New York Night Train keeps you in February for an extra day!
by Jonathan
Wednesday, Feb 27, Motor City (127 Ludlow, Lower East Side, Manhattan), 10pm, FREE: New York Night Train’s Motor City Wednesdays is thrilled to bring noneother than Claudia of Baby Shakes fame behind the booth. Since long before her last appearance was canceled nearly a year ago because she and the band loaded up the truck and moved to Hot ‘Lanta, Mizz Clawdy and Mr. Jonathan Toubin have been plotting and scheming this night. For those of you that don’t know homegal from her music or work behind the bar at joints like Mars Bar or even Motor City, despite her youth, this li’l stick o’dy-no-mite’s been around for years (don’t even try to do the math!), and is a connoisseur all kinds of great punk, r’n'r, and girl group jams. This is gonna be a bona fide hoodang.
Thursday, Feb 28, 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, Feb 29, 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. We have every intention of making this an annual event - so, if you miss it, see you in four years suckas!
Saturday, Mar 1: Animal Train Happening #7: The Party, Glasslands (289 Kent, Williamsburg), 10pm, $7. That’s the word Mortimer Snerd, Animal Train is back for the first time since Quintron’s Happy Garden - a four month hiatus y’all. This time the party engine brings Ian Svenonius back by popular demand for the first time since Bastille Day - as he remains the ladies’ unanimous favorite guest DJ. We’re also bringing one of the city’s most consistently explosive local acts, Services, and one of its most daring performance artists, Micki Pellerano, to this, our first Communist Party. In addition to the usual crew of DJ Mr. Jonathan Toubin, go go dancers The Marmaladies, projections by Mighty Robot AV Crew, and decor by Live With Animals, expect a late-night surprise DJ set by an extraordinary punk rock celebrity guest.Go here for an in depth description of The Party!
Saturday, Mar 1: New York Night Train’s Loose Caboose, Club Midway (25 Avenue B, East Village, Manhattan), 10pm, FREE: While Conductor Mr. Jonathan Toubin is busy manning The Animal Train, Msssr. Kid Congo Powers, the Pink Monkeybird himself, he of Gun Club, Cramps, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds fem, rides the caboose upstairs at Midway - spinning party favorites ’til 4AM. El Kid guaranteed make you get down like James Brown. Everybody is a winner!
