Bubblegum Achievement Awards DVD Honors Archies, Ohio Express, Lance Link

Bubblegum Achievement Awards DVD Honors Archies, Ohio Express, Lance Link and Dr. Demento

For immediate release

April 26, 2006

What: Bubblegum Achievement Awards DVD, available exclusively from http://www.bubblegum-music.com. Cost $22 postpaid (US), 71 minutes, region 1.

LOS ANGELES- Last October, the editrix of Scram Magazine and the book "Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth" spearheaded an international celebration of bubblegum pop music and culture, with documentary screenings and events in Austin, Vancouver, Chicago, San Antonio, Sydney, NYC and Berlin, and culminating in the gala 2nd Biannual Bubblegum Achievement Awards in downtown Los Angeles.

Incensed that the great bubblegum stars continue to be ignored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, editrix Kim Cooper and her cohort, performance artist Kelly "The Bubblegum Queen" Kuvo, have built a Bubblegum Hall of Fame, and packed it with the hit makers of sixties pre-pubescent pop.

The 2005 Bubblegum Achievement Awards Show DVD is now available, featuring the inductions of Archies singer Ron Dante ("Sugar Sugar"), Ohio Express singer-songwriter Joey Levine ("Yummy Yummy Yummy"), chimp-rock TV band Lancelot Link & the Evolution Revolution producer Steve Barri, and radio legend Dr. Demento. The DVD includes live duets from Dante with fellow Archie Toni Wine and Joey Levine, Canada’s outrageous, fringe jumpsuited Canned Hamm, child safety advocate Abram the Safety Ape, Bob Baker’s Marionettes and the Bubblegum Queen herself.

Hosts Kim Cooper and Kelly "Bubblegum Queen" Kuvo are available for interviews, as are Canned Hamm, Ron Dante, Dr. Demento, Joey Levine and Steve Barri. Contact Kim at amscray@gmail.com.

For more info, visit http://www.bubblegum-music.com. Review copies are available by request.

Nightmares of Bunker Hill Crime History Tour Highlights a Sinister Downtown L.A.

For immediate release

April 4, 2006

WHAT: Nightmares of Bunker Hill Crime Bus Tour, Sunday 4/16/06, noon-5pm. $47 includes snacks, beverages and five-hour luxury coach tour.

LOS ANGELES- Traditionally, Easter Sunday is a day for family, faith, feasting and reflection. But this year, it's also a day for shocks, scares and hilarity as the 1947project debuts its newest historic L.A. Crime Bus Tour, the downtown-themed Nightmares of Bunker Hill.

Featuring lively tales from the 1880s to the 1970s, Nightmares of Bunker Hill reveals the weird, old L.A. that's not there anymore and the badly-behaved people who didn't make the city great, but sure made it more interesting.

Crime Bus passengers will tour the old Italian/Mexican district (near modern day Chinatown) and visit the scenes of grisly bar fights, tragic suicides, opium dens and rumored hordes of buried treasure, and discover a mysterious local ghost story that's as elegantly spooky as any in England.

Then it's into the heart of the historic business district, where early Angelenoes go toppling into open sewers, toss bottles of acid at former lovers, torment their dentists, attempt to speak to the dead, find severed limbs in their backyards and spit tobacco juice on the backs of ladies' ball gowns.

Passengers on this eye-opening, funny and informative tour will never look at downtown in the same way again! It is highly recommended for loft dwellers, crime and history buffs and anyone who likes to seek out the unexpected.

For more info on the blog or Crime Bus tour, visit
http://www.1947project.com

Tour guide and 1947project blogger Kim Cooper is available for interviews. Contact Kim at amscray@gmail.com, 323-223-2767.