Model-Actress-Producer-Director Lunden De'Leon has a new role: metal/punk label CEO

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May 31, 2005

Model-Actress-Producer-Director Lunden De'Leon has a new role: metal/punk label CEO

They call her Afro-Punk’s "It Girl," the first black woman to own metal/punk label. Regarded as one of the sexiest women in Hollywood, Swimsuit Illustrated Model / Dirrty Records Founder / CEO Lunden De'Leon is perfect for a featured story in your publication.

Some beautiful women would be satisfied with a modeling career. If they could spin that into television and movie acting, they’d be ecstatic. Not Lunden De'Leon. The Barbados-born renaissance woman turned her Swimsuit Illustrated portfolio in for roles on the hit German series "Vital Signs" and in films "The Ladies Room," "Surviving Paradise," "Fury," "Faux-Pas," and "Cryptz." Then she stepped behind the camera, producing and directing a number of independent films including the suspense thriller "Irrebuttable Presumption" and "Veronica's Secret."

Then in 2003, Lunden launched her own record label, Dirrty Records, signing award-winning rocker DH Peligro (Dead Kennedys, Red Hot Chili Peppers) and making headlines around the world for releasing a punk remake of Jimi Hendrix's classic "Purple Haze."

Lunden still acts when the right part comes along: she’s set to star in the action movie "Undercover," based on the beloved 1970s ABC television series "Get Christy Love!"

On February 7, 2005, L.A. Mayor Jim Hahn proclaimed Lunden De'Leon Day, honoring this inspiring black female entrepreneur for her contributions to her adopted city. She’s also an inductee in the Caribbean Hall of Fame alongside such legends as Bob Marley and Sidney Poitier, Her accomplishments have been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, Business Week, Women's Wall Street and Black Enterprise.

Lunden commented: "Since starting my label, I have a greater respect for labels like Def Jam, Bad Boy, No Limit and a number of other successful indie labels. You must be business savvy and extremely creative to compete with the majors."

Lunden De'Leon is available for interviews about her record label, acting and directorial work.

Visit her label at http://www.dirrtyrecords.com
Contact: Cynthia Lawes, Premiere Entertainment Group
Email Celebritymedia@aol.com
phone (323) 993-7110

15,000 Hits For True Crime Blog Revealing Forgotten L.A. History, Architecture

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May 26, 2005

15,000 Hits For True Crime Blog Revealing Forgotten L.A. History, Architecture

The 1947project : http://1947project.blogspot.com/

In just two months, the 1947project--a chronological blog in which historic Los Angeles crimes are recounted, their locations revisited and the city's changes explored—-has had more than 15,000 visitors. There's something for nearly everyone at 1947project: crime buffs, architectural preservationists, longtime Angelenos getting their memories massaged or newcomers curious about the history of their neighborhood.

On May 1, The Los Angeles Times featured the 1947project creators in a long interview in the Sunday Magazine.

We hope you’ll visit the site that blogger Andplus describes as "If James Ellroy blogged." Scrubbles calls "a novel idea," Howard Owens says "noir fans, laophiles, mystery fans and just plain anybody fascinated by bloody crime will want to check [it] out" and The Blogora raves "It represents the best, I think, of what the Web can give us."

For more information, please see the blog announcement press release at
http://www.scrammagazine.com/1947projectpr.html

About the authors: cultural historian Kim Cooper publishes Scram, a journal of unpopular culture, and co-edited "Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth" and the new "Lost in the Grooves." She studied under both of LA's legendary architectural historians, David Gebhard and Reyner Banham. A third-generation Angeleno, Cooper resides in Lincoln Heights, LA's first suburb.

Signage historian and photographer Nathan Marsak, author of "Los Angeles Neon," is an active preservationist morbidly fascinated with the de-evolution of Los Angeles architecture. He owns the biggest, spookiest house in Highland Park, LA's other first suburb.

For more info on Scram or Kim Cooper's other activities, visit http://www.scrammagazine.com . For more on Nathan Marsak, see http://www.losangelesneonbook.com

Contact: Kim Cooper, amscray@gmail.com, (323) 223-2767.

Mystechs Eastern US Tour, June 2005

(To view Mystechs' Electronic Press Kit (EPK), including this release, MP3s and high-resolution images, click here: http://www.mystechs.com/epk.html )

Chicago's Mystechs has been called everything from "a strange and magnificent, ridiculously weird hip-hop band" (Skratch) to "the Evel Knievels of the punk scene" (FM Sound). With a bizarre sound that literally ranges from bling-rap to honky-tonk to death metal (sometimes within a single song), and a no-holds-barred live show that's part glam rock and part professional wrestling, Mystechs has drawn comparisons to the whacked-out likes of Ween, Outkast, Zappa, and Gwar.

This June, Mystechs will simultaneously releases its 7th album, "Warriors & Warlocks" (Omega Point Records), and launch an intense 10-night, 12-show tour of the Eastern US. If you have inquiries, interview requests, or would like a hard-copy press kit, including a copy of "Warriors & Warlocks" and a printed one-sheet, please contact Omega Point Records at info@omegapointrecords.com : To be added to the list for a show, contact mystechs@yahoo.com

Following is a complete list of Mystechs tour dates:

June 17 Ann Arbor, MI / The Planet
June 18 (Pittsburgh), PA / Club Angels [EARLY SHOW]
June 18 Pittsburgh, PA / Shadow Lounge [LATE SHOW]
June 19 Baltimore, MD / Private Event
June 20 Providence, RI / The Living Room
June 21 Boston, MA / In-store performance @ Nuggets [EARLY SHOW]
June 21 Cambridge (Boston), MA / Electrosocial @ Zuzu [LATE SHOW]
June 22 Washington, DC / Café Mawonoj
June 23 Chapel Hill, NC / Nightlight
June 24 Spartanburg (Geensboro), SC / Ground Zero
June 25 Marietta (Atlanta), GA / Swayze's
June 26 Louisville, KY / Old Louisville Coffee House

Kim Cooper, Explosive PR
http://www.explosivepr.com
explosivepr@gmail.com

Omega Point Records
http://www.omegapointrecords.com
info@omegapointrecords.com
+1-773-485-3645

Darkwave goddess Alicja Trout returns with her solo post-Lost Sounds debut

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May 24. 2005

Darkwave goddess Alicja Trout returns with her solo post-Lost Sounds debut

Alicja Trout is the busiest--and well on her way to being the best known--woman in the underground. Her highest profile gig was fronting (with Jay Reatard) the massively influential punk-meets-darkwave Lost Sounds. She's also applied her talents to Nervous Pattern, Mouserocket, River City Tanlines, the Fitts and the Clears, among others.

On the other side of the studio glass, she’s an in-demand punk producer, recording bands like Reigning Sound, the Ponys, and Catholic Boys at her Tronic Graveyard Studio in Memphis, TN. Add to that running her own label/mail order business, Contaminated Records, and you have one productive and prolific punk rocker!

Where she found time to record a masterpiece like "Tronic Blanc," then, is a mystery to us.

Black Sunday's debut album was recorded mainly by Alijca at Tronic Graveyard, Black Sunday melds the paranoid, futuristic keyboard buzz of Lost Sounds with the haunting pop sensibilities of Mouserocket. Intense art-rock workouts meet sprawling, lush soundscapes. Aggressive noise rock twitches right beside undeniable pop hooks. Comparisons to other bands (even her other projects) are utterly useless, though. In the end, this sounds like no one but Alicja.

Lost Sounds recently stunned the underground by abruptly splitting at the height of their popularity, following sold-out US and European tours. We believe Lost Sounds will go down in the punk history books as one of the most important bands of the early 21st century. In the meantime, news of their dissolution has left a lot of folks scratching their heads and wondering what's next? Well, here it is: Black Sunday’s "Tronic Blanc."

The album: "Tronic Blanc" by Black Sunday (Dirtnap Records)
Release date: 6/28/05
File under: punk/indie (Lost Sounds)
For review copies, interviews or tour dates, contact:
Ken Cheppaikode at Dirtnap, mail@dirtnaprecs.com , phone (503) 736-0909