Saturday, January 20 Elsewhere: NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off with live David Johansen, Daddy Long Legs, Baby Shakes, and Beechwood followed by soul dancing with Jonathan Toubin and the NY Night Train Shadow Dancers, the $100 Metropolis Vintage Dance-Off, Rebel Rouser dance party, and more! Bands at 8pm sharp! Dancing from 11pm to 4am! 21+, $20 all night / $10 after the bands! Thee Clap is Back! Don’t miss this legendary night! Can you believe it? Taking a few years off of its residency and becoming a global Saturday party, Thee NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off settles back into its traditional third Saturdays schedule (as it was from 2007 – 2015)! Come dancing every month at Bushwick’s Elswhere where once again we are upping the ante with amazing early bands and three rooms of DJs. We kick off the residency with something you don’t see every day, David Johansen revisiting his solo and New York Dolls classics with a full live non-Buster rock’n’roll show! Anyone whose seen David Jo do his thing knows he’s one of the best entertainers in the biz and this night is one for the history books! And turn up early because the music starts at 8pm sharp with an amazing cast including Daddy Long Legs, Baby Shakes, and Beechwood! Then stick around for dancing from 11pm – til late with Jonathan Toubin and the NY Night Train Shadow Dancers. Get in the Midnight Metropolis Vintage $100 Dance-Off with MC Steve Myers determined by a distinguished panel of judges including The Baby Shakes and Lianna Le! And get down in the front room to the Rebel Rouser DJs all night long! Get your tickets now! Catch thee Clap!
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Thursday, January 18 Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Bazaar: Southern Poverty Law Center Benefits with Flying Stars of Brooklyn, Ikebe Shakedown, Alba and the Mighty Lions, The Harlem Gospel Travelers, and Jonathan Toubin, 8pm, $10/$12: Coleman Records’ The Flying Stars of Brooklyn, NY is the gospel project of Aaron Frazer of Durand Jones & The Indications whose new “My God Has A Telephone” went viral and has already been streamed over a million times on Spotify. The live band touts an explosive lineup featuring Eli Paperboy Reed as well as members of The Soul Survivors and The Gospel Queens. Check out their hit if you haven’t already! Coleman label-mates Ikebe Shakedown are an eclectic instrumental funk band celebrating the release of their third LP “The Way Home.” And Alba and the Mighty Lions “blend soulful swampy southern blues with loose rock n’ roll vibes.” The Harlem Gospel Travelers, Coleman’s most recent signing, are the young gospel quartet led by Eli Paperboy Reed! Jonathan Toubin plays records between the bands. The Southern Poverty Law Center is of course of our great national institutions, fighting hate and battling for civil rights for nearly a half century. you can learn more and also donate at their site.
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Friday, January 19 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin , 10:30pm – 4am, $5: Warm up to thee wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom of Jonathan Toubin’s most exciting and exquisite o.g. 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” vinyl fire turning ’round and ’round ’til the wee wee hours! Eccentric postcards from the old weird America addressed to you in the here and now! The wild rumble way down deep below the big city after dark in the warm cozy basement confines of Home Sweet Home! NYC’s biggest and longest-running weekly rock’n’roll dance and a NYC institution since 2008… Get down in the basement!
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Friday, January 12 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin , 10:30pm – 4am, $5: New York Night Train’s weekly Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down fiesta! Do the wiggle to the wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom of Jonathan Toubin’s most exciting and exquisite o.g. 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” vinyl turning ’round and ’round ’til the wee wee hours! Eccentric postcards from the old weird America addressed to you in the here and now! The wild rumble way down deep below the big city after dark! NYC’s longest-running weekly rock’n’roll dance and a NYC institution since 2008… Get down in the basement!
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Saturday, January 13 Portland, ME – Space Gallery: NY Night Train Soul Clap & Dance-Off with Jonathan Toubin, Teal Child and Precious Style (of Altered Gee), 9pm-1am, The 21st Century’s most popular and most prolific soul party return to the other Portland for a night of supreme soul satisfaction with opening DJs Teal Child and Precious Style ! Tell your Maine friends to catch thee Clap!
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Friday, January 5 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin (welcome back Jasper edition), 10:30pm – 4am, $5: New York Night Train’s weekly Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down fiesta! Do the wiggle to the wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom of Jonathan Toubin’s most exciting and exquisite o.g. 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” vinyl turning ’round and ’round ’til the wee wee hours! Eccentric postcards from the old weird America addressed to you in the here and now! The wild rumble way down deep below the big city after dark! NYC’s longest-running weekly rock’n’roll dance and a NYC institution since 2008… Get down in the basement! This week we are thrilled to welcome bartending legend Jasper McGandy back to Fridays after a couple of years in Austin, TX!
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Saturday, January 6 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/djs Jonathan Toubin and special guest Ian Svenonius, plus live Escape-Ism and Crush (Cole and Zumi of Black Lips): 9pm – 1am, $10: Habitual partners in crime Ian Svenonius and Jonathan Toubin pillage L.A. together for the first time since their 2009 Soul Clap tour! Get ready for an explosive night of music and dancing featuring live sets by Spiv’s Escape-Ism and west coast co-conspirators Cole Alexander and Zumi Rossow of Black Lips’ exciting new duo Crush! An unforgettable night of topsy-turvy roly-poly hanky-panky ’til late! Live music at 9! Dancing at 11! Whimmie Jimi! Gimme that shim sham shimmy like Lemmy!
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Friday, December 29 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin , 10:30pm – 4am, $5: The 52nd and final New York Night Train’s Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down Friday fiesta of 2017! Do the wiggle to the wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom of Jonathan Toubin’s most exciting and exquisite o.g. 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” vinyl turning ’round and ’round ’til the wee wee hours! Eccentric postcards from the old weird America addressed to you in the here and now! The wild rumble way down deep below the big city after dark in the warm cozy basement confines of Home Sweet Home! NYC’s biggest and longest-running weekly rock’n’roll dance and a NYC institution since 2008… Get down in the basement!
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Sunday, December 31 – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train 11th Annual New Years Ball! with live music by Escape-Ism (Ian Svenonius!), The Nude Party, and Animal Show and all night dancing with dee jays Jonathan Toubin, Josh Styles, and Reyes Rodriguez! FREE MIDNIGHT CHAMPAGNE TOAST! limited space and tickets available now. 9pm-4am, $15 adv / $20 dos
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Friday, December 22 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: Jewish Xmas edition of Shakin’ All Over with Todd O Phonic Todd, Andy Meltz, and friends, 10:30pm – 4am, $5: New York Night Train’s weekly Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” fiesta! While Jonathan Toubin is away, Todd-O-Phonic Todd of WFMU, Andy Meltz of The Piggies, and friends continue the proud NY Night Train Jewish Xmas in Chinatown tradition! Get down in the basement!
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Friday, December 15 Houston, TX – Continental Club Fistful of Soul Anniversary Party: Jonathan Toubin celebrates the 100th gig for Houston, TX’s biggest and best party! (facebook event)


Friday, December 15 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over with Josh Styles and special guest Todd-O-Phonic Todd, 10:30pm-4am, $5:Do the wiggle to thee wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom of the most exciting and exquisite o.g. 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” vinyl turning ’round and ’round ’til the wee wee hours! Eccentric postcards from the old weird America addressed to you in the here and now! The big rumble way down deep below the big city after dark! A weekly NYC institution since 2008… This week, while Toubin’s away, theee one and only inimitable dee jay Josh Styles of Daddy Long Legs /Rebel Rouser will play! Warm up to this amazing Winter Dance Party with a special guest dj set by thee one and only legendary Todd-O-Phonic Todd of WFMU / Ponderosa Stomp Foundation… Get down in the basement! (facebook event)


Saturday, December 16 Austin, TX – Barracuda: NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off w/DJs Jonathan Toubin and Tim Kerr (The Big Boys!) plus live Knife in the Water, Croy and the Boys, The Nymphs, and Andy Grant, 8pm, $10 Jonathan Toubin and the 21st Century’s most popular and most prolific soul party return to Austin for another night of supreme soul satisfaction! Get there early for some amazing bands! Then Shake a tail feather ’til late to Jonathan Toubin’s 45rpm soul magic! And get in the Midnight Dance Contest with Tim Kerr of the Big Boys and beyond! facebook event
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Friday, December 8 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: 500th Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down and Benny’s last night w/Jonathan Toubin and friends, 10:30pm – 4am, $5: New York Night Train’s weekly Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” fiesta! This week is kinda special because its our 500th party since Shakin’ All Over moved to Home Sweet Home in April 2008! It’s also beloved bartender Benny Thomson’s last night of work after a decade of service! The end of an era! And a big milestone! Get down in the basement for the 500th time!
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