LuxuriaMusic Live DJs Return

Inaugural Celebration Broadcast!

Saturday, January 5, 6 – 10 PM 

Dionysus Records welcomes  Jimmy Vargas & The Black Dahlias!

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.

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Those who live in Southern California, Seattle and Honolulu are in for a treat – Don Tiki will be coming to help us celebrate the holidays, Hot Lava style with shows on December 15 in Honolulu (sorry that one is sold out), December 17th in Seattle at Benaroy Hall (info and tickets) and December 20th in Los Angeles at Walt Disney Concert Hall ( info and tickets ) – and, SOCA peeps –  here’s a link for discount tickets at the Disney show!

Fans can expect the band’s signature tunes such as “The Natives Are Restless” and “An Occasional Man.” “Even though we’re tiki-worshipping Pagans, we’ll drop six new  holiday songs to get into the spirit of things,” says producer Lloyd “Fluid Floyd” Kandell, who was one of Anthony Bourdain’s drinking guides when the food impresario visited O’ahu for his series No Reservations. Bourdain came away raving, “Tiki supergroup Don Tiki knows the world, the subculture of tiki…it really doesn’t get much better than this!”

Though the band has lost their beloved lead singer Delmar deWilde, to whom the shows are dedicated, they will carry on with their multi-talented cast and a few added guests. The Don Tiki troupe consists of band leader and composer, Kit “Perry Coma” Ebersbach on keyboards, bassist and purring song stylist Hai-Jung, Charles Degala and Tei Tatafu, Jr. on virile vocals, vocalist, dancer and comedienne Sherry Shaoling, percussionist Lopaka Colón, who continues his illustrious father Augie Colon’s jungle and bird call tradition, tenor ace Tim Mayer on reeds, multi-talented Abe Lagrimas, Jr. on vibes and percussion, tribal drummer Jason Segler, space-age Ryoko Oka on keyboards and t’rung (a Vietnamese bamboo xylophone), exotic dancer Violetta Beretta plus special guest artist Frank Orrall of Thievery Corporation and Poi Dog Pondering. Don Tiki is also honored to bring to the stage special guest artists, legendary SOCAL tiki-shaman Crazy Al, rising Brazillian star Tita Lima and Brazil’s golden tambourine, Carlinhos de Oliveira.

The group has just released their Hot Lava Holiday Songs disc which is available on iTunes and will be for sale on CD at their shows.

Those of us who saw them at Tiki Oasis 10 were knocked out. We are certainly looking forward to seeing the group on their first Los Angeles appearance!

4th Annual FERAL HOUSE / PROCESS MEDIA WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION
Book Release, Signing and Sale – Saturday, Dec 8, 2012 7-10 PM

Drink & Snack with:
* Adam Parfrey discoursing on Secret Societies, Cults and Conspiracy!
* Sean Tejaratchi previewing his coming Craphound / Feral House book on Unhappy People!
* Shambhalla Institute talks about Shamanic Gardening (their long-anticipated Process Media book).
* Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne will talk about new Urban Homestead inventions and discoveries!
* Mark Edward reveals cold-reading scams that gave him Psychic Blues.
* Hear ’60s French Pop Girls, the subject of an upcoming Feral House book!

Get a 20% discount on all Feral House and Process Media books.

On my very first episode of Over Under Sideways Down on LuxuriaMusic.com, I featured the legendary Manny Freiser, writer of the ’60s garage nugget “Let’s Talk About Girls,” member of the Grodes and Tongues of Truth as well as a very active producer and writer during Tucson’s bustling local scene in the 1960s. It was my first attempt at live radio as host and engineer and the show proved to be a battleground of train-wrecks. It’s a good thing that not many heard it and that it wasn’t podcasted. Now that the show listener-ship is up by huge percentage points (thanks to all 72 of you) we are going to give it another shot – this Wednesday, 11/7 at 3-5 pm. Tune in for informative banter, radio commercials and a stack of awesome vinyl featuring the 1960s Tucson Sound! If you miss it, we’ll post a podcast on this site shortly after!

On this week’s Over Under Sideways Down – luxuriamusic.com tune in for  A Shot of Rhythm and Blues. I will be playing a stack R&B 45s that have been hiding in my closet for years… I will end the show with one side of the sweet R&B meets Exotica meets Hawaiiana “Pagan Love Song” album by Billy Ward…

Dionysus Records will be vending at the International Tiki Market Place
Tiki Vendors, Hawaiian Music & Dance by Polynesian Paradise
October 13, 2012 SATURDAY from 11 am to 4 pm
Don the Beachcomber, Hidden Village and High Chief’s Room
FREE! You pay $10 admission and get $10 voucher for food and/or drinks!!!
*This is a Family Friendly Event…..Kids Free

 
Vendor List:

Atomic Tiki Punk & Jungle Ginger,
Bamboo Ben,
Cat Vintage Wears,
Crazy Al,
Dionysus Records,
Don the Beachcomber,
Doug Horne,
GoTiki,
Happy Chi Jewelry,
HB Tiki,
Hula Girls Shave Ice,
Johnnie Velour,
Kirby,
Krisdrama,
Mieko,
Mike Tiki Tasi-Vintage Polynesia,
Mrs. Bong, Nelson’s Tiki Hut,
Smokin’ Tikis,
The Pod King,
Tiki Broker,
Tiki Diablo,
Tiki Pops,
Tiki Roots Rocka,
Tiki Shaker,
Tiki Stan,
Tiki Tony,
Tiki Vato,
Taboo Island & Vintage Shoe Queen’s Classic Wears

Tune in to Over Under Sideways Down, LuxuriaMusic.com, on Wednesday, October 3rd. My live in-studio guest will be KP from one of my favorite local bands, Spindrift, who is about to embark on their Ghost Town Tour 2012. KP will be bringing in psychedelic, spaghetti western and cowboy music that has inspired his group Spindrift, along with some tracks from the band’s catalog and their new score for the film Dust Up. If you can’t listen live, I will be posting a link to the podcast as soon as it is up. Looking forward to seeing you in the LuxuriaMusic.com chatroom. Thanks from Lee!

Join me on episode #8 of “Over Under Sideways Down” on LuxuriaMusic.com for two hours of Rock ‘n’ Roll ‘n’ Rockabilly 45s from the 1950s – I’ll be in-studio, live, playing almost all original 45s (with the exception a couple of now over two decade old repros.) No compilation LPs, no CDs and no MP3s! It will be a rockin’ good time for all!