LuxuriaMusic DJ Profiles

Gary Schneider

Gary A. Schneider - Open Mynd Excursion, Wednesdays 9 pm - 11 pm PST

Gary is the owner/operator of OPEN MYND COLLECTIBLES, a business that deals with but not limited to the collecting and selling of airchecks (radio broadcasts). OMC was established in 1992 and has grown from under a hundred titles to a couple thousand presently! Gary has been referenced in several books, CD liner notes, documentaries etc. for his opinion and experience with radio broadcasts of the 50’s and 60’s!

He has been collecting and archiving airchecks since the mid-1970’s! He is also a collector of Garage Band records, tapes, CD’s, DVD’s etc. With a collection of close to 65,000 albums and 15,000 CD’s it’s a wonder he has time to even listen to and archive his aircheck collection, which is about 2500 and growing daily!

Ronn Spencer

Ronn Spencer - The COOL & the CRAZY (The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll)
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Ronn Spencer ("Art Fraud") is a disc jockey and a graphic designer/photographer (Sex Pistols, Dead Boys, Angry Samoans, Marshall Crenshaw, Buddy Guy, Talking Heads, Avengers, Gears, Controllers, Gregg Turner and Alejandro Escovedo. He also co-hosted (with Gene Sculatti) and produced two notorious L.A. radio programs: Unprovoked Attack (KPFK-FM, 1979-80) and The Cool and the Crazy (KCRW-FM, 1984-88). He has taught photography and design at the University of Arizona and Charles Sturt University in Australia.

Steve Stanley

Steve Stanley - The Now Sounds Of Steve Stanley - Thursdays, 10:00PM - Midnight, PST
Steve Stanley is a Los Angeles-based graphic designer, reissue producer, musician, author, and host of LuxuriaMusic’s The Now Sounds Of Steve Stanley. His band, The Now People, released The Last Great 20th Century Love Affair on Parasol Records/Birdsong in 2006.

Strike

Strike - The Kitsch Niche - Sundays 8 - 11 pm PST

Lately, numerous hipster blogs have been reporting bizarre incidents that always occur at the same time every Sunday night. Who is this mysterious “Strike”? Where is he from? What does he want?

Is he trying to send us a message from beyond the grave? Does he offer us an extraterrestrial answer to world peace through code? One can only guess, but this much is known: We must be alert and vigilant, and continue to monitor his LuxuriaMusic radio show Kitsch Niche week in and week out. Perhaps the answer is already there, waiting to be unearthed.

Dave Stuckey

Dave Stuckey - The Sixty Minute Clambake
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Dave Stuckey hates talking about himself in the third person. Nevertheless, the host of “The Sixty Minute Clambake” has been playing music in and around Los Angeles (& around the globe) going on 25 years now in various aggregations, including The Dave & Deke Combo, The Lucky Stars, The Bonebrake Syncopators, Sugarballs & His 18 Wheelers … and with his own current jazz outfit, Dave Stuckey & The Hot House Gang.

In addition he, like many others here at Luxuria, suffers from that chronic, well-known condition variously referred to as Shellac Syndrome, Hi-Fi-itis and Vinyl Vapors. There is, apparently, no known cure.

In this, his first return to the airwaves...er...ether... er...internet tubes...since the ancient, halcyon days of The Cool & The Crazy on KCRW, Stuckey hopes to likewise infect listeners with the rambunctious yet exotic strains of pre-bop jazz - when it was cool to play hot… and the needle could literally jump out of the groove. At least that’s what he told me.

Ron Sures

Ron Sures - Happy to Know You - Fridays at 5-7 pm Pacific/8-10 pm Eastern

Ron Sures has been a musician for 91% of his life, and has been composing music for film and television for over 20 years. Some of his film assignments have included I Love A Man In Uniform, Joe’s So Mean To Josephine, The Life Before This, Blessed Stranger, and the 1996 film adaptation of Eugene O’Neill's Long Day’s Journey Into Night.

Among more recent projects, Sures has composed the scores for the TV series Slings & Arrows (for the Sundance Channel), and The Eleventh Hour, for which he won a Gemini award. He loves (and loves to play) every kind of music that was ever invented.

John T

John T. – Thrifting for Tunes – Sundays 6-7 PM PT/9-10 PM ET

Montreal-based writer John Trivisonno's LuxuriaMusic gig is the result of a happy accident stemming from a life-long fascination with mid-20th century Polynesian Pop/Tiki culture (a recently unearthed Super 8mm film showing him goofin' around at a luau at the Miami Beach Hawaiian Isle Hotel in the mid-60s proves it!).

Tothar

Tothar - The Beyondophonic Action Hour - Sundays 7PM - 8PM Pacific

Beaming in from the planet of Akron, Ohio, Tothar has been amassing a diversity of records since his toddler days. As the story goes, Tothar learned to read from 45 labels, by matching favorite songs with particular letter combinations like “Shadows On My Wall - The Poppy Family.” In addition to hosting The Beyondophonic Action Hour on LuxuriaMusic, Tothar has co-hosted The Beyondo Mondo Record Party, a freeform radio show on WAPS-FM in Akron from 1999-2008.

Vic Tripp

Vic Tripp - Atomic Cocktail - Thursdays - 5 -6 PM PT

Atomic Cocktail producer Gene Sculatti (who’s never been photographed with Vic Tripp) helmed, with Art Fraud, The Cool & The Crazy radio show (1984-87, KCRW, Santa Monica), is the author of The Catalog of Cool, Too Cool and San Francisco Nights: The Psychedelic Music Trip and has written for Creem, Crawdaddy, Billboard and USA Today.

Brian J. Waters

Brian J. Waters - Boogie Disease Radio - Tuesdays 6-7 PM PT

Brian J. Waters has been a fixture in the LA music scene since moving there from Miami, FL in 1988. His first gig was at Bleecker Bob’s Records LA, where he spent the better part of a decade specializing in buying and selling vintage vinyl. In the early 90s, Waters joined fellow Miami transplants in the magnetic punk rock band “Coma-tones,” and then went on to form his own soul-inspired, high energy rock-n-roll combos “The Countdowns” and “The Flash Express,” where the LA Weekly called him “a hopped-up locomotive, screaming into his Telecaster pickups, luring women in the audience and shaking his God-given white ass.” (Oh Good Lord!!!) He’s also graced the stage and recording studio with artists ranging from Andre Williams and Rudy Ray Moore to DeeDee Ramone, Jane Wiedlin of the “GoGos” and most recently, the LA 10-piece, death doo-wop combo, “Jail Weddings.”

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