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11/27: Joe Sorren signs “Painting – Sculpture 2004 – 2010” at La Luz Gallery

Joe Sorren signs his book “Painting – Sculpture 2004 – 2010”

Saturday, November 27th: 6-8 PM

La Luz de Jesus

4633 Hollywood Blvd.

Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667
www.laluzdejesus.com
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Joe Sorren‘s oil paintings redefine traditional naturalist scenery such as caves, reefs, and seashores, inserting a surreal mood through soft but eerie imagery, thick Impressionist- inspired brushstrokes, and childlike, yet animalistic, figures caught in mid-motion. The new gothic sentiment is subtly imbued in pale hued paintings that feature organic and distorted forms with exaggerated heads springing out of gelatinous blobs. Although the subjects are often childlike, the postures and weariness betray adult maturity, drawing a fine line between the vulnerable and precocious. Bulls and minotaurs parade guiltily with parasols and umbrellas through both Sorren’s original paintings and the sculptures created in collaboration with Jud Bergeron. This monograph of work from 2004-2010 is published in conjunction with the exhibition “Joe Sorren: Interruption” for the Grand Central Art Center at California State University, Fullerton. Sorren’s artwork has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Time, and Rolling Stone, and has been featured by Warner Bros. and Atlantic Records.

“Painting – Sculpture 2004 – 2010” by Joe Sorren $29.95, Hardcover, Color, 144 pages, 11.5 x 10 inches, ISBN-10: 158423430X, ISBN-13: 9781584234302, Publisher: Gingko Press

November 25, 2010by Dionysus Records
Art, East Los Angeles, Events, Free Event, Graphic Art, Hollywood, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles area events, Los Feliz, Stuff We Like

11/26: Black Friday Art Sale at La Luz de Jesus GalleryBlack Friday

Black Friday Art Sale

Friday, November 26, 2010, all day! Black Friday
La Luz de Jesus
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667

www.laluzdejesus.com
info@laluzdejesus.com

Art from the collections of their collectors, including paintings and more by Robert Williams, The Clayton Brothers, Tim Biskup, Liz McGrath, Camille Rose Garcia, Shepard Fairey, Marion Peck and many others!

As the birthplace of the lowbrow and pop-surrealism art movements, La Luz de Jesus has hosted exhibitions for the most collectible artists in post-pop. We hosted three shows for Robert Williams, four for Gary Baseman, and granted the very first solos to Pizz, XNO, Tim Biskup, Chris Mars, Liz McGrath and The Clayton Brothers. We granted early wall space to artists Camille Rose Garcia and Kukula and showcased an important retrospective for  Ed “Big Daddy” Roth. In recent months, a number of our patrons have offered some of the most desirable pieces from these and many other artists. Follow this link for a catalog of some truly remarkable work that has re-entered the marketplace via this single day event. For those who have long sought pieces from these artists, but have lost out to clients on their waiting lists, here’s your once in a lifetime chance to acquire blue chip art at significantly lowered prices.

November 25, 2010by Dionysus Records
Dionysus bands, Dionysus Records, Events, Garage Music, Hollywood, Los Angeles area events, Surf Music, The Creepy Creeps

11/30: The Creepy Creeps play The Hollywood Paladium

“Haunted Hop” – The Creepy Creeps from Scott Jones on Vimeo.

Dionysus Records recording artists and all around creepy guys, San Diego’s very own The Creepy Creeps have been asked to play the Hollywood Babylon show at The Hollywood Paladium on Tuesday, November 30th at 7:00 pm with Monotonix, from Tel Aviv, Faith No More and MC Selene Luna (yay Selene former Velvet Hammer Burlesque!)

November 23, 2010by Dionysus Records
'77 Punk Legends, Book reading, East Hollywood, Events, Film, Free Event, Hollywood, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles area events, Los Feliz, News

11/21: Destroy All Movies!!! Punks On Film – book signing at La Luz

Destroy All Movies!!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film. Book signing by the authors Zack Carlson & Bryan Connolly

The Complete guide to every appearance of a punk or new waver to hit the screen in the 20th Century. Forward by Richard Hell

Sunday, November 21st
5pm – 7pm
La Luz de Jesus

4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667
www.laluzdejesus.com
info@laluzdejesus.com


This wildly comprehensive release features A-to-Z coverage of over 1100 feature films from around the world, as well as dozens of exclusive interviews with the cast/creators of crucial titles like “Repo Man,” “Return of the Living Dead,” “The Decline of Western Civilization” and “Valley Girl.” Also examined are countless prime examples of straight-to-VHS slasher trash, Brooklyn skid row masterpieces, Filipino breakdancing fairytales, no-budget apocalyptic epics and movies that shouldn’t even have been released, many of which have never been written about. Also included are hundreds of eyeball-smashing stills and posters, many in full color!

In addition, the book features tons of exclusive interviews with music/big screen luminaries including Ian MacKaye, Richard Hell, Penelope Spheeris, Nick Zedd, John Doe & Exene Cervenka, Alex Cox, Martha Coolidge, Lee Ving, Keith Morris, Mary Woronov and many more!

“Destroy All Movies!!!” nails down decades of insanity with superhuman research, vicious precision and electrically charged stills and images, and is the first and final definitive armchair roadmap to punk and new wave on celluloid. Five years in the making, this pulse-bursting monument to lowbrow cultural obsession is a must for all film fanatics, music maniacs, anti-fashion mutants, ’80s nostalgists, sleazoids, cop-killers and spazzmatics!

Check out www.PunksOnFilm.com for more info.

About The Editors
Zack Carlson has owned a punk record store, taught college courses on disreputable film history, toured internationally in various bands, and has amassed a bone-crushing collection of over 3000 forgotten VHS treasures. He’s a lead film programmer for Austin’s original Alamo Drafthouse Cinema called “The best movie theater in America” by Entertainment Weekly) and Fantastic Fest, the nation’s largest genre film festival.

Bryan Connolly has been movie-obsessed since childhood. A screenwriter and filmmaker, he is also one of the driving forces behind Vulcan Video, one of the world’s last flourishing independently owned movie rental stores. A fearless warrior in the arena of underappreciated entertainment, Bryan is the founder of the international event VHS Day, which will take place each October 1 from now until the end of time.

November 20, 2010by Dionysus Records
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Video “Full Moon Child” from “Meet Redondo Beat” on Dionysus 1/11/11

Hailing from a little village close to Gelnhausen, Germany (where the Monks were stationed as GIs), Roman Aul a/k/a Redondo Beat had a knack for playing many instruments and with his talent recorded two full length albums and several 45s on his own.

While working mostly alone in the studio, Aul always had a real rock ‘n’ roll band backing him on stage. With his numerous releases, Aul’s Redondo Beat created a small buzz in the USA, touring the East Coast three times. Redondo Beat had the opportunity to open a show in Frankfurt with headliners their 60s idols, the Monks, and toured throughout Europe as Sky Saxon’s (of The Seeds) backing band for a month in 2009, on what would turn out to be Sky’s last tour.

Dionysus Records is proud to release Redondo Beat’s “Meet Redondo Beat”. Aul’s influences run the gamut from early ‘60s Brill Building songwriters and related East Coast Girl Group sound, Creedence Clearwater Revival, a touch of Doo Wop, the sound of mid-‘60s convertible top-down summertime Southern California and early ‘70s teenage AM radio Raspberry City Rollers flavored love-affairs. It is pure pop as seen through the eyes of the best decades of original rock ‘n’ roll music with all the drive of late ‘70s punk powered ‘80s power pop. Dionysus commissioned Southern California Surf artist Damian Fulton to paint the cover and the disc was mastered by The Tikiyaki Orchestra’s Jim Bacchi.  It’s a marvelous listening experience that will have you traveling time and bobbing your head to some of the sweetest retro-pop-rock music you’ve EVER heard!

November 14, 2010by Dionysus Records
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11/20: Designer Con art and design convention

Designer Con 2010 Events Announced

www.DesignerCon.com

Designer Con returns to the Pasadena Convention Center on November 20th, 2010


Now in its fifth year, Designer Con (formerly Vinyl Toy Network), is an annual art and design convention that smashes together collectible toys and designer apparel with urban, underground and pop art. Starting at 10 am scheduled activities include:

Goodie Bags will be available for $5 each on a first come first served basis. There will be 100 limited edition Designer Con bags filled with toys, magazines, pins, stickers, and surprises!

Spoonful of Star Wars™ Art Exhibition featuring over 100 paintings of vintage Star Wars™ action figures by Bwana Spoons from the collection of Dov Kelemer and Sarah Jo Marks.

Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is the world’s premier alt.drawing movement that has now spread to over 100 cities around the world. Founded in 2005 in a dive bar in Brooklyn, artists draw glamorous underground performers in a variety of sexy costumes.

World’s Biggest “Blindbox Time” brought to you by Toy Break and Designer Con! Bring a blindbox toy from home or buy one at the show and take part in the largest recorded group blindbox opening.

So Analog Custom Show by Squid Kids Ink featuring dozens of customized So Analog retro cartridge figures!

Live Painting throughout the day! Attending artists include Doctor A, Bwana Spoons, Scott Tolleson, Ragnar, Joe Ledbetter, Buff Monster, Chris Ryniak, Mr. Toast, Ben Walker, Nathan Hamill, and more. Past shows have also featured artists such as Frank Kozik, Amanda Visell, Michelle Valigura, Tim Biskup, Buff Monster, Greg “Craola” Simkins, Angry Woebots, Mad, Miss Mindy, Jeffery Scott, David Horvath, Sun-Min Kim, Luke Chueh, and many more.

When: November 20th, 2010 from 10 am to 5 pm
Where: Pasadena Convention Center, East Pavilion, 300 E. Green Street, Pasadena, CA 91101
Admission: $5
Website: DesignerCon.com

November 12, 2010by Dionysus Records
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Video: The Martini Kings live at Tiki Oasis 10

Live footage from Tiki Oasis 10 featuring The Martini Kings whos 10 + CDs can all be found in the Dionysus Mail-Order shop, with guest singer Sonny Moon of Nutty, whos CD we also stock  plus guest stage crashers, artist and carver Crazy Al Evans whos band Ape can also be found in our cart, and Marina the Fire Eating Mermaid who does not have a CD but can be found (along with all the above and more) in the “Tikimentary” DVD, also in our online shop! Footage captured and edited by Crystal Cove Media! Wonderful….

November 11, 2010by Dionysus Records
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The Dogs performing “Fed Up” at the Masque reunion in 2007

All three original members of the legendary Detroit / LA transplants, The Dogs performing, “Fed UP” at The Masque reunion in 2007. It has been a little over a year since Masque founder Brendan Mullen passed away.  Think good thoughts for Brendan and thank him for his contributions to music and journalism – punk rock in particular – they are plentiful. Do a Google search on his name if you want to know more.

November 9, 2010by Dionysus Records
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Tonight at La Luz de Jesus: Laurie Lipton and Jessica Joslin

Tonight marks the opening of a double-header art exhibition featuring the insanely detailed drawings of Laurie Lipton and the unusual and creepy hybrid sculpts of Jessica Joslin at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in East Hollwood  / Los Feliz, CA. The show remains up until November 28.

“Motoring” – Charcoal and graphite on paper, framed  39.5″ x 29.25″

“This show was inspired by the Steampunk movement that is sweeping Britain. Instead of steam, however, my devices are mostly run by electricity and madness. I was vacuuming one day and noticed the amount of plugs and cables on the floor… a veritable wasp’s nest of wires and sockets connecting a hoard of gadgets and doo-dads intertwining around the house and my life. I was trapped like a fly in an electrical web. What had happened? Were these things making my life easier or more complex? I began with The Steam Punk Pocket Watch, an absurd idea of a time piece too huge & complex for anyone’s pocket, and went whirling on from there. These machines are designed to hinder, control and/or give the illusion of technology. I had a tremendous amount of fun creating the images and think that this show will touch anyone who has ever become entwined, up to the eyebrows, in the Technological Age.” – Laurie Lipton

Inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School, Lipton tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 16th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. “It’s an insane way to draw”, she says, “but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort. My drawings take longer to create than a painting of equal size and detail.”

“Illusion of Control Tower” Charcoal and graphite on paper, framed, 59″ x 21.75″

“Stardust”

Jessica Joslin’s “Hybrids” is a circus of oddities, a mixed-media menagerie of unexpected creatures. A whimsical cat in a red leather harness harness pulls his polycephalic partner along on a wooden cart, blue and brown eyes gleaming mischievously. An exquisite two headed tropical bird with lush brass plumage preens on it’s perch. A troupe of monkey-cat hybrids engage in mysterious shenanigans, and truncated half-creatures preside over the festivities.

The creatures that populate Joslin’s world are intricate fusions of bone, brass, antique hardware and other bits and bobs. Sparkling glass eyes are inset in kid leather, giving these fanciful hybrids the illusion of life and animation. They seem ready to spring up and play, just as soon as no one is watching. In her work, Joslin celebrates wit, whimsy, ingenuity, insightful curiosity and skill. The finely wrought craftsmanship renders the hand of the maker at once visible (the miniature bolts, springs and joints which comprise anatomical structures are readily discerned) and invisible (there is a keen sense of their unique personalities, and as such, the illusion that they are not constructions, but rather living beings.)

“Clio and Loci”

Joslin grew up collecting flies off the windowsill to look at under her microscope. Ever since, she has been enchanted with collecting a magpie’s array of remnants from the natural world. The collection gradually grew to include obsolete bits of antique mechanical mechanisms, hardware and other oddball artifacts. In 1992, she began building the first beasts of this menagerie, using objects sent in a care package from her father, the same pieces that she’d collected as a child.

To preview all show images, click here

November 5, 2010by Dionysus Records
Country Music, Dionysus bands, Dionysus Records, Garage Music, Graphic Art, Musical archives, Orchestra Superstring, Redondo Beat, Rockabilly, Ruby Dee

27 years ago this month – the first Dionysus 7″ single

In November of 1983 while managing the Roads to Moscow record store in Tucson, AZ., I released a 45 by my then band Yard Trauma. “Some People” b/w “No Conclusions,” written by my bandmate and lead singer Joe Dodge, with nifty op-art graphics by our pal Jonathan L, then editor of Tucson’s Newsreal Magazine, became the first release on Dionysus Records. It took a year and a half and a move to Southern California for the first full-length LP releases to appear on the label thus 1985 has always been referred to as the label’s start date. However, this single is where it really started. “Some People” was also released in 1984 on the Voxx/Bomp compilation “Battle of the Garages Vol II”

In its 27th year, the Dionysus Records will forge ahead with “Meet Redondo Beat,” a full-length album by Germany’s pop-rock trio Redondo Beat in January of 2011, “Easy,” the second release by Latin Jazz exotics Orchestra Superstring featuring X’s DJ Bonebrake on vibes in February of 2011,  country and roots combo Ruby Dee and The Snakehandlers‘ “Live from Austin, Texas,” their third full-length release in March of 2011 and another yet-to-be-announced title or two.  For the first time since 1994 I may release a couple of records by bands I play in! Several out of print titles such as The Dils “Dils, Dils Dils” and Gexa X’s “You Goddamn Kids” plus many others will be repressed on vinyl with free digital download codes as well.

Thanks for your continued support. Love to you all!

Lee

November 3, 2010by Dionysus Records

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