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.

Come To The Sunshine presenter Andrew Sandoval is a songwriter, musician, producer and author. Under the moniker Andrew, he has issued three albums (Happy To Be Here, What’s It All About and A Beautiful Story) and two EPs (Happily Ever After and Million Dollar Movie). Ten years after Sandoval’s first single release, “Dream About You,” Spain’s Hanky Panky label issued a compilation of his work titled 33.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

"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