Boyd Rice is one of the most provocative and debatable underground figures of the post-punk era. A pioneering noise musician and countercultural maven, from the late 1970s to the present he has worked in an array of capacities, playing the roles of: musician, performer, artist, photographer, essayist, interviewer, editor, occult researcher, filmmaker, actor, orator, deejay, gallery curator and tiki bar designer, among others.

First coming to prominence as an avant-garde audio experimentalist (recording under the moniker NON), Rice was a seminal founder of the first wave of industrial music in the late 1970s. In the 1980s, through collaborations with Re/Search Publications, Rice further endeared himself to the underground with recountings of his uproarious pranks and the promotion of "incredibly strange" cult films. Rice's influence on subculture was further exerted through his forerunning exhibition of found photographs and readymade thrift store art, as well as his adamant endorsements of outsider music, tiki culture and bygone pop culture in general.

By the 1990s, however, Rice's underground acclaim had been turned on its ear as a result of his public associations with nefarious figures both infamous and obscure. These included friendships and ideological collusion with the likes of cult leader Charles Manson and Church Of Satan founder Anton LaVey, among others. Rice sparked further controversy through public flirtations with "Nazi" aesthetics and fascist ideology, a flaunted disregard for political correctness, and an espousal of antisocial doctrines such as Satanism, Social Darwinism and elitist misanthropy. Standing In Two Circles The culmination of these affiliations and endorsements established Rice as one of the 1990s' foremost countercultural antagonists and provocateurs, alienating many of his erstwhile fans. The 2000s saw Rice turning away from the culturally proscribed (and its attendant controversy), and instead to esoteric occult research, the co-founding of an art movement and the design of his own tiki bar. Rice continues to explore these and other realms of artistic and musical expression as the decade nears its end.

Alternately amusing, insightful, confrontational and offensive, Boyd Rice has proven one of the most consistently influential and contentious characters of the last 30 years of American counterculture. He's covered an incredibly prolific amount of artistic, conceptual and ideological ground, and his work continues to profoundly affect the countercultural underground at large, inspiring and enraging in equal measure.

Author and curator Max G. Morton’s words have yet to fail the hungry global tribe of whom he speaks, and all of his works are coveted collector’s items. Morton currently runs Heartworm Press alongside Wesley Eisold, and resides in the West Village. He has written lyrics for and performed with Cold Cave (on Cremations) and has performed alongside Boyd Rice, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, and John Joseph.

F. Sean Martin is a musician, songwriter, and producer best known for his near-decade spent playing guitar for the Connecticut hard-core band Hatebreed. He recently produced the album Depart From Me by New York underground rapper Cage, and is a member of XO Skeletons. He currently resides in Connecticut where he is co-owner of Brass City Tattoo.

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“Boyd Rice is a black pimp” -Charles Manson

“Boyd Was My Mentor” -Marilyn Manson

“Boyd is an Iconoclast” -Anton LaVey, Church of Satan

Boyd Rice:
One of the most provocative and influential figures of the post-punk era, since the 1970s Boyd Rice has garnered a reputation as a musician, performer, artist, photographer, occult researcher, orator, deejay, writer, gallery curator and tiki bar designer, among others. First coming to prominence as an avant-garde audio experimentalist, recording under the moniker NON, Rice was a seminal founder of the first wave of industrial music in the late 1970s, alongside Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire. Through collaborations with Re/Search Publications, Rice became known as an expert in obscure cult movies and garnered a reputation as a wry humorist whose legendary pranks explored human behavior. An expert in pop culture and outsider art, he is known for his interest in 60s girl groups, tiki culture and the TV show Dark Shadows. He has curated exhibitions of found photographs and readymade thrift store art. To the outrage of many fans, Rice became known in the 1990s for his interest in fascist aesthetics and affiliation with the Church of Satan. Friends and enemies argued if this was an anti-PC joke, a real position, or something else, Rice never let on, preferring instead to argue an anti-Christian message on syndicated Christian radio show, Talk Balk hosted by Bob Larson.

By the start of the millennium Rice had moved on again, leaving behind the Church of Satan, he co-founded the Unpop art movement and continued researching gnostic christian mythologies. Alternately amusing, insightful, confrontational and offensive, Boyd Rice has proven one of the most consistently influential and contentious characters of the last 30 years of American counterculture. He continues to write, record and cause mischief in both the underground and mainstream. Larry Wessel: Cult filmmaker Larry Wessel has directed 15 feature films, including Taurobolium (1994), Sugar and Spice (1995), Carny Talk (1995), Sex, Death and the Hollywood Mystique (1999) and Song Demo For A Helen Keller World (1999). Covering topics ranging from Mexican bull fighting to transvestite performers, artist Robert Williams and prankster John Trubee, old Hollywood and new Los Angeles, Wessel is known for getting access to his subjects and giving them the space to talk, while his trusty camera watches it all unfold. Conspiring with Anton LaVey to prey upon Mr. Rice with the aid of an electronic remote controlled whoopee cushion, Wessel was perfectly positioned to direct Iconoclast. The results speak for themselves.

David Johansen is an American rock, protopunk, blues and pop singer, as well as a songwriter and actor. He was a member of the seminal protopunk band The New York Dolls and also achieved commercial success under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.

"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... Enter Jonathan Toubin, and his simple-yet-visionary approach to revamping the entire landscape 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." - Jason Diamond, Impose Magazine

The dawn of 2010 finds New York Night Train conductor/soul proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin the most popular, prolific, and highest-earning rock and soul DJ on the North American nightclub circuit - taking the 45rpm dance party to a whole new level conceptually, culturally, and commercially. Though known for "maximum rock and soul" dance club sets and multi-media "Happenings," his Soul Clap and Dance-Off party has, in the last year, put Mr. T on the map as soul man and left a huge footprint on contemporary urban nightlife. Working over 600 gigs the last two years, Mr. Jonathan Toubin has managed to keep one boot in the counter-culture from which he emerged (punk bars, DIY basements, loft parties, art galleries, music venues, and shady afterhours spots) while crossing over to dance clubs, prestigious festivals, boutique hotels, museums, ivy league colleges, fashion parties, gay events, arena pop/rock shows, and even raves - receiving nominations for nightlife awards from the fancier side of New York culture in the process.

Monterrey Mexico Soul Clap and Dance-OffMr. Jonathan Toubin conceived the Soul Clap and Dance-Off more than three years ago as a monthly outlet to play his soul 45s to a small north Brooklyn underground art/rock social community in the spirit of the mid-1990s indie/punk scene parties. He added a brief dance-contest to the mix to make the event more interesting. As this humble makeshift neighborhood underdog evolved into an institution, Mr. T employed the party's popularity as a weapon against tired hit nights, 80s nights, and other mediocre contemporary dance culture - offering an alternative in the possibility of dancing to exciting music most of us have never heard before. The epic size, frequency, and geographical breadth of the Soul Clap the last couple of years has been a seed for a new wave of soul dance culture among indie rockers, punks, and hipsters first in Brooklyn, next in Manhattan, and, in the last year, around the world - garnering slews of imitators and developing a new nightlife economy everywhere from Portland, ME to Portland, OR, from Canada to Mexico and even as far away as the Middle East.

DAVID JOHANSEN AS JONATHAN TOUBIN'S GUEST DJ AT HOME SWEET HOMEA label-owner/veteran musician/published academic/career journalist, Mr Jonathan Toubin began regularly DJing punk/garage/noise rock weekly at the Lower East Side's legendary Motor City Bar in 2006. Within a year, Mr. Toubin was working nightly and mixing in eclectic genres (soul, jazz, psych, international styles, etc.). Casting mp3s, CDs, and eventually LPs aside to step up to the challenge of spinning exclusively in the biggest and baddest musical medium ever, the 45rpm vinyl record, New York Night Train's conductor increasingly became known as a soul/garage 45 DJ. Focusing on dancers instead of collectors, cutting $1 commoners with $100 rarities with strategic pitching, sequencing, EQ-ing, and transitioning, Mr T distinguished himself from typical mod, garage, northern soul, and funk 45 retro-nights by developing a playfully unique DIY sound that growls meaner, thinks deeper, and runs faster. Almost four years of nightly gigging in a variety of settings has offered NYNT's conductor a huge advantage over his peers in that his labor also served as an infinite laboratory regarding the subtleties of how, without playing hits, to make a variety of cultures and subcultures dance together - uniting even the squarest weekend dance floors under the undeniable power of his mixes. Along the way he's not only shared the DJ booth with the likes of David Johansen, Genesis P-Orridge, Gibby Haynes, Jello Biafra, Ian Svenonius, Kid Congo Powers, Simeon Coxe (Silver Apples!), the Black Lips, the Shins, etc, and thrown parties featuring live peformances by everyone from King Khan and the BBQ/Shrines to Sky Saxon to the Oh Sees to Quintron and Ms. Pussycat to HEALTH to Dum Dum Girls to Andrew WK, but he's also DJ-ed at shows acts as diverse as Erykah Badu, Mission of Burma, MGMT, Black Mountain, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Dinosaur Jr., Les Savy Fav, etc.

ny night train's new polyglot discotheque party2010 finds worldwide New York Night Train parties growing in quality, diversity, and popularity everywhere: the worldwide Soul Clap and Dance-Off parties, the weekly Shakin' All Over Under Sideways Down! at Home Sweet Home, and the new monthlies Polyglot Discotheque at Secret Project Robot and Rocks Off Cruises Ya Ya Yacht circling Manhattan on the Half-Moon. Despite his success, Mr. T refuses to get comfy - embarking upon new series Happenings, debuting his new international 60s freakbeat format, launching his new web site/mp3 blog, working on his first commercial mix, and, in general, continuing to prove that nightlife doesn't have to be boring.

Peter Morcey was/is the lead vocalist for Forced Reality, 100 Demons, Higher Force and IG! He currently is the owner of Shogun Screenprinting/Shop Shogun and co-owner of Brass City Tattoo with Sean Martin. Morcey is also partnered with Rico Dejoie in their Original Hooligan clothing line.