They’ve released 50 albums and you’ve still never heard of them?! That’s because the Sun City Girls are challenging, abrasive, experimental and, outside a devoted fan group, unknown. Alan Bishop and his brother Rick formed the band with drummer Charles Gocher in Arizona in 1979. They weren’t the first noise-rock-improv band, but they were relentless, influential, and mysterious. There was nothing like them in Arizona, that’s for sure. Almost every album takes on a different theme with focus on; spoken-word, jazz, world music, etc. Plus, they’re pretty funny. Torch of the Mystics is their most well-known album, give it a whirl and see what you think!
