Santigold Podcast S2 Launches Today | Feat. Shailene Woodley, Flea, Seun Kuti, Vince Staples, & More

SANTIGOLD

Launches Season 2 of Noble Champions, Produced by Talkhouse, Distributed By Talkhouse Network

Season 2 Features: Shailene Woodley, Flea, Seun Kuti, Vince Staples, Wyatt Cenac, Rep. Maxwell Frost, Adesuwa Aighewi, Syd, Terence Nance, Kiese Laymon, John Jennings and more

First Episode Out Today!

Today, October 30th, marks the launch of the second season of Santigold’s podcast Noble Champions, a modern day salon, created and hosted by her and distributed by Talkhouse. In each bi-weekly episode, she sits down with some of today’s leading artists, authors, activists, and progressive thinkers who stand up, stick up and speak up for important causes. Inspired by the artist Kandinsky, when he said that periods during which art has no noble champions are ones of retrogression, these candid no-holds-barred roundtable conversations where ideas and experiences are exchanged, are where Santi and her fellow champions try to make some sense out of our world, to push culture forward. Boundary-expanding and defiantly vulnerable, Noble Champions is a public invitation to an intimate gathering of the minds. The second seasonfeatures: Shailene Woodley, Flea, Seun Kuti, Vince Staples, Wyatt Cenac, Rep. Maxwell Frost, Adesuwa Aighewi, Syd, Terence Nance, Kiese Laymon, John Jennings and more. Listen here.

Episode 1 with John Jennings and Terence Nance dives into Afrofuturism and the power of human imagination in shaping our future. In a time of global uncertainty, art that envisions a better world is essential. Santi sits down with acclaimed graphic novelist, comic book author, illustrator, and professor John Jennings, alongside artist, filmmaker, and musician Terence Nance (creator of HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness) for a rich discussion. Together, they explore the tools of imagination, the role of rituals, the concept of deindustrializing oneself, nonlinear time, and much more.

In Episode 2, Santigold hosts a conversation with Shailene Woodley and Odille Zexter-Kaiser on how disconnecting from technology can foster a deeper connection with ourselves and others. Shailene, an actor and activist who has spent years reducing her reliance on technology, joins Odille, a former member of New York City’s Luddite Club—a group of high school students who intentionally limited their tech use to embrace a more grounded lifestyle. Together, they explore the impact of technology on personal connection and the advantages of living more intentionally.

The complete first season of Noble Champions is available on all platforms and features guests: Tunde Adebimpe, Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def), Sanford Biggers, Bun B, Idris Elba, Mary Anais Heglar, Dan Kovalik, Resmaa Menakem, Questlove, Rebecca Walker, Olivia Wilde, Saul Williams, and Angela Yee.

About Santigold

Santigold is a creative visionary across multiple platforms who is renowned for her ability to fuse unexpected elements in her boundaryless work. Her era-defining self-titled debut album has been credited as a catalyst for the cross-genre sound of contemporary pop music. Her eclecticism has led to musical collaborations including Jay Z, David Byrne, Tyler the Creator, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beastie Boys, Drake, and Pharrell. Along with creating the iconography of her album covers, live shows, and videos, her visual work includes collaborations with artists Wangechi Mutu, Kehinde Wiley, Sanford Biggers, and Kara Walker. Santigold has also brought her signature wit to television with comedic roles on The Office and Adult Swim’s NTSF:SD:SUV.  In 2022, Santigold released her album Spirituals as a multi-sensory experience with a corresponding line of teas whose ingredients speak to the record’s themes and a series of video vignettes. She also launched her podcast Noble Champions which is a modern day salon that unites today’s leading artists, authors, activists, and progressive thinkers around important issues to push culture forward. An inimitable pioneer, Santigold’s unwillingness to conform to conventions has made her a profound inspiration to many. She has always been an artist charting new paths in the world of pop music and beyond, breaking down barriers of genre along the way, further cementing her as an essential artist when surveying the last two decades of popular culture at large.

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About Talkhouse

Talkhouse is a Webby-Award-winning first-person media company, podcast network, and outlet for musicians, actors, filmmakers, and others in their respective fields. Talkhouse’s podcast series include How Long Gone, Blank Check, Alison Roman’s Solicited Advice, Life of the Record, Craig Finn’s That’s How I Remember It, Santigold’s Noble Champions, and The Screenwriting Life, as well as Listening, an unprecedented program featuring Jeff Tweedy, Neko Case and more that The Guardian describes as “part podcast, part album,” andBjörk: Sonic Symbolism, which GQ praises as “a road map to the creative life,” delivering what The New Yorker calls “a rare chance to listen in as one of the most mysterious and mystical artists working today explains herself.

Talkhouse’s audience has come to understand and cherish the fact that it serves as a platform for getting them inside the minds of their favorite artists, filmmakers, and creatives. As one of the only “first-person” media companies, Talkhouse allows musicians, actors, filmmakers and more to reach fans directly, in their own words. Follow Talkhouse at Instagram, Twitter andFacebook.

For more information on Santigold, contact:
Aleix Martinez, aleixfmartinez@gmail.com, 862-755-9703