The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast :: A Sun City Girls Story

14 episodes

Season 2 - Episode 2 :: "Testing, Testing 123... Revolutionary Radio w/ Patti Walsh"
1/14/2026 | 58 mins.
During the summer of 1990 (we discovered later after recording), a Minneapolis-based radio DJ (KAFI), artist, and musician by the name of Patti Walsh, shared an unforgettable season of spirituality, laughter, madness, and epic travel with the Sun City Girls as the "unlicensed" bus driver for the band's tour with the City of Lakes-based female rockers of political power, The Pseudonymphs. Both groups shared similarities, with each having sibilings in their lineups; they also had the same booking agent at the time, Peter Davis (another discovery later corrected). These cosmic coincidences weren't some meaningless detail that haphazardly appeared later down the road in life. These were details that would later behind memories of blissful youth, and creative chaos. Join us as we ride shotgun in a buckless seat as Walsh takes us on a journey through New Haven, CT, Boston, and Worchester, on an epic expedition whose destination is still in question.
We would also like to acknowledge the horrendous murder of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good that took place on January 7th. May her family receive peace and justice during this time.
Season 2 - Episode 1 (Pt. 2) Jesse Srogoncik :: Paris 1942 / Destruction / The Alien Free Quintet
1/09/2026 | 1h 9 mins.
To kick off a brand new season, we decided to go back to the very beginning, where it all started, and catch up with Paris 1942's Jesse Scrogoncik to talk a little bit more about Moe's legacy and the integral role she not only had in the band's short-lived history but also for the revolution of women in music everywhere over the last half century. Even though the group only played four shows, they dedicated a great deal of time to capturing several recordings and esoteric evidence of the metaphysical magic that makes up the band's creative, cosmic core, which can still be heard in countless canyons and calcified caves around the world.
While entertaining the Gods of improve, Paris 1942 isn't just the humble beginnings of the Sun City Girls, but a sonic staple in the importance of the decade's radical reaction to the world around them. With the release of the band's archival material "Birds in Their Cages" on Superior Viaduct, as well as a souped-up compilation via the group's legendary self-titled debut, the band has come full cirlce, while simultaneously occupying a special space in people's subconscious after all these years.
Episode 12 Alex Coxen (Milk Music/Mystic 100's) :: "D.A.R.E - The Dead, Alchemy, Revolution, Esoterica"
11/11/2025 | 1h 26 mins.
If Alex Coxen, the madman behind all things Milk Music/Mystic 100's/Graffiti Phallico/Worn Spiral, were alive during te Sun City Girls' radioactive reign on society's senses in the 1980s, his iconic illustrations would have been all over the band's bootlegs, t-shirts, show posters, and other various alchemical artifacts without a doubt. Bridging the gap and endless distance between the parameters of punk and the enlightened ecosystem of the hippie generation, Coxen's influences have connected him from one end of the galaxy to the next, just like the greats before.
This isn't the first time we've made a connection between the Sun City Girls and the mighty melodies of the Grateful Dead on "The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast." From Greg Ginn sporting his classic "Steal Your Face" tee at a Blag Flag show in 1983, to Placebo Records founder Tony Beram, who released the Girls' second LP, having seen the Dead numerous times during his youth, the cosmic connection is both relevant and uniquely universal. Join us as we take a trip, literally, with Coxen to explore the first time he became aware of the Girls' music, aquring his copy of "Grotto of Miracle," the critical chemicals that make up consciousness, and much more.
Episode 11 Tony "Victor" Beram :: "The Lysergic Legacy of Placebo Records - Pt. 2"
10/22/2025 | 1h 30 mins.
It's bitter-sweet wrapping this two part episode up with the legend behind the Phoenix, Arizona-based label Placebo Records, Tony "Victor" Beram, but all good things must come to an end. Or do they? For this epic episode of "The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast," we sit down with Beram to discuss the band's last two cult classic LPs on the label, 1986's "Grotto of Miracles," and 1987's "Horse Cock Phepner." Two subliminal subjects in the band's institution of indecipherable intelligence that poetically pushed the boundaries of bravery, humour, politics, and alchemical attitude, which have become some of thier most revered efforts to date, the power of the Sun City Girls only grew mightier as the times continued to unfold like a freakish flower.
Released during the crazy whirlwind of metaphysical mind control, cultural censorship, and contagious creativity, the Girls unleashed their next two sonic specimens like a pack of wild deranged dogs on a bunch of iridescent intruders looking for a biblical bone during the hallucinogenic height of the Cloaven Cassette series throughout the 1980s. Buckle up as Beram takes us on one last holy hoorah through the liberating landscape of one of the most fascinating groups to have ever existed. Do you disagree? No one asked...
Episode 10 Tony "Victor" Beram :: "The Lysergic Legacy of Placebo Records - Pt. 1"
10/15/2025 | 1h 38 mins.
It's hard to say, if at all possible, where the Sun City Girls would be if they hadn't released their groundbreaking self-titled LP on famed Phoenix, Arizona-based label Placebo Records in 1984. As a prolific powerhouse that would later go on to self-release a treasure trove of metaphysical material, the band's harmoniously humble days in the 1980s were marked by their cosmic connection with local hero Tony "Victor" Beram, who attended an open mic a few years before the release of the band's first album, and immediately ignited a life long brothership that has stood the test of time.
Springing into action, these two electrifying entities combined their esoteric efforts and set out to take over the world with their unique univeralism and artistic integrity. Or piss it off as they held a merciless mirror in its face during a time of censorship, political unrest, and the emerging AIDS epidemic, to name a few. For the first part of this two part episode of "The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast," we sit down with Beram to chat about the early days of Placebo Records, meeting the Bishop brothers, and the late great Charles Gocher, pushing to release the band's monumental debut at any cost, touring for three months in the summer 1984 with skatepunk legends J.F.A., the abstract atmosphere of the local scene, and much more.

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The world doesn't necessarily need another podcast, or maybe it does, who's to say? It's hard to tell these days, but one thing is for certain: if something is worth doing, it's worth going all the way. An indescribably specific band and spiritual institution of sound comes to mind that not only deserves a poetic platform to be consistently celebrated but also acknowledged for its atmospheric alchemy, which continues to push the boundaries of music, art, and the cosmic nature of the world. Of course, I'm talking about the Phoenix/Seattle-based outfit Sun City Girls. As an obsessed fanatic, it is my honour and deep privilege to announce that The Self Portrait Gospel will be launching a brand new podcast, "The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast - A Sun City Girls Story," completely separate from our weekly show, that will be entirely dedicated to the harmonious history and liberating legacy of the band's multi-decade run. Join us as we take a deep, dark, and dystopian dive into the esoteric environment and liberating landscape of perhaps one of the most frighteningly original groups to have shattered the subconscious since Sun Ra and John Coltrane walked the earth. From Tempe to Thailand, Seattle to Singapore, let's take a trip around the world as we connect with the band's critical community of cosmic collaborators, friends, engineers, and much more.

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