Our fave SOCA surf-garage-rock ‘n’ roll monsters THE CREEPY CREEPS and their alter-ego, the soothing, exotic but still creepy CREEPXOTICA are playing some rad shows in their home turf of San Diego in the next few weeks – catch’ em if you can!

Friday 7/27/12 with Mr Tube and the Flying Objects, The Amandas, Ted Washington, DJ Claire at The Casbah – San Diego
Satuday 7/28/12 with Deadbolt at Barona Dragstrip
Saturday 8/18/12 (as Creepxotica) Poolside set at Tiki Oasis  and a Creepy Creeps set during room crawl at Frankie’s Tiki Room’s room
Saturday 8/26/12 with The El Vez for President show and Schitzophonics at The Casbah

Here is the playlist for Over Under Sideways Down‘s all French show as heard on LuxuriaMusic.com Wed July 18 with host Lee Joseph and his guest interpreter, Mimi Me-Me – and did she ever live up to her name! Despite her insults to the host, she has been invited back for a part two of the show later this year. Note that our pal Howie Pyro of “Intoxica”  left a very short echo effect up from his show the night before which we didn’t realize was on until the show started! Click here for the podcast!

This Wednesday, July 18 at 3pm – 5pm Pacific, tune in LuxuriaMusic.com‘s “Over Under Sideways Down” as your host Lee Joseph and his guest translator Mimi Me-Me play almost two hours of French Pop, Ye Ye, Rock and Psychedelic tracks from the ’60s featuring Dani, Clothilde, France Gall, Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Dutronc, Karen Bessy, Henri Salvador, Petula Clark, Les Charlots, Stone, Jacqueline Taieb, Shelia, 5 Gentlemen, Michael Polornoff and many more including a French Canadian set!  A podcast will post on LuxuraMusic’s Facebook page shortly after the show ends – come back to the Dionysus blog for a podcast link and play-list!

Trader Vic’s
9 Anchor Drive,
Emeryville, California 94608

On Thursday, July 19, Trader Vic’s and Tiki Oasis present a Classic Fashon Show, with clothing provided by Retro Diva. Models include members of The Devil-Ettes and their groovy friends! All clothing and fashion items will be available for purchase. Hang out in the bar or make dinner reservations. The models will walk through the dining room during the fashion show – it’s old school style!

Classic Coifs by Glama-Rama
Hats provided by House of Nines Design
Music by DJ Otto from Tiki Oasis

This event is also a pre-party for the Tiki Oasis weekender, an event produced and coordinated by San Francisco Bay Area couple, Baby Doe and Otto von Stroheim, taking place in San Diego, CA August 16-August 19

On July 4, exotica and TV/film music legend Robert Drasnin appeared on Over Under Sideways Down episode III on LuxuriaMusic.com  for an in-depth interview about his incredible musical history. Robert brought in numerous samples of music he played on, composed and arranged and told some great stories including one about The Grateful Dead’s involvement in the re-vamped Twilight Zone series.

Here is a link for the show podcast – listen online or download!

Robert Drasnin and Lee Joseph at LuxuriaMusic.com, July 2, 2012

As aired on Luxuira Music.com June 20th, 2012 on Over Under Sideways Down with your host Lee Joseph (feeling the effects of sleep deprivation) The First Day of Summer and Surf Spectacular show is available to listen to or download! Click here for Podcast

PLAYLIST

Tune in to this week’s Over Under Sideways Down on LuxuriaMusic.com. Show host Lee Joseph will feature special guest, the legendary Robert Drasnin. Though known by many exotica fans from the mid-90s reissue of his previously obscure 1960 Voodoo release (also known as Percussion Exotique,) Robert has had a long career as a jazz musician, composer, arranger and director of music for television and film, and is currently a music teacher at UCLA. Robert has worked on shows such as The Twilight Zone, Mission: Impossible, Wild Wild West, Lost In Space, Time Tunnel, Mannix, The Man From Uncle, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and many others — in fact this is a very partial list – for the full story, check out his IMDb page.

Bob will talk about Voodoo and his exotica comeback, Voodoo II but will focus this interview on his days in television and film. He will be bringing in cues and underscores which have never been played publicly detached from the programs and films they were written and composed for.

So tune in to Over Under Sideways Down this Wednesday, July Fourth at 3pm – 5 pm. If you miss the show – you can go to the LuxuriaMusic site and download a podcast.

This week, LuxuriaMusic unveils their new LuxuriaMusic 2012 Summertime Tee! Choose a black or white tee with a really excellent surfin’ graphic by Disney artist Kevin Kidney, guaranteed to make you look boss and bitchin’ at your next beach party or barbecue!  You’ll be stoked and we’ll be stoked because the proceeds go to help pay our live studio bills.

It’s a 100% cotton shirt in black or white, sizes small through extra large are just $30, or even better- 2 for $50 and sizes 2X-5X are $35 or 2 for $60!   See the sizing chart here – www.luxuriamusic.com/2012-luxuriamusic-summer-t-shirt

The 2 t-shirt discount will appear during check-out.

Help LuxuriaMusic.com reach their goal of 150 shirts sold by August 12th. Remember, LuxuriaMusic.com is run and manned by volunteers and run strictly on donations. Thanks for your support of this great and necessary internet radio station!

Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker Tales From the Tiki Lounge
Miles Thompson Warm Fuzzies, Cold Pricklies

July 6 – 29, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, July 6th; 8-11 PM
Closing Party: Sunday, July 29, 4 pm – 7 pm

La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667

Tales from the Tiki Lounge is the rarest, hardest to find, and most collectible, Pulp-Adventure publication never made. It existed only in the Mai-Tai light Zone of Brad (Tiki Shark) Parker‘s imagination. These paintings are the cover-art of the most desired and sought after issues. So precious that they are nearly beyond price, and believability.

“Brad Parker creates lurid paintings that pull in influences from tiki, comics, and rock.” – Honolulu Magazine, “The Best Of 2012 “

“My art is my personal celebration of a creative reinvention of a foolish misinterpretation of an ancient mythology that sought to solve the mystery of the “breath of life” that eternally and precariously surfs the complete expanse between the bottomless sea and the floating shadow land of preexistence in the inconceivable heights of the sky. Not just to live. But, to ‘live aloha’.” -Brad Parker

Preview Brad’s show here

Miles Thompson’s Warm Fuzzies, Cold Pricklies, a show created with Gouache on illustration board, reflects on what makes life both a beach and a bitch. It is an epitaph for the oceans and forests, once abundant and fecund (look it up, it is the root of the F bomb), now only a ghostly reminder of what an infinite life giving power they once were. There is more than just an environmental message here, Warm Fuzzies, Cold Pricklies is also a joyful reminder for us all to frolic around and about the impermanence we all face day to day while we are blessed with a heart, body and mind. Life happens between the lullaby and the nightmare, having and losing. Everything in-between is either a memory that we don’t want to fade, or which is sadly indelible.

Thompson, whose influences range from the ephemeral world of comics, animation and album cover art to centuries of fine art and sculpture, is a native Californian residing in Hollywood who draws, paints, reads, writes, hikes, runs, surfs and meditates. He is most inspired by his daughter who he calls his butterfly.

Preview Miles’ show here

Martini Kings Martini Kings Palm Springs Serenade vinyl LP release and closing party for Tales from the Tiki Lounge and Warm Fuzzies, Cold Pricklies – Live performance by The Martini Kings
Sunday, July 29, 2012, 4 – 7 pm

Come have one more look at Brad and Miles’ show and celebrate the release of The Martini Kings’ Palm Springs Serenade LP  on Dionysus Records, featuring cover art by SHAG, at this combination record release and show closing celebration. Click here for details about the album and event

OVER UNDER SIDEWAYS DOWN
with your host Lee Joseph
The first and third Wednesday of the month
3 pm – 5 pm Pacific on LuxuriaMusic.com Internet radio

Hi Friends, I’m going to be joining the crew at LuxuriaMusic.com for my very own two-hour, bi-monthly Internet radio show called Over Under Sideways Down, which debuts on Wednesday June 6 from 3pm – 5pm Pacific.

I named the show after the beloved Yardbirds song, and the name describes perfectly where I’ll be taking the listener: All over the musical map.

Each show will have a different but focused theme. One of the two monthly shows will feature a guest musical or local art luminary who will discuss their past and/or present and share their own and their favorite music. The other show I will do solo, armed with two hours of music and minimal patter.

Here is the show line-up for June and July:

Wed June 6: Tucson, Arizona ’60s Sound Survey with special guest Manny Freiser.

The debut show will feature two hours of music and talk about the local Tucson, AZ. music scene in the 1960s. Former member of The Grodes / The Tongues of Truth  / Spring Fever and writer of Nuggets classic “Let’s Talk About Girls” will join me in-studio to discuss his experiences in the “Old Pueblo,” adventures in Phoenix and Los Angeles clubs and studios and his surprise discovery that one of his long forgotten compositions’ had become a garage-rock classic.

Wed June 20: First Day of Summer and Surf Spectacular

An entire show celebrating the season and featuring a slew of summer, sun, surf and beach songs!

Wed July 4: Voodoo!

Guest Bob Drasnin joins me in-studio to discuss the making of his exotica classic, Voodoo, his exotica comeback album Voodoo II, his big band days, recordings with Red Norvo and his time working in television as composer of music for shows like The Twilight Zone, Mission: Impossible, Wild, Wild West, Hawaii Five-0, Time Tunnel, Lost In Space, Mannix, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea. We will play some of his recordings, incidentals and his jazz favorites.

Wed July 18: Psych 102

Two hours of psychedelic sounds; honing in on tracks you probably, or should know.

Other show plans include:

A Gold Star Studio special featuring previously unheard interviews with studio owners and engineers Dave Gold, Stan Ross and Larry Levine with music and jingles recorded at the studio over their three plus decade existence.

East Side Sounds – Featuring a slew of East LA tracks from the early ‘60s through the early ‘70s with guest, East LA luminary Mark Gurerro.

Passion for Power – Featuring ‘60s power-pop and ‘70s – ‘80s Mod/power-pop revival tracks.

Bubble Glam – A mix of bubblegum and early glam.

Monstereo – A mono/stereo listening session featuring tracks mostly spanning 1966-1969 though I may throw in some exotica records too. I will play select mono/stereo mixes back to back and ask the listeners to comment (via chat room or email) on which ones they like best. Comment highlights will be featured on the Dionysus Records blog.

Do the Funky Ripple, Fletcher! – Two solid hours of soul and funk.

Why Don’t We Do It On The Road? – A mixture of live and fake live recordings.

Out of Vogue – Songs from the 1940s Vogue 78 RPM Picture Disc catalog as well as other 78 RPM treasures.

I’m also planning shows focusing on ‘50s R&B/doo-wop, rockabilly, exotica and more, and will be inviting special guests to share their stories and songs.

Please tune in, and if you can’t listen live, the shows are podcasted right after broadcast and archived on the LuxuriaMusic site.

Cheers –  See ya in the LuxuriaMusic.com chat room!

Lee

Over Under Sideways Down graphic by Ellie – Art Stuff Graphic Design

The Martini Kings’ first vinyl LP, Palm Springs Serenade, will be released by Dionysus Records on July 10. The LP features cover art by SHAG. The band will play a record release party (and closing  for Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker’s art show) at La Luz de Jesus Gallery on July 29, details here.

With over eight self-released CDs and gigs-a-plenty, it’s about time that Los Angeles based jazzy-retro-exotica-bossa-nova-cocktail-lounge combo The Martini Kings make an appearance on the beloved vinyl format. In their professional existence, The Martini Kings have performed events for the likes of Clint Eastwood, Stephen King, The Getty Center, Mattel and Universal Studios, had their music in HBO’s “Entourage” and made an appearance during the Malibu cliff-top wedding scene in the ”Six Feet Under’‘ season curtain-raiser. The Martini Kings’ Marsico brothers have performed in backing groups with Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Marianne Faithful. Martini Kings bassist Tony Marsico was in East LA punk legends The Plugz and The Cruzados, and played bass behind Bob Dylan on David Letterman’s show.

Their pro-resume aside, The Martini Kings are also loved among tiki and retro aficionados and are a staple at the yearly Tiki Oasis weekender, numerous burlesque, lounge events and backyard tiki parties. They have the technique and sound down to a fine art and in the process inject equal amounts of heart and soul into their craft. The instrumentation is centered around vibes, stand-up bass and percussion with tasty arrangements including piano, guitar, wind and stringed instruments.

“Palm Springs Serenade” is a collection of the group’s favorite tracks from their CD releases and features a track recorded with lounge legend and former Rat Pack member Buddy Greco. The art of their pal SHAG adorns the album cover and visually fits the combo’s sound from top to bottom. And, the sound on this album which was cut on a vintage Scully lathe with the legendary Westrex B3 stereo cutting head is huge and open with lots of warm low-end. The album jacket is printed vintage style; front cover slick on thick board… this is not your ordinary one piece fabricated album jacket but the Martini Kings / SHAG combination deserves no less.  A coupon for a digital download is included in this package.

Black vinyl 180 gram LPs will be shipped to Dionysus Records’ distribuor, ILD (Independent Label Distribution). A limited edition of 100 CLEAR VINYL LPs will be avalible from the band and through Dionysus Records Mailorder only – on JULY 10! 

Tracks: So Danco Samba, Swingin’ Shepherd Blues, Girl Talk, Cuchy Frito Man, Kings Highway, Dance of the Virgins, Lost In Paradise, Patricia, Stardust, Return to Paradise, Rumble, Enchanted Lovers