Duke Bossanova

Owner of Bossanova Life. Primary Videographer, Editor, Content manager, and Business manager.

Creating videos on YouTube since 2012

Bossanova Life was originally a channel called Cigar Lounger. Only 5 of the original 100+ videos still exist on the current channel. Today, Bossanova Life is YouTube's longest-running Atomic Culture channel.

Married: To Lola Bossanova

Interests: Cigars, Inked Pin-Ups, Dark Exotic Tiki Bars, Rockabilly Culture and Music, Kustom Pre 65 Cars, Traveling anywhere with Lola, Sunny beaches, Palm Trees, and Vintage Trailers.

Lola Bossanova

Co-Owner of Bossanova Life. CFO, Event Manager, and Onscreen Talent.

First appearance in a video. Cigar Lounger channel in 2015

Lola originally had no interest in being on YouTube, but once the channel switched its focus to today’s Atomic Culture events, people and places… she was hooked!

Married: To Duke Bossanova

Interests: Vintage Clothing, Mid-Century Art and Antiques, Vintage Pin-Up Style, Vintage Tiki Bars, her fully restored 1962 Oasis Trailer named the Atomic Kitty, International Travel, Warm beaches, Palm Trees, and Bossanova Music. Lola hates the cold and rain.

Events, People, and Places in the Atomic Culture Scene

We're Duke and Lola Bossanova, and we live inside a world many people don't even know exists. Atomic Culture is the universe where rockabilly music, kustom kulture, vintage fashion, tiki bars, mid-century modern design, lowbrow art, pinup culture, burlesque, tattoo art, garage punk, rat rod culture, antique collecting, and retro home decor all collide, and we document every corner of it. Based in the Pacific Northwest, we bring you events, people, and places that keep this mid-20th-century Americana lifestyle alive. You'll see us touring secret home tiki bars, rare mid-century finds at antique malls, epic vintage-trailer rallies, interviews with owners of jaw-dropping kustom rides, and classic pre-1965 trailers that show up wherever Atomic Culture gathers.

Where the Road never ends | 16 years and still going

What started as two people chasing a lifestyle most people don't even know exists has become something far bigger than we ever imagined, and we're just getting started.

It began in Las Vegas. Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend — the greatest rockabilly event on earth — was where the spark caught fire. Sixteen trips later, it remains the heartbeat of everything BossaNova Life stands for. If you want to understand Atomic Culture, you start here.

Atomic Culture doesn't live in one zip code. It pulses across continents, down forgotten highways, through fairgrounds and lakesides and mountain passes. We've followed it to High Rockabilly in Spain, where the scene explodes with an energy that proves rockabilly is a world language. We've rolled into Lone Star Round Up in Austin, Texas, where Atomic kulture meets Southern swagger. We've climbed to Hot Rod Rock and Rumble at Pikes Peak, Colorado, where altitude and attitude collide. We've walked the sun-soaked aisles of Moon Eyes in Los Angeles, the holy ground of kustom culture. We've pitched camp at Mt. Baker Vintage Trailer Rally on the edge of Washington and Canada, 200 trailers strong, and done it all again at Lake Tahoe with vintage rolling homes gleaming against the Sierra Nevada.

We've raised a mai tai at Tiki Oasis in San Diego, the largest and longest-running tiki event on the planet. We've soaked in the desert vibes of Rockabilly Reunion in Lake Havasu, Arizona, and found our Pacific Northwest tribe at Tiki Kon right here in Portland, Oregon.

This is the mission: document every corner of the Atomic Culture universe, the global and the deeply local, the legendary and the hidden gem, and bring it to the 30,000+ members of this community who live for it.

The trailers are packed. The cameras are rolling. The best is absolutely still ahead.