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!

Buttersprites “Fresh Mochi” in Pantheon!

Back in 2005, Dionysus Records released an album by a wonderful all-woman Seattle group called Buttersprites. The group split and became Mini-Rex around 2009, and in that year, the group’s composition “Cherry Blossom” was licensed to the “Believe” episode of the television show Flash Forward. In 2023, Buttersprites once again make their way into television in the upcoming episode #207 of the animated sci-fi drama Pantheon with their song “Fresh Mochi”! We congratulate Elizbeth, Jen, Haruko, Lunarre, and Julie, and give thanks to Ocean Park Music!

We are pleased to announce the track “La Mer Azure” from the Robert Drasnin album Voodoo III on Dionysus Records appears in the new Tom Hanks film, A Man Called Otto! Check it out in theaters through early 2023. The movie will be added to Netflix later in the year. Congratulations to the Drasnin family and Skip Heller who was responsible for putting together and polishing up Voodoo III after Robert passed, and many thanks to Ocean Park Music!

Winter Surf Fest 2023!

Three shows in Long Beach, CA at Secret Island, and PCH Club! Dionysus Records will be vending back catalog along with a slew of vintage surf, instrumentals, and exotica LPs and 45s at the Saturday show! Contact stellarshows.net for advance tix!

After a two-year absence, the Surf Guitar 101 Convention returns!

This year, the event takes place in Hollywood at the American Legion Post 43, 2035 N, Highland Ave, 90068. Performing this year – Surfer Joe, The Nebulas, The Volcanics, The Mach IV, The Scimitars, and a Richard Podolor tribute – lots of surf music and gear at the marketplace including a Dionysus Records booth, and of course there will be food and drink! Check the website www.sg101convention.com for more info.

Jesika von Rabbit in Idyllwild, CA Saturday, July 2!

Join Jesika von Rabbit for a special show at Audiowild Studio in beautiful Idyllwild, CA, this Saturday, July 2, 9PM! Pre-sale tickets only at this link.

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.

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

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

Jesika von Rabbit wants you to be her Valentine! The Jesika von Rabbit Valentine Shows take place at Elinor, Long Beach on Feb 13, and the JvR Band plays with Black Crystal Wolf Kids at The Alibi Palm Springs on Feb 15!

Ticket link for the Alibi show here

Tune in LuxuriaMusic.com on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 5-7 PM Pacific as Dionysus Records’ DJ Lee will be live-in-studio on his Over Under Sideways Down show bringing you songs of love and heartbreak for your upcoming Valentines Day!

The Alibi brings Los Angeles’ surf/garage Latin exotica combo, Healing Gems to Palm Springs, with Dionysus Records’ DJ Lee Joseph on the turntables before and after the group’s set. Lee will be spinning a mix of exotica, jungle exotica, Bossa and t*ttyshakers to compliment the night!

Healing Gems with DJ Lee Joseph
Friday, January 17, 8:30 PM
The Alibi
369 N Palm Canyon Dr,
Palm Springs, CA 92262
Facebook Event Page

Join Dionysus Records’ DJ Lee Joseph on LuxuriaMusic.com this Wednesday, January 8, 5PM-7PM Pacific on his Over Under Sideways Down show to celebrate the 50 year anniversary of 1970! Lee has pulled a pile of great tracks released or recorded a half-century ago and in fact, has found so much of it, there will be more than just one of these dedicated 1970 shows!

This just popped up, it was from the sole Dionysus video release called The Obnoxious Rock ‘n’ Roll Hour, released on VHS way back in ’86 or so. The Untold Fables perform their song “Rockhead” for a very enthusiastic crowd at Safari Sams in Orange County, CA. 1985. Dig it!

Join Dionysus Records’ DJ Lee Joseph with DJ Bob Deck for their monthly Desert Soul Club, taking place at Tonga Hut Palm Springs! The duo plays a variety of r&b, soul, funk, and mod related 45 RPM records spanning the late ’50s – early ’70s! Desert Soul Club Winter Dates 2019/2020 and Facebook Event page links below!

DESERT SOUL CLUB – Mod Soul Party!
at TONGA HUT PALM SPRINGS
Always 9PM – 1AM. Never a cover!
254 N Palm Canyon Dr,
Palm Springs, CA 92262
(760) 322-4449

DESERT SOUL CLUB WINTER 2019/2020 DATES:
Saturday, December 21
Facebook Event Page
Saturday, January 11
Facebook Event Page
Saturday, February 8
Facebook Event Page

Buy a Desert Soul Club patch from Dionysus Mail Order at this link!

Jesika von Rabbit and producer Jessica Janos a/k/a The Jesicult have cooked up a fabulous holiday treat, a video for Jesika’s newly recorded electro cover of Elvis’s “Blue Christmas.” The Jesika von Rabbit Blue Christmas video is a psychedelic dreamscape, adorned with hand-selected and authentic Joshua Tree weirdos, and is Jesika’s first-holiday video since Gram Rabbit’s “California Christmas“.

Join Jesika, her bassist Lee Joseph, guitarist/singer Jason Nutter, his drumming brother Kohl Nutter, who Jesika teamed up with for the “Joshua Tree” video, and their friend Randy on guitar, at a pair of desert Holiday shows, featuring a set of Christmas tunes, cover tunes, and a special set of music from DJ Mele Kalikimaka!

December 13: Jesika von Rabbit and Friends Christmas Show at The Reef Palm Springs – a fundraiser for the Palm Springs Animal Shelter
NO COVER
The Reef Bar, at the Caliente Tropics Resort,
411 E Palm Canyon Dr,
Palm Springs, CA 92264
Facebook Event Page

December 20: Jesika von Rabbit and Friends – A Very Deserty Christmas Potluck Party
$5 with Potluck dish, $10 without
Taylor Junction
61732 29 Palms Hwy. 
Joshua Tree, CA 92252.
Facebook Event Page

Looking for a Christmas gift? Give Jesika von Rabbit’s Dessert Rock album to your friends and family! LP at this link CD at this link

Have you missed out on Tiki Oasis merchandise at the events? Have you not been able to attend but would like to have a Tiki Oasis mug, pin, beach towel, 45RPM record, button set, pint glass, shot glass, coffee mug, coaster set, fanny pack, pencil holder, etc., designed by SHAG, Mooke Sato, and Derek Yaniger? Dionysus Records is proud to have a Tiki Oasis section in our online mail-order shop! Check it out at this link !

The Jesika von Rabbit band will be doing their debut performance at Palm Springs’ newest music venue, The Alibi, on November 22, 2019, doors at 9PM. The following night Jesika and group will be doing their debut Oceanside performance at Pour House. The funky, psychedelic desert-boogie band Black Magic Flower Power will be performing with Jesika at both shows.  

Friday, Nov. 22
Jesika von Rabbit and Black Magic Flower Power
at The Alibi, Palm Springs
Doors at 9 PM – NO COVER!
369 N Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Facebook invite page

Saturday, Nov 23
Jesika von Rabbit and Black Magic Flower Power
at Pour House, Oceanside
Doors at 9 PM, $5 cover
1903 S Coast Hwy, Oceanside, California 92054
Facebook invite page

Portland, ME’s all-girl garage combo Tiger Bomb will be performing several shows this fall in Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. If you haven’t already, pick up their raging debut Uproar LP/CD on Dionysus Records!

TIGER BOMB UPPER EAST COAST FALL 2019 SHOWS!
Oct12: Portland ME; Sun Tiki with Lyers, Gilder
Oct 25: Somerville, MA; Once with The Flamin’ Groovies, Richard Lloyd Group
Nov 1: Portland ME; Geno’s with Joe Wood (TSOL), Covered in Bees
Nov 8: Providence, R; Alchemy with Muck & The Mires, The Gotham Rockets, Gene Dante & The Future Starlets
Nov 16: Somerville, MA; The Union Tavern at the International Pop Overthrow festival.

Tiger Bomb Facebook Page
Tiger Bomb “Baby Come On” video

The weather is cooling down (a little) but not the turntables! Join Dionysus Records’ DJ Lee Joseph with DJ Bob Deck for the September 2019 chapter of the monthly Desert Soul Club. Experience four hours of fantastic 45s: R&B, Soul, Funk, and other MOD sounds spanning the late ’50s through the early ’70s! NO COVER! Make a dinner reservation or come for drinks! All Fall Desert Soul Club dates below!

The Details:
Saturday, Sept. 14
Saturday, October 5
Saturday, November 9
9PM – 1AM
Desert Soul Club
at Tonga Hut Palm Springs
254 N Palm Canyon Dr,
Palm Springs, CA 92262
NO COVER!
Desert Soul Club Facebook Page
Desert Soul Club Website
Tonga Hut Palm Springs Facebook Page
Tonga Hut Palm Springs Website

Jesika von Rabbit will be playing four SOCAL area shows this month in Pioneertown, Hollywood, Encino, and Temecula! Ticket links below.

with The 5,6,7,8’s
Monday, September 2, 2019 at 8 PM – 11 PM
Pappy & Harriet’s
53688 Pioneertown Rd, Pioneertown, California 92268
Ticket info at this link

with dreamfreak, Popcultr
Thursday, September 5 at 8PM
The Viper Room Hollywood
8852 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069
Ticket info at this link

with Garage Sale Monsters/Mëttle/StillKickN
Friday, September 20, 2019 at 8 PM – 11:59 PM
The Boiler Room Temecula
27911 Jefferson Ave, Temecula, California 92590
Facebook event page at this link

with Andy Frasco & The UN, Black Crystal Wolf Kids, Iman, Beers For Fears
Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 1 PM – 10 PM
Citystock 14 in Encino, must RSVP privately
Facebook event page at this link

Join Tucson’s all-girl surf sensations The Surfbroads, and Dionysus Records’ DJ Lee Joseph at the all-new Downtown Palm Springs venue, The Alibi!

Details:
Friday, August 23
NO COVER!
Doors at 8PM Show ends at 11PM
The Alibi Palm Springs
369 N Palm Canyon Drive,
Palm Springs, California 92262
Facebook event post at this link