Pipe Smoking Goblet Drinking Retro Painter Magazine Album Poster Pin-Up Kitsch Shoe Illustrator Retro Fun Loving “Prince of Pop Art” Guy, artist Mitch O’Connell has a new career spanning book out via Last Gasp called Mitch O’Connell: The World’s Best Artist.  This marvelously massive (and heavy) book, wrapped in a thick embossed glittery squishy cover that’s every bit as fun to touch as it is to look at, will keep Mitch O’Connell fans as well as those curious, busy for hours. This “tome” collects everything from Mitch’s school book doodles to his sold-out art pieces, illustrations from Playboy, Mad Magazine, The New York Times, poster art, CD and album covers, and his illustrations in comics and fanzines.  The book contains enough text to give you the low-down on the images and there is a very cool section where Mitch names off and talks about his inspirations such as artists and illustrators Bernie Wrightson, Burne Hogarth, John Romita, J.C. Leyendecker, Ivan Albright, Frank Fruzyna and Mitch’s mom and dad!  – fewf… It’s seriously eye-popping and well worth the totally fair $35 suggested retail price.

Mitch is doing a short book tour including a stop here in Los Angeles at La Luz de Jesus Gallery which will also feature a slide-show of his art. Come by, say hi, and get a book signed!

Mitch O’Connell signs Mitch O’Connell: The Worlds Best Artist
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
Sunday, February 24, 2013, 3-6 PM
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-666-7667

La Luz de Jesus’ 2013 Laluzapalooza / Kitschen Sync Juried Group Show Includes Art by The Creepy Creeps / Creepxotica’s Dave Warshaw!

After publicly extending their annual Laluzapalooza juried group show submission deadline an extra month, La Luz de Jesus Gallery‘s Billy Shire and Matt Kennedy sorted through over 15,000 images to select over 220 paintings, drawings, sculptures, assemblages, and photographs to be included in their biggest show of the year.

Laluzapalooza patrons will see a noticeable difference in the tone of the show, reflecting a shift toward labor-intensive work of all mediums. Along with work from animators, tattooists, graphic designers, and commercial illustrators, La Luz de Jesus is incorporating photography and digital art into the show. Shire and Kennedy didn’t set out to change the show’s parameters, but several submitted pieces fit the format so perfectly, the duo decided to accept the works and expand the show. They are both confident that there is a “WOW!” factor in this year’s Laluzapalooza which you won’t see in any other group show.

2013′s Laluzapalooza showcases artists from six continents: North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe

View the 2013 show preview

View Laluzapalooza 2012 gallery install photos

This year’s Laluzapalooza features the following artists:
Peter Adamyan
Jeannie Houston Antes
Susanne Apgar
Briana Bainbridge
Christopher Bales
Davidd Batalon
James Bentley
Michelle Bickford
Winifred Brewer
Michael Brown
Mark Bryan
Erin Burrell
Jeaneen Carlino
Victor Castillo
Adrian Cherry
CHOD
JAW Cooper
Torii Cooper
Edward Robin Coronel
Matthew Couper
Robert Craig
Jessica Dalva
John de Fazio
Dave Dexter
James Dowlen
Mark Edward
Bruce Eichelberger
Angela Ellefson
Jessica Fife
Harold Fox
Don Fritz
Richard Frost
Germs
Mark Gleason
Steve Diet Goedde
Kim Gordon
Max Grundy
Sunny Gu
Walt Hall
Howard Hallis
Hanzel Haro
AshFord Harrison
Derek Harrison
Clare Hebert
Brett Herman
Andy Hernandez
Sam Ho
Scott Holloway
Jason Houchen
Jack Howe
Stephanie Inagaki
Jinx
JoKa
Jessica Joslin
Jason Justice
Brent Kallenbach
Shannon Keller
Billy Kheel
Jaesun Kim
Michael Kortez
Norbert Kox
Lindsey Kuhn
Zoe Lacchei
Mavis Leahy
Dave Lebow
Alexis Lopez
Lizz Lopez
Didu Losso
Carl Lozada
Dion Macellari
Apricot Mantle
D.W. Marino
Ofelia Marquez
Horacio Martinez
Mary Ancilla Martinez
Aya Masuda
Genie Melisande
Miso
Graham Moore
Click Mort
Lyle Motley
Emi Motokawa
Dustin Myers
David Natale
Ron Norman
Daisuke Okamoto
José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros
Tammi Otis
Leah Parrent
Brian Poor
Matthew Price
Anthony Purcell
Eric Quezada
Cate Rangel
Bonni Reid
Billy Reynolds
Ave Rose
Ken Ruzic
SAGE
Van Saro
Justin Schaefer
Kim Scott
Dale Sizer
Aniela Sobieski
Mike Sosnowski
Spinestealer
Josh Stebbins
Sean Stepanoff
Anna Stump
Hui Tan
Treiops Treyfid
Pamela Tu
Christopher Umana
Eric Van Straaten
Vega
Dave Warshaw
Mirmy Winn
Jasmine Worth
Sandra Yagi
Mimi Yoon
Kim Zsebe

Laluzapalooza: Everything but the Kitschen Sync Vol. XVII
(Year XXVII of the Greatest Group Show on Earth)

March 1 – 31, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, March 1st, 8-11 pm

La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90027

Tune in to LuxuriaMusic.com on Feb 20 from 3-5 PM Pacific for Over Under Sideways Down during the first week of the LuxuriaMusic Listener Sponsorship Drive. Guest Skip Heller will perform a few songs (all acoustic) LIVE with his quartet, featuring OUSD host Lee Joseph on bass! Sponsor LuxuriaMusic for special premiums including lots of items donated by Dionysus Mail Order and for this show some signed Skip Heller CDs! Join us in the chatroom too!

World renowned internet radio music purveyor, LuxuriaMusic.com announces its 2013 Listener Sponsorship Drive from Monday, February 18th through Sunday March 3rd.

Once a year, LuxuriaMusic gives listeners an opportunity to keep its programming alive by sponsoring items in the live studio, buying swag, and just plain supporting everything they love about Lux!

The LuxuriaMusic 2013 Listener Sponsorship Drive kicks off Monday, February 18th with famed reissue producer, sonic archaeologist, and Monkees biographer Andrew Sandoval on his program, Come To the Sunshine. The drive runs for two weeks, with the final night celebration coming to a close Sunday, March 3rd on Strike’s Kitsch Niche at 10 pm. DJs will offer gifts, prizes, special guests, and two special drawings for Internet radios to entice listener sponsors to support their programs.

As a bonus, LuxuriaMusic is creating an exclusive content page only available to Listener Sponsors. Hear a special sneak peek program the day before the end of the drive on Saturday, March 2nd from 6 to 9 pm, PST.

It’s the 2013 LuxuriaMusic Listener Sponsorship Drive! A great way to show the world what you love about Lux!

Enjoy the Sugartown episode of my Over Under Sideways Down show broadcast live from the LuxuriaMusic studios in the Empire Media Center located in Glendale, featuring two hours of all-girl group, garage, folk, psych, glam and punk with my guest co-host Athena Daytona and our friend Robin Red – here’s the playlist and links for the podcast. We had a great time in the studio and hope you have a great time listening!

Sugartown hour one 3-4 PM January 16, 2013

Sugartown hour two 4-5 PM January 16, 2013

Set One
International Girl – The Beas – Chatttahoochee Records 45
My LA (from the film Psycho A Go Go) – Tacey Robin  – Rev Records 45
Jelly Belly – Nai Bonnet  – Karate Records 45
The Hoochie Coo -The Fatimas  – Original Sound 45
Wild Man – Carol Robinson – Landa Records 45
Leave Me Alone – Leslie Gore –  Boys Boys Boys   LP  – Mercury Records
Come On In – Jerry and Deborah  – Epic Records 45
Big Bad Wolf – The Shamettes – MGM 45
Up Down Sue – The Luv’d Ones – White Oak Records 45

Set Two
Sugar Town – Nancy Sinatra – Sugar LP –  Reprise Records
If You Were a Carpenter –  Tippy Hedron  – Challenge Records 45
Ann-Margaret – He’s My Man – RCA Victor 45
99 – Barbra Felden –   RCA Victor 45
Hurdy Gurdy Man – Eartha Kitt –  Spark Records 45 (UK)
When I Think Of You  – Twiggy – Capitol 45
Shaking All Over – Mae West –  Way Out West LP –  Tower Records

Set Three
Eight Days a Week – Mary Wells – Love Songs to the Beatles LP – 20th Century Records
Tell Me- The Termites – Oriole UK  45
Baby That’s Me – The Cake – Decca 45
That’s Right Baby – Marianne Faithfull – Faithfull Forever LP – London Records
These Days – Nico – Chelsea Girls LP – MGM UK
Deed I Do (Burt Janish cover) Eylse S/T LP – Tetragrammaton Records
Blue Eyed Boy – Barbara Keith  S/T LP – Verve/Forcast
Long Before I was Born – The Savage Rose – In The Plain LP – Polydor Records
Dressed In Black – The Shangra Las – Red Bird 45
The Mortuary Song – Eylse  S/T LP Tetragrammaton Records

Set Four
Vou Lhe Contar (Pushin’ Too Hard) – Wanderlea  S/T – CBS Brazil
Avez Vous Deja Vous – Patricia – Swinging Mademoiselle Vol 3 – Sasha Monett Records
Mississippi Delta – Bobby Gentry – Ode to Billy Joe LP – Capitol Records
Bye Bye Charlie – Lori Burton – Mercury 45
Snow Blind – Judy Henske and Gerry Yester – Straight Records 45
What A Way to Die – The Pleasure Seekers – Norton Records 45
48 Crash – Suzy Quatro – EMI France 45

Set Five
The American in Me – The Avengers – Avengers 12” White Noise Records
Bags  – Babylonian Gorgon – Dangerhouse 45
Tell That Girl to Shut Up – Holly and the Italians – Oval Visions 45
I’m Sorry – Inflatable Boy Clams – dbl EP Subterranean Records 45
I Am a Poseur – Xray Spex – EMI 45
100% White Girl – VKTMS – 415 Records 45
Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White – Las Dilly Sisters – Gordo Records 45

V/A: Swinging Mademoiselle Volume 3 LP

The person who compiled the album PROMISES this to be the final volume of the Swinging Mademoiselle series, of which the last volume was issued 10 years ago. This LP is also a companion to Girls in the Garage Volume 12 which is available for purchase here.

Swinging Mademoiselle Volume 3 contains fabulous French female garage, psych, freakbeat and pop tracks (some from Belguim and Switzerland) recorded  between 1963 to 1972 though most fall in to the ’65 – ’68 time frame, all from vinyl singles, in superb sound quality with a fully annotated (in French and English) and illustrated insert.

This volume features Valery, Michele, Dorine, Arlette Zola, Dyanna, Gilels et Dominique, Josiane Rey, Marie Claire Courcel, Nicole Josy, Patricia, Monica Berg, Francine Sarall, Christine Moncenis, Groupie, Elsa Laurent, and Martine Ledug.

Please be advised that even with careful shipping from France, the sealed album jackets have a small ding in one corner. Not bad enough that it should sway you away from purchasing the record but noticeable enough to where we wanted to tell you about it.

Tune in to LuxuriaMusic.com, 1/16/13,  3 – 5 pm Pacific for two hours of sweet and sassy sounds from some of our favorite female fronted vinyl 45s and LPs from the ’60s with a short set of ’77-78 Fem punk blasts on the SUGARTOWN episode of  Over Under Sideways Down featuring your host Lee Joseph and guest co-host, Athena Daytona.

Here is my playlist and podcast link for Over Under Sideways Down, show #11, my first live show in the newly moved and improved LuxuriaMusic studios. A departure from my usual focused theme shows, I plucked an assortment of records from the unfiled stacks in my house and came up with quite the musical roller coaster ride. Podcast links below. Hope you enjoy!

First Hour of Over Under Sideways Down on LuxuriaMusic 1/9/13

Second Hour of Over Under Sideways Down on LuxuriaMusic 1/9/13

Over Under Sideways Down with Lee Joseph
LuxuriaMusic.com
Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 3pm – 5pm Pacific
Show number 11
A mixture of tracks from the stacks of unfiled records in my house!
Title – Artist – Source – Label

(opening featuring “A Thinking Man’s Record, 1950s Capitol Records promo 7” and “Over Under Sideways Down” by The Yardbirds)

Set One
I’m Alive  – Don Fardon – I’ve Paid My Dues LP – Decca US
Message From The Country –  The Move – Message From The Country LP – Harvest UK
Action Packed – Ronnie Dawson – Rockin’ Bones collection – No Hit Records Uk
All Through The Night –  Paris Sisters – Gregmark 7”  (Flip of “I Love How You Love Me” )
Feather from Your Tree (mono mix )  –Blue Cheer –  Phillips 7” (worn copy sorry about the noise)
Cycle Annie – The Beachnuts (early Lou Reed) – V/A Soundsville LP – Design Records
Smokes – Question Mark & the  Mysterians –  Cameo/Parkway 7” (Flip of Can’t Get Enough Of You Baby)
Theme from the Vindicators – The Fleshtones –  Up Front 12” – IRS Records
Streets of Calcutta – Ananda Shankar –  Ananda Shankar and His Music  LP (reissue)   – Fallout Records

Set Two
Romesville – Googie Rene – Romesville LP (stereo) – Class Records
Hey Brother Pour The Wine – Dean Martin – Hey Brother Pour The Wine LP – Capitol Records
Mind Reader – The Johnny Howard Group –  Decca UK 7”
I Sympathize – Thee Fourgiven – It Ain’t Pretty Down Here LP – Dionysus (that’s me on the high harmonies)
Looking For Myself – David Neil – The Wilderness Years LP – self released (Riky Maymi)
Babalu – Yma Sumac – Capitol Records 7”
Chitlins Etc.  – The Counts – Panorma 7”
Is It True – Brenda Lee – Decca US 7”
Psychotic Pineapple – I Wanna Get Rid Of You – Richmond 7”
Cassinos – Leader of the Band – Alpha 7” (also on East Side Sound Vol 2 – Bacchus)

Set Three
Let My Baby Ride – RL Burnside –  Come On In LP – Fat Possum
Frustrating Sound – S/T LP  – Alive Records
Baby Don’t Go – Hacienda – Loud Is The Night LP –  Alive Records
Hellbound – Spindrift – Classic Soundtracks LP – XEMU Records
He Doesn’t Share Well – The Love Me Nots – The Demon and The Devotee LP – Project Infinity Records
Derrick 2000 – Lou Hoffner Trio – Sheep Records 7”

Set Four
Musical Tribute to the Oscar Meyer Weiner Wagon – The Baroques –  S/T LP – Chess Records
Just Like Your Mom – Voxpop  –  Bad Trip 7”
Ha Lese – The New Life – The Sidehackers soundtrack LP – Amaret Records
The Rubber Room – Porter Wagoner – What Aint To Be Just Might Happen LP – RCA
You Ain’t Goin Nowhere (mono mix) – The Byrds – Columbia 7”
Tarantula – The Black Widows – Atlantic 7”
Bombay Duck – The Shadows – Columbia UK  7”
Let Me (edited mono version)- Paul Revere and The Raiders – Columbia 7”
El Curaca-  Frank Weir – V/A Mondo Inferno LP – Devilles Pad Records
Kambiz – Lovew Knowleget – V/A Persian Underground – Persianna LP

Set Five
Nobody Knows – Baby Woodrose – Love Comes Down LP – Bad Afro Records
Jewel Eyed Judy – Fleetwood Mac – Klin House LP – Reprise Records
Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) Mott the Hoople – Wildlife LP – Atlantic Records

Closing

In years of dealing with buyers and sellers on eBay, I’ve never been involved in an eBay rip off before. Until I met member born322008.  There is a first time for everything…

In September of 2012, I purchased off of eBay an original mono UK pressing of “Beatles For Sale” from eBay member from Israel – born322008. The record was listed as being nm. The photo was of the front cover only and didn’t show the actual condition of either jacket or record. Upon opening the package, I was surprised to find a record with a well used jacket and record that graded somewhere between a vg- to vg. I contacted the seller about this and was told “hello if you want plese send it back and i give you a full refund it relly rare and i see it like nm thanks.” Seriously – because he thought it was rare he saw it as nm! What bullshit. I told him that I’d send it back and want to be reimbursed for the cost to ship back to which he replied “ok”.

I shipped the record back and heard not a word. When I sent a note, he said that he had been called to war and would take care of it when he returned. He didn’t. He was actively selling which leads me to believe he was lying to me though even if he was away he obviously had access to the internet and could have refunded my PayPal payment. I was trying to be nice and trusting by not leaving negative feedback or contacting eBay, counting on this guy to come through. He didn’t and my time to challenge this expired. I contacted him via the “ask this seller a question” on one of his other auctions, he said he’d pay me (SANS my cost to ship the record back) next week. Next week never seems to arrive.

DO NOT PURCHASE ANYTHING FROM THIS SELLER!

I am going to send him the link to this piece, if he decides to pay me, I’ll take it down. I’m not counting on it though.

Here’s our correspondence  click the image to see a larger version.

On Wednesday, January 9, Dionysus Records’ Lee Joseph will be broadcasting his first live Over Under Sideways Down show from the new LuxuriaMusic.com studio after an almost two-month break while the LuxuriaMusic studio was in the process of moving. The station went back on the Internet last Satuday and all the local Los Angeles DJs will be back on their live shifts. Tune in!