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Josie Cotton and Jesika von Rabbit – Los Angeles and Joshua Tree Shows!

Dionysus Records is pleased to announce two SOCAL shows featuring the legendary Josie Cotton and Queen of the Hi- Desert, Jesika von Rabbit!

These two super-women, the legendary Josie Cotton and the Queen of the Hi-Desert Jesika von Rabbit, and their bands, will be sharing a bill at Furstwurld in Joshua Tree on Friday, January 20, and the Peppermint Club in West Hollywood on Wednesday, January 25. Josie’s Revenge of the B-Girls album was released on vinyl by Dionysus Records and Jesika von Rabbit’s post-Gram Rabbit solo albums Journey Mitchell and Desert Rock are part of the label’s catalog. Josie and Jesika are both excited to be performing together!

Ticket link – Friday, January 20, Josie Cotton and Jesika von Rabbit – Furstworld Joshua Tree
Ticket Link – Wednesday, January 25, Josie Cotton and Jesika von Rabbit – Peppermint Club West Hollywood

Be sure to pick up Josie Cotton and Jesika von Rabbit albums in the Dionysus Records shop, at the shows, or ask your local shop to special order if they don’t have them!

January 9, 2023by Dionysus Records
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Tiger Bomb Sugar Buzz – Their Second Album Out Now on Dionysus Records!

Tiger Bomb Sugar Buzz LP – Out Now! exclusively on Dionysus Records ID:1233177

With their long-awaited second album, Tiger Bomb Sugar Buzz contains 15 original garage-pop songs featuring tight harmonies, ferocious guitars, and a high-energy attitude, recorded by David Minehan (The Replacements, Neighborhoods) at Woolly Mammoth Sound and mastered in NYC at The Lodge by the award-winning team of Emily Lazar (My Morning Jacket, Foo Fighters, Haim) and Chris Allgood (Vampire Weekend, Coldplay). Special ‘Joshua Tree’ cover-art by Mort Todd (Cracked Magazine, Marvel Comics). Liner notes are by esteemed Boston rock-music journalist Brett Milano (Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting); singer, model & author Bebe Buell (Rebel Heart), and popular international radio personalities Mike Rogers (#1 show in Japan) and Glynis Ward (The Girl Group Girl on Crayons To Perfume, WFMU).–

Get the album directly from Dionysus Records at this link!

Distributed by ILD

Inside the bold and bright packaging, you’ll find 15 fresh and exciting songs that are currently creating a buzz across the land – a sugar buzz that is! These four fab femmes rock hard, but make no mistake, Tiger Bomb knows their way around a good pop song. Inspired by the glittery sounds of sunshine pop, Sugar Buzz is full of catchy hooks & harmonies that’ll have you singing along in no time. These warm & fuzzy treats have a deep rich filling, coated with powerful guitars, melodic bass lines, and driving drums, for a thrill-packed listening experience with some of the most playable sounds around today! This LP is a follow-up companion piece to their debut, Uproar, also available on Dionysus Records (ID1233166), so be sure to complete your collection while supply lasts.

June 15, 2022by Dionysus Records
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Josie Cotton Invasion of the B-Girls on Dionysus Records!

Dionysus Records has released its first LP in two years, Josie Cotton Invasion of the B-Girls!

A collection of theme songs and featured tunes from a variety of exploitation films from the ’60s and ’70s, Josie Cotton Invasion of the B-Girls is a one-of-a-kind album. The LP boasts liner notes from director John Waters, who knows more about this film genre than anyone. His own song, “Female Trouble,” (from the film of the same name) is prominently featured. The track features the TOWER OF POWER horns; other featured musicians throughout include David Kendrick (DEVO, SPARKS), Paul Roessler (SCREAMERS, TWISTED ROOTS), Geza X, Kenny Lyon, and many others.

While the movies that are highlighted are often considered low-budget affairs, the production value of these versions takes many of these numbers to a new level. Among the songs on the LP are “Maneaters (Get off the Road)” from Herschell Gordon Lewis’ female biker flick She-Devils on Wheels, “Run Pussy Cat” from Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! And “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,” both Russ Meyer exploitation classics. The theme songs from The Girl in Gold Boots, Green Slime, and Black Klansman (the Ted V. Mikels film, not Spike Lee’s) are all on board and delivered with expected Josie panache. Two songs from the giant Japanese monster genre, “Goodbye Godzilla” and “Shiawaseo Yobou” are also lovingly rendered.

Get it from Dionysus Mail Order at this link!
Distributed by ILD – Independent Label Distribution

November 12, 2020by Dionysus Records
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25% Refund on Dionysus Records Mail Order Cart Purchases 4/2-4/3!

25% refund on Dionysus Mail Order Cart Purchases! Today, Thursday 4/2 NOW through Friday night 4/3, as the clock strikes MIDNIGHT Saturday AM PACIFIC, I will IMMEDIATELY REFUND 25% of your Dionysus Records Online Cart orders via your PayPal Payment NOT INCLUDING POSTAGE AND THESE ITEMS:

ITEMS NOT INCLUDED
Jesika von Rabbit T-shirts
Gram Rabbit CD
ALL Tiki Oasis glassware
ALL Tiki Oasis 19 New Wave items
Tiki Oasis 14 Beat Tiki Button Set
Tiki Oasis 11 Commemorative 45
Tiki Oasis Avanti Designs Shirt

How does this work? Make an order, and shortly after I will REFUND %25 of what you paid back to your PayPal account with the above exceptions!

www.dionysusrecords.com/shop/

Love to all during this difficult time,
Lee / Dionysus Records

April 2, 2020by Dionysus Records
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20% Off Sale in the Dionysus Records Mail Order Cart!


Two day sale today and tomorrow, 11/27-11/28, get 20% off your your order of $25 or more in the Dionysus Records Mail Order Cart, before shipping!

Click here to access the cart  use this code for your discount – 20OffDionysus2015

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November 27, 2015by Dionysus Records
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Martini Kings Palm Springs Serenade Red Vinyl!

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The Martini Kings only vinyl album, Palm Springs Serenade  has been repressed on transparent red 180 gram vinyl! This will be the final run of this album, once these 500 LPs are gone the title will be deleted so grab now!

Purchase from Dionysus Mail Order at this link

Palm Springs Serenade is a vinyl compilation of the group’s favorite tracks from numerous The Martini Kings CDs, and features a guest appearance by Buddy Greco. The cover is illustrated by SHAG, with liner notes by Cocktail Nation’s Koop Kooper, printed on a thick, old-style LP jacket called “tip-on” which consists of slicks glued on board.  The LP was cut on a vintage Scully lathe using a classic Westrex 3D cutter head. The album is packaged in a poly sleeve and includes a free digital download code. The first pressings of this LP were 400 black 180 gram vinyl and 100 clear vinyl.

The Martini Kings will be performing at Don the Beachcomber on Friday, November 7 with the Hukilau Hot Shots and DJ Senior Amor!

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October 21, 2015by Dionysus Records
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Limited represses of two Dukes of Hamburg LPs!

ID123359_DukesTwistTime.600Last year when moving the Dionysus Records office I found a few boxes of empty Dukes of Hamburg LP covers. Shortly after, our old pal, Dukes of Hamburg’s  Thilo Pieper reconnected with Dionysus, giving us news that there are now two reformed Dukes, in the US and Germany, and sending over some new recordings of his version of the  group based in Bielefeld, Germany. We agreed to do a new LP and run enough LPs to fill the empty jackets for both Bad Side of July (Dukes of Earl) (around 300 copies) and Twist-Time im Star-Club Hamburg (around 400 copies) LPs. Both are available via Dionysus Records Mail Order (follow the above links)  as well as select shops and internet mail order companies… you can only get them on vinyl as there are no CD or download versions of either! The represses also have different label designs than the originals, courtesy of Thilo!

ID123377_DukesOfHamburg_BadSideThe new Dukes of Hamburg release Liverpool Beat on Dionysus will be out soon, we’ll let you know when it’s just about ready to ship!

April 28, 2014by Dionysus Records
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Exotic Melancholic Noir: Jimmy Vargas & The Black Dahlias

Dionysus Records welcomes  Jimmy Vargas & The Black Dahlias!

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Jimmy Vargas is a racketeer and crooner, reincarnated from the twilight side of Los Angeles’ sin alley circa 1947. Lilana is a sorceress and exotique from the Mission Dolores San Francisco by way of Buenos Aires Argentina.

Brought together in the Broadway dancehall on North Beach by the Black Pope of the Bay City on the eve of the Dias De Los Muertos 1992, Vargas and Lilana’s relationship forged over several lifetimes. Vargas venerates her as his Shadow Bride. She vaunts him as her swinging Galahad, Gnostic crooner, and carney wise-cracker. Liliana alone tempers and guides the melodies, visions and words that come from Vargas’ hands. Her sexotique DNA alone seeds Jimmy Vargas & the Black Dahlia’s canon.

Jimmy Vargas & The Black Dahlias have created seven albums; the first, El Torchtura, was released in 1994 and set the template with its’ melancholic jazz swing, torch and Lynchian soundtrack. Six more sassy, satanic, swing noir episodes have followed, tempered all by Liliana’s essence and mystic influence. Liliana’s iconic holy image is embossed on each of their records and DVDs, as a haunting talisman.

Dionysus Records now stocks several Jimmy Vargas releases in our mail-order cart and will soon be releasing Digital versions of each album. Keep your eyes open for a new Vargas & Dahlias CD/Digital release and a vinyl LP in 2013! Click this link to order all four releases in-stock:

Death Swings’ (Album I & II)
Lust Angeles (Album VII)
My Shadow Bride Ghosting
Requiem For My Shadow

Their new disc, Lust Angeles, is now unleashed just in time for the zeitgeist. It’s a vintage and futuristic soundtrack for the new metaphysical soul shift. Fleshed in satanic hosiery and divined in a Gnostic spirit, these are urban hymns for the unsaved sons and daughters of Eve and features nine more tracks of lupercalian blues, scorching mambo and torch that one would imagine blasting out of a Hollywood pleasure house jukebox of 1948.

December 27, 2012by Dionysus Records
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Stereophonic Space Sound and Creatures LP releases

Dionysus Records proudly announces two vinyl LP releases for May of 2012: Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited “Plays Lost TV Themes” and The Creatures of the Golden Dawn “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was The Ground”

 

Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited “Plays Lost TV Themes” with free digital coupon – Dionysus Records ID123390 – click here to purchase

Out of print as an LP for over 15 years, Stereophonic Space Sound Unlmited’s debut platter, “Plays Lost TV Themes”, was originally released on Dr. Dream records on both LP and CD in 1997. When Dr. Dream folded operations a couple of years later, Dionysus Records reissued the CD, but not the LP version of this album.

Even with six full-length albums (including a soundtrack for a movie about Swiss racecar driver Jo Siffert) under their belt, not much is known about this mysterious Swiss electronica duo – not one SSSU photograph exists! But that hasn’t stopped them from garnering a legion of fans who love all retro, surf, spy, Henry Mancini, John Barry and electronica from buying and loving the group’s music.

The album jacket was designed by artist SHAG before he became famous. The LP was cut at HRS (History of Recorded Sound) on a vintage Scully lathe using a Westrex 2-B stereo cutting head. And – this LP has what is called an eccentric shut-off groove; when the album ends, the tonearm is lead to an off-center circle groove (harmless to the stylus) that swings the tonearm back and forth – this was a feature that was common on 78s and pre-1961 albums – it was used to kick in the shutoff or changer mechanisms. Dionysus had HRS cut the record this way because they are record geeks and wanted to take the retro thing a step further…

The Creatures of the Golden Dawn “Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground” with digital coupon, edition of 500 on gold vinyl – ID1233147 – click here to purchase

Arriving after the ’80s garage/psych revival – Bethlehem’s The Creatures of the Golden Dawn came on the scene with a lot more attitude then similar-minded combos. Lead by vocalist Mark Smith – their knife-sharp punky garage-meets-the-early-days-of-psychedelia tunes were filled with hooky riffs and always shadowed by varying degrees of darkness. The Creatures amassed a cult following in the states and Europe, and were played heavily on Little Steven’s Underground Garage syndicated radio show.

“Dark Was The Night…Cold Was The Ground” is a collection of what Mark Smith felt were the group’s best recorded efforts and includes tracks from their CD releases as well as their 7″ EPs. Though test pressings for the album were in Mark’s possession, Huntington’s Disease took his life before the LP was finalized. Thanks to the help of Mark’s brother Gregg and former Creatures of the Golden Dawn guitarist Steven Schlack, work on the record continued, was approved and set for release.

From the LP liner notes: Born of angst and attitude, The Creatures of the Golden Dawn bring forth a collection of songs compelling you to get up and get to action!  Savage rhythms, angry guitars and vocals filled with rage and emotion will set your souls, hearts and minds on fire!   This is the music that has brought teenagers around the globe to the edge of mania!  So get ready to GO with the primitive beat of The Creatures of the Golden Dawn!

May 15, 2012by Dionysus Records
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Kenneth Anger and Brian Butler’s Technicolor Skull perform MOCA

Kenneth Anger and Brian Butler’s Technicolor Skull perform MOCA 11/19 for ICONS opening and release debut vinyl

 

 

Technicolor Skull performs their first West Coast appearance at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles on November 19, 2011, as part of the opening reception for Kenneth Anger: ICONS. This exhibition will showcase the films, books, and artwork of one of the most original and enigmatic filmmakers of post-war American cinema. This coincides with the release of Technicolor Skull’s self-titled recorded debut, a one-sided, bloodred 180 gram 12″ vinyl LP limited to 666 copies. The record will be avalible from the MOCA gift shop, technicolorskull.com and there will be a few copies avalible in the Dionysus Records shopping cart.

 

Technicolor Skull, a multimedia collaboration featuring Kenneth Anger on Theremin and Los Angeles artist Brian Butler on guitar and electronic instruments, will perform for the first time in Los Angeles at the exhibition opening on November 19. Technicolor Skull is a magick ritual of light and sound in the context of a live performance. The project premiered at Donaufestival in Austria, in April 2008, and has subsequently toured throughout Europe, performing at the National Museum of Art, Copenhagen, and the Serralves Museum, Portugal, and recently at the Hiro Ballroom, New York, for the Anthology Film Archives benefit.

Kenneth Anger “ICONS“

Nov. 13, 2011, through Feb. 27, 2012
Opening reception: Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011
Technicolor Skull will perform at 8 PM


Museum of Contemporary Art
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213/626-6222
www.moca.org 
Admission:
Free for MOCA Members and one guest
Additional guests and non-members: $25.00
INFO 621/621-1794 or
membership1@moca.org
November 19, 2011by Dionysus Records
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