NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN IS:

1) the party machine of dynamic DJ/visionary promoter MR JONATHAN TOUBIN who is currently changing the world one wild 45rpm rager at a time! Making life a little spicier by prompting folks to dance at rock shows, bars, art galleries, and other places that used to be no fun. And simultaneously offering a higher quality/more unique MAXIMUM ROCK AND SOUL alternative to the “music” typically spun at discos, raves, loft parties,etc. While busy DJ-ing and throwing his trademark HAPPENINGS and SOUL CLAP/DANCE-OFF parties around the globe alone and also featuring live musical acts like KING KHAN & THE BBQ/SHRINES, OH SEES, or QUINTRON & MS PUSSYCAT, or at festivals like PONDEROSA STOMP, FUN FUN FUN, POP MONTREAL, SLED ISLAND, NXNE, SXSW, CMJ, etc., when stuck in the core of the wormy apple, Mr Toubin can still be found:

* WEDNESDAYS at MOTOR CITY BAR (”NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN WEDNESDAY” – our first party and a downtown rock and roll tradition more than three years in the running! Our only hang-out (though sometimes dance-party) w/special guests from across the NYC music community – a downtown subcultural “cheers”… if you will… Members of Butthole Surfers, Bad Seeds, Black Lips, etc have all turned guest DJ sets there and everybody from Jack White to Noel Gallagher to Scarlet Johanson have hung out there.

* FRIDAYS at HOME SWEET HOME (”SHAKIN ALL OVER UNDER SIDEWAYS DOWN” – “maximum rock’n’soul” get-down aktion – a big weekly dance party with the wildest dance records anywhere – past guest DJs include Ian Svenonius, Quintron, Calvin Johnson, Bad Seed Jim Sclavunos, blah bleh bleh blah bah blah,..)

* SATURDAYS S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y NIGHT! all over the place – most notably GLASSLANDS once a month for “SOUL CLAP & DANCE-OFF” and other ragers…

But, as of the end of 2009, New York Night Train’s Mr Jonathan Toubin is currently not home all that often. Keep checking NewYorkNightTrain.com for the skinny….

However, Mr T curates, and sometimes makes gust appearances at ENID’S for the weekly party he curates, THURSDAY THUMP

2) the record label of KID CONGO POWERS, KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS, GRAND MAL, VIVA L’AMERICAN DEATH RAY MUSIC, S-S-S-SPECTRES, WITCH HATS, STATIC STATIC, STALKERS, and more… Slowly peeling itself off the pavement….

3) the former NYC music webzine (check out the archives) and soon to be regularly updated DJ blog and vinyl guide (seriously… Soon!).

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MR JONATHAN TOUBIN
New York Night Train Conductor and Soul Proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin has shattered the face of nightlife in the wormy apple the last couple of years with his revolutionary parties and wild and wooly approach to his trademark 45rpm “maximum rock and soul” sound. Tirelessly chugging deep into morning after morning everywhere from dive bars to underground live music venues to art spaces to giant discos in over 300 gigs coast to coast last year – including Mardi Gras, SXSW, two stints in Los Angeles – promoting events, sharing bills, and trading DJ sets regularly with the likes of Andrew WK, Black Lips, Calvin Johnson, Crystal Stilts, Gibby Haynes, Ian Svenonius, King Khan and the BBQ/Shrines, Quintron, etc., Mr. Toubin’s uncompromised labor of love has not only yielded thousands converts, and dozens of DJs, parties, and clubs he’s inspired to adopt the reckless pulse raw immediate timeless song-oriented formats, but also in the re-emergence of the happening – a spectacular multimedia approach to nightlife uniting pre-recorded music, live bands, performance, visual art, competition, and, of course, dance.

New York’s only full-time professional DJ of his ilk, Mr. Toubin’s success, first, in compelling rockers to cut a rug and, now, seducing clubbers to rock, is a deliberate rejection of the dominant post-1970s dance floor status quo (disco, house, electro, “80s,” hits, etc.). Dissembling the predominant infinite beat-stretching aesthetic, his carefully selected 45s emphasize a dynamism ideal for the short attention span of today’s cultural landscape – stopping, starting, sputtering, and segueing their way into one another to compose a broader party narrative. Throwing down roughly 150 songs in a full set, New York Night Train rides far beyond fashionable club trends, plunging dancers into an ocean of deep soul, garage, rockabilly, British Invasion, European freakbeat, New Orleans beat, glam, punk, girl groups, ye ye, boogaloo, contemporary underground singles, and everything else that’s simultaneously solid and shaking. And, though indubitably a foray into sonic classicism, this is an exquisite musical experience where the dumbed-down popular hits are few and far between – a paradise of jams vibrant enough to be seductive yet unfamiliar. It’s no accident that this unruly trip is a deliberate wrecking ball to all of the primary principles and aesthetics of the last thirty-five years of the DJ’s art – taking up from where the 1960s discotheque left off – applying its sounds and concepts to contemporary underground nightlife. Less a Quixotic rebellion against the bland, disposable, and barren nature of digital culture, but more a firm religious belief in the supreme sonic medium ever created, the authentic 45rpm 7-inch single has become the exclusive vehicle of Mr. Toubin’s dance parties. As technological dance music becomes passé, New York Night Train’s high-speed DIY punk aesthetic employs these classic tools in a nostalgia-free manner to whip up a post-modern beat collage that is decidedly fresh and alive enough to exist outside of the retro world – but rather where the wild things are – NOW!

The DJ/promoter/conceptualist behind the multimedia Glasslands Animal Train, Santos’ Party House Declassified!, and now the traveling New York Night Train Happening (the first installment in June features Health, Kid Congo Powers, Awesome Color, and an eclectic cast of dancers, performers, projectionists, and visual artists), as well as the ever-popular monthly Soul Clap and Dance-Off party/contest, the unprecedented sold-out success of his parties blew up the previously amateur underground rock/soul DJ arena and, in the process, made Mr. Jonathan Toubin an international name. 2009 finds him spinning three weekly NYC gigs and touring the world as both a DJ and party conceptualist everywhere from rock venues to dance clubs to art spaces to major music festivals. New York Night Train comin’ round the bend!

NYNT DJ MR JONATHAN TOUBIN

Jonathan Toubin from New York Night Train throws the raddest underground rock parties in New York.
- Alex Thompson, Paper Magazine

I’m not one of the Schmucks who will lament over New York not being “what it used to be”, but I will say that we’re not fans of this dismal wasteland of Eurotrash tourists and guidos with polo shirts unbuttoned down to their navels grinding to the repetitive pounding of bad electro… Enter Jonathan Toubin, and his simple-yet-visionary approach to revamping the entire lanscape of New York and Brooklyn from midnight till the after hours. His New York Night Train parties have become stuff of sheer legend do to the simple fact that Toubin actually seems to care about what he is producing. His meticulous approach has paid off quite handsomely as pretty much each and every party with the Jonathan Toubin stamp on it seems to be the biggest party going on for that given night.
- Jason Diamond Impose

DJ Jonathan Toubin, from underground music zine (and label of the same name) New York Night Train, spins the 45s. The mid-‘60s to early-‘70s r&b and funk will have you dancing with the stars.
- Sharyn Jackson, Village Voice “Voice Choices”

Jonathan Toubin, the New York City DJ who turns ho-hum rock shows and tin-canned dance parties into transcendent nightlife experiences. Spinning rock and soul on 45, Toubin gets the rock kids to dance and the clubbers to rock, meshing together live music, performance, film and dance, dance, dance!
- Megan O’Neil, Detroit Metro Times

I remember the first time I walked into one of DJ Jonathan Toubin’s Soul Clap and Dance-Off parties at Glasslands Gallery. Wiggly mamas were shaking their manes and hitting the splits, gangly boys were swinging from the balcony, and the two dance contest finalists, having already ripped their shirts off, were vibe-a-ratin’ like washing machines in the middle of a cheering crowd. And the music, man! I was getting hit by squall after squall of screaming, crackling soul tracks, some pitched so fast that I hardly knew how to move to them – so I did like everyone else and just let the music jerk my body around, flailing with the breathless abandon of a toddler. I’m a big fan of sixties soul music, but every song was new to me, each so raw and greasy and BIG and palpable that they had me scrunching my nose up and torquing my neck in this ecstatic frenzy. Now, I make a point of seeking out those rowdy shows and crazy parties that leave you sweat-soaked and grinning uncontrollably, but I’ve been hard-pressed to find anything that can top the roaring bliss of a New York Night Train Soul Clap.
- Erin Sheehy, Jezebel Music.com

Even thought Toubin isn’t entirely unique in using only 45s, his skill at transitioning one song into another (“segueways”) is seamless, and his depth and range of choice songs, primarily from the mid-1960s, are far from the mainstream yet extremely danceable.
- Mark Shikuma, from “Dust on Vinyl” a feature in the North Coast Journal

You don’t have to look to other cities to get the good DJs throwing garage rock, old soul, girl groups, and punk rock on the turntables, but New York Night Train’s Jonathan Toubin really knows his shit.
- Jennifer Maerz, SF Weekly

As previously noted in this here reputable rag, Jonathan Toubin’s Soul Clap and Dance-Off shindig is truly New York City’s most stimulating all-night dance party, easily trumping all other soul or retro nights.
- MyOpenBar.com

Our festival experience began with an oh-so-soulful DJ set by New York genius Jonathan Toubin.
- Josiah Hughes, Exclaim! review of Calgary’s Sled Island Festival

With his impeccable taste and extensive vinyl collection, Jonathan always seems to know exactly the right track to get bodies moving on the dance floor.
- Bree Dillon, L Magazine

New York Night Train’s Mr. Jonathan Toubin spins a selection of first-rate funk and soul.
- Bruce Tantum, Time Out New York

But by the end of the night, I got Toubin’s joke: He and Svenonius know how to make people freak out. I mean really lose it. They can access a primal human circuitry that somehow prefigured the advent of 1960s boogaloo, international freakbeat and garage rock. All that “nntzuh-nntzuh” Euro syncopation, all that New Order, even ol’ Marr and Morrissey, were little queefs of ozone compared to the voltage that these two have amassed over years of rummaging through record bins. They’ve learned how to incite a kind of bond breaking, a freedom claiming, in young psyches.
- Justin Richards, New York Press

I left as Jonathan began his second set. Icaught his eye as I was trying to remain vertical while crossing the sea of shimmying, arm-swinging and hand clapping. I was about to flash him a salute, or some kind of sign to say, “hey man, I get it. I don’t know what foul hell fire stokes your engines but this is good work you are doing. In this stale city that makes even the richest poor, and the poorest gone; in the shadows of the newly birthed and vacant luxury condominiums that rise around us, in the crush of drunken NYU students hiking up their skirts to piss in the gutter and belligerent senior account executives furious that people are having fun downstairs from their loft-style 300sqft railroad apartments, we need this sound you’re summoning up–this primal music howling out the past like the voice of everything that needs saying. We need it and we’ll take it on every night that you’ll bring it…”,
- Monty Shanks, Cheap and Plastique

My favorite Jewish Leo DJ
- Reality No-Show

maestro DJ Mr. Jonathan Toubin i spetsen.
- Denimzine



2008 New York Night Train/Jonathan Toubin Highlights

DJ – Vice Late Nights with Monotonix and Night Horse, Webster Hall
DJ – Black Mountain, Von Iver, and Children Glasslands
DJ – Blackbook Magazine Release Party
DJ – Lundi Gras Party w/Quintron and Ms Pussycat, Morning 40 Federation, Static Static – One-Eyed Jack’s, New Orleans
DJ – Melvins afterparty w/Dale Crover at Beauty Bar
DJ – Part Time Punks w/Kid Congo Powers at the Echo, Los Angeles
DJ – Penne-Ante Party w/Indian Jewelry and Simeon Coxe of Silver Apples – Cake Shop
DJ – Tardi Gras – Ash Wednesday at Longbranch, Austin, TX
DJ – The Go, Black Hollies, and Nouvellas at Knitting Factory
DJ – Erin Wasson x RVCA Fashion Week Party at Erin’s Studio
DJ – SXSW Party – Long Branch, Austin, TX
DJ/Promoter – …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead at Santos’ Party House
DJ/Promoter – Andrew WK at Santos’ Party House
DJ/Promoter – Ants In Yr Pants w/James Sclavunos o’Nick Cave & Bad Seeds / Grinderman/etc
DJ/Promoter – Ari Up’s Slits and Stalkers at Santos’ Party House
DJ/Promoter – Awesome Color and Golden Triangle at Santos Party House
DJ/Promoter – Black Lips Afterparty w/Golden Triangle, All the Saints, Ex Humans, MC Trachiotomy, K-Holes, and DJs Jared (Black Lips) and Moses (Deer Hunter) – Glasslands
DJ/Promoter – Butthole Surfers reunion afterparty w/Gibby Haynes at Beauty Bar
DJ/Promoter – Crypt Records 25th Anniversary w/King Khan and the BBQ, Tim Warren,
DJ/Promoter – Jon Spencer & Matt Verta Ray’s Heavy Trash, Puddin Tang at Glasslands
DJ/Promoter – James Chance and the Homosexuals at Santos’ Party House
DJ/Promoter – King Khan & the BBQ at Bowery Ballroom, afterparty at Home Sweet Home
DJ/Promoter – Pre-Black Lips party w/Jared o/Black Lips and Alix o/Golden Triangle
DJ/Promoter – Quintron and MS Pussycat and Golden Triangle at Santos
DJ/Promoter – Terror Fest & BBQ w/Intelligence, Blank Dogs, Black Time, Static Static, Golden Triangle, Crystal Stilts, Brimstone Howl, Knyfe Hyts. etc
DJ/Promoter – White Shoes & 5th of July with Ian Svenonius at Hope Lounge
DJ/Promoter – Declassified w/Gibby Haynes
DJ/Promoter – Excepter Record Release at Glasslands
DJ/Promoter – Get Down Galore on the Ocean Floor w/Gibby Haynes & MC Trachiotomy
DJ/Promoter – Labor Day Night w/Calvin Johnson, Ian Svenonius, Crystal Stilts, etc.
DJ/Promoter – NY Night Train 3rd Anniversary w/James Chance, Kid Congo Powers, Howie Pyro, Five Dollar Priest (ex-Swans, Pussy Galore, and Sonic Youth)
DJ/Promoter – Part Time Punks NYC w/Jah Division at Glasslands
La Boum Gibby Haynes and Devendra Banhardt at Bardot, Hollywood
Promoter – 16 Bands from Brooklyn – unofficial South by Southwest – Spiderhouse Austin
Promoter – NY Night Train official South by Southwest showcase, Austin

Plus the following regular parties:
- Weeklies: New York Night Train Wednesdays at Motor City, Boogaloo Shampoo at Beauty Bar, Discotheque International at Beauty Bar, Ants in Your Pants Dance Party at Savalas, Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down at Home Sweet Home, and Declassified at Santos’ Party House
- Monthlies: Soul Clap and Dance-Off and Animal Train Happening at Glasslands