NewYorkNightTrain MotorCity Wednesdays w/substitute DJs Viva l’American Death Ray Music’s Nick Ray and Ghost Exits’ Chris Anderson

NewYorkNightTrain’s soul proprietor, AKA the conductor, AKA yours truly, Mr. Jonathan Toubin, is currently kicking around the greener pastures of Texas for a couple of weeks (if you know anyone in Austin, send ‘em to my gigs). Anyway, I feel so guilty about abandoning you little Motor City chickadees that I’ve chosen to hire my two favorite DJs in all of New York, Mr. Nick D. Ray of Viva l’American Death Ray Music and Mr. Chris Anderson of Ghost Exits, to fill my ample boat-like size 11’s. These two have massive stock piles full of all genres of vinyl - expect plenty of no wave, post punk, hard funk, old school hip hop, and other raw weird music that rocks. MORE…

What has three heads, hails from Boston, and smells like nail polish?

Turpentine Brothers, Imaginary Icons - Tonight, Magnetic Field

If you’re like me, you still keep up with a lot of the garage punk stuff because it still possesses a rawness and energy that you won’t find elsewhere. But, you’re also well aware that the bands often lack the soul, distinction, and musicianship of the greats – from The Wailers all the way to The Oblivians. Have you ever imagined you’d be more into the whole scene (and, if anything, it is a scene) if it wasted less time fetishizing limited edition 7’s and enforcing punk aesthetic conservativism, and instead devoted more to the dance party that it was always meant to be at heart? MORE…

Aa, GAame

While anybody whose ever been to a Todd P show will tell ya that Aa (Big A Little a) has been banging on stuff for years (con gusto as well), this multi-percussionist ensemble is gradually transcending, on one-end, the basement/warehouse variety of East Coast art school pretension, and, on the other, in mass terms, Blue Man Group instrumental gimmickry or bucket-banging street theater - developing both enough distinction and cohesion to warrant inclusion among the ranks the finer exemplars of the weird American underground’s more rhythmic lineage. They’re more virtuosic, yet less song-oriented than the Butthole Surfers’ Rembrandt Pussyhorse-era experimentalism, more concise and organized than Crash Worship’s tribalism, and less epic and harmonic than Gang Gang Dance’s grandiosity. With shorter songs, faster tempos, and more energy than all of the above, the disorienting nature of Aa’s soundbite pacing perhaps warrants a closer comparison to the many Boredom’s percussion-heavy offspring. MORE…

Aa MP3 and video

Aa (Big A Little a)
“Thirteen” video
“Thirteen” mp3
GAame
Gigantic, 2007
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Amimandible, Barkitecture, Grass Canyon at Don Pedro’s

Thursday, May 31th @ Don Pedro’s
$5 and All ages
Todd P presents:
|| Animandible
|||| Barkitecture
|||||| Grass Canyon
[ curated by The Rats Of NiMH - http://sleepwhendeadnyc.com ]

Book of Longing: new Philip Glass work based on the poetry of Leonard Cohen

Rose Theater, Lincoln Center, 8pm, all ages, $25/$35/$45/$55/$75

So Percussion and Matmos

Lincoln Center Allen Room, 8pm, all ages, $30

So Percussion and Matmos

Lincoln Center Allen Room, 8pm, all ages, $30

OS Mutantes

Lincoln Center Rose Theater, 8pm, all ages, $40/$55

Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds, Dimi Dero (France), Woman, Used to Be Women

Glasslands Gallery, 8pm, 21+, $8 MORE…