In anticipation of Jason Lee and the R.I.P. Tides second full-length LP, “Monsters and Mai Tais” which will be out soon, a video and digital single from the album will be released on May 14. The group, friends, and larger-than-life tiki event regular Mr Moai star in the group’s killer debut video, “Mr. Moai’s Mash” directed by Arak Benral. The track will be available from iTunes, etc on the same day! Grab a Mai Tai and dig this preview!!!

Tune in Over Under Sideways Down with your host, Lee Joseph today, Wed 2/21/18 5-7 Pacific and help LuxuriaMusic.com survive 2018. Lee will have several Dionysus items in the Luxuria store as a gift for your one-time or monthly contribution to help the station.

When you participate in the 2018 Listener Sponsorship Drive, you’re helping to guarantee the survival of this one-of-a-kind source for music and culture. Once a year, we reach out to our faithful listener-believers to gather the means by which to keep this wild experiment going. If you believe in streaming music you can’t hear anywhere else, hosted by knowledgeable programmers who get it, then you’re one of us. Don’t let your good thing go down without a fight- join us in fighting to keep LuxuriaMusic alive. Go to store.luxuriamusic.com and find your way to giving what you can. Take a t-shirt, a record, or a book as a token of our appreciation, or support us with a monthly contribution that sustains us all year long. Whatever your style, we embrace it. Thank you.

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With her second post-Gram Rabbit solo album in the can, Jesika von Rabbit hops into 2018 with her new songs and band, in Los Angeles, and her hi-desert home-base of Joshua Tree/Pioneertown. Expanding from a two-piece to four with former Gram Rabbit member and Silverlake area producer Ethan Allen on lead guitar, Boston transplant Dan Kashuck on drums and Lee Joseph on bass, the group, including a giant rabbit and dancers masked as former and current presidents, took the crowd by storm at last fall’s Desert Daze festival.
(photo by Carly Valentine, show posters below)

Thursday, Feb. 8, 8:30 PM
Jesika von Rabbit, Sumo Princess (featuring Abby Travis and Gene Trautman), Pair of Arrows
Bootleg Theater
21 and over
2220 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA, 90057
Facebook invite page at this link
Click this link for ticket info

Friday, Feb. 9, 8:30 PM
Jesika von Rabbit, Spindrift
Pappy & Harriet’s 
All ages
53688 Pioneertown Road
Pioneertown, CA, 92268
Facebook invite page at this link
Click this link for ticket info

Jesika von Rabbit Website
Jesika von Rabbit Facebook Page

See original exotica musician Al Pabilona & daughter Olivia for a session of live exotica music featuring songs and stories in the classic Hawaii entertainer style!

This Sunday, Jan 21, 4-6pm
Forbidden Island, 1304 Lincoln Ave., Alameda, CA 94501

Doors open at 3p.m. • $10 cover • Albums available for sale
Live Exotica and Storytelling and live recording.

(image: Al Pabilona and Arthur Lyman)

Over fifty years ago Al Pabilona recorded the Exotica album titled “Mauna Kea Breeze” with his father and family band in their garage. Al and his family lived in Hawaii and then settled in San Jose where he is still playing music with his daughter Olivia in a band called UNDERTOW.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear live exotica music and catch an original exotica musician. Al Pabilona may be the last living legend playing essentially the same set he would have played in the late 1960s. Lounge and Exotica standards are presented with stories and introductions reminiscent of the heyday of old Waikiki hotel lounge shows.

This show will be recorded live to capture the current sound of Undertow with plans for a future live release.

Al Jr. was only 13 years old when he played drums on an Exotica recording by The Hawaiian Spotlighters. They were originally called Al’s Spotlighters and played at clubs, weddings and other events in Hilo, Hawaii. The family later moved to California. In 1964, Al Pabilona Sr. recorded his musical family inside their garage in Hayward, California. Each family member played an integral part of the band with Bill Pabilona composing the title track “Mauna Kea Breeze”.

He was gracious, kind and awestruck when Dionysus Records approached him to reissue the album – only 200 copies of the original album were made on the Century Custom label. Today, only a handful of these exist, making this one of the rarest exotica records ever recorded!

Desert Soul Club, Tonga Hut Palm Springs announces its’ Fall 2017 Dates, all Saturdays: Sept. 16, Oct. 21, Nov. 18 and Dec. 16! We have a doubleheader this weekend with Desert Soul Club on Saturday 9/16, and Jesika von Rabbit at the Casbah in San Diego 9/17, with Dani Bell and The Tarantist and Gary Wilson and the Blind Dates on Sunday!

9/16: Desert Soul Club 9pm – 1am:
Tonga Hut Palm Springs: 254 N Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, CA 92262
9/17: The Casbah: 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101
Desert Soul Club Facebook Page
Jesika von Rabbit Facebook Page

ROBERT DRASNIN – VOODOO III LP, CD, Digital officially released

Towards the end of Robert Drasnin‘s life – he set out to work on the third, and final, volume of Voodoo which he left unfinished. Drasnin had requested Skip Heller to complete his works and turn them into a releasable album. Skip finished Robert Drasnin Voodoo III which was rushed out as a super limited release, sold only at Tiki Oasis 15 with a few leftovers sold through Dionysus Records Mail Order.

After numerous delays, including an entire pressing of records recalled to due to a manufacturing defect, the official release including remastered audio, extremely detailed liner notes by Skip,  cover art by Claudette Barjoud, and package design by Bob Deck, is now officially released on LP, CD, and digital (available through iTunes, Amazon, and just about all streaming services). The first pressing of 500 LPs is on transparent blue vinyl.

You can order the LP and CD straight from Dionysus at these links. Search your digital provider for downloads and streams.

Robert Drasnin Voodoo III LP
Robert Drasnin Voodoo III CD

These works encompass all the elements that made Voodoo I and Voodoo II legendary entries in the world of exotica music.

NEW RELEASES on Dionysus Records by Creepxotica:
Swinging Sounds from Beyond the Nether Regions LP
Creepxotica featuring Rachel DeShon 10″

Creepxotica, the exotica alter ego of San Diego’s The Creepy Creeps announce TWO new releases on Dionysus Records.

Swinging Sounds from Beyond the Nether Regions is the second full-length LP and Creepxotica featuring Rachel DeShon is a 10″ EP paying homage to Peruvian/Hollywood exotica queen Yma Sumac.

Both vinyl releases were cut at HRS in Culver City, CA on a vintage Scully lathe using a classic updated Westrex 3D stereo cutting head powered by a tube pre-amp. The vinyl releases include a code for free digital download. Distribution by ILD. If you don’t want a record get digital at iTunes, Amazon, etc. or stream from Spotify, Pandora, etc.

Check out this Creepxotica/Creepy Creeps interview in the San Diego Reader!

Get records from finer record shops & mailorders, direct from the band at their shows, or from Dionysus Mail Order – links below!

The Creepy Creeps are currently working on a new album!

Swinging Sounds from Beyond the Nether Regions
Dionysus Records ID1233170 LP/Digital

Swinging Sounds from Beyond the Nether Regions is Creepxotica’s second full-length LP. Inspired by the sultry and strange sounds of the Middle East, Asia and Europe as well as Spaghetti Westerns, surf, exotica and psychedelia, this, their second LP, features longer tracks dedicated to an expansive exotic, haunted musical terrain.

Find it the Dionysus Records online shop at this link

Creepxotica featuring Rachel DeShon
Dionysus Records ID1233171 10″ EP/Digital

What began as the “Yma Sumac, the Legend, the Woman the Music” symposium at Tiki Oasis 14 featuring “educator” El Vez (aka Robert Lopez of The Zeros) with Seattle opera singer Rachel DeShon and San Diego’s Creepxotica, has resulted in this extremely off-the-charts 10″ vinyl exotica “tribute” to the Peruvian/Hollywood exotica goddess.

Lopez saw an opportunity to pair the multi-octave DeShon with Creepxotica as part of his talk about the legendary Sumac. The rehearsals and symposium went so well, it was decided that the group would record tracks for DeShon to sing on. And here they are — five mind-bending exotica fueled psychedelic-tinged tracks with DeShon’s insanely beautiful and confident vocals.

Side A of this record are all Mambo! era Sumac covers the likes of which you’ve never imagined performed by anyone but Yma herself. Side B contains two absolute killer Creepxotica originals with DeShon’s vocals bringing them to new dimensions.

Find it in the Dionysus Records online shop at this link

Other recent Dionysus releases

The Hawaiian Spotlighters Manua Kea Breeze LP (Bacchus Archives) – Super rare private pressing ’60s exotica holy grail, lovingly restored and reissued. In 1964, Al Pabilona Sr. Recorded his musical family inside their garage in Hayward, California. Each family member played an integral part of the band. A reported 200 copies of the original album were made by the Century Custom label, a vinyl manufacturer that catered to private pressings. Today, only a handful of these exist, making this one of the rarest exotica records ever recorded!

Find it in the Dionysus Records online shop at this link

Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited Emerge with their first radio interview EVER on Koop Kooper’s Cocktail Nation! Follow this link to hear… 

Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited Music from the Sixth Floor LP/CD – The Swiss/UK Electronic duo takes their retro spy-surf-soundtrack sound into further reaches. Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited are back, bringing you their long awaited seventh album, Music from the 6th Floor. Written and recorded at their secret lair in a high-rise building somewhere in the foothills of the Jura Mountains, 14 original and unique tracks will whisk you away into a different dimension full of suspense, romance, and adventure

Find it in the Dionysus Records online shop: LP at this link CD at this link

Coming soon
Robert Drasnin Voodoo III – LP/CD/Digital: The final chapter in the Voodoo Trilogy by famed TV/Film composer and exotica legend Robert Drasnin.

Coming soon after
New LPs by Jason Lee and the R.I.P. Tides, Voodoo Organist, Tiger Balm, and Tucson’s ’60s garage legends The Grodes / Tongues of Truth

Back Catalog Spotlight – Special Price!

The Creatures of the Golden Dawn – Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground
Edition of 500 on gold vinyl with digital download coupon $9.95 limited time price

Arriving after the ’80s garage/psych revival, Bethlehem’s Creatures of the Golden Dawn came on the scene with a lot more attitude than did earlier similar-minded combos. Lead by vocalist Mark Smith – their knife-sharp punky garage-meets-the-early-days-of-psychedelia tunes were filled with hooky riffs and always shadowed by varying degrees of darkness. The Creatures amassed a cult following in the States and Europe, and were played heavily on Little Steven’s Underground Garage syndicated radio show.

Dark Was The Night…Cold Was The Ground is a collection of what the late Mark Smith felt were the group’s best recorded efforts and includes tracks from their CD releases as well as their 7″ EPs. Find it in the Dionysus Records online shop at this link

Desert Soul Club upcoming dates

The Desert Soul Club is a mod / soul / funk dance party, created by “DJ Lee” Joseph (Dionysus Records, luxuriamusic.com, bassist with Jesika von Rabbit), and Palm Springs area DJ Bobby California (Bob Deck). The heart and SOUL of the club are based on irresistible dance grooves from a universe of the wonderful hit, and unknown records produced during the r&b, beat, mod, Motown heyday of the early to mid-60s, extending through the funk era of the late 60s and early 70s. Both DJs dig deep into their cache of  45 RPM records, inviting you to stomp, shout and work it on out! The pair has been presenting their club monthly in Palm Springs for over a year now and is excited to debut the night in both the Hi-Desert and in Hollywood.

Wed., June 21, Gold Diggers
5632 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90038 9 PM – 1 AM
no cover
www.facebook.com/golddiggershollywood

Desert Soul Club delivers irresistible 60s soul to Tonga Hut Palm Springs, Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown, and Gold Diggers Hollywood!