In 2002, Bacchus Archives relased a 12″vinyl slab and CD  consisting of the eight known recordings by Los Angeles ’60s garage legends, The Preachers, known best for their OVER THE TOP version of “Who Do You Love” which was originally unearthed on an early Pebbles compilation.  Only 500 copies of the 12″ were pressed which sold out a few years ago. We’ve finally repressed this LOUD slab of garage goodness, which also has photos and an excellent interview with Preacher’s keyboardist Rudy Garza on the back cover. Order the vinyl here or order the CD here – and enjoy this amazing video of The Preachers live on the Shivaree show in 1965!

The Bacchus Archives reissue of Geza X’s “You Goddam Kids” has been out of print for almost two years – the album has been repressed in an edition of 500 on yellow vinyl and includes a digital download coupon! Click here to order the record.

Geza X has been an important fixture on the California punk/new wave scene for many years as a producer/writer/engineer for countless artists, from Josie Cotton to the Dead Kennedys. As an artist, however, he doesn’t resemble most of those he’s worked with at all: You Goddamn Kids! is delightful, off-the-wall, adventurous, complex and humorous. The studio pro uses sound effects and treated vocals to enhance his music, much of which might well appeal to fans of, say, the Residents. – Charles P. Lamey – Trouser Press

This classic post Masque-era  album is the unique work of former Deadbeats, Mommymen member and producer GEZA X with quite the cast of original Los Angeles punk scene luminaries as contributing musicians including Brendan Mullen, Paul Roessler, D.J. Bonebrake, Josie Cotton, Don Bolles and others! Utilizing the unique “Gezatone” guitar with a screechy vocal style and warped sense of humor, this album delivers early ‘80s classics such as “We Need More Power” and “Isotope Soap” as heard on the “Let Them Eat Jellybeans” and “Rodney On The Roq” compilations.

Tracks: Pony Ride II, Rio Grande Hotel, Hungarian, We Need More Power, Isotope Soap, The Paranoids Are Coming, Interlude, Funky Monsters, Practicing Mice, I Hate Punks, Mean Mr. Mommy Man and the bonus tracks RX Rock & Roll and Pony Ride I

Geza X and The Mommymen – “The Paranoids Are Coming” from New Wave Theater

Interview with Geza X by Peter Ivers on New Wave Theater

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….

The Martini Kings hit the recording studio with their idol, lounge legend Buddy Greco! Greco sang and hung with the Rat Pack (Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr.), and he played piano for the Benny Goodman Orchestra. On this album, Greco is featured on piano and vocals, and his wife Lezlie Anders is also a featured vocalist. They have self released the CD which is available from the Dionysus Records cart. Buy the CD from Dionysus Records here!

TIKIMENTARY  – IN SEARCH OF THE LOST PARADISE DVD
Now Available in the Dionysus Mailorder Store!

View the trailer here

“Tikimentary – In Search Of The Lost Paradise” is an intimate portrait of a charming, eccentric, and mostly cheerful group of friends. Starring: Otto von Strohein, Baby Doe, Shag, Lenore “Tikilicious” & Steve Koppleman, King Kukulele, Marina The Fire Eating Mermaid, Tiki Kiliki, Harold Golen, Sunshine Tiki, Kelly Patterson, Paul Spencer, Nicole & Joe Desmond and the music by The Intoxicators!, Martini Kings, The Bikini Beachcombers,The Tikiyaki Orchestra, and many more! “Tikimentary – In Search Of The Lost Paradise” had its world premiere at The Hukilau 2010 and its West Coast premiere at Tiki Oasis 2010 to large and enthusiastic audiences.

Award winning Brazilian filmmaker Duda Leite has always been fascinated by moving images and pop culture. In 1994 he directed his first short film in São Paulo, Brazil, called “Serial Cluber Killer“, inspired by the movies of John Waters and Russ Meyer. This short won the Best Short Film Award at Mix Brazil, got an immediate following and became a cult hit. “Serial Cluber Killer” was also shown at the Outfest, in Los Angeles.

In 1995, he directed his second film “Selma & Denise”, a lesbian-trashy punk version of the Hollywood hit Thelma & Louise. It was also shown at the Mix Brazil Film Festival. “After The Fox”, a sing-a-long homage to Surf and the music by Burt Bacharach came in 1999 and was shown at various Festivals around the world, including a special screening at the MOCA Miami.

“Resmungo” was his first short filmed in Miami, Florida, in 2005. It was shown at MTV Brazil, and was selected for the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, CA.

In 2009 he presented “Tikimentary – In Search Of The Lost Paradise” his first documentary and full-lenth feature. It premiered at The Hukilau, in Fort Lauderdale and was shown later that year at Tiki Oasis. “Tikimentary – In Search Of The Lost Paradise” has been show at various film festivals including the São Paulo International Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro Short Film Festival, Mix Brazil and at Otto’s Shrunken Head, in New York City. It won a Special Mention at Cine Mube, in São Paulo.

Kelly Haigh “9PM”,  24×24, acrylic on canvas,  at the “Summertime Show” at El Kartel in Vancouver.

Kelly Haigh lives, paints, and cuts hair in Vancouver, where she also sings and plays in the band, Ashley Park. She is currently obsessed with Victorian Taxidermy, and plans on turning her tiny hair salon into her own private natural history museum. There is a story on Kelly’s website, which speaks of her stuffed crow, whom she’s named Jack T. Crow, and how he takes her on his back to some magical, yet sometimes terrifying places, and how he has her paint all the scenes they witness together in that surreal landscape of dreams.

Country Western Star starring Kelly Haigh with Francis the singing dog CD

Kelly Haigh has created an album of surreal dreamscapes and opens the gates to a universe you exist in momentary somewhere between consciousness and dreams as you are drifting away to sleep. “Country Western Star” is an auditory equivalent of her paintings and encompasses numerous elements of pop and surrealism, cuteness, terror, beauty and fear, in a cloud covered atmosphere with stories rooted on this planet but somehow not of this earth.

The intro to the liner notes tell the story well and go like this:

“Country Western Star walks in the shadowlands, singing her songs to the critters of the forest and tending to the vast gardens filled with unmarked graves. She is the keeper of justice, guided by her trusted compass, which is not marked with the usual North, South, East or West but instead bears the letters L.M.F. & R. LOVE, MURDER, FORGIVNESS, REVENGE”

“Country Western Star starring Kelly Haigh with Frances the singing dog” is a package to behold; from Kelly’s art which adorns the cover, the eight-panel fold-out insert, the six-panel fold-out CD jacket and the music itself featuring 25 surreal musical stories.

Visit Kelly Haigh’s Myspace page: www.myspace.com/dollinthefamily

Kelly Haigh’s fanpage on Faceboook

Purchase the CD from the Dionysus Records online shop

The Beachcomber Trio “Live at the Kahiki 1965”

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LP only, hand-numbered edition of 500 with digital download coupon included. Click here to order.

Experience an exotic evening at the famous Kahiki Supper Club, a legendary and now defunct “Tiki Temple” in Columbus Ohio with The Beachcomber Trio, the house band who filled the restaurant’s Music Bar with a unique Latin Jazz/Hawaiian/Lounge hybrid. Like many restaurant albums released in the ‘60s, this recording brings back the excitement of a small live audience with cocktails in hand and even includes the sound of the bar’s waterfall adding to the unique environmental experience. Listen now to the sound of a night out inside of the greatest Polynesian restaurants in the world.  This previously unreleased tape was for years in the possession of trio leader Marsh Padilla and recently presented to exotica musicologist Jeff Chenault who put the release together for Bacchus Archives. This is a strictly limited edition of 500 on vinyl LP which comes with a digital download code. The mastering and cutting was done strictly in the analog realm by our pal Len Horowitz at HRS (History of Recorded Sound) in Culver City, CA.

We’d like to inform you of two new left-of-center compilations of ’60s Asian garage, surf, psych and more, available from our shopping cart:

Various Artists – Chinese Rocks LP only – pressing of 500 on yellow opaque vinyl. Click here to order
Like the old saying “digging a hole to China.” insatiable record collectors go through stages, digging deeper & deeper to find the next unknown treasure. Collectors of garage/trash 50’s & 60’s oddities have grown in recent years like a wild fungus & many vinyl mysteries have been solved only to open new ones. Looking to the east we have indeed literally dug a hole to a 60’s Singapore & Malaysian weirdsville, represented here by a family style nightmare of rickshaw crashing left of center wild rockers that would never make it onto even a collectors compilation of this sort. Everything from wild surf to Trashmen styled thud to almost Shaggs ineptitude/beauty to garage pounders & even a retarded psychedelic comedy track, put this record on & drown in the delightful soy sauce vinyl insanity that is Chinese Rocks!
Tracks:
The Stylers – Hey! Hey! Hey!
The Siglaps – Hey Girl
The Quests – Ding Dong Twist
Johnny Tan – Shakin’ All Over
Bakar Hamid & The Hawks – Div-Kav-Tetap Ku Kenang
The Thunderbirds – Call My Name
Shao Fong Fong – I Love A Go Go
The Hi-Fi Twins & The Kings – Papa Oom Mow Mow
Blue Lake Combo – Bombora
The Steps – Steps Theme
S. Suri & Les Sea King – Svasana Ala
The Fabulous Falcons – Midnight Express
The Saints – ???
The Hi Fi Twins & The Kings – Lies
Helen Velv & The Silverstones – Hot Pants
The Quests – Pop Inn Theme

Various Artists – Let’s A Go-Go CD only. Click here to order

Singapore and Southeast Asian Pop Scene 1964 – 1969 featuring Rita Chao, Dara Puspita, The Bees, Patrina, Hai Fei, The Dee Tees, The Crescendos, Leroy Lindsay wiht The Mysterians, Rock Teoh, The Blue Beats, Charlie and his Go-Go Boys, M. Ishak Dengan Five-55, The Quests, S.K. Pauline, Betty Chung, Logus Liew, Orkes Tropicano, Ismail Haron & The Guys, Teresa Khoo, The Spacemen, The Mysterians and The Tones. Plenty of that surfy exotic guitar that is the signature sound of these records!

In 2004, The Dollyrots first album “Eat My Heart Out” was released as a vinyl LP on Dionysus Records and CD on Lookout / Panic Button Records.  Shortly after the album’s release, both versions  sold out.  This week, Dionysus Records in conjunction with The Dollyrots have pressed up 500 copies of “Eat My Heart Out” on blue and white opaque vinyl with a download coupon which includes the entire album plus three bonus B sides, just in time for their tour supporting The Buzzcocks. Some of the pressing will be sold on tour, some will go into distribution and a few will be sold via Dionysus Mail-Order.

The Dollyrots are inspired by the early ’60s Brill Building song-writers and the related girl-group sound of the same era, with the attitude and attack of The Ramones. Their current albums are on Joan Jett’s Blackheart Records.

Here are their upcoming tour dates! Go see ’em and pick up the new reissue  or click here to buy the album directly from Dionysus Records.

THE DOLLYROTS TOUR SUPPORTING THE BUZZCOCKS

• May 11 Black Cat Washington, DC
• May 12 Ottobar Baltimore, MD
• May 13 The Fillmore NYC, NY
• May 14 Trocadero Philadelphia, PA
• May 15 Crazy Donkey Farmington, NY
• May 17 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA
• May 18 Le National Montreal, Canada
• May 19 Opera House Toronto, Canada
• May 21 Peabody’s Cleveland, OH
• May 22 Detroit St Andrew’s Hall
• May 23 Double Door Chicago, IL
• May 24 Fine Line Music Café Minneapolis, MD
• May 26 Pyramid Cabaret Winnipeg, Canada
• May 28 New City Compound Edmonton, Canada
• May 29 Republik Calgary, Canada
• May 31 Venue Vancouver, Canada
• June 1 Berbati’s Pan Portland, OR
• June 2 El Corazon Seattle, WA
• June 4 Uptown Oakland, CA
• June 5 Cub Nokia/LA Live Los Angeles, CA
• June 6 House Of Blue’s Anaheim, CA
• June 7 House Of Blue’s San Diego, CA