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Rock ‘n’roll and the occult have gone hand-in-hand ever since it was rumored that Robert Johnson sold his soul to The Devil. Hollywood iconand rock’n’roll witch Pleasant Gehman takes you to the dark depths where music and heathen hedonism meet the occult. No-hold-barred conversations with famous (and infamous) guests include stories that seem too wild to be true...until you realize there’s no way they could be made up. From backstage and touring debauchery to tarot, synchronicityand sex magi ...
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Joe Pompeo is a senior correspondent at Vanity Fair and an author. His first book “Blood And Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime” was a New York Times Book Review Best True Crime pick of 2022. He’s also written for The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and many other publications. He's also a longtime super-fan…
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Coyote Shivers is a musician, songwriter and actor. As a rock’n’roll obsessed teenager in Canada, his career was launched when he co-produced the first single for the band Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet. The B-side, Having an Average Weekend, became the theme song for the television show “Kids In The Hall”. Soon he started working in studio for ic…
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The extraordinary Melissa St. Hilaire, better known on the internet as American Witch 13 is a witch, psychic medium, Paranormal investigator, writer, cat rescuer and straight up lifelong rock’n’roll chick. She’s also the creator and director of “Secrets Of the Craft” a docuseries on witches which premiered on Dead Air Full Spectrum on Oct. 4, 2023.…
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Elisa Jordan is an author, a self-described history geek and the owner/ operator of LA Woman Tours. Born and raised in Los Angeles, as a child she was obsessed with Hollywood, and as an adult, she turned that intense fascination into her livelihood. Her latest book, ”Hello Norma Jean: The Marilyn Monroe You Didn’t Know” will be published November 1…
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Multi-talented Sterling Moon is tarot reader, psychic medium, folk magician, animal communicator, published author and podcaster. Her recent book “Talking Spirits: A Modern Medium’s Practical Advice for Spirit Communication” was published by Llewelyn Books. She also runs The Sterling Moon Divination Academy, teaching classes on the mystical and str…
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Guitarist Wes Beech was the guitarist for the groundbreaking and totally outrageous Plasmatics and along with singer Wendy O.Williams,was the only permanent band member. He also played in her solo project WOW, as well as with The Accidents, Country Bob & The Bloodfarmers and Shock Therapy. In this episode, Wes and hostess Pleasant Gehman discuss Ne…
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Multi-faceted Ashley M. Ryan, known on social media as Pythian Priestess, is an award-winning screenwriter, a tarot reader and a practicing witch. She’s the founder of the Pythian Mystery School as well as creator of the popular podcast “The Occult Unveiled”. In this episode, Ashley and hostess Pleasant Gehman talk about their similar esoteric inte…
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Joseph Brooks was instrumental in shaping the entire Los Angeles music and club scene for decades. His impeccable musical taste became his job and nowadays, he’d be called an influencer. In 1981, with partner Henry Peck, he opened the groundbreaking alternative record store Vinyl Fetish, known as much for their sarcastic clerks as for the import re…
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Jeff Smith is the founder and singer of the legendary Texas cow punk band The Hickoids. Beloved cult favorites with a rabid following, The Hickoids have been around for almost four decades, playing their singular blend of hallucinogenic-soaked western style insanity and releasing countless records on various labels. Now that things have opened up, …
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El Vez, known for decades as “The Mexican Elvis” is a rockstar, cultural phenomenon and the alter ego of early West Coast punk rock icon Robert Lopez of The Zeros and later, Catholic Discipline. But that’s not even close where it stops. He’s not just a singer and songwriter, he wrote his own chapter in John Doe and Tom Desavia’s “Under The Big Blac…
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Penelope Houston is an iconic punk rock queen. As the fierce singer and songwriter for San Francisco’s legendary band The Avengers, she was among the first boundary-pushing wave of American women fronting punk bands. A year after forming, The Avengers made a splash opening for The Sex Pistols’ last show at Winterland Ballroom. Over the years, Penel…
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Staci Layne Wilson is a bestselling author, award winning filmmaker and the hostess of the popular “Rock’n’Roll Nightmares” podcast. One of her books, “So LA: A Hollywood Memoir” features wild anecdotes about Led Zeppelin, Metallica, and several others. The ultimate California girl, she’s the daughter of a pinup model and Don Wilson, legendary guit…
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Tarot and astrology expert Theresa Reed is the author of eight metaphysical books. Her latest, “Twist Your Fate: Manifest Success With Astrology And Tarot” is a terrific guide to getting what you want out of life the “witchy woo woo” way. In this episode, hostess Pleasant Gehman and Theresa talk about everything from her new book to the best ways t…
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The illustrious Mink Stole is a national treasure. Her incredible career has spanned over five decades, beginning in the late 1960’s when she and John Waters began their lifelong collaboration; she’s had roles in every one of his feature films. She’s also a singer and former advice column writer for The Baltimore City Paper. In this episode, Mink a…
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Multi-talented Charlie Paulson is a musician and actor. He’s the guitarist for the bands Goldfinger and Black President, and has appeared in a number of films and television shows. He’s also a writer, an avid animal activist and, in his own words, “a son of Los Angeles”. In this episode, Charlie and hostess Pleasant Gehman talk about his constant t…
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Patrick O’Neil is a prolific author and talented writer whose work has appeared in numerous publications: Juxtapoz, Salon, The Fix, Decibel and Razorcake. A former heroin addict who lead a bank-robbing ring, he cleaned up, started writing in jail and eventually got an MFA in creative writing. This lead to his memoirs “Gun, Needle, Spoon” and “Hold …
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The legendary Jackie Beat is a world famous drag queen, actor, singer, writer and comedic genius. Hilarious, sardonic and larger than life, she’s appeared in several films and television series, acting and as herself as well as accruing writing credits on comedy specials. You may remember her from the series “Fashion Police”. Pre-pandemic, she tour…
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Multi faceted and uber-talented Abby Travis is a musician, singer, songwriter and actress, whose music career began in the 1986 as bassist for the SST band The Love Dolls and is still going strong. She’s played and sang with The Go-Go’s, Cher, The Eagles of Death Metal, The Bangles, Beck, Masters Of Reality, KMFDM, Elastica and many more. She’s rel…
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Punk rock legend and rock’n’roll icon, Bruce Moreland had a huge hand in shaping early punk in Los Angeles as well as influencing international alternative music. A pioneer of punk and death rock -later known as goth- he was an integral part of Wall Of Voodoo, The Weirdos, The Skulls, Nervous Gender and Concrete Blonde during the 1970’s to 1990’s b…
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Multi talented Adele Bertei burst into the public eye as one of the stars of the 1970’s No Wave scene, as organist for James Chance and The Contortions. Since then, her entire career has been extraordinary. She’s a musician, singer, film director/producer as well as a song writer and literary writer. Musically, she’s worked with everyone from Brian…
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Jeff Drake is the singer and guitarist for The Joneses, which he co-founded with skateboard champion Steve Olson in 1981. Their glam punk sound- thrashy, trashy rock’n’roll that owed as much to The Ramones and New York Dolls as it did the Rolling Stones- made them the darlings of the early 1980’s LA underground music scene. They put out a single in…
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Multi-talented Liz Worth is a Canadian treasure. She’s an author, poet, ritual performance artist, former music journalist and a tarot expert. Her first book, “Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History Of Punk In Toronto And Beyond” brought alternative music into the attention of the mainstream and was called “trailblazing”. A well-known Tarot reader, sh…
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Guitarist extraordinaire Ace Von Johnson has played with so many bands it’s hard to keep count. Just some of them are glam-metal lords Faster Pussycat, the industrial Neon Coven and a plethora of punk combos including Unwritten Law, U.S. Bombs, Madcap, Cheap Sex and infamous New York hardcore icons Murphy’s Law. He’s been with LA Guns since 2018, a…
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Chip Kinman is a punk rock icon whose astoundingly versatile career is still going strong nearly fifty years later. The Dils, formed with his late brother Tony made an impact in the first wave of 1970’s California punk bands before abruptly switching gears to pioneer cowpunk with Rank And File with Alejandro Escovedo... before moving on to the indu…
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Rock’n’Roll Goddess Jane Wiedlin probably doesn’t need an introduction, but... here it is anyway. She’s a founding member of The Go-Go’s, a prolific songwriter and mistress of catchy pop tunes. Just some of her several hits include The Go-Go’s “Our Lips Are sealed” and her solo work: “Blue Kiss”, “Rush Hour” “Tangled” and “But For The Grace of God”…
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Force of nature Arrow De Wilde is the singer of Starcrawler, who’ve caused a sensation practically from the moment they burst onto the scene. Her fierce stage presence and a smoky voice that somehow yearns and growls at the same time could fit into almost any genre from 70’s glam to classic rock and jaded , artsy post-punk. An LA native, Arrow is a…
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Judika Illes is an author, tarot reader, aroma therapist and a metaphysical practitioner/instructor. She’s a prolific writer and her numerous books -covering everything from witchcraft and spells to myths, the paranormal, gods and goddesses, faries and genies- have made her a household name in the esoteric/occult community. In this episode, Judika …
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Amanda Diebert is multi-talented and her creativity knows no bounds. She’s an author, actor and hosts the podcast “Café At The End of The World. A New York Times Bestselling comic book writer, her credits are too numerous to mention. Same goes for television writing; she’s scripted shows for almost every network and streaming platform including “Ma…
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Rock’n’roll icon Javier Escovedo is perhaps best known for being the founding member of the legendary early West Coast punk combo The Zeros. A life-long musician hailing from Chula Vista, California, he formed the The Zeros in 1976. After playing three gigs total, by early 1977, they put out a record on Bomp, literally becoming a sensation with the…
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Legendary punk rock goddess Alice Bag is a multi-talented trailblazing artist. Musician, singer/songwriter, author of two critically acclaimed books, educator and ferocious feminist. She’s also a rock’n’roll historian, creator/curator of the “Women In LA Punk Archives”, a platform with first person accounts of the lives of several female musician a…
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Marci Darling is a writer, dancer and magic maker. She’s the author of four books, mystery novels “The Champagne Scandal” and “Martini Mystery”, Divorce Diva” and most recently the newly published travel memoir, “Magic Carpets, Flying Ships And Moonlit Kingdoms”. Nomadic by nature, she’s lived, worked and traveled all over the world. She may also b…
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Multi-talented Howard Paar has been a primary rock’n’roll influencer for over four decades. His career in the music business evolved organically from his excellent taste in music. Starting out as an indie club promoter and deejay, he morphed into being a publicist before becoming an artist relations executive and award-winning music supervisor for …
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In the mid-to late 1970’s, during the gray area when Los Angeles was still all about glam rock while embracing the nascent punk scene, a group of groupies became an all-girl band called Backstage Pass. Instantaneously, they took Hollywood by storm, got international press, made a splash wherever they went, stealing -and in some cases breaking-the h…
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Guy Furrow, aka Miss Guy is a multi-talented rock’n’roll legend: singer for the acclaimed punk/glam band The Toilet Boys, deejay, music producer, songwriter photographer and makeup artist. Born in Southern California, he came of age and hit his creative stride in the New York City rock scene when it was still something to be wildly excited about. H…
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Pee-wee Herman has been a household name for decades, but the man behind the iconic tv series Pee-wee’s Playhouse and spin-off movies is even more fascinating. Paul Ruebens is an actor, comedian, and writer. He’s been featured in way too many films to mention as Pee-wee and also playing serious roles, including the flamboyant hairdresser/drug deale…
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Fayette Hauser is author of the book “The Cocokettes: Acid Drag And Sexual Anarchy”. Fayette was a founding member, and her book chronicles the wildly gender-bending 1960’s San Francisco theatrical group whose existence spawned disco star Sylvester and informed everyone from John Waters to RuPaul. Fayette’s been involved in every countercultural yo…
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Fayette Hauser is author of the book “The Cocokettes: Acid Drag And Sexual Anarchy”. Fayette was a founding member, and her book the wildly gender-bending 1960’s San Francisco theatrical group whose existence spawned disco star Sylvester and informed everyone from John Waters to RuPaul. Fayette’s been involved in every countercultural youth movemen…
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Theresa Kereakes is a rock’n’roll photographer whose iconic images have appeared in music publications and in galleries and private collections worldwide. She’s shot instantly recognizable photos of David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Deborah Harry, Patti Smith, The Damned, The Ramones, Joan Jet, Iggy Pop and The Dead Boys-both on and off stage- many featured …
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Multi-talented Jennifer Finch is a force of nature: musician, photographer, record producer, actor, boundary pusher and often, the smartest girl in the room. Best known as bassist, vocalist and songwriter for L7, she also kicked ass in Other Star People and The Shocker. In this episode, Jennifer and hostess Pleasant Gehman recall the Los Angeles in…
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James Divine, also known as Divine Hand Jim, is a master palm reader, psychic, witch and metaphysical teacher. In this episode, James and hostess Pleasant Gehman literally “talk to the hand”. James teaches listeners basics for reading their own palms before analyzing the hands of celebrities, from David Bowie, movie stars and popular reality show p…
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Peter Bebergal is the author of Season Of The Witch: How The occult Saved Rock’n’Roll, Too Much To Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood and Strange Frequencies:The Extraordinary Story Of The Technological Quest For The Supernatural. He writes mostly about music, books and fringe culture; his essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Tim…
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Ian Harvie is a standup comedian, actor and writer. His work as an international touring headliner at comedy clubs lead to his own standup concert film, Ian Harvie Superhero and May The Best Cock Win on Starz. A transgender man, he’s been featured on Will & Grace and in episodes of the popular Transparent series on Amazon Prime. In this episode, Ia…
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Hollywood pop culture icon Iris Berry is a writer, musician and actor- you may have seen her in the cult classic “Border Radio” directed by Allison Anders or several other iconic films like “Thrashin”, “The Runnin’ Kind” and “Rock’n’roll Highschool. Her band The Lame Flames were rowdy boundary-pushers who, aside from making great music would now be…
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Lynx and Chanty are a pair of feral, feminist groupies who are also rock’n’roll historians. These Canadian femme fatales are the brains and beauty behind the popular “Muses” podcast, which celebrates the women of rock’n’roll, from groupies to rock wives to female musicians past and present. In this episode, the gals chat with hostess Pleasant Gehma…
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Kid Congo Powers is a punk rock guitar icon and singer; he’s played with The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, The Divine Horseman and many more -most recently, Kid Congo And The Pink Monkey Birds. He also has a new memoir coming out in 2021. Kid and hostess Pleasant Gehman share four and a half decades of friendship, and were also…
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Roz Drezfalez is a drag queen, comedian, actor and writer whose been featured on Bravo, Buzzfeed and in commercials that’ve run nationwide.She’s also the brains and beauty behind the popular paranormal podcast “Ghosted!”,-listen wherever you get podcasts. In this episode, Roz and hostess Pleasant Gehman chat about paranormal investigations, Ouija B…
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Iconic drummer Terry Graham of the seminal Los Angeles bands The Bags and The Gun Club and is also the author of the memoir “Punk Like Me”. Currently, he’s also a fashion entrepreneur with Terry Wear, creating vintage inspired western shirts and rock’n’roll fashion masks. In this episode, Terry and hostess Pleasant Gehman share insane anecdotes abo…
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Hot sorceress Gabriela Herstick is the author of “Inner Witch”, “Bewitching The Elements” & “Embody Your Magic”. She also has a column In High Times called “The High Priestess”, exploring the connection between weed and ritual, and just had a piece in Cosmopolitan. In this episode, Gaby and hostess Pleasant Gehman get all witchy discussing telekine…
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For nearly twenty years, the delightfully dark Kari Bible has been the tour guide at America’s most famous graveyard, Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. She’s been featured on CNN, Turner Classic Movies and The Travel Channel and in numerous magazines. Karie has a film degree and is also the creator of Film Radar newsletter. In this episode…
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