Tonight's Secret Santo will feature not one, but two legendary figures in the history of subcultural music - James Chance and the Homosexuals – sharing a bill for the first time ever! And, as every week, this new rock'n'roll dance party also features DJ Jonathan Toubin, Go Go Dancer Anna Copacabanna and a live projectionist, this week, the inimitable Spencer Bewley.  Tell yr friends – and  RSVP anytime before 6pm Monday at: mailinglist@newyorknighttrain.com

Monday, July 21: Secret Santos' Party w/James Chance, The Homosexuals, DJ Mr. Jonathan Toubin, dancer Anna Copacabana, and projectionist Spencer Bewley, Santos' Party House (100 Lafayette).

10pm - 4am, $10 ($5 with RSVP!):





Mr. James Chance! You heard me - THEE James Chance, the central figure in New York No Wave, 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 both the immortal Contortions and the timelessly dynamic James White and the Blacks, performs and spins records tonight. This massive skyscraper on the horizon of subcultural music history's sold-out European Contortions reunion tour proved that this sax maniac is still designed to kill and knows how to dish it out until all you bedroom athletes flip your faces. But he's not just gonna blow one of the most distinctive saxophones ever and show you kiddies how to dance, but he'll jump behind the DJ booth afterwards and throw down a fiery hot collection of get-down tunes from the 1950s to the present - super rare deep cut soul, funk, r&b, and other kinetic rough delights with Monday Santos' house DJ Mr. Jonathan Toubin.  Each time the terrible two get behind the booth they refuse to abandon the decks until both the wounded and the dead are carried off the battlefield - leaving only a pile of damp smoldering ashes on the dancefloor.



  Though James has been all over the public consciousness yet again with the publication of Thurston Moore and Byron Coley's highly acclaimed NO WAVE history a few weeks ago (with James both on the cover and the hero of the narrative), this is his first public appearance since the hubub bubbled up and over yet again.







Contort yourself one time!  Contort yourself two times! Contort yourself three times!... Believe it babies!

Seminal British proto-punk/punk/post punk legends The Homosexuals (previously known as The Rejects from 1972 to 1976) are also performing!  Their sonic adventures didn't only predate and inform the experimentation of post-punk, but, particularly since the recent release of the band's cumbersome (81-tracks!), but not a second too short, career-spanning box-set, Astral Glamour, have rightfully taken their place in the pantheon of contemporary music (for those of you who won't take my word for it,  Pitchfork Media calls the Homosexuals "punk visionaries who were at least as questing, untamed, and ultimately listenable as any of their more renowned contemporaries").  Mastermind Bruno Wizard is at it again with a live band whose recent live performances have been wowing critics and proving the Homos every bit as vital as 30 years ago.




Washington Post review of Homosexuals at SXSW 2008 "highlight of festival"
Pitchfork Media review of Astral Glamour CD box.


DJ/conceptualist Mr. Jonathan Toubin, who blasts all-vinyl rocks for the dancers from the beginning to the end every Monday, is not only the soul proprietor of the recently revived New York Night Train record label and publisher of the former popular local underground music website by the same name, but has risen, in a matter of months, to become the NYC underground's only full-time professional rock and soul DJ. Initially preaching to the converted at subcultural spots around Williamsburg and the Lower East Side, Mr. Toubin has of late been invited to spread his gospel to all over the city - not only compelling kids dance to music they've never heard in the rotten apple - but changing culture coast to coast with more than 150 gigs already this year.  Fast, cheap, out of control, hot and nasty, and hot, blue, and righteous.





Go Go Dancer Anna Copacabana, whose Anna Copacabana Show at Bowery Poetry Club has become a downtown tradition, also performs regularly as not only as a dancer, but as a songwriting musician/choreographer/conceptualist.  Uniting the art, rock, and variety scenes with her work across the city for the last few years, the lovely and talented "Thunder from Down Under" adds flair and sexy kineticism to any party - along humor and unpretentious artistry.







Spencer Bewley, the projectionist whose visuals have wowed crowds worldwide with acts such as Warlocks, Death In Vegas, and, most recently, A Place to Bury Strangers, provides the visual intoxication.  Spencer's live dual 16 millimeter kung fu is performed by slowing and speeding the projectors to the tempo of the music and creating split screen and flashing effects with only two pieces of cardboard and an innate sense of rhythm. Funky, breathtaking, and curious to say the least...

and also...

NYNT Weekly Parties
- Mondays: Santos' Party House – Secret Santos' Party – guest rock bands and DJs every week w/house DJ Mr Jonathan Toubin, gogo dancers, projectionists, and performers. SPECTACULAR IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD - REVOLUTIONARY & ROCKIN' TO BOOT!
- Wednesdays: Motor City, NYNT Wednesdays – Mr Jonathan Toubin DJs with a guest from the NYC music community - July and August – Bar Wars Series: all guest DJs are bartenders representing different local bars, clubs, and venues – this week's guest DJ is MIKE FROM HOME SWEET HOME! A RAW CLASSIC!
- Thursdays, Beauty Bar Back Room – Boogaloo Shampoo - beginning Aug 7 (!) – Mr Jonathan Toubin spins soul classics, novelties, and obscurities for dancing. GET READY!
- Fridays: Home Sweet Home - Shakin' All Over Under Sideways Down – Mr Jonathan Toubin throws down maximum rock and soul from the 1950s to the present for your dancing pleasure all night long - FUN!

NYNT Special Events:
- Sunday, July 20: Motor City, Exile on Ludlow Street's 1-Year Anniversary Party w/house DJs Mick Marsh and Lord Lunadon and guests Anna Copacabanna and Mr. Jonathan Toubin
- Thursday, July 24: Motor City, Julie has been asking Mr Toubin to spin the Thursday for some time and hasn't been able to do so  because of his weekly commitment to Discotheque Internationale at Beauty Bar. But, because this party's over and Boogaloo Shampoo starts the first Thursday in August, tonight is finally the night....
- Monday, July 28: Santos' Party House, Secret Santo: A secret band (hint – an awesome and colorful Motor City expat power trio) and openers Golden Triangle
- Tuesday, July 29: Beauty Bar Back Room, Butthole Surfers afterparty w/DJs Gibby Haynes, King Coffee, and Mr. Jonathan Toubin
- Saturday, August 2: Hope Lounge, Mr. Jonathan Toubin spins all night long
- Sunday, August 3: Glasslands, Post-Pool Party Party with All the Saints, Golden Triangle, Ex-Humans, MC Trachiotomy, and K-Holes w/guest DJs Deerhunter and Mr. Jonathan Toubin
- Monday, Aug 4: Santos' Party House, Secret Santo (Not so-secret this time) King Khan & BBQ (only East Coast appearance) with openers the K-Holes (ex-Black Lips)
- Friday, August 8: Glasslands, NYNT presents Heavy Trash, Witch Hats, and Woman
- Saturday, August 9: Cake Shop, Stalkers, Witch Hats, Fresh Kills, and DJs Josh Styles (Smashed Blocked) and Mr. Jonathan Toubin
- Sunday, August 10: Maxwell's, NYNT presents Heavy Trash and Witch Hats
- 08/11: Another great secret band (the blues we get from not telling you makes us explode) with openers the Witch Hats (Melbourne, Australia – In the Red Records/In-Fidelity – youngins from Down Under in their country's proud dark/heavy Birthday Party/Scientists tradition