what goes on?
May 7, 2008
by Jonathan
Weds, May 7, New York Night Train Wednesdays, Motor City (127 Ludlow), 10pm, free: NYNT’s weekly Motor City hoodang of course featuring NYNT’s Mr. Jonathan Toubin, tonight includes special guest DJ, direct from Los Angeles, CA, Cold Sweat Records head honcho Sam James Velde! His adventurous, eclectic, and prestigious label, with a rich history that includes releases by the likes of Starlite Desperation, Battles and Wives (pre-No Age), now has a roster that includes HEALTH, Ya Ho Wa 13 and Phantom Family Halo. Mssr. Velde can also be caught DJing everything from Bitch Magnet to Bitches Brew coast to coast and/or using his vocal chords for rock n roll band Nighthorse. Get Up Get Down!
Thurs, May 8, Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down!, Beauty Bar (231 E. 14th, East Village, Manhattan), 10:30pm, FREE: This partee’ is a collaboration between the NYNT’s Soul Proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin rock machine Ms. Melissa Fanni Tutti. Turning dance music platters centered smack dab in the middle of popular music’s greatest and most diverse decade, the terrible two channel the variety inherent in the playlists of the discotheques and radio of the era plus many of the tunes that were either too underground or geographically removed at the time to find their way to the same spot, we attempt to cover soul, garage, freakbeat, boogaloo, AM radio pop, British Invasion, electric blues, girl groups, bubblegum, frat rock, late r&b, early funk, early psychedelics, discotheque schmaltz, boogaloos, tropicalia, yé-yé, latin delights, and anything else that moves.
Fri, May 9, Ants In Yr Pants Dance Party, Home Sweet Home (131 Christy), 10pm, free: NYNT Soul Proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin has settled down the mobile Ants In Yr Pants Dance Party in a fixed spot - Lower East Side hot spot Home Sweet Home. Expect to get down to MAXIMUM ROCK’N'SOUL party favors - obscurities, novelties, and classics at this Lower East Side hot spot – think Stones, Sonics, Stooges, Small Faces, Shangri La’s, Shirelles, Steppenwolf, Sweet, Slade, Shocking Blue, Sly Stone, Screaming Lord Such, Specials, Stevie Wonder,and a bunch of stuff that doesn’t start with an “S” and you’re not familiar with but wish you were - anything hot, nasty, and classic with a raw pumpin’ heartbeat from the 1950s to the present.
Sat, May 10, New York Night Train Loose Caboose, Rehab (ex-Club Midway), 10pm, free: Tonight is the grand finale of NYNT’s 5-month old party that highlighted distinguished guest DJs from the funky five boroughs music scene. Tonight the Conductor himself, Mr. Jonathan Toubin, makes a rare appearance for the party’s last ride. Expect a gaggle o’ guests…
what goes on?
April 30, 2008
by Jonathan
Weds, Apr 30, New York Night Train Wednesdays, Motor City (127 Ludlow), 10pm, free: Tonight NYNT’s weekly Motor City was initially intended to be the grande finale of New York Night Train’s Store Wars series featuring Crypt Records’ legendary proprietor Senor Tim Warren. Due to an unfortunate turn of events yesterday Mssr. Warren has had no choice but to postpone the date. So New York Night Train pulled out the classic rolodex to locate the only a replacement that can even come close to filling these very big shoes – and, despite time constraints were able to do so. Who you ask? There’s only one way to find out. Turn up pup!
Thurs, May 1, Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down!, Beauty Bar (231 E. 14th, East Village, Manhattan), 10:30pm, FREE: This partee’ is a collaboration between the NYNT’s Soul Proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin rock machine Ms. Melissa Fanni Tutti. Turning dance music platters centered smack dab in the middle of popular music’s greatest and most diverse decade, the terrible two channel the variety inherent in the playlists of the discotheques and radio of the era plus many of the tunes that were either too underground or geographically removed at the time to find their way to the same spot, we attempt to cover soul, garage, freakbeat, boogaloo, AM radio pop, British Invasion, electric blues, girl groups, bubblegum, frat rock, late r&b, early funk, early psychedelics, discotheque schmaltz, boogaloos, tropicalia, yé-yé, latin delights, and anything else that moves. Tonight’s party will double as a going away event for filmmaker Alex Lee – who’s sadly departing to greener pastures…
Fri, May 2, Ants In Yr Pants Dance Party, Home Sweet Home (131 Christy), 10pm, free: NYNT Conductor Mr. Jonathan Toubin is proud to announce that he’s settling down his mobile Ants In Yr Pants Dance Party and bringing it to a fixed spot - the new home…. Home Sweet Home. Expect to get down to MAXIMUM ROCK’N’SOUL party favors - obscurities, novelties, and classics at this Lower East Side hot spot – think Bo Diddley, Shangri La’s, The Creation, Link Ray, James Brown, the Kinks, the Stones, the Sonics, Ike and Tina, Slade, Thee Headcoats, Screaming Lord Sutch and everything else hot, nasty, and classic with a big heartbeat. Tonight will also serve as the afterparty for the opening night of Eva Aridjis’ feature film The Favor at the Quad Cinema - award-winning director and her crew will be on hand partying down.
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Sat, May 3, Soul Clap and Dance-Off #10, Glasslands (289 Kent, Williamsburg), 11pm, $3: At this new and improved event, New York Night Train Soul Proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin spins the finest in soul 45s spanning late-r&b to early funk but centering on mid-60s burners - exclusively for your dancing pleasure. As always, there’ll be five celebrity judges, MC Laura Lee, free beer early, a dance competition at midnight (open to the public. sign up early!), and a get-down til 4AM. The soul clap and dance off is rapidly turning out to be one of the city’s more unusual dance contests and one of NYNT’s kookiest events as more and more freaks from god knows where show up to win the pot of gold. This time contestants will wear a number and only five will be selected to compete in the round for the sake of brevity. The party starts at 11 but the Dance-Off doesn’t happen ‘til after midnight! Only $3.
Mon, May 5, Cinco de Mayo and Annual Margareza Debut, Daddy’s (435 Graham Ave, Williamsburg), 10pm, FREE: While we will of course celebrate General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín’s 1862 victory over Frenchies at the Battle of Puebla, tonight is also kinda special in that the Daddy’s signature beverage, the Margareza, makes its annual pilgrimage out of its hole and into the sunlight to gaze upon its own shadow. Neither beer nor margarita, the Margareza is a little of both - frosty, sudsy, and slightly sweet and tart - a Mexican beer with a dollop from the frozen margarita machine on top. Rumor has it that Senor Seguín toasted to Mexico and downed one of these after the battle. Others argue that the beverage was invented at Daddy’s itself when a member of Black Dice, racing across the bar, pint in hand, tripped and bumped into the handle of the margarita machine - getting its chocolate in his peanutbutter and thus changing the world forever. Whichever myth you accept, a true reason to party either way. Mr. Jonathan Toubin keeps it festive on the wheels. Viva Cinco de Mayo! Viva la Margareza! Viva Daddy’s! Viva el Night Train!
what goes on?
April 23, 2008
by Jonathan
TONIGHT, Weds, Apr 23 PASS OUT RECORDS’ PEEWEE and CHRIS TEENAGER join NYNT soul proprietor Jonathan Toubin behind the booth at Motor City for week 6 in NYNT’s STORE WARS series - in which a representative from a different local record store will spin for Motor City’s lucky patrons. Passout is Brooklyn’s punk store and, while Chris and PeeWee are certain to bring variety, expect it all to be rough and ready!
Thurs, Apr 24: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down is taking a week off as we’ve given a home to a goth/industrial party that lost its venue in the last moment. If that’s you’re bag, be there - the boys have spent a lot of time preparing and it should be really good. For the rest of you, we will be back in the back of Beauty Bar next week. Also, dearest NightTrainers, this is as fine a party weekend as ever with plenty of fine dancing opportunities with the DJ artistry of Mr. Jonathan Toubin and his over-qualified cast of talented collaborators…
Friday, Apr 25, Ants In Yr Pants Dance Party, Home Sweet Home (131 Chrystie St, Lower East Side), 10pm Free: NYNT Conductor Mr. Jonathan Toubin is proud to announce that he’s settling down his mobile Ants In Yr Pants Dance Party and bringing it to a fixed spot - the new home is…. Lower East Side hot spot Home Sweet Home. Expect to get down to loads of rock and soul party favors - obscurities, novelties, and classics!
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Saturday, Apr 26: Animal Train 8: Prehistoric Party, Glasslands Gallery (289 Kent at Metropolitan, Williamsburg), 10pm, $7: The kind folks at Animal Train Happening would like to take you back, way back… to a time only documented in our finest cinematic and literary traditions - when both humans and dinosaurs inhabited the earth side by side. When early man lived in caves, and hunted the fire-breathing tyrannosaurus, and had entire cave condos destroyed by the wicked fury of the skyscraper-sized brontosaurus… and men and women wandered the earth dressed only in the skimpiest of animals skins - dragging one another around by the hair and throwing boulders at one another. THIS IS HOW IT WAS! Not only will the folks at Live With Animals re-create these monsters but also an accurate (pre)historically-correct landscape complete with rocks and erupting volcanoes. The projectionists from the Mighty Robot AV Squad conjure moving images to step the realism of the experience up a notch - like in the movies! Go go dancers the Marmaladies, fresh out of numerous discussions with paleontologists and both physical and cultural anthropologists, as well as training sessions at Julliard, will show you the actual dances of the cave people. Performance artist Micki Pellerano is certain to provide patrons with a glimpse into the nude depravity of our earliest ancestors. Bands Pterodactyl and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, both frozen in a Siberian cave for ten-thousand years, have been thawed to rock you like a stegosaurus while New York Night Train’s Mr. Jonathan Toubin has been commissioned to re-create the actual sound of prehistoric life - with a diversity of get-down hits from the cave - particularly Jimmy Castor’s caveman disco of Troglodyte, Luther the Anthropid, and Big Butt Bertha. Cavemen,… cavewomen,… volcanoes,… rock,… ‘n’roll, dancing - all of the best things about primitive life without having to surrender the cool comfort of your iPhone(TM)! Who says people who live in Glasslands shouldn’t throw stones?
Saturday, Apr 26: New York Night Train’s Loose Caboose, Rehab (ex-Club Midway, 25 Avenue B, East Village, Manhattan), 10pm, FREE:The night train’s gonna chugga chugga chugga to the city Saturday night. Come find the rockin’ caboose of the week of NYNT parties upstairs every week from here on out either with the Soul Proprietor or one of his hand-picked favorites continuing NYNT’s time-honored Midway freak show tradition! This week’s guest is noneother than the lovely and talented Ivan Sunshine of Love As Laughter, Ghost Exits and Vietnam. Mr. Sunshine has the jams and knows his shizzulah but his first objective is to make everybody go crazy. Pop by and dance to the man’s music.
Finally, look for the return of the new and improved SOUL CLAP and DANCE-OFF on SATURDAY MAY 3!
what goes on?
April 16, 2008
by Jonathan
TONIGHT, Weds, Apr 16 EAT RECORDS proprietor DOUG PRESSMAN joins NYNT soul proprietor Jonathan Toubin behind the booth at Motor City for week5 in NYNT’s STORE WARS series - in which a representative from a different local record store will spin for Motor City’s lucky patrons. Also a guitarist known for his work with the Jewish, Low Down Dirty Dawgs, Bad WIzard and many more, GAMEFACE know’s how to bring it!
Thurs, Apr 17, Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down!, Beauty Bar (231 E. 14th, East Village, Manhattan), 11pm, FREE: This partee’ is a collaboration between the NYNT’s Soul Proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin and musical encyclopedia on wheels and rock machine, the indomitable Ms. Melissa Fanni Tutti - turning dance music platters centered smack dab in the center of popular music’s greatest and most diverse decade. Making a go at channeling the variety inherent in the playlists of the discotheques and radio of the era plus much of the stuff that was too underground at the time to get there, we attempt to cover soul, garage, freakbeat, boogaloo, AM radio pop, British Invasion, electric blues, girl groups, bubblegum, frat rock, late r&b, early funk, early psychedelics, discotheque schmaltz, boogaloos, tropicalia, yé-yé, latin delights, etc.
Friday, Apr 18, Ants In Yr Pants Dance Party,Southside Speakeasy (245 S 1st St, Williamsburg), 11pm Free: Moses Archuletta of Deerhunter, who’s in NYC recording a new album, will be joining Mr. Jonathan Toubin for his weekly mobile dance party. Claudia from Baby Shakes bartends! Noto nly a nice escape from the weekenders, but spectacular all the way around!
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Saturday, Apr 19: New York Night Train’s Spring Shakedown, Live With Animals (210 Kent at Metropolitan, Williamsburg), 10pm: The weather’s turning and NYNT’s givin’ you more fun than you can have without getting caught in a Mexican earthquake - brace yourself - a dance party featuring the rumble of the twin 45 rpm DJ towers of the garage/punk/soul underground Mr. Josh Styles of Smashed Blocked and Mr Jonathan Toubin of NYNT (spinning soul, glam, garage, freakbeat, boogaloo, organ jams, punk, and other wild and raw 1960s and 1970s get-downs) - a live show by the NYC mod/glam/punk scene’s party band numero uno Stalkers (for those of you who weren’t lucky enough to witness their power in texas - the new line-up and songs since they left the studio are crazy out-of-control awesome - elevating the fearsome fivesome to the very top of the local r’n'r heap) and the new punk band on the block Ex-Humans, led by handsome Josh of the Carbonas - a performance by the extraordinary Hula-Hoop Harlot Melissa-Anne (going for the Guinness Book of World Records - for real!), and an exhibit featuring works by a diverse group of amazing visual artists associated with the rock scene, Angela Wieland, Avi Spivak, Danny Goldstein, Jackie Roman, Jackie Sugarlump, Josh Styles, and Veronica Ibarra. Wild summer action in spring. Please take note - while originally scheduled at the Shangri La, this fiesta is now at NYNT’s favorite art space, the super-fun LIVE WITH ANIMALS.
Saturday, Apr 19: New York Night Train’s Loose Caboose, Rehab (ex-Club Midway, 25 Avenue B, East Village, Manhattan), 10pm, FREE:The night train’s gonna chugga chugga chugga to the city Saturday night. Come find the rockin’ caboose of the week of NYNT parties upstairs every week from here on out either with the Soul Proprietor or one of his hand-picked favorites continuing NYNT’s time-honored Midway freak show tradition! This week’s guest is noneother than the lovely and talented Jason Russo of Hopewell. Mercury Rev’s former bassist is not only a sexy MF but tasteful to boot - and ready to get u down!
what goes on?
April 8, 2008
by Jonathan
TONIGHT CAKE SHOP proprietor ANDY BODOR joins NYNT soul proprietor Jonathan Toubin behind the booth at Motor City for week 4 in nynt’s STORE WARS series - in which a representative from a different local record store will spin for motor city’s lucky patrons. Maybe Mssr. Bodor will have so much fun rotating platters that he’ll forget to blow himself up and take you out with him?
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Also, get ready this week for…
Thurs, Apr 10, Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down!, Beauty Bar (231 E. 14th, East Village, Manhattan), 11pm, FREE: This partee’ is a collaboration between the NYNT’s Soul Proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin and musical encyclopedia on wheels and rock machine, the indomitable Ms. Melissa Fanni Tutti - turning dance music platters centered smack dab in the center of popular music’s greatest and most diverse decade. Making a go at channeling the variety inherent in the playlists of the discotheques and radio of the era plus much of the stuff that was too underground at the time to get there, we attempt to cover soul, garage, freakbeat, boogaloo, AM radio pop, British Invasion, electric blues, girl groups, bubblegum, frat rock, late r&b, early funk, early psychedelics, discotheque schmaltz, boogaloos, tropicalia, yé-yé, latin delights, etc.
Friday, Apr 11, Ants In Yr Pants Dance Party’s Leap Year Extravaganza, Union Pool (484 Union Av, Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Brooklyn), 10pm, FREE:Friday night New York Night Train’s Ants In Yr Pants Dance Party, formerly exclusively at Savalas, is now mobile! Tonight Conductor Mr. Jonathan Toubin spins six hours straight of party curiosities, obscurities, and classics!
Saturday, Apr 12: New York Night Train’s Loose Caboose, Rehab (ex-Club Midway, 25 Avenue B, East Village, Manhattan), 10pm, FREE:The night train’s gonna chugga chugga chugga to the city Saturday night. Come find the rockin’ caboose of the week of NYNT parties upstairs every week from here on out either with the Soul Proprietor or one of his hand-picked favorites continuing NYNT’s time-honored Midway freak show tradition! The tail end of the train’ll still be be shakin’ all over under sideways down all over the track to the good, the bad, and the funky. This week Mr. Toubin’s in the driver’s seat. Much more than merely a sideshow. Get there early for the free coffee liquor from 9pm - 10:30 and stay for the good stuff.
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