New York Night Train 18th Annual HAUNTED HOP Halloween Spooktacular!
Live performances by BLACK LIPS, THE SPITS, THE VOLUPTUOUS HORROR OF KAREN BLACK, CHRISTEENE & HER FKKN BAND, CUMGIRL8, MYSTERY LIGHTS, THICK, DADDY LONG LEGS, and 28 of NYC’s finest bands! Dancing with JONATHAN TOUBIN, HIS MUMMIES A GO GO, and seven of NYC’s spookiest DJs! $500 1AM COSTUME CONTEST! All night HORROR CINEMA! PERFORMANCE, ART INSTALLATIONS, VISUALS, FOOD, DRINK, and more!
KNOCKDOWN CENTER | 10/31/23 | 6:30PM-2:30AM
$28 Early Bird | $33 Advance | $40 D.O.S.
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NYC’s biggest, best, and most fun underground Halloween party tradition, annually since 2006, the New York Night Train Haunted Hop, saw over 4000 revelers last year and is raising the bar even higher for 2023! Jonathan Toubin’s annual record hop has evolved over 18 editions into an epic multi-room indoor/outdoor music festival/dance party featuring nonstop live acts (36 bands!), dancing (10 DJs!), horror cinema (projected from 16mm reels), performance, art installations, visuals, decor galore, food, drink, and the annual $500 costume contest! Eight straight action-packed hours of nonstop thrills and chills in a gargantuan haunted house sprawled out across a labyrinth of unique party environments! Free shuttle back and forth from the Jefferson L Train stop all night long! Dress up! Come early! Stay late! Make a night of it! More »

NY Night Train 17th Annual HAUNTED HOP Halloween Spooktacular!
October 31, 2022 Knockdown Center 6:30PM – 2AM, $30 (advance) | $35 (D.O.S.)
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NYC’s biggest & best underground Halloween party tradition occurs annually since 2006! What started out as Jonathan Toubin’s Halloween record hop has evolved into an action-packed music festival featuring multi-room nonstop live acts (31 bands!), dancing (8 DJs!), horror cinema, performance, installations, visuals, food, drink, and the annual $500 costume contest! Hour after hour of action-packed fun in a massive haunted house across a labyrinth of spooky party environments! Free shuttle back and forth from the Jefferson L Train stop all night long! More »

NY Night Train / Panache / Bust Magazine 9th Annual Planned Parenthood Benefit
VALENTINE’S VILLAGE OF LOVE LIVE REVUE & DANCE

FEB 14, 2022 7PM DOORS / 8PM SHOW / 11PM DANCE
T.V. EYE 1647 Weirfield / Ridgewood, NY 11385
$20 ADVANCE / $24 D.O.S.
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A dance party mix, a podcast, and the fourth installment installment of my NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off Top 500 list! Numbers 421-440 from the original 45s for your dancing and listening pleasure! The tracklist, details about each song and artist, photos, links, and youtube videos of each entire uncut record are located HERE
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The fourth installment, numbers 421-440, of my Soul Clap and Dance-Off Top 500 list where I count down my favorite original 45s from the Soul Clap & Dance-Off party. This page is both a track list and detailed supplementary liner notes of sorts to my Soundcloud mix/podcast. Since the mix finds the records pitched, cut, and yelled over the way I do it at my parties, this page and its YouTube playlist give you a chance to hear the original vinyl in its natural state and will hopefully also prove to be a solid resource for learning more about the records and the artists. I’ve also provided links to where you can get more in-depth in your soul journey. And the photos are clickable if you want a better view… Thanks for stopping by!



421. James Duhon “Grave Yard Creep” (Jetstream, ?)

A graveyard smash straight outta east Texas’ industrial Golden Triangle I picked up from personal hero Billy Miller (RIP) of Norton Records. The uncredited band here is Port Arthur’s The Ascots (sometimes billed as The Escotts) on the prolific and crazy Crazy Cajun Huey Meaux’s Jetstream imprint. Each side of this single is credited to the song’s vocalist instead of the band. So James Duhon does this side and Talmadge Armstrong’s “Color Me Soul” is the B-Side. Also Al Trahan whose “Can I Feel” it on Spindletop is also a regular Soul Clap and Dance-Off spin, was a member of this formidable funky aggregation. Both of these sides also later appeared on The Ascots’ 1978 LP “Color Me Soul.”

While Meaux had a number of hit productions, and was regarded nationally as the promotions man big labels needed to break a record in the Houston/east Texas markets, he didn’t do a whole lot to call attention to his own roster of deserving newcomers like The Ascots and this release is one of many that appeared long after they were recorded. In his invaluable Houston music resource on “Bayou City Soul,” Brett Koshkin explains:

In the late seventies, Meaux facing a slew of tax related issues, sought to defray his bills by releasng a then unprecedented amount of unreleased material he had recorded through the years. The tax scam album as it is today known was the shady art of recording and then releasing a record for the sole purpose of claiming it at an inflated cost of production and loss come April 15th. A method for making gargantuan tax write-offs without having actually spent said costs by a long shot. It was incredibly illegal but not the easiest manner in which to be caught for tax evasion. Of the thousands of albums manufactured, The Ascots were one of the more quality related releases that sadly, were destined for the dumpster instead of record store shelves.
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