Wed, Mar 10: Lower East Side, Manhattan – Motor City Bar: New York Night Train Wednesdays w/DJ Jonathan Toubin, 10pm-ish, 21+, FREE: A downtown institution for over three years! The “Cheers” of the Lower East Side’s rock and roll underground! New York Night Train conductor Mr Jonathan Toubin tests out his latest jams before anyone else gets to hear them and turns occasional punk classics you sing along with. Fall by and socialize! Tonight feel the thawing climate change as the staff promises not to assault the patrons this time around!











Thu, Mar 11: Williamsburg, Brooklyn – The Record Grouch (441 Metropolitan at Meeker) Grand Opening Fiesta w/Mr Jonathan Toubin and Ivan Sunshine, 7pm-10pm, FREE: The Record Grouch AKA Doug Pressman has been dealing records and playing guitar around NYC for years – now he finally has his own store. Come celebrate as Mssrs. Jonathan Toubin and Ivan Sunshine play the hits for your dancing pleasure and Doug gets you drunk and offers all kinds of discounts on his amazing vinyl.












Thu, Mar 11: Greenpoint, Brooklyn – Enid’s: Thursday Thump with DJ Alex Moyer and guests Phast Preddie and Inspektor Straberry Sodapop, 10pm, 21+, FREE New York Night Train and Enid’s present a free weekly night featuring the finest DJs of the NYC underground community. Tonight hostess/DJAlex Moyer brings her Fine Style monthly to Enid’s with guest DJs the legendary Backdoor Man himself, Phast Preddie, and East Village Radio’s Inspektor Strawberry Sodapop (AKA Nick (Death)Ray). Expect a cool night of scorchers from the golden age of reggae presented in the 45rpm vinyl format.











Fri, Mar 12: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin and guest DJ Joel Burg, Home Sweet Home (131 Chrystie), 10:30pm – 4am, $3: New York Night Train’s weekly rough and ready maximum rock’n’soul get-down featuring resident DJ thee Mr. Jonathan Toubin himself! Lose it on the dancefloor to Mr. T’s wild bag of rotating 45rpm party favors – raw obscure, novel, and classic punkers, jumpers, and thumpers from all around the world for your dancing pleasure. Tonight’s guest DJ is Swedish garage madman Joel Borg of Denimzine/What We Do Is Secret. This party just gets better and better each week of late. C’mon and get in on it.









SATURDAY, MARCH 13: SOUL CLAP and DANCE-OFF 3rd ANNIVERSARY EXTRAVAGANZA w/DJs JONATHAN TOUBIN and special guest IAN SVENONIUS and a cast of 1000s, THE GLASSLANDS (289 Kent, Williamsburg, Brooklyn) 9PM – 4AM, $5

New York Night Train’s Soul Clap and Dance-Off celebrates its third birthday in style! In the last three years, the underdog party, which features an all night get-down to Mr. Jonathan Toubin’s exquisitely exciting soul 45s and a dance contest in the middle, has evolved from intimate neighborhood get-together to one of NYC’s biggest sold-out monthly institutions to global phenomenon. In the last year the party broke out of Brooklyn to ping-pong back and forth from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine, and from Mexico City to Tel Aviv while remaining stronger than ever at home – hipping both NYC and the rest of the world to some of the finest music of all time in the process.

To commemorate hitting the three year mark, the Soul Clap will feature an early record fair with sellers from the DJ and record vendor community, guest MC/DJ Ian Svenonius, and two Dance-Offs – a regular $100 contest at 11pm open to everyone and, at 1am, a $200 championship featuring winners of three years worth of contests leading up to tonight’s. As always, Laura Leigh is the MC and a cast of neighborhood personalities will judge the contests (see below) while Mr Toubin shakes you all night long!

Here’s the schedule:

9pm – 10-ish: Soul Record Fair/Swap with both record dealers and DJs hawking their wares. NY Night Train wants to get you not only to get down to the vinyle but get involved in the culture! Dealers will be making a collaborative DJ set out of 45s they have for sale. Also, all Sky Vodka drinks are $2! Dealers include:
- Casey from Eat Records
- Jonathan Toubin of New York Night Train
- Mr. Fine Wine of WFMU’s Downtown Soulville
- Doug from The Record Grouch
- Phast Phreddie, the Boogaloo Omnibus – LA punk legend behind the seminal “Backdoor Man” fanzine and current resident DJ of Subway Soul and the Wang Dang Doodle
- Rodney of NY Vinyl
- William from Radio Heartbeat (NY’s most notorious power-pop DJ with a box o’soul from his native New Orleans)

10pm – 4am: All night dancing to the 45rpm magic of Mr Jonathan Toubin and guest DJ Ian Svenonius (Chain and the Gang, Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses). While Mr Jonathan Toubin tries to introduce around fifty new 45s every month, tonight we get down only to the Soul Claps biggest and baddest classics.

11pm: Dance-Off w/MC’s Laura Leigh and Ian Svenonius and a panel o/judges: - Alana Amram of Alana Amram and the Rough Gemsand bassist for everybody except Lou Reed
- Jake Noodle Boy of Wellington Ladies Welfare League
- Amanda Berkowitz – back-stabbing slut/synth darling of FiASCO, Soviet, WIT, etc
- Seva Granik, head of NYC event production company Abracadabra Talent and founder of Myopenbar.com
- Tara McPherson – illustrator, artist, and professor (“the crown princess of poster art” – ELLE Magazine

1am: Dance-Off Championship w/MC’s Laura Leigh and Ian Svenonius and judges:
- Brooke Baxter and Rolyn Hu, proprietresses of Glasslands and Manhattan Inn
- j sinopoli (dewey xoxo) of of street radio international http://www.facebook.com/l/b6b06;legalizedancing.org
- Laurel Bell – raw chef of Rockin’ Raw
- Mr. Fine Wine DJ/voice of the world famous WFMU radio show Downtown Soulville
- Sarah Brown of Slingshot Photography

dance ’til 4 and then go to see Mr Jonathan Toubin spin at Shanky afterhours at the Badlands immediately following the Soul Clap!

Sat, Mar 13/14, Williamburg, Brooklyn – The Badlands: Shanky Afterhours w/DJ Jonathan Toubin, 4am – 8am, $5:Hooooooot! Calling all night owls! Get there early to avoid the line while Glen Szabo warms ya up then Mr. Jonathan Toubin gets you down all night long at Brooklyn’s biggest, baddest, and most consistent afterhours. Fall on by if you happen to up… for it!



a few more great upcoming New York Night Train/Jonathan Toubin events:


- Tue, Mar 16: Boston, MA: Mr Jonathan Toubin at Bay State College lecture then Soul Clap
- Wed, Mar 17: Lower East Side, Manhattan – Motor City Bar: New York Night Train Wednesday w/Mr Jonathan Toubin and friends
- Thu, Mar 18: Austin, TX – High Ball Bowling Alley (10pm – 2am): Dance Party with the Royal Butchers and DJs Jonathan Toubin and Kid Congo Powers
- Thu, Mar 18: Greenpoint, Brooklyn – Enid’s: Thursday Thump with DJ Oweinama Biu and friends
- Fri, Mar 19: Chinatown, Manhattan – Home Sweet Home: Shakin All Over w/Ian Svenonius
- Fri, Mar 19: Austin, TX: Jonathan Toubin dance party action early and late
- Sat, Mar 20: Austin, TX – Spider House: NY Night Train 5th Annual SXSW Hoodang (Noon – 2am) w/45 bands like Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, Dum Dum Girls, So Cow, Cheap Time, Awesome Color, Garotas Suecas, Golden Triangle, Turbo Fruits, Beets, and many more… go to http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=387898905630&ref=mf for details !
- Sat, Mar 20: Austin, TX (12AM – 4AM); Mr. Jonathan Toubin spins VICE party
- Sun, Mar 21: Monterrey, Mexico – The Garage: Todd P presents Soul Clap and Dance-Off (check out the line-up of this fest – dozens of different things from Liars to Indian Jewelry – http://toddpnyc.com/mtymx/)
- Mon, Mar 22: Monterrey, Mexico – TBA: Todd P presents special dance party w/Mr Jonathan Toubin
- Wed, Mar 24: Lower East Side, Manhattan – Motor City Bar: New York Night Train Wednesday w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin and guest DJ Jello Biafra(!)
- Thu, Mar 25: Greenpoint, Brooklyn – Enid’s: Thursday Thump w/guest DJ Eric Davidson, journalist, frontman of New Bomb Turks and author of Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001
- Fri, Mar 26: Chinatown, Manhattan – Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down with Mr. Jonathan Toubin and guest DJ Tim Warren of Crypt Records
- Sat, Mar 27, Williamsburg, Brooklyn – Live With Animals: Kid Congo Powers all-night birthday extravaganza featuring the first NYC Pink Monkey Birds show in years w/openers Stalkers, K-Holes, Tommy Volume, and, later, Le Congo: International Discotheque Psychedelique: all night dancing to tripped out 60s beat, garage, and psych from around the world with Mr. Jonathan Toubin and Josh Styles!
- Wed, Mar 31: Lower East Side, Manhattan – Motor City Bar: New York Night Train Wednesday w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin
- Thu, Apr 1: Williamsburg, Brooklyn – Knitting Factory: Garotas Suecas w/DJ Mr Jonathan Toubin
- Thu, Apr 1: Greenpoint, Brooklyn – Enid’s: Thursday Thump
- Fri, Apr 2: Chinatown, Manhattan – Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down with Mr. Jonathan Toubin and friends
- Sat, Apr 3: Ft. Green, Brooklyn: The Outpost Lounge: a night with Mr. Jonathan Toubin
- Thu, Apr 8: Greenpoint, Brooklyn: Enid’s: Thursday Thump w/DJ Primo of San Francisco’s Oldies Night
- Fri, Apr 9: Chinatown, Manhattan – Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down with Mr. Jonathan Toubin and DJ Primo of San Francisco’s Oldies Nigh
- Sat, Apr 10: Williamsburg Brooklyn – The Glasslands: Soul Clap and Dance-Off
- Thu, Apr 15 Chicago, IL: Soul Clap and Dance-Off
- Fri, Apr 16 – Chinatown, Manhattan – Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down with Mr Jonathan Toubin
- Sat, Apr 17 – Sun Apr 25: Soul Clap and Dance-Off west coast tour
- Sat, May 1: Portland, Maine – SPACE Gallery: Soul Clap and Dance-Off
Sat, May 8, Orlando, FL – Blackbooth: Soul Clap and Dance-Off
Thu, May 13: Portland, OR – Rotture: I’ve Got a Hole In My Soul Party w/DJ Beyonda Doubt and guest Jonathan Toubin
Sat, May 15: Williamsburg, Brooklyn – Glasslands: Soul Clap and Dance-Off
Thu, May 20: Chicago – Beauty Bar: Soul Clap and Dance-Off
Thu, May 27: Austin TX: Chaos in Tejas
Sat, May 29 – Asbury Park, NJ: Asbury Lanes: Soul Clap and Dance-Off