what goes on?
July 15, 2008
by Jonathan
New York Night Train enters the second weekof a series in which Mr. Jonathan Toubin’s Wednesday Motor City guest DJs are all bartenders. The rationale here is that, since bartenders are subjected to so much DJing, good, bad, and just plain ugly, that they perhaps know better than anyone else how its done. In the next few weeks we’ll find out if bartenders really do make the best DJs. Like the record store guest series, every week we’ll bring in a different one from a different local watering hole. Tonight we have a bit of a shoe-in, Mr Jonathan Toubin’s DJ partner of many-a-night, Melissa Fanni Tutti. As Melissa is a hired gun who slings cocktails all over town, she’s the only DJ in the series who doesn’t represent any particular drinking establishments, but rather a much broader ideal…. Come hear it!
THURS 07/17: beauty bar: DISCOTHEQUE INTERNATIONALE GRANDE FINALE
FRI 07/18: home sweet home: SHAKIN’ ALL OVER UNDER SIDEWAYS DOWN
SUN 07/20: motor city: EXILE ON LUDLOW STREET 1st ANNIVERSARY PARTY!
MON 07/21: santos’ party house: SECRET SANTO w/JAMES CHANCE, THE HOMOSEXUALS , y mas (whoops, that was supposed to be a secret)…
what goes on?
July 14, 2008
by Jonathan
July 14, 2008, Santo’s Party House (100 Lafayette), 10pm Sharp, $10 ($5 with advance RSVP). House DJ Mr Jonathan Toubin, Guest DJs Tim Warren and Jaiko Suzuki, Live Music Les Sans Culottes, Go Go Dancing Anna Copacabana, Hula Hoop Performance: Hula Hoop Harlot Melissa Anne, Projections: Mighty Robot AV Squad
Tonight is the official debut of New York Night Train’s weekly Secret Santos’ Spectacle in the big room upstairs at Santos’ Party House. Every Monday the coolest NYC disco in ions will bring you a collection of the finest rock DJs and bands from around the world through one of the finest sound systems ever – along with projectionists, performance, and dancers. To keep it fresh, and here’s why its “Secret” Santo, these shakin’ mega-events will not be listed or advertised in print - instead announced the 24 hours ahead of time via word of mouth, email, and the internet. Despite the quality and quantity of acts represented, Secret Santo is making an effort to keep one of the most democratic door prices in town (particularly for those who RSVP)….
Tonight’s Secret Santo is a Bastille Day Bash honoring all things French and featuring guests Mon Mon Mon Amour’s Jaiko Suzuki and Crypt Records’ Tim Warren alongside house DJ New York Night Train’s Jonathan Toubin - throwing down French dance platters of all night emphasizing yé-yé, twist, 60s and 70s pop, and garage/freakbeat. NYC “French” party pop band Les Sans Culottes play one of their revved-up Francophile live sets, performance artist/musician Anna Copacabana provides le go go dancing, and world-record contender Hula Hoop Harlot Melissa Anne puts in one of her vigorous but classy performances. Williamsburg’s legendary projection team Mighty Robot AV Squad conjure up the multimedia visuals. Get there early, doors open at 10PM and every week the band goes on at 10:30 sharp….
And now for a bit more about tonight’s cast:
Live Band: Les Sans Culottes - “The giddy, light-headed charm of the 1960’s French rock known as ye-ye is concept enough for Les Sans Culottes, a Brooklyn band that revives the style…fuzz-toned guitars, electric organ, cooing female voices and know-it-all male growls. All Les Sans Culottes had to do is bring back the psychedelic-patterned clothes, come up with stage names like Kit Kat le Noir and add some extra Franglais to savor the music’s loony essence.” - Jon Pareles, The New York Times
Go Go Dancer: Anna Copacabana, whose Anna Copacabana Show at Bowery Poetry Club has become a downtown tradition, also performs regularly as a songwriting musician and dancer. Uniting the art, rock, and variety scenes with her work across the city, the lovely and talented Ms. Copacabana adds flair and kineticism to any party…
Hula Hoop Performance: Hula Hoop Harlot Melissa Anne, initially a jazz/tap dancer, soon began incorporating her hula hooping skills into live performances until it soon became central to her well choreographed and entertaining live act. Much more than a series of artfully arranged dazzling athletic feats, the wild blur of Saturn’s rings orbiting Melissa’s body simply defy all conventional laws of physics.
Projections: Mighty Robot AV Squad incorporate homemade visuals, found filmstock, live video, and liquid projection to create an otherworldly yet playful ambience ideal for dancing. Yes, these are the artists of the same Mighty Robot space who also presented all of the great underground bands of the early 2000s. It’s all over the room - look around.
Guest DJ: Jaiko Suzuki, who initially earned her legendary New York nightlife reputation go go dancing at practically every important New York party in the late 1990s and early 2000s (most notably Vampiros Lesbos), and later created, curated, and DJ-ed one of NYC’s coolest 21st century parties, the monthly Mon Mon Mon Amour institution at La Caverna, is also a prolific drummer (Boredoms 77 Drum, Electroputas, etc), experimental film-maker, and professional mermaid whose best known for rocking awesome international pop sets.
House DJ: Mr. Jonathan Toubin, New York Night Train’s Conductor, the city’s hardest-working subcultural rock’n’soul DJ has already spun over 150 coast-to-coast gigs this year with dynamic primarily 45-rpm all-vinyl sets emphasizing soul, garage, freakbeat, New Orleans beat, early rock, boogaloo, punk, and, yeah,… ye ye!
Guest DJ: Tim Warren, founder of the international institution known as Crypt Records (who brought you the likes of the Gories, Oblivians, Thee Headcoats, John Spencer Blues Explosion, and many more and also assembled such legendary compilation series such as Las Vegas Grind, Back From the Grave, The Socker, and Twist and Rumble), and owner of Williamsburg’s Cool and Crazy Record Store, is also an unreal selector who plays boatloads of raw shakers from one of the most notorious record collections ever.
what goes on?
July 9, 2008
by Jonathan
New York Night Train DJ Mr Jonathan Toubin continues his anything goes weekly music salon Wednesdays at Motor City. This month New York Night Train has invited bartenders from its favorite local establishments to come out from behind the bar and into the booth as the Wednesday guest DJ’s at Motor City. Remember, they have to listen to lousy DJs every night, all night, and here’s their chance to show everybody how should be done. This week one of NYNT’s all-time favorite bars, Daddy’s, on Graham Avenue, Williamsburg, will be represented by noneother than Pauli and Megan - two sophisticated mamas with sonic savvy to match. Come check it out!
what goes on?
July 7, 2008
by Jonathan
spend a night in deep Southeast Williamsburg’s charming and economical Don Pedro’s to check out two of New York Night Train’s absolute favorite NYC bands and its fourth favorite DJ, Mr. Jonathan Toubin himself for yet another night of rocking out and dancing….
what goes on?
July 6, 2008
by Jonathan
Mon, July 7: New York Night Train’s Secret Santo kickoff party w/Ian Svenonius (Soft Focus), Tim Warren (Crypt Records), Josh Styles (Smashed Blocked), and Jonathan Toubin (NYNT), Anna Copacabana (go go artiste), and Spencer Bewley (freaky deaky projections), Santos Party House (100 Lafayette), 10pm, $5: New York Night Train has a surprise gift for you! Tonight is the pre-opening hoodang for our weekly get-down at Santos Party House, the first cool disco in New York City in a couple of decades. Owned and run by a constellation of important figures in New York’s underground music community, Santos has quietly opened - steadily presenting all variety of prestigious dance music events featuring the finest disco, electro, and contemporary dance DJs. Now they’ve added maximum rock and soul to their already eclectic mix by bringing New York Night Train’s Mr Jonathan Toubin on board. Mr. Toubin and East Coast celebrity booking agent Yalan Papillons are stepping it up a notch – initiating a Monday party that is bringing in a collection of the finest rock DJs and bands from around the world every week – along with projectionists, performance, and dancers. To keep it fresh, and here’s why its “Secret” Santo, these shakin’ mega-events will not be listed or advertised in print - instead announced the 24 hours ahead of time via word of mouth, email, and the internet (that means you - dear myspace friends). Despite the quality and quantity of acts represented, Secret Santo is making an effort to keep one of the most democratic door prices in town ($5 to $10 – in some of the upcoming cases, more than half-off the typical ticket price for many of these shows!). This is gonna be the jam. Though Secret Santo’s officially opens upstairs in the big room on July 14th with an excellent French pop band, the introductory bash will take place in the basement on July 7 featuring for the first time all together, an East Coast DJ dream team, New York Night Train’s four favorite 45 spinners assembled as the house DJs at the party: Soft Focus host Ian Svenonius, Crypt Records head honcho Tim Warren (who has used his vast and unique collection to assemble such legendary compilations as Las Vegas Grind, Twist and Rumble, Back From The Grave, The Socker, and many more), the DJ/visionary behind the Smashed Blocked Party, Josh Styles, and, of course, New York Night Train soul proprietor/conductor Mr. Jonathan Toubin. Additionally, dancer/musician/performer/downtown institution the lovely and exciting Anna Copacabana provides the go go action and the astounding live 16mm projections of Spencer Bewley will be our kinetic wall-paper. Check back every Sunday to learn what’s cookin’ for the next Monday!
what goes on?
June 29, 2008
by Jonathan
Mon, July 5: Ian Svenonius and Jonathan Toubin, Hope Lounge (10 Hope btw Roebling and Havemeyer, Williamsburg), 9pm, free:Everyone had so much fun at the one-off White Shoes party at Hope Lounge that they’ve been asking when Vice TV’s Soft Focus host Ian Svenonius and New York Night Train soul proprietor Jonathan Toubin are throwing another party. You asked for it, you got it. Saturday July 5 - the perfect date for cooling out on Williamsburg’s biggest patio after a huge party day. As last time, it starts early (9pm), there’ll be cheap drink specials (a $5 special and a $3 beer), the grill will be fired up, and the supreme jams will flow like Niagra Falls.
what goes on?
June 29, 2008
by Jonathan
New York Night Train Wednesdays, Motor City Bar (127 Ludlow), 10pm - 4am, free:As always, the Conductor will be at Motor City for his weekly New York Night Train music salon. This Wednesdays guests are the four members of Memphis super-group Viva l’American Death Ray Music: NYNT regular guest, Golden Triangle’s Mr. Nicholas Ray, Goner recording artist Harlan T Bobo, Polyphonic Spree drummer Jeffery Buock, and organist Brendan Spenglar (who’s played with everbody from Tav Falco to Jack Oblivian to Andre Williams). All are distinguished gentlemen of the world with distinct style and taste. They spin with a dry rub slathered in a molasses-based sauce.
what goes on?
June 29, 2008
by Jonathan
NYNT Soul Proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin hits the Beauty Bar back room every Thursday and turns dance platters rotating around the middle of popular music’s greatest and most diverse decade, channeling the variety inherent in 60s discotheque and radio playlists plus many of the tunes that were either too underground or geographically removed at the time to find their way to the same spot - 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, and anything else that moves. Last few weeks! Get ready for the boogaloo shampoo!
NYC hardcore legend Marc Ryan, currently of Foreigh Islands , formerly of Supertouch, throwing down punky reggae in the front room.
