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New
York Night Train at Motor City
WEDNESDAYS 10 pm - 4 am
New
York Night Train is currently curating weekly parties on Wednesdays
at Motor City (127 Ludlow btwn Rivington and Delancey). Not only
will you hear the mix of funky obscurities, underground standards,
and new experiments that the New York Night Train DJs've become
known for, but also the unique musical perspective of a different
guest DJ from NYC's underground music community.every week.
Past
guests include...
2007:
January
10, 2007
NICK Zinner v NICK Ray & ZACH Lipez!
 Nick
Zinner, who is of course the guitar stylist best known
for his trademark hair-raising sonic sophistication in Yeah
Yeah Yeahs as well as Head
Wound City, Bright Eyes, Challenge of the Future, Unitard,
etc., and his
soulful and often conceptual photography, has found
time to also excel at rocking the people from behind dusty and rusty
turntables throughout the greater downtown area. Tonight he will
be reunited with his old friend, lover, and collaborator Zach
Lipez (remember local literary classic Slept
In Beds?), poet, DJ, local celebrity, and vocalist
for the likes of Fresh
Kills, Bright and Desperate Sparks, and Candy Darlings.
The two will face a formidable DJ opponent hailing from Memphis,
Nick Ray, of Viva
l'American Death Ray Music, 68 Comeback, The Limes,
100 Eyes, FTC, and other marks of musical distinction. Ear biting
action is sooo 20th Century!
January
17, 2007
THE THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER: PAULA HENDERSON AND JIM WHITE!
 My
distinguished guest DJs tonight are two of Australia's finest exports
to the New York music scene. Soulful baritone saxophonist Paula
Henderson, who currently leads the legendary downtown
trio Moisturizer
and her solo project Secretary,
is also a member or Reverend
Vince Anderson's Love Choir, Gregory Tate's Burnt
Sugar Arkestra, and moonlights with everybody and their
mamas. She used to also play with James
Chance and the Contortions, Tadanosion,
Gogol
Bordello, The
Vanity Set, and a variety of others. The other guest
DJ is one my favorite drummers, Jim
White of Dirty
Three fame, also a current member of Catpower
and White
Magic, has played in Nick
Cave's solo band, a few Will
Oldham projects, Smog,
and too many other outfits to list. A couple of amazing musicians
with exquisite taste and an desire to get ya down... low down...
R ya gonna b there?
January
24, 2007
KID CONGO POWERS spins bad music for bad people...
 The
gigantic tone of Kid
Congo Powers’ open-tuned guitar is one of the
more readily identifiable sounds in the history of underground rock.
Best known for his contribution to the development of the contemporary
ambient, noise, and rock guitar with The Gun Club, The Cramps, and
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in the 1980s, Kid’s spent the
last fifteen years as a sideman (Make-Up, Mark Eitzel, Angels of
Light, etc.), as a partner in Congo Norvell and Kid and Khan, a
member of garage rock supergroup Knoxville Girls, and, most recently,
the leader of Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds. Not only
has Kid played with some of the best bands of all time, but that
he did so during their finest hours (Psychedelic Jungle, Las
Vegas Story, Tender Prey, etc). Tonight Kid will bust out rock,
schlock, soul, glam, no wave, and other trashy curiosities...
January
31, 2007
SONGS OF SATAN & OTHER DELIGHTS W/PETE FROM EARLY MAN.
 Local
man-about-town Micki
Pellerano is debuting his new experimental occultist
film Hermatic Trilogy tonight. To celebrate,
the NYNT DJ's've pulled songs about witches, spells, black masses,
mojo hands, black cats, and, of course, the giant canon of works
about the man downstairs himself. We've enlisted the help of Pete
from one of the finer 21st Century metal bands, Early
Man, to be our Virgil - leading us through mountain
of metalic portraits of everyone's favorite fallen angel. We got
plenty of related material from across the generic spectrum.for
headbanging, communing with the dead, selling yr soul, or just burn
baby burning in a disco inferno. Micki is willing to forgive our
naive and playful go at mysticism because the music's that
good. Come get a heapin' helping of the dark stuff before we return
to the typical sweat of our weekly art-damaged soul dance parties...
February
7, 2007
KYP MALONE
 Williamsburg
townie, father, and possessor of one of the most distinctive hair
styles in the tri-state area, and accomplished singer/songwriter
to boot, Kyp
Malone is best known for his adventurous guitar work
with TV
on the Radio. Tonight Kyp joins us in the booth to
play an eclectic mix of esoteric sounds that transcend both time
and space... If you're appreciative, and he's feeling generous,
Kyp may just share the key to an entirely different dimension with
you. You never can tell...
February
14, 2007
LOVE STINKS PARTY:
On this, the lamest of Hallmark holidays, New York Night
Train DJs spin from the canon of songs about why romantic
love is a low-down dirty dawg from hell - all the choice cuts that
involve break-ups, abandonment, abuse, betrayal, good lovin' gone
bad, bad lovin' gone worse, heartbreak, heartburn, and all the other
sonic illustrations of why love hurts, love bites, and love stinks.
A dirty mixed bouquet. But not to fret - not only wil you find a
couple of tears in your beers - but we'll also get down on it....
A makeshift heartbreak hotel. A funky refuge from the dinners, flowers,
and hand-holding of the Valentines Day world outside. Plus, free
soul kisses from the doormman and bartender. Special guests. FUN!
NO COUPLES ALOUD!...
February
21, 2007
TARDY GRAS W/DJ GOOFY aka JIM SCLAVUNOS
Some call it Ash Wednesday, but those of us who live our life at
least a day behind call it "Tardy Gras." If you either
missed it or don't wanna Fat Tuesday to end, we've recruited
Big Chief Jim Sclavunos to help lay the Iko Iko across
your forehead. While Jim is Nick
Cave and the Bad Seeds' percussionist, Grinderman's
drummer, and The
Vanity
Set's leader, you may also know him from Teenage Jesus
and the Jerks, 8-Eyed Spy, Sonic Youth, Tav Falco's Panther Burns,
Alex Chilton, The Cramps, Congo Norvell, Gunga Din, etc. This notorious
night-trippin' international playboy is totin' a mojo bag full o'
the Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya and other seasonal delights.
Wear ashes on your forehead and get a surprise. And you know what
to do if if you want beads. Just like being there - only cheaper,
easier, and later. What a difference a day makes.... More fun than
a barrel-full of mudbugs.
February
28, 2007
NICK ZINNER & ZACH LIPEZ
 Nick
Zinner, who is of course the guitar stylist best known
for his trademark hair-raising sonic sophistication in Yeah
Yeah Yeahs as well as Head
Wound City, Bright Eyes, Challenge of the Future, Unitard,
etc., and also for his
soulful and often conceptual photography, has found
time to also excel at rocking the people from behind dusty and rusty
turntables throughout the greater downtown area. Tonight he will
be reunited with his old friend, lover, and collaborator Zach
Lipez (remember local classic Slept
In Beds?), poet, DJ, local celebrity, and vocalist
for the likes of Fresh
Kills, Bright and Desperate Sparks, and Candy Darlings.
March
6 ,
2007
TEXAS NIGHT
 As
the New York Night Train is off to South by Southwest, we're celebrating
with a crash-course in Texas music for everyone invading Austin.
The Conductor, Wake 'n' Bake, Bucci, and quite a few others'll not
only remind you why Joe Tex, Archie Bell, Willie Nelson, Ernest
Tubb, DJ Skrew, Ghetto Boys, The Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid,
Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, the 13th Floor Elevators
and Red Krayola are the nazz, but we'll also school you in Culturecide,
Sugar Shack, Ed Hall, The Lord High Fixers, The Moving Sidewalks,
The Golden Dawn, Bloodrock, Cherubs, Finally Punk, The Crack Pipes,
Enduro, The Hickoids, and many more. Come break stuff...
March 21,
2007
BEASTS OF BOURBON AFTERPARTY
The
Conductor and special guest DJ Viva l'American Death Ray Music's
Nick Ray spin platters to celebrate the New York return of Australian
swamp rock legends Beasts of Bourbon. Expect extra special surprise
DJ's, a truckload of drunk Aussies, dancing, broken stuff, and general
hell-raising...
March 28,
2007
GRINDERMAN Record Release and Listening Party w/Jim Sclavunos
 Tonight
we celebrate the release of Grinderman's
brilliant self-titled debut album with a listening party, giveaways,
and guest DJ sets by the band's drummer Jim Sclavunos.
Grinderman is a playfully heavy and intense new supergroup featuring
Sclavunos, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, and Martyn Casey. Jim is Nick
Cave and the Bad Seeds' percussionist and The
Vanity
Set's leader. You may also know him from Teenage Jesus
and the Jerks, 8-Eyed Spy, Sonic Youth, Tav Falco's Panther Burns,
Alex Chilton, The Cramps, Congo Norvell, Gunga Din, etc. NYNT is
extremely excited as Grinderman is,the best album we've
heard this year. Despite the fact that it's conceived and performed
by some of our favorite rock legends, the album still exceeds everyone's
expectations.
April
4, 2007
SOUL PARTY #2
 The
Secret Society for the Soul Party Revival NYC Chapter Local 23
continues our mission with a second experiment at MOTOR CITY, entitled
simply "SOUL PARTY #2." NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN WEDNESDAY
will this time experience a stylistic shift towards the realm of
60s soul, girl groups, pre-funk, with an occasional R&B-oriented
mod or garage cut. Due to our surprise successes with the material
last time, we'll also be pumping in an extra dose of 1950s music
- R&B (particularly the New Orleans variety), doo wop, and the
occasional faster blues dance number. Jack Martin's dance-off competition
will be in effect at midnight - get their early if you wanna compete.
We hope to use our significant stockpile of '45s to find out whether
or not we can make Motor City get down hard and heavy mid-week.
A success tomorrow would be a large step for us and a small step
towards our goal of turning New York into a disco inferno. Feel
free to come participate, observe, or merely listen....
April
11, 2007
GUEST DJ: BOB BERT
 We
are proud to bring back our very first NYNT Motor City guest DJ,
Bob Bert. Since the Conductor is away on business,
he has entrusted this subterranean music legend with the reins of
his entire night. Bert is of course best known for his inimitable
drumming during his years as a member of seminal New York Noise
bands like
Sonic Youth (the star of “Death Valley 69,”
etc) and Pussy
Galore (Right Now!, etc.), and, later, Action
Swingers, Chrome
Cranks, and Knoxville
Girls. He also fronted Bewitched
in 1980s and early 1990s (check
out their new compilation!) and spent many years publishing
the stellar underground music magazine BB
Gun. He's currently a member of the supergroups Int’l
Shades (or IS) and Size
Queens. Bob will be spinning the finest standards and
obscurities from downtown's grimy underbelly, 1970s to the present.
April
18, 2007
GUEST DJ: KID CONGO POWERS
The
gigantic tone of Kid
Congo Powers’ open-tuned guitar is one of the
more readily identifiable sounds in the history of underground rock.
Best known for his contribution to the development of the contemporary
ambient, noise, and rock guitar with The Gun Club, The Cramps, and
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in the 1980s, Kid’s spent the
last fifteen years as a sideman (Make-Up, Mark Eitzel, Angels of
Light, etc.), as a partner in Congo Norvell and Kid and Khan, a
member of garage rock supergroup Knoxville Girls, and, most recently,
the leader of Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds. Not only
has Kid played with some of the best bands of all time, but that
he did so during their finest hours (Psychedelic Jungle, Las
Vegas Story, Tender Prey, etc). Tonight Kid will bust out rock,
schlock, soul, glam, no wave, and other trashy curiosities...
April
25, 2007
GUEST DJ: JAIKO SUZUKI
 This
week we're thrilled to present drummer/dancer/film-maker/artist/ex-mermaid
Jaiko
Suzuki behind the booth. In this extensive and by no
means complete string of credits, I neglected to mention the fact
that Jaiko's also a bit of an internationally renowned DJ - best
known for her monthly Mon
Mon Mon Amour night at La Caverna (a Japanese themed
go go night in a cave-themed underground Italian restaurant), Jaiko
also spins everywhere from musician-littered Brooklyn dives to prestigious
cultural centers. Her tastes are eclectic - so you don't know what
to expect - except for the ubiquitous strong groove.
2006:
October
11, 2006
BOB BERT presents
NYC no wave, post-punk, and noise
Bob
Bert became known for his inimitable drumming during
his years as a member of seminal New York Noise bands like
Sonic Youth (“Death Valley 69,” etc) and
Pussy
Galore (Groovy Hate Fuck, etc.), and, later,
Action
Swingers, Chrome
Cranks, and Knoxville
Girls. Bob also fronted Bewitched
in 1980s and early 1990s (look for their compiled works this year!).
Bob also spent many years publishing the stellar underground music
magazine BB
Gun. Bob currently is a member of the supergroup Int’l
Shades (or IS). He will be spinning the finest obscurities
from downtown's grimy subterrain, 1970s to the present.
October
18,
2006
GIBBY HAYNES v. CURTIS BROWN present psych and heavy duty
r'n'r
 Gibby
Haynes, a massive cultural force who should require
no introduction, is the rock legend who led one of the most compelling
bands of all time, The
Butthole Surfers. In addition to his solo work with
Gibby Haynes and His Problem and his electro project The Jack Officers,
he's has collaborated with everyone from Ministry to Moby to Johnny
Depp. The lord of contemporary Texas psychedelia will employ the
trippiest music ever made tp both blow your mind and make you dance
at the same time.
 Ashville,
NC transplant Curtis
Brown is the leader of aggressively bootieful Brooklyn
hard rock outfit Bad
Wizard. For some years now the Wiz has been churning
out thick sheets of metal with the dirt of The Stooges, the speed
of Motorhead, and the twang of Skynnard, the heavyness of Sabbath,
and the immediacy of the MC5. Curtis will be burning down the barn
teaching you to worship the choicest cuts from the golden rock'n'roll
cow.
October
25, 2006
KID CONGO POWERS - leopard print party
 The
gigantic tone of Kid
Congo Powers’ open-tuned guitar is one of the
more readily identifiable sounds in the history of underground rock.
Best known for his contribution to the development of the contemporary
ambient, noise, and rock guitar with The Gun Club, The Cramps, and
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in the 1980s, Kid’s spent the
last fifteen years as a sideman (Make-Up, Mark Eitzel, Angels of
Light, etc.), as a partner in Congo Norvell and Kid and Khan, a
member of garage rock supergroup Knoxville Girls, and, most recently,
the leader of Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds. Not only
has Kid played with some of the best bands of all time, but that
he did so during their finest hours (Psychedelic Jungle, Las
Vegas Story, Tender Prey, etc). Tonight Kid will bust out the
trashiest rock, schlock, soul, glam, no wave, and other curiosities...
November
1,
2006
SECRET SURPRISE DJ playing rare grooves soul get-down yeah!
yeah!
 You
must trust us when we tell you that this stylish band leader, author,
and pro DJ'll give you solid sweaty soul satisfaction all night
long. If not, we'll Make it Up to you next month...
November
8, 2006
Vietnam presents menage au quatre
Kamado/Social Registry/Vice recording artists Vietnam
are a Williamsburg institution thatapplies their Texas psychedelic
and punk roots to Dylanesque classic rock heavily informed by the
Royal Trux/Jonathan Fire*Eater NYC rock lineage. Expect eight grubby
little hands fighting for control of two turntables... Four very
different record collections... Learn who brings which ingredients
to the 11 herbs and spices of their special recipe for r'n'r vittles...
And feel how it all gels together... And, an inside tip... expect
black leather music...
November
15 , 2006
The Sound of Beacon's Closet!!!
Tonight initiates our monthly series in which rocking local
businesses ocome in and show off their record collections. Brooklyn's
big fat slice of vintage paradise, Beacon's
Closet, as many of you may know, not only doubles as
a record store, but employs a gazillion folks that moonlight as
DJs from all parts of the musical spectrum. This time we will feature
the talents of Carli, Vashti, Nicholas, Mickey, and more. Show up
in your cruelest dancing shoes and hope that they don't make fun
of your style...
November
22, 2006
Thanksgiving
with Stu Spasm and the Skeleton Boy!
Stu
Spasm is of course the Australian rock legend who was
not only the mastermind behind such infamous ugly rock outfits as
Lubricated Goat and Crunt, but also played in seminal Australian
bands featuring Tex Perkins - like the Beasts of Bourbon, Salamander
Jim, etc. The Skeleton
Boy is a local photographer/filmmaker whose footage
can be found in the upcoming Gun Club documentary, the bassist for
Woman,
and a stylish man about town who continues to possess one of the
city's most distinctive haircuts. Tonight they meet up not only
to celeberate America's favorite holdiay about sitting down with
your enemy before you wipe them out for good, but also to publicly
proclaim their affection for one another. The duo will spin lots
of noise and Stu will pick up the mic and croon hits pinned by himself
and others.
November
29, 2006
Excepter's John Fell Ryan vs. Ghost Exit's Chris Anderson
John Fell Ryan is not only the mastermind behind
one of the most consistently challenging entities of the contemporary
sonic landscape, Excepter, but he was also a longterm
original member of infamous uptown improvisors No Neck Blues Band.
Chris Anderson is the leader of the now legendary
Social Registry band Ghost Exits and currently
performs with FTC. In addition to their many musical achievements,
both are also veteran DJ's of the highest caliber.A unique paring
to say the least.
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Dec 6,
2006
The New York Night Train DJ's
You got
it, this week I'm my own special guest celebrity DJ. While I typically
only roll in and do a short set here and there so my guests can
get at it, tomorrow I'm making a special trip to the storage space
to lay out some serious vinyl grill work across yr teeth all night
long. I'm thinkin' funky art phag dirty dance party music? That
esoteric distopian swayzee soundtrack? "Cry to Me" with
a Mecco makeover, a Roland Howard guitar solo, an Allen Ravenstine
synth noise, and a Jaki Liebezeit beat - all through the vocal effects
of Gibby Haynes? I'm talkin' the whitest of chocolate christmases
ever cooked up and melting through the other side of the sub-equatorial
water flushing in the wrong direction - dehydrated and rehydrated
once more, leaking out of the speakers, and crawling up the wall,
across the floor, up in yr pants... Makin' u wanna dance... Are
you with me or against me? If
you're dismissing me as a madman, an even better reason to come
is that I've invited a collection of NYNT's favorite DJs for cameos
throughout the night. Or that both the Finnish Harry and the Texas
Harry'll be manning the ship and catering to all of your desires
beyond the sonic realm... We rokk 'til four and leave you wantin'
more...
December
13, 2006
The
Psychedelic Sounds of... GIBBY HAYNES
Gibby
Haynes, a massive cultural force who should require
no introduction, is of course the leader of one of the most compelling
bands EVER, The
Butthole Surfers. In addition to his solo project Gibby
Haynes and His Problem and his electro group The Jack Officers,
he's has collaborated with everyone from Ministry to Moby to Johnny
Depp. Tonight the king of contemporary Texas psychedelia will blow
your mind with the trippiest music ever made.
Decemmber
20, 2006
Welcome back VIETNAM with DJ Ivan Sunshine
 Welcome
local heroes Vietnam
back home with the eclectic party selections of thr band's Ivan
Sunshine and surprise guests. For those of you not
familiar, Vietnam are a local Williamsburg institution that currently
records for both the Kemado
and Social
Registry labels. The post-Velvet downer rock of the
era when the band recorded for Vice has gradually morphed into the
dark elegent classicism that appears on both their recent twelve-inches
and their upcoming full-length debut. Not only are you certain to
find the boys' pretty faces in local watering holes for the next
few weeks, but also on the cover of this month's Fader.
Fancy lads indeed. Speaking of fancy, while you may also remember
Mr. Sunshine from the seminal Social Registry band Ghost Exits or
Moon and Moon, he's also a bad mutha behind the wheels of steel.
Dec 27,
2006
Christmas with Curtis Brown and Jeff Jensen
 In
Japan the hand can be used as a knife but will it work on this watermelon?
Ashville, NC transplant Curtis
Brown is the outlaw leader of greasy Brooklyn rock
starz Bad
Wizard. Tonight he is being paired with his regular
tennis opponent Jeff
Jensen, formerly of the legendary Low
Down Dirty D.A.W.G.S., and, of late, the golden throat
behind romantic prettyboy goth duo, The
Jewish. Jensen also has a crank call album coming out
on Matador next year. Tonight's rare glimpse into what lies beneath
the luxurious veneer of two enigmatic figures marks the first ever
public display of the best minds of our generation's unique theological,
socio-economic, and phylogenial perspective on everyone's favorite
holiday... A sonic/cultural volley of this magnitude has never been
experienced by the civilized world. And its not sold in stores.
But that's not all. Curtis claims he has formulated a serve Jeff
can't return. For all you orphans who couldn't find your way back
to whatever BFE town you're ashamed to hail from, you'll also get....
bad tidings, Noel, falalalalalalalala, and more. You can't go home
again... Order now while supplies last.
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