mary Lawler and Jean Caffeine come by RE/Search office to talk about their song writing and life in the 1970s-80s in San Francisco. They acoustically perform several of their hits during the podcast.

John Shirley is a cyberpunk pioneer (along with William Gibson, Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling). He tells about how he started writing ...

Artist Carolee Schneemann's evocative performance and body art began in the early 1960s and remains iconic and relevant to this day. We visited Carolee in upstate New York at her family's "historic" digs where she lives with her cats and continues her work.

Wolf Eyes was in town and visited the RE/Search office to talk to us about their eclectic and long-standing musical collaboration.

Vale interviews Sumeet Banerji and Jerry Connolly. The three talk about Sumeet’s novel “Ice Party,” physical versus digital design processes, live music’s power, evocative odors, the insidiousness of marketing, curated everything, anathema words, and emoji conversations.

All the way from Hamburg, the experimental documentary filmmaker Peter Sempel stops in for this episode to discuss his process of filmmaking, the longevity of punk, how Jonas Mekas helped kickstart Sempel’s career, his newest project, and favorite animals. Originally recorded as a TV episode of The Counterculture Hour.

Zine-maker Marc Fischer , maker of Temporary Services zines, and Museum of Capitalism's Timothy Furstnau stopped by the RE/Search office to share ideas.

Robert Conway, who manages the trust of Bruce Conner, talks with RE/Search. The conversation includes Conway's interviews of friends and associates of Conner’s, the defining criteria of an artist and how we all might define ourselves as such, Conner’s inkblot series, and biography as art form.

Tyler Hubby's film "Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present" is now out and making the rounds. Tyler visited the RE/Search office and filled us in on that and more.

Bassist Mike Watt (the Minutemen, Iggy Pop Stooges Band, and more) visits RE/Search headquarters. The conversation involves Watt's musical childhood and his career as a musician, including anecdotes about gigs, stolen basses, and punk philosophies.

Mabuhay impresario Dirk Dirksen goes deeper into the types of performance art, including comedic acts, that were "allowed" to play at the Mabuhay. Part 2 of 2. (Interview from 2004, two years before Dirk died, Nov 20, 2006.)

Dirk Dirksen was the entrepreneur and impresario of Mabuhay Gardens Punk Club in San Francisco. Here he talks about booking the club, the range of performances, and counterculture movements, punk and otherwise. Part 1 of 2.

We visit Diane DiPrima and she fills us in on her life as a working writer.

David J talks about Bauhaus and counterculture movements in America and in the UK.

David J of Bauhaus fame visits California on his Living Room Shows Tour and comes by RE/Search office for a visit.

Director Christopher Coppola visits the RE/Search office to discuss filmmaking with V. Vale and Marian Wallace.

Thorsten Schutte, director of Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words, joins V. Vale and Marian Wallace in the RE/Search office.

Part 2 of our conversation with Daniel Miller, creator underground hit single, "Hot Leatherette," an electronic pre-digital composition inspired by J.G. Ballard's "Crash."

Daniel Miller's first claim to fame was his home-made (done in his bedroom) underground hit single, "Hot Leatherette," an electronic pre-digital composition inspired by J.G. Ballard's "Crash."