another week of tunes for baboons
by Jonathan
The train keeps a rollin’ all night long for yet another solid week of good times and sketchy tunes. Look for upcoming events with NYNT faves like Ian Svenonius, Kid Congo, Jaiko Suzuki Excepter, Golden Triangle, Five Dollar Priest, and many more while the Night Train to pulls into New Orleans, Austin, and Los Angeles in February and SXSW in March!
Wednesday, Jan 16, Motor City (127 Ludlow, Lower East Side, Manhattan), 10pm, FREE: Grand Mal’s Bill Whitten and Hopewell’s Jason Russo were separated at birth and New York Night Train is bringing the odd couple back together for a night of classic rock tunes. Bill likes to spin lotsa glam and NYC r’n'r. Jason likes that too but prefers his cup o’ meat a bit more hallucinagenic. The Soul Proprietor remains a loose cannon capable of anything. But what happens when these three handsome dark haired longtime amigos get together has yet to be witnessed by the public. Swing on by if only to share the black magic of unholy trinities.
Thursday, Jan 17, On! Sixties Discotheque Party, Beauty Bar (231 E. 14th, East Village, Manhattan), 11pm, FREE: New York Night Train’s latest venture is a collaboration between the Soul Proprietor and rollingmusical 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. Get it? ON! C’mON, turn ON!
Friday, Jan 18, Ants In Yr Pants Dance Party, Savalas (285 Bedford, Williamsburg, Brooklyn), 10pm, FREE: Friday night New York Night Train’s Ants In Yr Pants Dance Party will be the location of the second meticulously organized crime against general goodness and decency by the shadowy duo of Josh Styles and Mr. Jonathan Toubin. Their last big heist, on New Years Eve at Glasslands, found the two culprits firing round after round of garage, soul, freakbeat, British Invasion, glam, and punk recordings in the 45 rpm 7″ format into an innocent mass of dancing bodies. The culprits got in and out of the crime scene so with such efficiency that the only evidence they left behind was a chalk outline of a guy named Dave behind the DJ booth and a broken pair of headphones - still steaming from the sonic gunplay.
Reports of the dastardly duo’s whereabouts since the big scam indicate that they separated to duck the fuzz since going on the lamb. Styles was spotted turning platters at his Smashed! Blocked! party at Beauty Bar and beating a shabby trap-kit with an infamous musical combo who go buy the name of Stalkers. Toubin has left a recklessly conspicuous trail of vinyl at dives in both Brooklyn and Manhattan including repeat offenses at Motor City, Beauty Bar, and Savalas as well as crowded events like his Soul Clap and Dance-Off and Heavy Trash concert.
While the police are planning a sting operation on Friday night at Savalas between 10pm and 4am, they are still pursuing any information leading to the whereabouts of these elegant criminals. Local authorities encourage all civic-minded citizens and vigilantes to be there for back-up. Admission is FREE so your attendance so all you have to lose is your life and that quarter inch you will dance-off the sole of your shoe.
Saturday, Jan 19: New York Night Train’s Loose Caboose, 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 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.
