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Needle Exchange: A DJ Questionnaire with Magnolia Bouvier

Years DJing: I started in 2011 with a show on Portland Radio Authority, and then one on XRAY.

Genre: Post-punk, New Wave, creep-o-rama.

Where you can catch me regularly: I have a monthly at Lovecraft on second Saturdays called Musick for Mannequins, with DDDJJJ666 and WW designer DJ Acid Rick, where we try to make people dance to a wide variety of records, including '80s Madonna, the Cramps, Heaven 17, Suicidal Tendencies, the Hollywood Persuaders, Killing Joke and the Gun Club. Occasionally, I play records at Beech Street Parlor, which is a great no-pressure gig where I can bust out weirder European jams and some David Lynch soundtracks. I also do a podcast on Mixcloud called Vampirella in Iridescent Teal, which is usually an hour of records I've been geeking out on recently.

Craziest gig: At a Lovecraft gig, we once got some "run-off" from the Naked Bike Ride thing, and the dance floor was half totally naked people with bike helmets on and half goths and death-rockers trying to pretend that everything was normal.

My go-to records: George Michael's "Too Funky"; "Fine Time" by New Order; almost any song by Ministry; Cabaret Voltaire's "Sensoria," especially the gloriously long 12-inch version.

Don't ever ask me to play…: People keep asking for something called Combichrist, but I don't have it and probably never will. Beyoncé is another one I'm never gonna play. Really, anything with newfangled production values or crap that sounds like a Diet Coke commercial.

NEXT GIG: Magnolia Bouvier spins at Musick for Mannequins at the Lovecraft Bar, 421 SE Grand Ave., with DDDJJJ666 &

DJ Acid Rick, on Saturday, Sept. 10. 10 pm. Free. 21+.

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Matthew Singer

A native Southern Californian, former Arts & Culture Editor Matthew Singer ruined Portland by coming here in 2008. He is an advocate for the canonization of the Fishbone and Oingo Boingo discographies, believes pro-wrestling is a serious art form and roots for the Lakers. Fortunately, he left Portland for Tucson, Arizona, in 2021.