Tune in to “Open Mynd Excursion” tonight on LuxuriaMusic.com for a special all Tucson, AZ show featuring 1960s era airchecks from KTKT, KIKX and KFIF with legendary Tucson DJs Dan Gates, Frank Kalil, Ray Lindstrom and others, along with local records, 9-11 PM PDT on LuxuriaMusic.com.

Tune in to Over Under Sideways Down with your host Lee Joseph on LuxuriaMusic tonight 11/23 for a two hour 45 RPM party featuring late ’70s-early ’80s punk from the US, UK, and Australia!

Join host Lee Joseph for Over Under Sideways Down on LuxuriaMusic.com in its’ new time slot – MONDAY’s 8-10 PM, starting tonight, November 9! LuxuriaMusic has completed a move to their new, improved live and production studio in Glendale, CA. Live programming returns this week! Click here to listen!

The LuxuriaMusic studio move is complete and the station is ready to start live broadcasting again! Tune in on Saturday, November 7 6-11 PM for the official relaunch. Here’s the schedule:

6:00-6:30- Strike
6:30-7:00- Kristian Hoffman
7:00-7:30- Michael Quercio & Lina
7:30-8:00- Brian Waters
8:00-8:30- Lee Joseph
8:30-9:00- Gary Schneider
9:00-9:30- Allen and Allen
9:30-10:00- Agent Kari
10:00-10:30- Howie Pyro
10:30-11:00- Ron Sures

Join me on LuxuriaMusic.com from 3-5 PM PDT today for a special Tiki Oasis 14: “Beat Tiki”  pre-show featuring beat jazz, beat novelties, bands playing the event, a visit from Baby Doe and other surprises!

Ray Campi will be my guest on Over Under Sideways Down – LuxuriaMusic.com, Wed. July 16, 3-5 PM Pacific. Tune in for a history of Ray’s  influences, musical career and his always great stories about his film and music idols throughout the years!

We’ve released three records with Ray over the years, the Skip Heller produced compilation “Perpetual Stomp”, Ray’s “Rockabilly Ladies” and the wonderful Mae West Masquers Club roast tape which Ray took possession of years back. Ray Campi has stayed in touch all this time and I’m glad to have a chance to have him on the show!

 
We still have a few copies of Ray’s releases in the mail order warehouse – quantities are low and these discs won’t be repressed:
Rockabilly Ladies CD
Perpetual Stomp LP
Perpetual Stomp CD
Mae West Masquers Club CD

Here’s the playlist and podcast link for the second Salute to Early Underground FM show on Over Under Sideways Down, LuxuriaMusic.com  5/28 – of course sponsored by (the non-existent) Harry’s Discount Psychedelic Emporium!

Click here for podcast

Set 1
Clara Clairvoyant – Donovan – Open Road
Who Do You Love – Juicy Lucy – Vertigo Comp Box Set
The Good Love – Johnny Winter – Second Winter
Where Do You Go – Fever Tree – S/T
Ressurection – Aum – Ressurection

Set 2
Sounding the Sleeping – Lee Michaels – Carnival of Life
Feathers From Your Tree – Blue Cheer – Outsideinside
Time Has Slipped Away – Dragonfly – S/T
You Can’t Win – Iron Butterfly – Heavy
Fred – James Gang – Yer Album

Set 3:
Born on the Solar Wind – Jade Warrior – Last Autum’s Dream
Book Song – Fairport Convention – S/T
Northern Sky – Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
Song for Aries – Cactus – One Way Or Another
Musical Tribute to the Oscar Meyer Wiener Wagon – The Baroques – S/T

Set 4:
Looking for Someone – Fleetwood Mac – S/T
Vacation – John Mayall – Blues from Laurel Canyon
Supernatural Mind – Mystic Siva – S/T
Cherry Red – Groundhogs – ’69-‘72
Future Waits – Dragonwyck – S/T

Set 5:
Black Widow – Come to the Sabbat – The Singles Collection
Can You Travel in the Dark Alone – Gandolf
hic et nunc – Aphrodites Child – 666
Song For Jeffery – Jethro Tull –This Was
The Northstar Grassman & The Ravens – Sandy Denny – Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal – An Island Anthology
Walking with a Mountain – Mott the Hoople – S/T
Unidentified Flying Object – UFO – S/T

Ending with For Madmen Only – May Blitz – 2nd of May (incomplete due to dyslexia…)

Jonny Whiteside with Swamp Dogg thanks to Cary Baker (Stolen from Jonny’s Facebook Page)

Friend to many a local LA musician, outspoken scribe and Messaround mastermind Jonny Whiteside will be my guest on Over Under Sideways Down, LuxuriaMusic.com, May 7, 3-5 PM Pacific. We’ll be talking about his many projects as a writer, will play artists whose reissues he’s worked on, and feature many bands that have played his marvelous Messaround event!

Since 1986, Jonny Whiteside is an award-winning author, veteran music journalist and regular contributor to LA Weekly. He runs an extremely fun monthly Sunday package event called The Messaround, four years running, with acts like Pat Boone & Charles Keep A-Knockin’ Connor, Freddy Boom Boom Cannon & the Gears, Evie Sands, Troy Walker, Gil Bernal, Eddie Ghettobaby Daniels, Simon Stokes, Mau Maus, Del Casher, Nolan Porter, the Hangmen, South Bay Surfers, Ray Campi, Leaking Pigs, Peeks, Billy Bones, Dick & Jane Family Ork, Tonya Watts, Freight Shakers, Dick Deluxe, many many many more.

Jonny’s writing has also appeared in BMI Music World, Variety (lead writer Frank Sinatra 80th birthday “spesh,” among other jobs), Chicago Tribune, Houston Press, Texas Music magazine, Oxford American, Journal of Country Music, Times Community News, Spin, LA Reader, LA Style, Music Connection, BAM, Fad, Rip, Sh-Boom, Country Sounds; NY Rocker, and Boston Rock. Jonny was the chief writer for the Academy of Country Music‘s award show accompanying hard-bound program book 1989-91.

Jonny is intimately conversant with country, punk, rock & roll, R&B, pop, jazz and blues. His feature-interview subjects have included Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Little Richard, Jimmy Scott, Anita O’Day, Kay Starr, the Cramps, Ricky Skaggs, Cheap Trick, Alex Chilton, Pat Boone, Los Lobos, Buck Owens, Frankie Laine, Patti Page, Hadda Brooks, Droogs, Zeros, Randy Travis, Johnny Paycheck, Knoxville Girls, Tommy Sands, Red Simpson, Ruben Guevara; cover stories on Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, convicted killer-punk rock singer Sam McBride of Fang, and a Hollywood Country Scene overview.

His books include “Cry: the Johnnie Ray Story” (Barricade Books, 1994), “an essential book on fame and pop culture,” Marshall Crenshaw in the New Yorker; “a valuable biography,” Robert Hilburn, LA Times; John Waters ranked “Cry” at number three on his Top Ten Tinseltown Books, Playboy, January 2006 and “Ramblin’ Rose: the Life and Career of Rose Maddox,” (Country Music Foundation/Vanderbilt University Press, 1997), winner of the American Society of Recorded Sound Collection’s Best Research in the Field of Recorded Country Music award, also a finalist in the 1997 Ralph J Gleason awards; “Fast becoming the standard by which country music biographies are judged,” Peter La Chappele, author “Proud to be an Okie.”

Johnny has numerous entries in the Country Music Foundation’s “Encyclopedia of Country Music” and “The Rough Guide to Country Music”; LA Weekly cover story “Love & Hell: Merle Haggard’s Twin Oracles” anthologized in DaCapo Press’ Best Music Writing of 2000 anthology, edited by Peter Guralnick. Jonny was directly cited more than thirty times in Gerald Haslam’s “Working Man’s Blues: Country Music in California.”

His CD & album liner notes include Porter Wagoner, Wagonmaster (Anti, 2007); Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, I Stand Alone (Anti, 2006) Wanda Jackson, Heart Trouble (CMH, 2003); Solomon Burke, Don’t Give Up On Me (Anti-Fat Possum, 2002); Merle Haggard, Roots (Anti, 2001); Merle Haggard, If I Could Only Fly (Anti, 2000); Rosie Flores, Dance Hall Dreams (Rounder, 1999) as well as numerous other reissues.

Jonny has been known to raise eyebrows and tempers with some of his fervent opinions which challenge mainstream thought. Even if he’s pissed you off,  you have to give the man loads of respect for his drive, his all-things well-researched-music filled cranium, and his tastes in putting together a killer live show!

I am looking forward to Jonny’s appearance on Over Under Sideways Down – don’t miss it! Join in on the chatroom;  http://luxuriamusic.com/chat and if you can’t tune in live, we’ll give you a podcast link after the show airs!