>-Thu, Dec 31: NY Night Train 3rd Annual Lower East Side New Years Marathon way past dawn!, 9pm – 7am, $5: 

FRI, NOV 20: Shakin' All Over Under Sideways Down, Home Sweet Home w/DJ Mr. Jonathan Toubin (131 Chrystie, Lower East Side, Manhattan), 10:30pm, FREE: New York Night Train Conductor and Soul Proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin returns from his US Soul Clap and Dance-Off tour tonight to preside over his weekly rough and ready maximum rock'n'soul get-down! Shake and shimmy to wild 45rpm party favors - obscurities, novelties, and classics with a pumpin' heartbeat from the 1950s to the present - soul, garage, girl groups, New Orleans beat, glam, punk, freakbeat, rockabilly, ye ye, new and local underground rockers - supreme jams from across the board performed, recorded, and now re-assembled with both rawness and immediacy for your dancing pleasure. Recent guest DJs have included David Johansen, Jon Spencer, Ian Svenonius, and many more. Feel it!

- Fri, Nov 13: NYC, Fri the 13th Shakin' All Over Under Sideways Down with Billy Miller of Norton Records and Josh Styles of Smahsed! Blocked! While Mr. Toubin is away he has selected two excellent replacements: Billy Miller, who hipped you to Hasil Adkins, Esquirita, and many more for the first time and Stalkers' drummer Josh Styles of Smashed! Blocked!- two of the coolest and best 45 DJs/record collectors anywhere. You are lucky to experience this! Come get rocked while they scare the heck outta ya without even trying...

Fri, Nov 6: NYC, Shakin' All Over Under Sideways Down with DJ Todd-O-Phonic Todd, Home Sweet Home, 10:30PM - 4AM, FREE: While Mr. Jonathan Toubin is at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Home Sweet Home is fortunate to find an amazing replacement for their rock and soul dance party - Todd-O-Phonic Todd of Telstar, Satan, and Candy Records - not only one of WFMU's finest but a man who changed your life and culture in general unearthing all kinds of wild gems with garage and soul compilations like Shakin' Fit and What a Way to Die comps) and releasing new classics over the years by the Mummies, the Fleshtones, and many more. Todd is also the source of many of Mr. Toubin's finest jams. Come get it from the source!

Fri, Oct 30: NYC, Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down: NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN 4TH ANNIVERSARY/MR JONATHAN TOUBIN BON VOYAGE, 10:30PM, FREE: New York Night Train was born on this date four years ago – and once again it's gonna be a spook-tacular celebration! Tonight’s Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down won’t only serve as the anniversary party but as a farewell party for conductor and soul proprietor Mr Jonathan Toubin – who will kick off his Soul Clap tour of the South, Southwest, West, and Northwest on Halloween at a haunted mansion in New Orleans (check below for dates – most of them w/Mssr. Ian Svenonius in tow). There will be record NY Night Train record give-aways, special guests, and plenty of 45 rpm maximum rock and soul action as always. And prepare to dress up and dance! It's Halloween dangit...

while Mr Toubin's away, he will keep you moving with legendary figures in maximum rock and soul history that literally have the best records in the world!

- Fri, Nov 6: DJ Todd-O-Phonic Todd of Telstar, Satan, and Candy Records - who not only changed your life and subterranean culture with earthshaking compilations like Shakin' Fit and What a Way to Die comps, but also put out loads of records by The Mummies, Fleshtones, Muffs, Greenhorns, Bomboras, Swingin' Neckbreakers, and many more...

- Fri, Nov 13: Special Fri the 13th Shakin' All Over Under Sideways Down with Billy Miller and Josh Styles: Billy of the A-Bones, Kicks Magazine, and Norton Records (who hipped you to Hasil Adkins, Esquirita, and many more for the first time) and Stalkers' Josh Styles - yes, thee Josh Styles of Smashed! Blocked! fame!

and, if you have friends in the following cities, have 'em give Mr T a big howdy:

- Weds, Nov 4: Houston, TX Soul Clap and Dance-Off Mango’s w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin with judges BRAD MOORE (Big Star Bar), CHEF JJ (Beavers), DUSTY RHODES (roving reporter), EMILIE DEJONCKEERE (Rice University French Dept), RAD RICHARD (KPFT), TEX and ERICA (Indian Jewelry

- Fri , Nov 6: Austin, TX Fun Fun Fun Fest official pre-party

- Sat Nov 7: Austin, Fun Fun Fun Fest, Club Deville Soul Clap and Dance-Off w/Mr Jonathan Toubin and Ian Svenonius and Brownout! live and judges GREG BEETS (Austin Chronicle and beetsolonely.com, Ron Titter Band), “DANCIN’” ERIN JANTZEN (L.A.X.), JASON REECE (…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, co-owner of Beauty Bar Austin), PHILIP SAMBOL (Strange Boys), SAM BROWN (The Whitest Kids You Know), STACY SMITH (DJ Lingerie)

- Wed, Nov 11: San Diego, Bar Pink, Soul Clap and Dance-Off w/Mr Jonathan Toubin and Ian Svenonius and judges BRANDON WELCHEZ (Crocodiles), DEE DEE GOOD (Dum Dum Girls), JOHN REIS (Night Marchers!), LUCY WHERLY (X-Mas Island), and MARIO ORDUNO (Art Phag)

- Thur, Nov 12: Los Angeles, Spaceland, Soul Clap and Dance-Off w/Mr Jonathan Toubin and Ian Svenonius and judges JENNA THORNHILL (Mika Miko, Silver Daggers, tc), JESSICA PELETA (ESPs, Weird War, etc), MICHAEL GERNER (Vietnam), MIKE WATT (Minutemen, Firehose, Stooges, etc), WENDY YAP (Ooga Booga)

- Fri, Nov 13: San Francisco, 111 Minna, Soul Clap and Dance-Off w/Mr Jonathan Toubin and Ian Svenonius, Paul Paul and guest DJs Primo and Jello Biafra with judges IRENE HERNANDEZ-FEIKS (Chillin’ Productions), John TRIPPE (founder/editor, Fecal Face), KARLA LaVEY (Founder/leader, First Satanic Church), LIL B (The Pack), MATT GONZALEZ (Green Party leader, fine artist, and activist), SAM GREEN (Academy Award-nominated director of Weather Underground), TY SEGALL (Goner Records recording artiste!)

- Sat, Nov 14: Oakland, Uptown, Soul Clap and Dance-Off w/Mr Jonathan Toubin and Ian Svenonius with judges ANDY JORDAN (Buzzer/The cuts/Time Flies), CANSA FIS FOTE (Careerers), DJ JAY SONIC (Hot Tub), KNEWMAN (AZiz Habibi), and RACHEL SWAN (East Bay Express)

- Sun, Nov 15: Arcata, Arcata Theater, Soul Clap and Dance-Off w/Mr Jonathan Toubin and judges Zachary Hruby (Zac Institute), Aimee Hennessy (La Dolce Video), Bryan Phillips (Big Pete’s Pizzaria), Jesse Pearson (Buffy Swayze, Arrogant Hare), Victor Temple (New World Ballet) and Monica Topping (KSLG) and Michelle Cable (Panache Booking)

- Tue, Nov 17: Portland, Soul Clap and Dance-Off w/Mr Jonathan Toubin and judges COLIN JARREL (Nice Boys/The Riffs/East End), HONEY OWNES (of Valet and Rad Summer), JENNY HOYSTON (Erase Errata, Weed Wolf, Rotture), LEE COHEN (Manager of Dandy Warhols), LISA SCHONBERG (Explode Into Colors), and VALENTINE FALCON (Get Hustle and Rad Summer)

- Fri, Nov 20: MR JT IS BACK AT HOME SWEET HOME

- Sat, Nov 21: Brooklyn, Glasslands: Soul Clap and Dance-Off, Glasslands Gallery

Fri, Aug 28: Shakin' All Over Under Sideways Down, Home Sweet Home (131 Chrystie, Lower East Side, Manhattan), 10:30pm, FREE: Mr. Jonathan Toubin's rough and ready maximum rock'n'soul get-down! The night owls shake and shimmy to wild 45rpm party favors - obscurities, novelties, and classics with a pumpin' heartbeat from the 1950s to the present - soul, garage, girl groups, New Orleans beat, glam, punk, freakbeat, rockabilly, ye ye, new and local underground rockers - supreme jams from across the board performed, recorded, and now re-assembled with both rawness and immediacy for your dancing pleasure. This is Mr. Jonathan Toubin's final public gig before heading off to the Middle East - come stock up to last ya a couple of weeks...

Fri, August 14: Shakin' All Over Under Sideways Down w/Mr Jonathan Toubin and special guests DAVID JOHANSEN and Josh Styles, Home Sweet Home (131 Chrystie, Lower East Side, Manhattan), 10:30pm, $5:Most of you are aware that Shakin' All Over Under Sideways Down is the weekly maximum rock and soul party where Mr. Jonathan Toubin and regular amazing guests throw down wild 45s, primarily from the mod soul, r&b, girl group, and garage rock canon but also a bit of movin' doo wop, glam, rockabilly, punk, boogaloo, ye ye, blues, and other related genres. So New York Night Train is thrilled to present special guest DJ David Johansen this week not only because he is one of our favorite vocalists, performers, and cultural figures, and the front man for one of the finest rock and roll outfits of all-time, but also because the New York Dolls are educators who introduced us to so many of our favorite songs that helped launch us on our current path. Mr. Toubin heard the Dolls versions of "Stranded In the Jungle," "Pills," "Don't Start Me Talkin'," "There's Gonna Be A Show Down," and the intro to "Give Him a Great Big Kiss" before he ever heard the originals and can hardly believe he's going to share the DJ booth with such an seminal figure in his musical journey. As one could imagine from a very eclectic career that started with the Dolls and wound up with all kinds of great contemporary rock solo albums, his tropical loungy persona Buster Poindexter, and his distinctive yet faithful interpretations of the Anthology of American Folk Music and other downhome blues material with the Harry Smiths (did you see him jam with Howlin' Wolf guitar god Hubert Sumlin a few years back?), Johansen is a solid music lover who's been studying popular song for decades, and, according to sources privileged enough to hear his mix CDs, the man has exquisite taste. Speaking of amazing records, Mr Jonathan Toubin's favorite DJ, Smashed! Blocked!'s Josh Styles, is also gonna throw down because Johansen is also hands down one of his all-time heroes as well.

next week, a living legend comes to Home Sweet Home!

- Fri, July 17: Shakin' All Over Under Sideways Down w/DJs Mr Jonathan Toubin & James Chance (Contortions! James White and the Blacks!), Home Sweet Home (131 Chrystie), 10:30pm - 4am, 21+, $3: Next week New York Night Train Soul Proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin returns to his Friday Home Sweet Home base after much international touring with a very special surprise in tow - special guest DJ and performer - Mr. James Chance himself! That's right, THEE James Chance, the central figure in No Wave (check out these cool photos), also one of the most important forces in the establishment of the dance punk genre (he pre-dated Gang of Four and made them look like Air Supply), the leader of The Contortions and James White and the Blacks. This massive skyscraper in the skyline of subcultural music history (look at his discography!) will be hauling his legendary collection of get-down tunes from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s - super rare deep cut soul, funk, r&b, and other kinetic rough delights. James will also be blowing his saxophone and dancing like no other. A truly rare and legendary NYC experience. Dont miss it!

Contort yourself one time! Contort yourself two times! Contort yourself three times!


Here's a short bio of James Chance lifted from Trouser Press for those of you who need a brief introduction:

James Chance arrived in New York from his native Milwaukee in the mid '70s, hauling his saxophone and his given surname, Sigfried. He soon hooked up with Lydia Lunch and her crew of downtown adolescent artists/mischief-makers, playing briefly in the seminal Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, but he left in 1977 to form his own band, The Contortions. Maybe more than anyone else in the so-called No Wave set, Chance was fascinated with black music of the era, and with The Contortions, sought to integrate the horn-spiked stop-on-a-dime rhythms of funk and the heady freedom of Ornette Coleman's sax playing with the confrontational and political theatricality of punk. A tight rhythm section provided the band's funky skeleton, while open-tuned slide guitar, lurching organ, squawking sax, and all manner of groans and yells gave The Contortions their wild dissonance. Even today, with numerous bands in the post-punk renaissance acknowledging their indebtedness to No Wave in general and Chance in particular, The Contortions' blend of organized twitchiness and raw anarchy sounds remarkably unique. But like the scene to which they were so central, The Contortions burned out quickly, releasing only one album, Buy the Contortions, along with the four songs they contributed to Brian Eno's legendary No New York comp. Chance soon resurfaced as James White (in honor of James Brown) with a new band called The Whites which actually featured almost the same personnel as The Contortions. Part parody, part homage, part smirking catastrophe in action, James White and the Blacks moved away from the punk that had defined their earlier incarnation, and towards a fusion of the soul, funk, and free jazz with disco that ranks as one of the weirdest musical hybrids of its era. But like all of Chance's endeavors, The Blacks' one album, Off White, called into question in all sorts of interesting ways the meaning of "black" music and "white" music and the ways racial identity is inscribed in artistic creations of any sort.

Also, in coming weeks look for more of Mssrs. Toubin and Styles, DJ Pasta from New Orleans, Ian Svenonius of Make-Up, Jon Spencer, Kid Congo Powers, Howie Pyro (Danzig, D-Generation, Blessed, etc), and many other prestigious Friday guests.

Shakin' All Over Under Sideways Down with DJs Mssr Ian Svenonius and Mr Jonathan Toubin, Home Sweet Home, 131 Chrystie St, 11pm, $3: Friday night resident DJ New York Night Train's Mr. Jonathan Toubin teams up with a huge cultural force, PSYCHIC SOVIET author, Vice TV’s SOFT FOCUS host, and leader of Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses, Weird War, and a number of other legendary bands, Washington, DC's Ian Svenonius. Both will play exclusively 45rpm party favors - obscurities, novelties, and classics with a pumpin’ heartbeat from the 1950s to the present - soul, garage, girl groups, New Orleans beat, glam, punk, freakbeat, rockabilly, new and local underground rockers - supreme jams from across the board that’re played and recorded with both rawness and immediacy for your dancing pleasure. 3AM - 4AM is late happy hour - everything in the house is 2-for-1. A lucky Friday the 13th for all of you bloody valentines!

TONIGHT!

Shakin' All Over Under Sideways Down!:
Maximum Rock'n'Soul Dancing - with extra Diddley please
Home Sweet Home (131 Christy), 10:30pm, free
plus 3am - 4am - 2-for-1 happy hour

For the last few weeks New York Night Train Conductor and Soul Proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin has transformed Home Sweet Home into a rough and ready get-down with his magic rock and soul 45s

Expect to shake and shimmy to raw party favors - obscurities, novelties, and classics – anything with a pumpin' heartbeat from the 1950s to the present - soul, garage, girl groups, new orleans beat, glam, punk, freakbeat, boogaloo, rockabilly, funk, and lots of other supreme jams from across the board that're played and recorded with both roughness and immediacy for your dancing pleasure.

No computers or iPods here - the supreme listening format authentic 45RPM VINYL - the real deal - collected over time, not downloaded yesterday - and heard as initially intended - HOT & HUGE!

This friday's dance party will serve as a grand BO DIDDLEY tribute (may he never let our ears and feet Rest In Peace!). As many of you know, Mr. Jonathan Toubin spins Bo's work from the 1950s to the 1970s on a nightly basis. While we'll be pulling the variety of jams that typically emerge from our weekly MAXIMUM ROCK AND SOUL bag, to honor the recently deceased blues, rock, r&b, soul, & pop giant whose platters have single-handedly turned so many dance floors upside down (ours and a half-century's worth of others around the globe), tonight we'll emphasize the timeless yet vital and rhythmically extraordinary music of THE ORIGINATOR. Also, IF BRING YOUR FAVORITE DIDDLEY JAM ON VINYL, THE SOUL PROPRIETOR WILL GIVE IT A WHIRL...

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