Poptarts is a twice-monthly podcast hosted by BUST Magazine editors Emily Rems and Callie Watts that celebrates women in pop culture. The first half of each episode is devoted to a hot topic in entertainment, and in the second half, a segment called “Whatcha Watchin’?,” Callie and Emily dig into all the shows, movies, books, music, videos, and podcasts they’ve enjoyed since the last episode, and either praise or pan each experience.
We’ve been making our show free to all since 2017, and we plan to continue offering free versions of every episode with ads going forward. But for those of you generous enough to subscribe to us at Patreon, we have great thank-you gifts cooked up on five different donor tiers, ranging from show notes with links to what everyone has been watching for the last three years, to exclusive episodes, to personal RSS feeds where you can access ad-free versions of the show. And for bigger spenders, we’re offering zoom chats with Callie and Emily, care packages of BUST swag, digital BUST subscriptions, and other sweet surprises.
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Diamanda Galás is the living definition of what it means to be avant-garde. An extraordinary and genre-bending vocalist, composer, pianist, performance artist, and activist, she has been creating uncompromising work that cries out against injustice for over 40 years. Her 12 studio albums include the classic 1986 collection “The Divine Punishment”—a masterwork created in response to the AIDS crisis—that was just remastered and re-released in June. And her brand new album “Broken Gargoyles,” inspired by the isolation of maimed WWI veterans, is coming out August 26. In this episode of BUST’s “Poptarts” podcast, she reveals details about her reclusive life, …