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TITLE TOWN Funk & Soul Party Kicks Off At The Shadow Lounge October 24, 2009 at 9PM

Monday, October 12, 2009

On Saturday, October 24th, deejays J. Malls and Gordy G. kick off the TITLE TOWN Funk & Soul Party at the Shadow Lounge. Guaranteed to be one of the finest, monthly dance nights in the Burgh’, TITLE TOWN launches from the ashes of two successful DJ events: The Big Throwback and Vipers Soul Club. This night will bring together juicy slabs of top-notch soul and righteously funky grooves mixed with a hefty dose of Motown, old-school rhythm & blues and Northern Soul.

To help kick things off, TITLE TOWN’s first guest will be New York State’s own disc jock and music historian, DAVID GRIFFITHS. Griffiths is best known for co-hosting the long running BUMPSHOP monthly soul and funk night at APT in New York City’s meat packing district. Griffiths served as A&R for Kenny Dope and Keb Darge’s Kay-Dee Records imprint for a number of years and has since overseen reissue projects for Daptone Records (i.e. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, as well as the Stones Throw Records’ Now-Again subsidiary.

Join us for 5 hours of non-stop dance music and DANCE-OFF with a $50 CASH PRIZE (!!!) in the middle of the night!

You’ll hear rare soul legends like Barbara Mason, Gene Chandler and the Voices of East Harlem, deep funk from The Caprells and The Whatnauts, and classics 45s from Jackie Wilson, Stevie Wonder and James Brown!

The Shadow Lounge is a smoke-free venue committed to bringing the best in local and national acts to Pittsburgh PA. The Lounge is located at 5972 Baum Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA. Phone: (412)363-8277. Guests must be 18 and over to attend.

http://www.titletownpgh.com
http://www.shadowlounge.net
http://www.newyorksoulrecordings.com/

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One last spin…

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

THE LAST VIPERS SOUL CLUB
DJ’s Juddy + Gordy spinning 1960s Soul & R&B records
9pm, Sat., Sept. 26
SHADOW LOUNGE, (5972 Baum Blvd. East Liberty)
18+ / 21+ to drink

At the end of this month, Pittsburgh hosts its debutante ball to the world.

Afterwards, like the prettiest couple on prom night, we’re gonna need a drink and a shower.

Cleanse yourself of the globalized gunk that our city - brave and fair! - will be covered in by thousands of unsaved, steeler-less unsavories, with the Sanitizing Sanctitude of SOUL!!!

RARIFY your wriggling regions with the redemption of rumpshakin’ RHYTHM AND BLUES!!!

BATHE in the cleansing bombast of bonafide BOOGALOO!!

we Vipers all shall stomp and clomp alongside you, spinning the finest in RARE and CLASSIC SOUL, MOTOWN and R&B, and throwing back one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer, after another, to REDEEM our inner selves with the cleansing power of HEDONISM!

So come join us, and SHAKE YOUR GODDAMN TAILFEATHERS for one final time as Vipers Soul Club steps aside after this month to make way for bigger and better things!!

That’s right, it’s the last time in our current configuration, as Juddy sinks back into the night, the guerilla of soul - but fear not! For Gordy G. and legendary Platters-wot-Matters Spinner JAY MALLS shall soon begin their reign of turntable terror.

(And the emails will be shorter, too!)

So join us for ONE LAST SPIN AROUND THE RHYTHM AND BLUES BLOCK, as we do that Vipers thing we do, and make our city whole again, with the power of MUSIC and BOOZE and DANCE!!

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VIPERS SOUL CLUB: Back to (Old) School Special!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

VIPERS SOUL CLUB
Official Hothouse Afterparty
DJ’s Juddy + Gordy spinning 1960s Soul & R&B records
9pm, Sat., Aug. 29
SHADOW LOUNGE, (5972 Baum Blvd. East Liberty)
18+ / 21+ to drink / $5.00

The internationally renowned Vipers Soul Club presents its annual Back to (Old) School special, playing nothing but the finest rare and classic 1960s R&B, Motown, and Northern Soul records for your dancing and drinkin’ pleasure!

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Saturday Night Special with DJ J. Malls (The Big Throwback)

Monday, July 6, 2009

VIPERS SOUL CLUB w/ guest J.MALLS
SATURDAY, JULY 25th @ SHADOW LOUNGE
(5972 Baum Blvd., East Liberty)
Drink specials / $4 cover / Music @ 9pm

Vipers
Soul Club is back! Saturday July 25th marks the return of the Burgh’s
night of forgotten soul, classic Motown, gritty rhythm & blues, and
this month: a hefty dose of old-school funk platters from the ’60s and
’70s.

Didn’t catch the last Big Throwback? This month features the Steel City’s own J. Malls: master crate digger, co-host of The Big Throwback funk & soul party, house DJ at AVA’s Interval Live Jazz night, resident at Brillobox’s Italo Disco party, host of WRCT’s “The Best Kept Secret Radio Show,” and a leading authority of rare Pittsburgh vinyl.

Music starts at 9pm and doesn’t stop til’ late, $4 will get you in. Only at East Liberty’s Shadow Lounge, a smoke free venue!

DJ J. Malls (The Big Throwback, Jerry's Records)

DJ J. Malls (The Big Throwback)

More info:
Vipers Soul Club: www.viperssoulclub.com
J.Malls: www.myspace.com/j_malls
Shadow Lounge: www.shadowlounge.net

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A”LOCAL RUMBLE” on FRIDAY, June 26th!

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
ViPERS SOUL CLUB presents LOCAL RUMBLE

Gritty R&B, storming Northern Soul, Jump Blues, classic Motown, Latin boogaloo.

Join us for a special FRIDAY installment of VIPERS SOUL CLUB on June 26th.

VIPERS SOUL CLUB presents a “LOCAL RUMBLE.”
DJs Juddy & Gordy

…spinning only the fiercest and most uninhibited sounds of 1960s R&B and Northern Soul

all night long.
FRIDAY, June 26th

Shadow Lounge (5972 Baum Blvd., East Liberty)
9pm, $4 (only $3 before 10), 18+

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Larry McGee Revolution - The Burg (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Thursday, May 21, 2009

The Burg (Pittsburgh, Pa.) by Larry McGee Revolution on Boogie Band Records (1976). Photos taken at Vipers Soul Club One Year Anniversary Party with DJ Andy Smith, Night before the Pittsburgh Steelers win Super Bowl XLIII (Shadow Lounge, Pittsburgh, PA)

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SAT. 5/30/09: Vipers Soul Club presents THE WILD PARTY II

Thursday, May 14, 2009

“…and it was written on the scroll that one day, when the situation seems most dire, when the odds seem insurmountable, when the die seems cast and the future bleak, THE WILD PARTY
shall rise again…”

Fact is, last year, THE WILD PARTY confirmed all of our hopes and dreams and expectations for Pittsburgh’s desire to dirty up itself and get muddy in the knee-deep of 1960s Rhythm ‘n’ Blues music - so we’ve decided to make this Vipers installment a semi-annual event, getting the stankiest R&B and stompinest Northern Soul together to see the Spring out with more STYLE than FASHION.

Prepare to attach yourselves to your beverages / and free yourselves from your minds / with a dancefloor built to be devastated / by plimsoles and stilletos / pouncing and prancing / falling down and dancing / from the early P.M. to the curtain-fall of Last Call!!!

DJs Juddy, Gordy, and JordanK
Only the fiercest and most uninhibited sounds of 1960s R&B and Northern Soul

If you’re lookin to get a li’l sumthin-sumthin, remember our slogan: “EVERYONE, ONCE, AT VIPERS.”

9pm, Sat., MAY 30
Shadow Lounge, (5972 Baum Blvd. East Liberty)
18+ /21+ to drink / $4.00 ($3.00 before 10)

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Saturday April 25, 2009: Vipers Soul Club presents: MOTOWN 50

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Join Vipers Soul Club as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Sound of Young America by spinning our 50 favorite Motown tracks throughout the night, along with our regular selections of 1960s R&B and Northern Soul!

Two score and ten years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new sound, conceived in Detroit, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal – and that Smokey Robinson was created even more equal than that.

Through 50 Years the golden pipes and clapping hands of THE MIRACLES, TEMPTATIONS, SUPREMES, EDDIE HOLLAND, FOUR TOPS, STEVIE WONDER,

But, in a larger sense, we cannot honor Motown – the badass singers and players, living and dead, who Monkey Time’d and Shing-a-Ling’ed before us have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.

The world will little note, a

nd you – twelve beers and six shots in – will little remember, what we do this night. But the SOUND OF YOUNG AMERICA, in all its past and present sins and glories, still make your goosebumps quiver and your low-end shiver, so it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

We must dedicate and rededicate ourselves to the great task remaining before us: That whiskey drinking and lude-thought-thinking; soul-clapping, toe-tapping, and dip-dapping, OF the people, BY the people, and FOR the people, shall not perish from This ‘Burgh.

SO PUT ON YOUR BEST WIG
AND THOSE RED SHOES
BRING YOUR FINEST SHIMMY
AND ALL YOUR BOOGALOO’S

VIPERS SOUL CLUB presents MOTOWN 50

…with DJs Juddy & Gordy

9pm, Sat., April 25
Shadow Lounge, (5972 Baum Blvd. East Liberty)
18+ /21+ to drink / $4.00

MUSIC STARTS AT 9PM!

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SATURDAY March 28: Vipers Soul Club presents Speakeasy Stories

Friday, March 20, 2009
Vipers Soul Club presents Speakeasy Stories

Last time we went through a Great Depression, this nation pulled through with a roughly shaken cocktail of hard work, ‘can-do’ attitude, and complete ambivalence to the law. In the blind tigers and back-alley bathtub-gin joints of yesteryear, our forefathers set forth a new ethic: One of good times in hard times; the Soup Kitchen by day, The Speakeasy by night!

My fellow Vipers, let us not disdain their efforts by sanctioning fallow social fields with calamitous cash-crisis convulsions and credit-crunch cataclysms!

Rather we shall oom-paahh and oo-la-la the night away, dancing on the grave of our woes, and defeating misfortune with beatnik blues bravado Like True Vipers Do, and one day tell our children’s children the demented deeds of those doomed days of Twenty-Ought-Nine in our very own Speakeasy Stories…

VIPERS SOUL CLUB presents SPEAKEASY STORIES
Rhythm & Blues, Motown, and Northern Soul 45s all night long…
Juddy & Gordy + guest DJ’s Des Parker (New Century Soul Club, UK) & Johnny Beggs (The Torch, UK)

9pm, Sat., March 28
Shadow Lounge, East Liberty
18+ /21+ to drink / $4.00

We’re starting a bit earlier this month, 9pm!

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