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EDITOR'S
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Happy
New Year and welcome to the second issue of New York Night
Train webzine. Everything that could have gone wrong has succeeded
in doing so in the time since Issue I. But while we're a bit
late, this train is still rolling. This issue is contains
the second installment of Kid Congo Powers' oral history.
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February,
2006: KATRINA
AND BEYOND
THE NEW ORLEANS NINTH WARD UNDERGROUND MUSIC SCENE
Katrina, its aftermath, and
what it means for one of America's most distinctive and under-rated
underground music communities. First-person
accounts from New Orleans' Ninth Ward musicians, biographical materials,
samples of their music, photos, a guide to underground music events
during Mardi Gras, a list of charities to help out less fortunate
members ot the community, MC Trachiotomy's World Famous Eggs Poggi
recipe, and web links to initiate your journey into the Ninth Ward's
musical underground.
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January,
2006:
KID CONGO POWERS Pt
2
The
second and most recent half of our feature devoted to the life,
career, and music of guitar legend Kid Congo Powers. Covering1986
to the present, Issue One includes Kids discussions of his years
with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The
Gun Club, Congo Norvell, Knoxville
Girls, Kid and Khan, and Kid Congo and the Pink
Monkey Birds. He also discusses his collaborations with
Die Haut, Barry Adamson, Make-Up, Mark Eitzel, Julee Cruise,
and many more. You can listen to the Kid's story on MP3s or read
their text transcriptions. You will also find MP3s of Kid's music,
lyrics, a tour of his equipment, a profile of his right-hand man
Jack Martin, and even his famous enchilada recipe.
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November
2005 : KID CONGO POWERS
Pt 1
The
first half of our feature devoted to the life, career, and music
of guitar legend Kid Congo Powers. Covering the period from 1960
to 1986, Issue One includes Kids discussions of growing up along
with the early LA punk scene and later playing with The
Cramps, The Gun Club, Tex
Perkins, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy,
and The Fur Bible. Also inside are scans of pages
from the scrapbook Kid kept during his first year in The Cramps
(1980 - 1981), a 1984 Creem magazine article, photos, and
a look at Kid's recorded body of work from this period.
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SOUNDS |
MP3s |
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SPOTLIGHT
DISCOGRAPHY |
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NEW
RELEASE REVIEWS |
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REISSUE
AND COMPILATION REVIEWS |
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LIVE |
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MARDI
GRAS
UNDERGROUND MUSIC EVENTS
(02/23 - 02/28)
Ninth
Ward Marching Band, Quintron, Peaches, MC Trachiotomy el Tonios,
Viva l'American Death Ray, Warlocks, Japanther, Harlan T. Bobo,
Morning 40 Federation, Sweet Tea, Interlopers, Twilight, and more
***
If
you can't make it to New Orleans, spend Saturday night in Brooklyn
because
GRAND MAL
is back at it again and headlining
NORTHSIX on
Saturday, Feb 25
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New
York Night Train is an online underground music fanzine covering
the entire sonic spectrum - but specializing in profiles of
legendary figures. The basis of the zine is the oral
history section - in which you will find the artists telling
their stories in both text and audio formats. Read
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