Miss High Heel was founded in Chicago, Illinois in late 1995 by James Marlon Magas, Tom Smith, and Christopher Walter (Weasel Walter). Joining the no-everything troika were Azita Youseffi, Jim O'Rourke, Jodie Baltazar (Jodie McCann, Jodie Mecanic), Chuck Falzone, and Bill Pisarri, Mike Green (Wyfe, Her Hair Jelly, etc.), and Nándor Névai. They recorded one radio session (at WZRD-FM), performed one live performance (at the Magnatroid, New Year's Eve '95), and spent three months recording, mixing, and remixing The Family's Hot Daughter, an album that was to have been issued by [l33275]. When that label lost an important domestic distribution deal, funding for the MHH collection vanished, and the project was shelved.

Tiny noise indie B.Sides (now known as No Sides) released a lone radio session, but the recordings ultimately displeased the group's principals. After 11 years, the original The Family's Hot Daughter mixes, long vouchsafed within Tom Smith's personal archive, were finally unearthed in 2006. Graham Moore of Blossoming Noise heard five minutes of unedited roughs during a dinner party and quickly struck a deal. Upon release of the album, Miss High Heel clarified in a letter to the editor that the group was designed to exist as a theoretical unit, and sunder at an appropriate moment. The only impediment to the completion of that goal was the collapse of the album release on Skin Graft.

Performers:
James Marlon Magas: voice
Christopher Walter (Weasel Walter): drums, bass clarinet
Azita Youseffi: synthesizer
Jim O'Rourke: bass guitar, trumpet, synthesizer
Jodie Baltazar (Jodie McCann, Jodie Mecanic): voice
Chuck Falzone: bass guitar (live only)
Bill Pisarri: clarinet, bass guitar (studio only)
Nándor Névai: voice
Mike Green: compere, hermeneutics
Tom Smith: voice, black metal tape edits, mix, production