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Palm Springs, Tiki

5/14: DJ Lee, Martini Kings at Tiki Caliente

This year’s Tiki Caliente in Palm Springs returns to its original home at the Caliente Tropics hotel and  kicks off on Thursday, May 14 with a special art show from Claudette Barjoud a/k/a Miss Fluff – accompanied by the “the Exotic Sounds of DJ Lee” – Thursday Night Tiki Caliente entertainment features The Martini Kings and The Jimmy Psycho Experience!

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Check the event website for tickets and more information about the even which runs May 14 – May 17!

The entertainment schedule includes
Friday
Troy Fernandez
The Hula Girls

Saturday
Smokin´ Menehunes
Ding Dong Devils
Glasgow Tiki Shakers
Tiki Joes Ocean

Sunday
Jason Arimoto
Kimo

The soft, warm breeze carries the sound of rustling palms and sensuous exotica music to your ears. Before you, your glass, filled with a fine rum libation, clinks together with new friends. Heartfelt calls of “Aloha” awaken in you a long-buried memory of primitive excitement. This has been your dream. Are you on some far-off tropical island?
Yes… and it´s called Tiki Caliente.

May 5, 2015by Dionysus Records
DJ Lee, The Martini Kings

Martini Kings – Stars of Burlesque – DJ Lee


On Friday, October 24, join us at The Mayfair Club  for an evening of vintage sounds featuring The MARTINI KINGS performing live with LA’s top Burlesque Gals featuring Angie Cakes Fever Blister,Prix De Beaute, Iza La Vamp, Eva Eden and Lola Boutee performing TWO SETS! Special guest Emcee Emmett Hadley plus vinyl delights spun by DJ Lee. Vintage vendors too!! Full bar, dancing, snacks, prizes.


 

StarsOfBurlesque

 


Vintage attire suggested. $15 tickets available at door.Ample free parking.

Friday, October 24: 7PM – 12AM
The Mayflower Club
11110 Victory Blvd, North Hollywood, California 91606
Link to Facebook invite page


 

October 22, 2014by 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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Caliente

May 11, 2014by Dionysus Records
Dionysus bands, Dionysus Records, Events, exotica, Free Event, Los Angeles area events, Los Feliz, Lounge Music, Lounge music events

7/29 Martini Kings Record Release Party La Luz de Jesus Gallery

The Martini Kings “Palm Springs Serenade” vinyl LP release, closing party for Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker and Miles Thomspon and Tiki Oasis pre-party!

Sunday, July 29, 2012
4 – 7 pm
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667
www.laluzdejesus.com

Come have one more look at Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker’s “Tales from the Tiki Lounge” and Miles Thompson’s “Warm Fuzzies, Cold Pricklies“ show and celebrate the release of The Martini Kings’ “Palm Springs Serenade“ LP on Dionysus Records at this combination record release, show closing and Tiki Oasis pre-party.

The band will be playing a set and signing their new album, their first on vinyl – 180 gram vinyl with cover art by SHAG and a free digital download code.

July 24, 2012by Dionysus Records
Art, East Hollywood, Free Event, Hollywood, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles area events, Los Feliz, Stuff We Like, Tiki

Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker and Miles Thompson art shows open 7/6

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

July 2, 2012by Dionysus Records
Events, Los Angeles area events, Lounge Music, Lounge music events, San Fernando Valley, Stuff We Like

3/12: Lotta Lounge – An Evening of Vintage Variety

Lotta Lounge:
An Evening of Vintage Variety


Saturday, March 12 • 6:30pm – 11:30pm
The Mayflower Club

11110 Victory Boulevard –
North Hollywood, CA 91606

The Martini Kings
invite you to a special night of vintage variety acts. Hilarious Comedy – Amazing Magic – Delicious Cocktails – Tittilating Burlesque and Vintage Vendors! And of course, the intoxicating sounds of L.A.’s lounge leaders, The Martini Kings! Fans of swanky lounge music (a la Rat Pack era), cocktails, dancing, modernism, exotica and tiki, burlesque, vintage fashion, accessories collectibles and art, lowbrow comedy and magic will experience a night of mid-century madness at The Mayflower Club – one of the valley’s oldest private social clubs, founded in 1965

Saturday March 12, 2011
$10.00 Admission
Doors Open at 6:30 for Vending
Showtime at 8:30
Full Bar and Snacks Available
Free Ample Parking


Here’s what’s in store:

The intoxicating sounds of The Martini Kings:

The Martini Kings play authentic lounge music with an ice-cool, cigar-smoke & Dubonnet fifties vibe that the Martini Kings. If you’re sharing a room with the Marsico brothers and you suddenly spill your drink, the culprits would most likely be the ghosts of Dino and Sammy brushing your elbow on their way to the bar. The Martini Kings original songs can be heard in the HBO hits Entourage, Six Feet Under and beyond. Smooth crooner Sonny Moon, on loan from the fabulous band Nutty, will be joining The Martini Kings at Lotta Lounge.

The hysterically weird magic and mayhem of Scot Nery:

Scot’s unique and acclaimed performances combine his one-of-a-kind personality and newfangled object manipulation. Every show is a refreshing splash of unexpected ingenuity. Scot’s comic daring is infectious; his crowds cheer for every attempt, and positively rejoice at his successes.

Your MC for the evening – Gary Shapiro:

You’ve seen him all over The Catskills, and in burlesque joints up and down the coast. Now we’ve got ’em!

Crackpot illusionist Swami From El Monte:

Guaranteed to either astonish or confuse you (maybe both)! Mind reading, mystical mentalism and unparralled magic from a visitor from a far (32 miles to be exact).

Burlesque beauties Eliza Bane, Beulah Mae, Fever Blister and Lola Boutee:

But wait — there’s more!

*Vintage Vendors Marketplace (opens early at 6:30)!
*Dancing!
*Cocktails!
*Hot Snacks!
*Friendly Staff!
March 12, 2011by Dionysus Records

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