D. Berger sent this anouncement (on Facebook):

Crawdaddy! is presenting a benefit concert for the legendary rock journalist Paul Williams, who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a bicycle accident, leading to early onset of dementia. 100% of the door proceeds benefit Paul and his family as they go through these tough times. To learn more about Paul Williams, visit paulwilliams.com.

6/28/09, 8:00pm: Mojo Nixon, Jello Biafra, Mark Eitzel, John Easdale, Debora Iyall, Peter Dunne, Ben Fong Torres, and more, at the Red Devil Lounge, San Francisco, CA

via Facebook

Darrell Brogdon writes:

On Saturday, June 27 at 7:00pm, The Retro Cocktail Hour blasts off on KPR stations with a night of ‘outer space exotica’, featuring music from such memorable albums as Les Baxter’s Space Escapade, Fantastica by Russ Garcia, Music Out of the Moon (featuring the theremin!), Music for Heavenly Bodies (with the electro-theremin) and many more.

As a preview, check out the NEW album cover gallery, featuring images from some classic outer space records of the 1950s and ’60s.

And please join us in orbit for The Retro Cocktail Hour – Saturday, June 27 at 7:00pm on KPR stations (and available on-demand soon after at the RCH website).Les Baxter’s ‘Space Escapade’

Many more images available at our new cover gallery!

David Berger writes:

Hi every one!
Here are the latest tour updates…

SUMMER EUROPEAN DATES:

July 4, 2009
Deutsches Theater
Munich, Germany

July 5, 2009
Serenadenhof
Nuremberg, Germany

July 6, 2009
Paradiso
Amsterdam, Holland

July 8, 2009
Tempodrom
Berlin, Germany

July 9, 2009
Museumsplatz
Bonn, Germany

July 11, 2009
Guilfest
Guilford, England

July 12, 2009
The Sage Gateshead
Gateshead, England

September 4-6, 2009
Stradbally Hall
County Laois, Ireland

FALL U.S. DATES:

October 24, 2009
Pabst Theatre
Milwaukee, WI

October 26, 2009
Count Basie Theatre
Red Bank, NJ

October 27, 2009
Bergen Performing Arts Center
Englewood, NJ

October 29, 2009
Keswick Theatre
Glenside, PA

October 30, 2009
Community Theatre at Mayo Center for the Performing Arts
Morristown, NJ

the vintage music and dance night

start:
Sunday, Mai 17th 2009 19:00

location:
South London Pacific Tiki Bar

340 Kennington Road
London, United Kingdom
phone: 02078209189
mail: info(at)hulaboogie.co.uk

Night of exquite stompin’ vintage music for your dancing and listening pleasure with early evening Jive and Hula dance classes, late night burlesque performance, free kitsch snack giveaways, music,cocktails and dancing to DJ music to 1am at fabulously kitsch tiki bar!

DJ Lemon Squeezer writes:

Sa. 25.04. München – Substanz (Ruppertstr.28), Einlass: 20h/ Beginn: 21h, Tickets: 15€ Abendkasse

The Moonlighters — Hawaiian Swing from New York City

Support: CocoNami

Sie kommen wieder! Um dem europäischen Winter einzuheizen werden die
Moonlighters nun schon zum dritten Mal in veränderter Besetzung und
stärker denn je, mit ihrem süchtig machenden Hawaii Sound für Südsee
Wärme auf und vor den Konzertbühnen sorgen. Die beiden ersten Tourneen
riefen bereits extreme Begeisterung hervor! Relax and Enjoy!

exotica/hawaiian warm up mit DJ Lemon Squeezer

danach:
Schmockladen mit DJ Schmoko & gast DJ Martin hemmel aka Lemon Squeezer (60s, funk, soul, beat, brazil, 50s & 60s r’n’b etc.) bis 03.00 Uhr

Waitiki at Wassermusik 08

The highly recommended Exotica live-act Waitiki playing live in Massachusets in the middle of february.
Quote form the Exotica Mailing List

Who: The Waitiki All-Star Exotica Septet

When: Monday, 2/16/09, 7-9 PM

Where: The Lily Pad (Inman Sq: 1353 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA), 617-395-1393 COST: $10

Website: www.waitiki.com
Come See Our All-Star Exotica Band: 2/16 in Cambridge, MA

Waitiki’s next show will be on President’s Day (Monday, February 16) from 7-9PM sharp! See our All-Star Exotica band make its first performance in the northeast at The Lily Pad [1353 Cambridge St., Inman Square].

Flying in direct from Hawaii: Percussionist and birdcaller extraordinaire Lopaka Colon (son of famed percussionist/bird caller Augie Colon, of Martin Denny’s band). Our co-founder and drummer Abe Lagrimas Jr also makes the wintry trip to Boston from Los Angeles.

Suggested donation is $10; All ages are welcome (bring the kids or your folks—it’s all music; finally, no burlesque or anything risque!).

Also in the band: Tim Mayer (sax, flutes), Helen Liu (violin), Zaccai Curtis (piano), Jim Benoit & Greg Parerandy Wong (bass). We may have a few special guest performers too! (vibraphone),

This is the same band that played its European Debut last July at the Wassermusik Festival in Berlin, Germany, and its American Debut at the Celebration for the 500th Retro Cocktail Hour show last November!

Your favorite classic exotica tunes… your favorite Waitiki hits… brand-new arrangements and newer-than-new originals—hear them all at The Lily Pad show. Following us at 10 pm is The Fringe, the avant-garde jazz trio led by tenor man George Garzone.

The next day we record the long-awaited Waitiki All-Star Exotica Septet album!! Hope to see you there!!!!

From Otto von Stroheim’s Tikievents list:

Book event for ‘Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Boom’ in Echo Park, L.A., Saturday, February 2st, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Stories book store.

Domenic Priore, Brian Chidester, and The Boardwalkers will appear at Stories books, cafe, goods (1716 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles – near the corner of Echo Park Boulevard) on Saturday, February 21st from 6 to 9 p.m. The event is to celebrate the release of the Chidester/Priore book ‘Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Boom’ (Santa Monica Press). The book traces surfing and Hawaiian music’s potent combo during early 20th Century Waikiki, directly to its landing on California shores, and their development into a true bohemian subculture by the late 1950s/early 1960s. Focus on Tiki, Surf instrumentals, Surf movies, Surf duds in the pre-1970 environment of Southern California is also offset by a look into Waikiki’s Lounge scene of the ’60s, and later revivals of Surf music during the punk/alt rock days as it mixed with Burlesque, Tiki culture and other things you are most likely a part of. So come down and have a ball, its FREE with live Surf instrumental music by The Boardwalkers and pre-1970 surfing movies projected throughout Stories’ book store. Again, the address is 1716 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. Phone: (213) 413-3733.

Here’s more info on the book Surf Pop Culture by Domenic Priore and Brian Chidester.

Crime

1. Lady in Cement
2. The Prisoner
3. Randall and Hopkirk Deceased
4. Duffy
5. Department S
6. The Saint
7. The Rockford files
8. La Polizia ordina: sparate a vista
9. The Avengers
10. The Baron
    
11. Columbo
12. Seven Golden Men
13. Cannon
14. Deadly Shots on Broadway
15. The Streets of San Francisco
16. Superargo

Comedy

1. Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
2. My Favorite Martian
3. Pink Panther

Intermission

1. No matter what shape your stomach is in

Animation

1. Menace from the Bottom of the World
2. Stingray
3. Rod Scribner Opening for UPA shorts
4. ?????????? ED
5. Ghost A Go-Go

Exploitation

1. The Cool Ones
2. Sor Yeye
3. The Mariners
4. American Graffiti

Spy

1. Assassination
2. The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
3. Gerak Kilat
4. Where the Spies Are
5. Spy Today Die Tomorrow
6. Spy in Your Eye
7. Some Girls Do
8. From the Orient with Fury
9. Master Stroke
10. Mission Bloody Mary

Adventure

1. Daktari
2. The High Chaparral
3. Der Schatz im Silbersee
4. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
5. Robinson Crusoe

Romance

1. Love is a Many Splendored Thing
2. Arabesque
3. The Sandpiper

Minustemperaturen und einsetzender Schneefall konnten uns nicht abhalten. Es gibt Dinge die müssen gesagt werden.

See video on YouTube

This is another one. The modification of olf hi-fis to support modern media-components seems to become popular. And I understand it. They are too beautiful to throw away if you have the space and they sound incredible.

Mister Jalopy artwork on display in Los Angeles gallery Nov. 1 – 18, 2008 – Boing Boing