The Sun City Girls are not for everybody and that’s on purpose. Because of the slippery and obscure nature of the group, comparisons to other musical concerns are shaky at best and the only reliable way to describe them would be to state the known facts. The Girls coalesced in Phoenix, Arizona in 1982. Alan and Richard Bishop adopted percussionist Charles Gocher as a percussionist and third brother after a particularly raucous Open Mic Night at a local pizzeria. Gigs were then booked with fellow Phoenicians JFA under the pretense of being an all-girl hardcore band. This ruse lead to great amusement and consternation among audiences and established the trio’s reputation as highly suspect, and consistently disinterested in being liked.

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As you may have heard, Lux Interior died this morning. Personally, I
was never that into the Cramps, but I am deeply indebted to Lux for
putting together The Purple Knif Show,
a one-off radio special that aired out of Hollywood in 1984 and landed
on vinyl shortly thereafter. Lux's DJ set is a groovy grab-bag of the
songs that influenced his band: primitive 60s garage rock, early punk,
some soul 45s, one-off novelty tunes, surf jams, and familiar staples
from old gods like the Trashmen and Link Wray.

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He made fantastically crappy movies for lunch money and they became cult favorites and Mystery Science Theater 3000 mainstays and as of today he’s dead. But please don’t remember Ray Dennis Steckler as just another Ed Wood. “If somebody comes up to me and says ‘You remind me of something,’ they’re on my shitlist.” Steckler never gave two shits about UFOs or vampires, and, he would never be caught dead dressed in angora and a woman’s brasierre. Steckler was a man’s man, and he died wearing pants.

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THERE IS A PARTY TOMORROW NIGHT AT SANTOS PARTY HOUSE.

Santos Party House is located at 100 Lafayette street in New York City and it is sick as hell.

I have a weekly radio show called Bim Bam Boom. Here's the deal about it.

Bim Bam Boom is a sonic safari across space and time,
where international collides with local and everything goes bananas. DJ
Yr Friend Matthew is the host of the monthly Pogo In Togo music party
at Cake Shop, so expect performers from this event to drop into the
studio for live performances and guest DJ spots.

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Nerds, punks, goths, gorehounds, freaks, fangorians, fantasists, and
also futurists are all this week mourning the passing of Forrest J.
Ackerman, the original sci-fi nerd and monster-movie journalist. Forry
held an especially unique place in the Los Angeles landscape by dint of
turning his house into a museum which he opened to the public once a
week. Several years back me and a buddy of mine stopped by the
Ackermansion to tour the grounds and pay our respects to the soon to be
late Uncle Forry...

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I interviewed R. Stevie Moore for Vice.

Deep in the belly of a castle in suburban New Jersey, R. Stevie Moore
has been recording and publishing more records than just about anybody you can
think of, all by his lonesome. Since 1976 “The Godfather of Home Recording” has
produced and self-distributed over 400 albums, starting with the brilliant Phonography, and tackling pretty much
every genre of music to ever exist.

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