Happy Effin’ Birthday

If ever there was a dood who personifies the libertine lifestyle laid out in the Shop Boyz jam "Party Like a Rock Star," it's local DJ/impresario William Fucking Reed. Case in point, Reed celebrates his 30th year of drawing breath with his Dirty 30 Birthday Fucking Party. It promises to...
By Benjamin LeathermanAugust 9, 2007
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If ever there was a dood who personifies the libertine lifestyle laid out in the Shop Boyz jam “Party Like a Rock Star,” it’s local DJ/impresario William Fucking Reed. Case in point, Reed celebrates his 30th year of drawing breath with his Dirty 30 Birthday Fucking Party. It promises to be an all-night hedonistic DJ hipster hullabaloo set to a soundtrack of indie, electro, and dance rock from NYC’s Larry Tee (a.k.a. the progenitor of electroclash), former Hot Pink residents Denny Le-Nimh and Dirty Dave, as well as Sleazy Sean, Mykill, and Kevin the Makeout Bandit.

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Benjamin Leatherman is a staff writer for Phoenix New Times where he focuses primarily on arts, culture, music and nightlife. He joined New Times in 2003. Prior to that, he contributed to magazines such as Tips & Tricks and The Wrestler. Benjamin has earned multiple awards from the Arizona Press Club including an award for sports enterprise reporting in 2009 and an award for statewide arts reporting in 2014. He holds a bachelor’s of arts in journalism from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

benjamin.leatherman@newtimes.com

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