The Rita (alias Sam McKinlay, originario di Vancouver) ha pubblicato più di 70 album di monster noise in 20 anni. Iniziò a pubblicare cassette fatte home-made come Crusty Etruscans (Spite, 1998), Possessed Nun Sleaze (Labyrinth, 1998) e Swingers Get Killed (Solipsism, 1998), e continuò a pubblicare: Bodies Bear Traces Of Carnal Violence (2004), Sea Wolf Leviathan (Solipsism, 2004), la cassetta Recycled (RRRecords, 2004), Magazine (Abisko, 2005), Lake Depths Lurker (Harshnoise, 2005), la cassetta Flapper Influence From French Prostitutes (Monorail Trespassing, 2005), The Tortured Ghosts Of Creeks And Rivers (Trash Ritual, 2006), Graveyard Of Whorer/ Blood Injected Into Dirt Reptile (Toe Products, 2006), la cassetta Koskimo House Post (Erratic Sporadicism Tapes, 2006), Thousands Of Dead Gods (Troniks, 2006), Albert Kogler (Troniks, 2006), la cassetta Maillart Extended (Rundownsun, 2006), Headless With Leopard Skin (Definitive Circumstances, 2009), The Nylons Of Laura Antonelli (Utmarken, 2009), The Voyage Of The Decima MAS (Troniks, 2009), la cassetta The Parisian Dancing Girl In Thigh High Stockings Is Thrown To The Floor By The Cloaked Phantom (Dead Audio Tapes, 2009), Skate/ Snorkel (RRRecords, 2009), Eyeliner Into Nylon Back Seam (Sickcore, 2012), Women's Vocals (Urashima, 2012), la cassetta Vice Baron (Banned Production, 2012), il 3-LP Escorting (Urashima, 2013), Gamzatti (Total Black, 2014), Ballet Feet Positions (Old Europa Cafe, 2014), The Apex Representation Of A Woman (Signora Ward, 2015), Queen Sheets (Urashima, 2015), Raymonda (Old Europa Cafe, 2015), la cassetta Dark Eye Makeup For The Stage (Stiff Sanctorum, 2015), il doppio LP The Lilac Fairy (Urashima, 2016), la cassetta Pedicure Deconstruction Of The Feminine (Bacteria Field, 2016), il cofanetto di 7 cassette Toe Cleavage (Urashima, 2017), Medora (Old Europa Cafe, 2017), Foul Prey (2019), Linked Arms And Touching Torsos (Obsessive Fundamental Realism, 2019), Costumes and Masks 1 (Level Of Vulnerability, 2019), ecc.; più singoli, EP e innumerevoli collaborazioni.