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HALLOWEEN DONE RIGHT! TONIGHT!

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Monday, October 31 NYC – Knockdown Center – ALANA AMRAM’S MONSTER MASH + NY NIGHT TRAIN HAUNTED HOP = NYC’s two best Halloween parties join forces whenever possible and this year are boldly going where no party has gone before!, 7pm bands / 11pm dancing / all night haunted surprises, $10 ($20 without costume)
Go early your favorite bands dress up as and play songs of your favorite haunted bands – 45 Grave, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Bobby Pickett, Christian Death, The Cramps, The Damned, Danzig, Dio, King Diamond, Lord Sutch, The Mummies, Ray Parker Junior, Roky Erickson, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Siouxsie Sioux, Slayer, Type O Negative, Rocky Horror Picture Show Time Warp Dance Contest!! etc! Party in a huge haunted house! performance of all kinds including Hula Hoop Harlot Melissa Anne! Then get down in a haunted house to Jonathan Toubin‘s spookiest 45s with guest dj Josh Styles, monster go go dancers Erin Sheehy and Laura Wynn, visuals by B.A. Miale, costume contest, and so much more… Plus multiple rooms of gloom! Mike Lewi’s multimedia Mad Monster Cave Party! Gary Balaban’s Cinema of Sin! Haunted installations galore! The elves are already hard at work building this out! Plus crazy surprises! Stay all night! It’s got everything! And, as we hit capacity before 10pm the last couple of years and so many of you got turned away, this place holds well over a thousand folks and there will be room for everyone all night. two legendary NYC parties banding together to raise the bar higher than ever! THRILLS, CHILLS, and FUN GALORE!
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NYC FIENDISH FRIDAY! AUSTIN HAUNTED HOP! L.A. FESTIVAL SUPREME, & HALLOWEEN IN NYC!

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Friday, October 28 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/10PM PHILLIP NO (East Village Radio/Otha’s Coffee), 11PM DREW REDMOND (Midnight Offerings), 12AM Todd-O-Phonic Todd (WFMU), 1AM REYES RODRIGUEZ (Norton Records), 2AM JOE BELOCK (WFMU) , 3AM DJ ELEVATOR OPERATOR (WFMU), 10pm – 4am, $5 (FREE before 11pm)
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Friday, October 28 Austin, TX – The Barracuda – Hotel Hot Burrito/Burger City presents NY Night Train Haunted Hop w/Jonathan Toubin and more, 9pm – 2am, $10
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Saturday, October 29 Los Angeles, CA – Shrine Expo Hall and Grounds: Tenacious D’s Festival Supreme with Flight of the Conchords, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Patton Oswalt, Mac DeMarco, Sarah Silverman, Will Forte, Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph, Nancy Whang, Eric Andre Live!, Wet Hot American Summer, Tim Heidecker, Jenny Slate,The Vandals, Garfunkel and Oates, DJ Douggpound, Gelmania, Brent Weinbach, Michael Carbonaro, FUFOBB feat Kyle Newacheck, IHeartComix Supershow, Jonathan Toubin, and Tenacious DJ
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NYC! & CHICAGO HAUNTED HOP!

2061021hshFriday, October 21 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin

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Saturday, October 22 Chicago, IL – Hideout: NY Night Train Haunted Hop and Dance-Off, 10pm – 2am, $10
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SOUVENIRS OF THE SOUL CLAP VOL 5 RECORD RELEASE + PALM SPRINGS SOUL CLAP

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Friday, October 14 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: Official Global Record Release and Listening Party for Norton Records’ “Souvenirs of the Soul Clap, Vol 5”, 9PM-10:30PM, FREE
The new LP has finally arrived! Fourteen kickin’ party platters cut at Chicago Mastering to sound like the huge original 45s and packaged in a spiffy cover with photo by Alexander Thompson and liner notes by Ian Svenonius! Free Williamsburg Pizza, cheap drinks, and discounted copies of Souvenirs 1-5 and other Norton releases available throughout the night! Come hang out! And stick around for Shakin’ All Over Soul Clap edition to commemorate this momentous occasion!
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Saturday, October 15 Palm Springs, CA Ace Hotel: Desert Trip Festival Afterparty – Soul Clap and Dance-Off with Jonathan Toubin and DJs Cole Alexander of Black Lips! Desert Trip Festival is Coachella’s classic rock weekend with performances by a distinguished convocation of nobel laureate Bob Dylan, knight Sir Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones (led by another knight), The Who (led by a knight), Roger Waters, who isn’t a knight (I googled it), and Neil Young, who dreamed he saw the knights in armor coming… Anyhow, a half hour away in the hippest outpost of the nearest city, the Soul Clap and Dance-Off is one of the myriad of afterparties for the aging audience members with the stamina to stay up late after their big day out… Also Desert Daze Festival is just down the road! Function at the junction!
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NY SHAKIN’ ALL OVER & DETROIT SOUL CLAP!

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Friday, October 7 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down with Jonathan Toubin, 10:30pm – 4am, $5 (FREE before 11pm):
Shake a tailfeather to Jonathan Toubin‘s most exciting 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” hot party wax! New Orleans Mambo Boogie! Girl Groups! Garage! Rockabilly! Blues! British Invasion! Raw Soul! Mad Mike Monsters! Las Vegas Grinders! Unsung Heroes of Rock’n’Roll! The Old Weird America! A Whole Lotta Shakin’ All Over and Over all night long! A NYC institution for over 8 years and 400 nights! Get down in the basement!
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Saturday, October 8 Detroit, MI – UFO Factory: NY Night Train Soul Clap & Dance-Off
NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off, 9pm – 2am, $10:
Thee Clap returns to its Motor City Headquarters for another wild romp! Go crazy ’til 2am to JONATHAN TOUBIN’S finest o.g. 1960s soul wax! Go early for a live set by the PRUDE BOYS! Get in thee MIDNIGHT $100 DANCE-OFF with fabulous contest selector DANNY KROHA of Gories, Demolition Doll Rods, etc! Determined by a distinguished panel of judges! Get down with it!
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Hear Jonathan Toubin’s new 2016 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix!

Jonathan Toubin is up all night in his secret laboratory concocting yet another monstrous annual hour of his uncommon original 45rpm Halloween madness!



If you like this, don’t miss his multimedia Haunted Hops, where you can dance to this stuff for hours in a multimedia haunted house…
– OCT 22 CHICAGO – The HideOut
– OCT 28 AUSTIN – The Barracuda
– OCT 29 LOS ANGELES – Festival Supreme (with Tenacious D, Flight of the Conchords, Weird Al, etc)
– OCT 31 NYC – Knockdown Center – combined with ALANA AMRAM’S MONSTER MASH for a huge party with live bands going as their favorite artists, live visuals, installations, go go dancers, performance, costume contest, and of course, a haunted house!

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SHAKIN’ ALL OVER AT HOME SWEET HOME! PITTSBURGH SOUL CLAP & DANCE-OFF!

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Friday, September 30 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin
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Saturday, October 1 Pittburgh, PA Spirit Lodge: NY Night Train Soul Clap & Dance-Off
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Home Sweet Home 10th Anniversary! What A Way To Die 60s Garage Rock Party! Shakin’ All Over w/JT and London’s Ben Olins…

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Thursday, September 22 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: 10th Anniversary party with Jonathan Toubin, Vito of The Rapture, Caleb Braaten of Sacred Bones Records, Pieter Schoolworth of Wierd Records, and more…, 10pm – 4am, FREE
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Thursday, September 22 Brooklyn, NY – The Grand Bar and Grill (647 Grand, Williamsburg): What a Way to Die 60s Garage Punk Vinyl Party with Ben Olins (London), Todd O Phonic Todd (WFMU), Josh Styles (Daddy Long Legs), and a cameo by Jonathan Toubin, 10:30pm – 2am, FREE
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Friday, September 23 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin and Ben Olins (London’s Stag O Lee Preservation Society and Drinking Club / Herb Lester), 10:30pm – 4am, $5
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