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+
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)
“…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)
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
…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!
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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