289 Kent Avenue
Williamsburg, New York 11211

New York Night Train's Soul Clap and Dance-Off isnt't only an NYC nightlife institution but also North America's most popular soul party. The concept is elegant - ALL NIGHT DANCING to wild 45s of international superstar maximum rock and soul DJ MR. JONATHAN TOUBIN (http://www.newyorknighttrain.com/about) and, in the middle, a DANCE CONTEST for a $100 GRAND PRIZE judged by a distinguished panel of local community members. Recession-friendly mass entertainment, the dance party/spectacle not only sells out way beyond capacity at home, but has brought its excitement to domestic markets all the way from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine and internationally from Tel Aviv to Mexico City.

Tonight's contest will feature MC LAURA LEE and the following cast of judges:
- CYRUS LUBIN - executive of music business adventure venture Famous Class (http://www.myspace.com/famousclass) by day and drummer of Boogie Border by night (http://www.myspace.com/boogieboardertheband)
- EMI KARIYA - drummer for Hard Nips (http://www.myspace.com/hardhardnips) and vocalist for Kocho-Bi-Sexual (http://www.kochobisexual.com/)
- JB TOWNSEND co-founder/guitarist of Crystal Stilts (http://www.myspace.com/crystalstilts - who should need no introduction but are back home in Brooklyn after touring the world and headlining the Glasslands earlier tonight)
- SARAH KING - winner of the 2010 Soul Clap Championship (http://www.newyorknighttrain.com/2010/03/13/ny-night-train-soul-clap-dance-off-celebrates-its-3rd-anniversary-in-style/) and pro ukelele-ist (http://nyukefest.com/pages/wkshp_sch.html)
- SHENAN FRAGUADAS - fashion designer/proprietress of the NYC fashion imprint Shenan (http://www.shenan.us/)
- STEPHEN BRAREN - bassist of In the Red recording artists, Nashville's Cheap Time (http://www.myspace.com/cheaptime)
- YOKO SAWAI - proprietress of the Brooklyn institution Supercore (http://www.yelp.com/biz/supercore-brooklyn) cafe and vocalist for Hard Nips (http://www.myspace.com/hardhardnips) by night

go here (http://newyorknighttrain.com/soulclap/) to learn more about this party and other ones worldwide...

" Jonathan Toubin is the dude who made NYC dance parties fun again. Tonight is the third anniversary of what may be the best party of the past few years, Soul Clap and Dance Off at Glasslands."
- Brooklyn Ski Club

" New York Night Train's Jonathan Toubin throws the raddest underground rock parties in New York"
- Alexander Thompson, Paper Magazine

"New York's premier dusty 45 party"
- Time Out Chicago

" Jonathan Toubin is a local DJ with a penchant for two things: soul obscurities and making people move. He spreads his gospel by way of tireless sets at bars and clubs across the Lower East Side and Brooklyn, at which he'll host dance-offs, invite artists and other musicians to contribute to the merriment, and spin a heady blend of what he calls " Maximum Rock and Soul."... Expect even more music, dancing, and rambunctiousness than usual, knowing full well that "the usual" is already pretty hard to top."
- The Onion A.V. Club

"The mid-'60s to early-'70s r &b and funk will have you dancing with the stars." - Sharyn Jackson, Village Voice "Voice Choices"

"DJ Mr. Jonathan Toubin is known for single-handedly revamping NYC nightlife with his fun/sweaty New York Night Train Soul Clap dance parties" - William Steven Humphrey, Portland Mercury

"An eve of 45-rpm soul sizzlin' and expressive dance." - Lina Lecaro, LA Weekly

"It was ridiculous and fun and had me hoping Soul Clap returns" - Jennifer Maerz, SF Weekly

"Jonathan Toubin, the New York City DJ who turns ho-hum rock shows and tin-canned dance parties into transcendent nightlife experiences. Spinning rock and soul on 45, Toubin gets the rock kids to dance and the clubbers to rock, meshing together live music, performance, film and dance, dance, dance!"
- Megan O'Neil, Detroit Metro Times

"With his impeccable taste and extensive vinyl collection, Jonathan always seems to know exactly the right track to get bodies moving on the dance floor. "
- Bree Dillon, L Magazine

"A shimmy-worthy mix of maximum rock'n'soul"
- New York Post

"If you've been heating up the dance floor at one of San Francisco's many soul nights, tonight is the night to graduate to the big leagues - DJ Jonathan Toubin, the "soul proprietor" of the New York dance scene, is in town. - Allison P. Davis, Flavorpill San Francisco

" I'm not one of the Schmucks who will lament over New York not being "what it used to be", but I will say that we're not fans of this dismal wasteland of Eurotrash tourists and guidos with polo shirts unbuttoned down to their navels grinding to the repetitive pounding of bad electro�Ķ Enter Jonathan Toubin, and his simple-yet-visionary approach to revamping the entire lanscape of New York and Brooklyn from midnight till the after hours. His New York Night Train parties have become stuff of sheer legend do to the simple fact that Toubin actually seems to care about what he is producing. His meticulous approach has paid off quite handsomely as pretty much each and every party with the Jonathan Toubin stamp on it seems to be the biggest party going on for that given night."
- Impose Magazine

"New York Night Train's Mr. Jonathan Toubin has solidified his reputation as the premier soul party engineer and the hardest working guy in New York with packed parties at underground venues."
- Jason Diamond, Heeb

"I remember the first time I walked into one of DJ Jonathan Toubin's Soul Clap and Dance-Off parties at Glasslands Gallery. Wiggly mamas were shaking their manes and hitting the splits, gangly boys were swinging from the balcony, and the two dance contest finalists, having already ripped their shirts off, were vibe-a-ratin' like washing machines in the middle of a cheering crowd. And the music, man! I was getting hit by squall after squall of screaming, crackling soul tracks, some pitched so fast that I hardly knew how to move to them - so I did like everyone else and just let the music jerk my body around, flailing with the breathless abandon of a toddler. I'm a big fan of sixties soul music, but every song was new to me, each so raw and greasy and BIG and palpable that they had me scrunching my nose up and torquing my neck in this ecstatic frenzy. Now, I make a point of seeking out those rowdy shows and crazy parties that leave you sweat-soaked and grinning uncontrollably, but I've been hard-pressed to find anything that can top the roaring bliss of a New York Night Train Soul Clap."
- Erin Sheehy, Jezebel Music.com

" (The Soul Clap) matches a burgeoning star of NYC's DJ underground (Jonathan Toubin) with a more organic, infinitely more sweaty-fun stack of sounds (a long-awaited alternative to the ever more stodgy and conservative realm of "dance" music) and a fervently followed format that features a dance contest judged by a distinguished panel of local celebs"
- Red Bank Orbit

"As previously noted in this here reputable rag, Jonathan Toubin's Soul Clap and Dance-Off shindig is truly New York City's most stimulating all-night dance party, easily trumping all other soul or retro nights." - MyOpenBar.com

"Our festival experience began with an oh-so-soulful DJ set by New York genius Jonathan Toubin."
- Josiah Hughes, Exclaim! review of Sled Island Festival Soul Clap and Dance-Off

"Dance-offs aren't just for b-boys and Britney anymore" - Deidre Fulton, The Phoenix

"One of the biggest dance parties we've seen" - HaveFaithInWorthlessKnowledge.com (Portland, Maine)

"Even thought Toubin isn't entirely unique in using only 45s, his skill at transitioning one song into another ("segueways") is seamless, and his depth and range of choice songs, primarily from the mid-1960s, are far from the mainstream yet extremely danceable. "
- Mark Shikuma, North Coast Journal

"(Toubin's) finely honed collection of '50s and '60s soul and R&B - the grittier, the better - to help you get over the hump by shaking your rump."
- Chris Gray, Houston Press

"But by the end of the night, I got Toubin's joke: He and Svenonius know how to make people freak out. I mean really lose it. They can access a primal human circuitry that somehow prefigured the advent of 1960s boogaloo, international freakbeat and garage rock. All that "nntzuh-nntzuh" Euro syncopation, all that New Order, even ol' Marr and Morrissey, were little queefs of ozone compared to the voltage that these two have amassed over years of rummaging through record bins. They've learned how to incite a kind of bond breaking, a freedom claiming, in young psyches."
- Justin Richards, New York Press

"Uno de los mejores selector que mis ojos hayan visto y mis oidos excuchado."
- We Shall Be Free (Monterrey, Mexico)

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