Submitted photo New Ulm native Natalie Denise Sperl, right, a model, film and television actress and rock and roll band leader, is pictured with former LA rock station disc jockey Rodney Bingenheimer. Now with SiriusXM’s Litte Steven’s Underground Garage, Bingenheimer was the first disc jockey to play “Kill My Coquette” on national radio.

LOS ANGELES, Ca. — New Ulm native Natalie Sperl recently released a new song and music video produced by her band Kill My Coquette.

Sperl wrote the song “Put Me in Your Movie Quentin Tarantino” while visiting New Ulm earlier this summer. Then she raced back to L.A. and recorded it in time for the release of Tarantino’s new R-rated, comedy film “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.”

The movie is about actor Rick Dalton and his stunt double trying to find work in a Hollywood they don’t recognize anymore. Dalton also happens to live next door to Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate, a couple whose futures were altered by the Manson Family.

Sperl said Rodney Bingenheimer, formerly a disc jockey at LA rock station KROQ, premiered “Put Me in Your Movie Quentin Tarantino” on his new SIRIUSXM show, Little Steven’s Underground Garage. The show is broadcast on Channel 21 Sundays, from 8 p.m. to midnight Central Standard Time.

Bingenheimer was credited with being the first to identify new artists and play “edgy” new bands including Blondie, Van Halen, Guns N’ Roses, Duran Duran, Joan Jett, Nirvana, and many others.

“Rodney (Bingenheimer) is important, especially in today’s musical climate He is one of the few DJ’s who actually listens to everything he receives and considers it. He and only him decide what gets on his show. He’s also a risk taker.” Sperl said. “Most radio today is taken over by corporations who have no interest in playing the best music that’s out there. They’re easily bought by anyone who wants to pay to get their music heard, making it harder for unsigned artists without deep pockets.”

Sperl said if Bob Dylan’s father didn’t shell out big bucks to radio today, we may never know how epic Blonde on Blonde is. That album completed the trilogy of rock albums Dylan recorded in 1965 and 1966 that began with Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited.

Late filmmaker George Hickenlooper’s “Mayor of the Sunset Strip” is a documentary about Bingenheimer.

A singer-songwriter and front woman for Kill My Coquette, Sperl is the daughter of New Ulmites Arlene and Dennis Sperl, starred with Kid Rock in a Coors Light Super Bowl commercial. She was a high fashion runway model in Europe and landed a number of magazine covers before moving to L.A. to become an actress.

Sperl has appeared in a number of television shows and movies including How I Met Your Mother, CSI Miami, Two and a Half Men, NCIS and Around the World in 80 Days.

She won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in the independant film Bardo Blues at the City of Angels Womens Film Festival showcasing women in film.

Sperl’s band has appeared at Whiskey a Go Go, a West Hollywood nightclub on the Sunset Strip that was the launching pad of bands including Alice Cooper, The Door, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Steppenwolf, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, KISS, Guns N’ Roses and AC/DC among others.

Sperl’s latest song is available online through iTunes and Amazon. The single is available at Records Revisited at 415 1/2 1st North Street in New Ulm.

Fritz Busch can be emailed at fbusch@nujournal.com