LuxuriaMusic DJ Profiles

Agent Kari plays music that serves as a soundtrack to the groovy ’60s lifestyle she’s created for herself with clothing and interior design. On her LuxuriaMusic show, she spins songs that fall under her personal definition of Go Go—upbeat music that makes her want to shake it up in a chaotic and colorful fashion. She loves to dance, and that passion has led her to discover many of her musical selections.

For the past seven years, this host of K.A.O.S a Go-Go has traveled undercover to 1960s-themed parties in Europe, performing/go go dancing under the alias Mata Kari. She digs freakbeat, garage, psychedelic, hammond organ, fuzzy guitar, funky soul, sexy soundtracks, jazzy library music and some kitschy cocktail, and gets especially turned on if any of the above are sung in a foreign tongue.

Come To The Sunshine presenter Andrew Sandoval is a songwriter, musician, producer, author and cat lover. Over the course of his program's two year history, he has broadcast more than 50 concept radio programs focussing on the music of the 1960's, featuring nearly 2,000 songs from 550 or so artists (but who is counting).

Under the moniker "andrew," Sandoval has issued five albums (From Me To You, 33, Happy To Be Here, What’s It All About and A Beautiful Story) and two EPs (Happily Ever After and Million Dollar Movie) and a single called "Dream About You." Of his music, Shredding Paper noted: "Andrew Sandoval's brand of orchestral pop is so damn good it's amazing that he isn't some sort of huge indie star."

Angel Baby - Between The Sheets - Wednesdays 7-8 PM PST

At The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where Naomi received her BFA, an instructor introduced her to the underworld of 45 rpm record collecting, naming her Angel Baby. Under that name she presently hosts two Internet-radio shows, "Between the Sheets" at LuxuriaMusic and "Lost in Paradise" at KillRadio.org.

Since being on the air, she has amassed a deep collection of original 45s in all genres from the 1950s and 60s. For more info, images and links to all of her other webpages, including, her podcast page, please visit her website NaomiRobbins.com.

Becky - Bubblegum & Other Delights - Fridays at 7 to 9 p.m. PST
Pop cultural anthropologist, media critic, consumer advocate and professional smart-ass are just some of the terms that describe Bubblegum & Other Delights host Becky Ebenkamp, who has recently extended her journalistic skills and obsessive pop fandom to DJing a Friday night show on LuxuriaMusic.com (in the Brady Bunch’s original time slot).

Having lived in San Francisco and New York, Ebenkamp is back in her native of Hollywood, Calif., serving as the West Coast Bureau Chief / entertainment editor for business magazine Brandweek. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, VH1, the BBC and ESPN as a media/trend analyst and written essays for the books Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth and Lost in the Grooves.

Carl Howard - Space Patrol - Saturdays @ 4pm PT

Carl Howard, the unconscionable host of your o­ne true SPACE PATROL, has a disturbingly long and checkered history with alternative music and media.

In the 1980s he published a magazine dedicated to commercially unviable bands and composers called ARTITUDE, and operated the audiofile Tapes (aT) label and distribution network for fifteen years.

Chuck Kelley Goes Latin - Wednesday from 4 - 6 PM & Heroes & Villains - Saturday from 1 - 2 PM.

LuxuriaMusic’s General Manager Chuck Kelley started his career in an unlikely place—a video store in Manhattan Beach, Calif. That store, Video Archives, became famous as the launching pad for film directors Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary, and in 1994, Tarantino hired Kelley as Music Consultant on Pulp Fiction (a year later he worked on Robert Rodriquez’ From Dusk Till Dawn).

David Ponak has been on the forefront of swanky sounds for more than a decade. At the height of the ’90s lounge revival, Ponak came up with the idea of combining classic lounge, soundtrack and sunshine pop music with current artists who carry on that aesthetic on his radio show, The Nice Age, which originated on Los Angeles public radio station KCRW before migrating to LuxuriaMusic. Ponak was also the host of The Liquid Room, which aired for several years on L.A. station KPFK.

When not blending the sounds of the old and the new behind the wheels of steel, Ponak can be found crooning classics and originals with his neo-lounge outfit, Mello Cads.

The obsessive nature of Dennis Kelley, co-host of Heroes & Villains, became apparent at an early age. While his friends carried baseball cards, Kelley lugged LPs under his arm along with his ever-present drumsticks. When kids his age were just getting turned on to The Monkees, Kelley was poring over the latest releases by The Who, Moby Grape, Procol Harum and other bands he and his two older brothers had just seen at the Fillmore East.

Kelley became a musician at age 10 and never looked back. Over his 40-year career, he has opened for Devo, recorded with Todd Rundgren, produced and performed on an episode of MTV Unplugged and scored a feature-length video for The Church of the SubGenius.

Derrick Bostrom - C'mon! Live A Little
Saturdays - 3PM PT

"C’mon! Live a Little!" host Derrick Bostrom gained notoriety as the drummer and founding member of the legendary U.S. band the Meat Puppets. One of the longest-lasting bands from the 1980s indie scene, the Meat Puppets released 10 albums, including 1994’s certified gold "Too High To Die" featuring the hit "Backwater," which can still be heard on classic rock stations to this day. The band was also featured on Nirvana's best-selling "Unplugged" album, which contained three Meat Puppets songs.

Riot on Sunset Strip (Sundays) and Volcanic Action (first Sunday of each month) host Domenic Priore is a Los Angeles native with 20 years of experience in TV and film production. In college, he began his career by producing his own public access TV show, It’s Happening!, a tribute to 1960s dance shows like Shindig! and Ready, Steady, Go! Priore has worked as a writer and producer for Paramount Television, and has served as a source, fact checker, commentator, writer and/or director for several subsequent projects (including Rock 'n' Roll for PBS in 1995).

Currently, he is developing a long-form documentary about Hollywood's famed Sunset Strip. Domenic is also an accomplished writer specializing in