Season 2 - Episode 1 :: (Pt. 2) Jesse Srogoncik :: Paris 1942 / Destruction / The Alien Free Quintet
The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast :: A Sun City Girls Story
Release Date: 01/09/2026
Season 2 - Episode 4 :: "An Entry Into The Esoterica w/ James Toth (Wooden Wand)"
The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast :: A Sun City Girls Story
Depending on when you where born, most people know exactly where they were, who they were with, and if it was on a school night, or not when Fugazi's "Repeater" was released, or "Facelift" by Alice In Chains, "Goo" by Sonic Youth, "People's Instinctive Travels and The Paths Of Rhythm" by A Tribe Called Quest in 1991, and rightfully so. These are just a just a few academic artifacts of a decade that was shifting significantly from the underground into the mainstream, and there was nothing you could do to stop it. But do you remember where you were, who you were with, and if it was on a school...
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Season 2 - Episode 3 :: "Me and Mr. Jeff Jones!"
The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast :: A Sun City Girls Story
Jeff Jones's all-around philosophy of music would forever change once he relocated to Arizona to attend ASU in the late 1970s. Coming from a more traditional atmosphere that approached music parallel to its time, Jones began to infiltrate the local scene in search of like-minded people to connect with. Not only would he be creatively challenged, but his spiritual senses would be harmoniously heightened when he first met the late great Charlie Gocher after an epic duo set of drums and saxophone, which, to this day, you have to imagine the extraterrestrial energy in that room as a freakish fly...
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Season 2 - Episode 2 :: "Testing, Testing 123... Revolutionary Radio w/ Patti Walsh"
The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast :: A Sun City Girls Story
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...
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Season 2 - Episode 1 :: (Pt. 2) Jesse Srogoncik :: Paris 1942 / Destruction / The Alien Free Quintet
The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast :: A Sun City Girls Story
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...
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Episode 12 Alex Coxen (Milk Music/Mystic 100's) :: "D.A.R.E - The Dead, Alchemy, Revolution, Esoterica"
The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast :: A Sun City Girls Story
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...
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Episode 11 Tony “Victor” Beram :: “The Lysergic Legacy of Placebo Records - Pt. 2”
The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast :: A Sun City Girls Story
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...
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Episode 10 Tony “Victor” Beram :: “The Lysergic Legacy of Placebo Records - Pt. 1”
The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast :: A Sun City Girls Story
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...
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Episode 9 Mark Davies (Thinking Fellers Union Local 282) :: “Strangers From The Universe & Other Popular Locations Across America’s Wonderous Wasteland”
The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast :: A Sun City Girls Story
Imagine being on the road touring with the Sun City Girls for over a month in the autumn of 1992, pulling poetic pranks, and making memories that you'll continue to carry with you for the rest of your life. Memories that you reflect upon to make sure that life wasn't some Truman Show reality trick, and that it really did happen. From Vancouver, Canada, to Winnipeg, Columnus, OH, to home base in Tempe, AZ, where the Girls, and their guests, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 shared a bill with the late grate Eddy Detroit and his Ubangi Sextet, these two powerhouses put a cap on the end of an era...
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Episode 8 Gregg Turkington (Neil Hamburger) :: "From Punk to Comedy & Beyond"
The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast :: A Sun City Girls Story
Before his long-running career as a legendary stand-up comedian, Neil Hamburger, Gregg Turkington was a prominent fan figure in the highly influential Tempe/Phoenix, Arizona music scene of the 1980s, which ultimately gave birth to such notable acts like the Meat Puppets, Mighty Sphincter, skate punk legends J.F.A. (Jodie Foster's Army), and, of course, the Sun City Girls. As a young teen, Turkington's connection to the Sun City Girls, in particular members, the Bishop brothers, and late drummer Charles Gocher, who tragically passed in 2007, not only inspired his poetic pursuit over the...
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Episode 7 Emil Amos :: “Sun City Girls, Grails & The Turn Of The Century”
The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast :: A Sun City Girls Story
For this episode of The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast, we decided to cover some bands and cultural happenings adjacent to SCG to add context to the times. We begin by diving into Grails' classic cover of "Space Prophet Dogon" and discussing some of Emil's time with Jandek as it runs parallel to his meeting with Alan Bishop, and how both of those characters helped change the course of his artistic life.
info_outlineTo 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.