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A Robert Drasnin Track from Voodoo III in the new Tom Hanks Film A Man Called Otto

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!

January 4, 2023by 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
Events, exotica, Lounge Music, Lounge music events, Palm Springs

5/17: Martini Kings, Jason Lee & the RIP Tides at Tiki Caliente

This Saturday,  May 17, both Martini Kings starring Cardinal Cyn and Jason Lee & The RIP Tides will be performing at  at Tiki Caliente Six  in Palm Springs, which runs from May 15-May 18. Click the Tiki Caliente link for more details, ticket info, etc. Also on Friday May 16, DJ Lee Joseph will be at Tonga Hut Palm Springs just a short drive from Tiki Caliente!

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May 11, 2014by Dionysus Records
DJ Lee, exotica, Lounge Music, Palm Springs

3/28: DJ Lee at Tonga Hut Palm Springs

On Friday, 3/28, I will be returning to Tonga Hut Palm Springs, 254 North Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262, to spin a set of vintage and contemporary Exotica, kicking it up-tempo with some swinging ’60s for the final hour.  I start at 7 PM and lay down the sound until Midnight. If you are in the area and haven’t checked out the new restaurant/bar, please do, they did a tikitastic job on the layout and decor. Two thumbs up to the food, drinks, and service!

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March 26, 2014by Dionysus Records
DJ Lee, exotica, Lounge Music, Lounge music events, Palm Springs

3/14 DJ Lee at Tonga Hut Palm Springs

Join me at the brand new Tonga Hut Palm Springs! I’ll be spinning exotica, lounge, surf, instrumentals and swingin ’60s sounds for your mid-century style dining and imbibing! I’ll be there from 7 PM till…they pull the plug! No Cover! Tonga Hut Palm Springs 54 North Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, California 92262, (760) 322-4449, http://www.Tongahut.com

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March 14, 2014by Dionysus Records
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12/14: A Very Vintage Xmas 12/15: Messaround in Burbank!

As we get closer to year’s end, lucky Southern California residents have two fabulous holiday events to attend this weekend – on Saturday, 12/14 A Very Vintage Xmas variety show and marketplace at the mid-century Mayflower Club in North Hollywood and on Sunday 12/15, Jonny Whiteside’s rockin’ Messaround at the Viva Cantina across from the Pickwick Bowl in Burbank

Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013: 6 PM A Very Vintage Xmas featuring The Martini Kings, Burlesque, Comedy, a Vintage Marketplace and More!
Mayfair Club
11110 Victory Blvd.,
North Hollywood, California 91606
(818) 769-9805
Doors Open for Vintage Vending at 6:00 pm – LAST MINUTE HOLIDAY SHOPPING! 
Show Starts at 8:00 pm-Midnight
$15.00
Tickets available here – or at the door if there are any left!
FREE PARKING in the Mayfair lot

Fans of swanky lounge music (a la Rat Pack era), cocktails, dancing, modernism, exotica and tiki, lowbrow comedy and magic, burlesque, vintage fashion, accessories collectibles and art – join us for a night of retro madness at one of the valley’s oldest private clubs!

Join The Martini Kings for a very special night of vintage variety acts. Hilarious Comedy, Amazing Magic, Titillating Burlesque, Dancing, DJ Lee Joseph, Delicious Cocktails and Tasty Snacks, Vintage Vendors, and of course – the intoxicating sounds of L.A.’s leaders in lounge – The Martini Kings featuring our 8 piece big band including our vocalists, the fabulous Sonny Moon and fantastic Miss Kate Campbell…..with this year’s special guests Emmett Hadley’s Olde-Tyme Christmas Band! And a special visit from the Big Man himself….Santa!

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Sun., Dec. 15, 2013, 6 PM:  Jonny Whiteside’s Messaround
Viva Cantina

900 West Riverside Drive
Burbank, CA 91506
All ages; FREE SHOW!
FREE PARKING across the street at Pickwick Bowl (same owners).www.vivacantina.com

with Golden Sombrero, The Mau Maus, The Billybones, South Bay Surfers, Dick & Jane Family Orchestra

It’s an All Ages Free Admission Yuletide Frolic of Deep Mayhem, High Merrymaking and All-Around Untamed Unparalleled Musical Ka-Pow!

Messaround shotcaller Jonny Whiteside rallies five of the finest, freakiest bands in all of Los Angeles for this flat-git-it, once in a lifetime shimmy-shakin’ shindig. The participation by epic, epochal 1977-era Los Angeles punk rock pioneers The Mau Maus and the Billybones  is an event of such rollicking tribal significance that there is not hyperbole enough to adequately capture the Olympian-scaled artistry and achievement these men carry with them. Rick Wilder and Billy Bones are not only history making trailblazers and proud punk tradition bearers they are performers both yet capable of absolutely sizzling, high-voltage stage presentations and vocal performances of masterly, arresting interpretive power. Their creative resources, as evidenced on two recent and respectively superb albuns, are as emphatic and fiery as ever, demonstrating just how fortunate we are to be able to witness this level of sheer rock & roll disrectitude. MAUS MAUS! BILLYBONES!

Golden Sombrero, led by Ward Dotson, the skewed guitar genius (who’s brilliant playing defined the Gun Club’s sound just as much as did Jeffrey Lee Pierce’s vocal) finally returns to the ‘Mess! Throwing down a kaleidoscopic selection of late 50’s-early 60’s Adult Contemporary, every song is like a case of spontaneous combustion and the resulting incandescent conflagrations are wondrous to behold. With boss bassist Steve K and jazz-informed drummer Charles Maxey, Golden Sombrero extends and enhances the Dotsonian School of Musical Cool with admirable, reckless velocity.

Underground Bombshell Jane Cantillon scrubs up her unruly brood The Dick & Jane Family Orchestra for another intoxicatingly unpredictable visit. DJFO is magnificently pop-centric exercise in real-now, old school oddball that’s laid waste to audiences everywhere from the Cinegrill to NYC’s Limelight. Teamed with indefatigably swinging-strumming-spouse Richard Ross, an uptown head with a dog-eared downtown hep that lends the proceedings an bewitchingly indefinable cool, and steady-rolling rock apostle Lee Joseph on bass, Dick & Jane Family Orchestra’s mixture of offbeat charm, earthy aggression and expectation defying creativity—including a brand new Jane-composed Christmas tune—is assuredly gonna knot your tinsel into a terrific twist!

The South Bay Surfers These Paragons of mind shattering underworld rock & roll impurity once again convene to deliver their traditional Christmas set–you’ll hear everything from “Feliz Navidad” to “Run, Run Rudolph” in an entirely new and wild, wild, wild way!! Damaging cerebellums across the Southland since the 1980s, the indescribable SBS show–an alchemical combination of fetishistic passion and naked inadequacy–is second to none. Not for the timid, the SBS’ dedicated employ of aimlessness, chaos and deep reverence is revelatory in its sheer, bizarre display of sideshow weird (“so woefully deficient in the talent department that they could possibly be the world’s worst rock & roll band.” — All Music Guide) Ho, Ho, Ho

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December 13, 2013by Dionysus Records
DJ Lee, exotica, Fundraiser, Garage Music, greasy R&B, Latin Jazz, Lounge Music, LuxuriaMusic.com, Mod, Musical archives, Over Under Sideways Down, Reissues, Rockabilly, Surf Music

LuxuriaMusic 2013 Listener Sponsorship Drive Starts 2/18

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

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!

February 15, 2013by Dionysus Records
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Playlist: Over Under Sideways Down on LuxuraMusic 1/9/13

OverUnderYellowLogoHere 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!

 

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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

January 10, 2013by Dionysus Records
Dionysus Records, DJ Lee, Events, Garage Music, greasy R&B, Latin Jazz, Lounge Music, LuxuriaMusic.com

1/9: Over Under Sideways Down Live Broadcast Returns to LuxuriaMusic

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!

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January 7, 2013by Dionysus Records
Dionysus bands, Dionysus mail-order cart, exotica, Lounge Music, News

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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