As you may have heard, we’re super stoked to get our summer soul programming underway. We’re kicking things off this month with the very first TITLE TOWN Record Bar in the Shadow Lounge Blue Room.  It’s the one place in town where you can buy vintage vinyl, sip tasty drinks and dance all night.  And this isn’t just soul, our dealers will have a wide-ranging selection of reasonably priced goodness.

To celebrate, we’re having a little contest.  Here’s what we got for you:

ONE LUCKY WINNER will receive a $20 gift certificate courtesy of Jerry’s Records in Squirrel Hill, a limited edition Title Town t-shirt (limited sizes), free admission to the party, a limited edition JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound 45 courtesy of Addenda Records and a Charles Bradley (Daptone Records) 45!

TO ENTER: Just RSVP at the Facebook event page by 6pm on Friday, April 27th.

A winner will be announced on Saturday.

As we get ready for Title Town Soul & Funk Party at the Shadow Lounge, we thought we’d post one last photo from the road. We’ll see you tomorrow night.

Digging yesterday in Kentucky. Checking out Stax and spinning TONIGHT in Memphis at the Poplar Lounge!

Kicking things off at Shake It Records in Cincinnati!

Hey everyone.  Over here at Title Town, we wanted to say thanks for all the support over the past year – for coming out early and having a beer or dancing for 5 straight hours.  If you didn’t get a mix CD in November, here it is – packaged up all nice n’ easy in an easy-to-download ZIP file.  No holiday tracks on this one (check out J.Malls’ Xmas mix for that), but an hour or so of rare funk and soul grooves, Title Town classics and a few things we’ve never played – all recorded from original 45s.

Get ready for New Year’s Eve 2012 with TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party at the Shadow Lounge & AVA!  Advance tickets are on sale now.  Click here to purchase.

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Pick up the long-overdue TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk 45 Mix Volume 2 this Saturday night at the Shadow Lounge.  We’ve dug through the crates to come up with this brand new batch of rare soul from ’60s and ’70s, funk and disco grooves – all recorded from original 45 RPM vinyl.  It’s a killer set mixed up with Title Town dance-floor favorites, never-before-played 45s and a few records recorded right here in Pittsburgh.

Track list:

1. Mighty Lovers – Ain’t Gonna Run No More (Soulhawk)
2. Lee Bracket – Ruby (Excello)
3. Four Tracks – Like My Love For You (Mandingo)
4. The Cashmeres – Show Stopper (HEM)
5. The Marvelows – Your Little Sister (ABC)
6. Smoke Sugar Company – Save A Little Love For A Rainy Day (Teri De)
7. The People’s Choice – Destruction (Wood City)
8. Ohio Players – Love Slips Thru My FIngers (Trip)
9. The Premonitions – In Love Together (Jade)
10. Guitar Crusher – Why, Oh Why (King)
11. Marilyn Brown – Fortune In Love (dra)
12. Disciples of Soul – That’s the Way Love Goes (Phantom)
13. Soul Communicators – Please Don’t Go (Fee Bee)
14. Bottom & Company – Gonna Find A True Love (Motown)
15. Floyd Beck – Show Me (Timeless)
16. Brothers By Choice – Baby You Really Got Me Going (ALA)
17. Milton Wright – Keep It Up (Alston)
18. Al Johnson – I’ve Got My Second Wind (Columbia)
19. Endless Night – Take a Chance (Plum)
20. The Every Day People – Wake Up, Wake Up (?)
21. Ann Robinson – You Did It (All Brothers)
22. Joe Bataan – Young Gifted and Brown (Uptite)
23. The Headliners – Little Sister (Sho Nuff Fine) (Super M)
24. Bobby Caldwell – The House is Rockin (PBR)
25. Lucy Stone – Giving Love Instead of Gold (Fire Mountain)

Did we mention it’s FREE to the first 100 people through the door?

Facebook RSVP link.

As we approach our 2-year anniversary, it just so happens that TITLE TOWN falls on Halloween weekend. And unless you’ve been living under a gravestone, you know this will be a party.

On Saturday, October 29, prepare for what is sure to be one of the wildest, soul-chilling Halloween dance parties around as Title Town invites Pittsburgh’s trail blazin’ ambassador of Northern SOUL & R&B Justin “Juddy” Hopper (Vipers Soul Club, Soulcialism, Pandemic…) to dust off his box of tricks n’ treats for the dance-floor.

After helping to cement Pittsburgh’s place in the burgeoning nationwide soul scene, we’re super excited to have Juddy back at the Lounge. What to expect: An unholy concoction of blister-inducing Northern soul, dirty-as-hell R&B, and a bit of psychopathic Jump Blues all mixed up in a stiff cocktail for your ever-lovin’ ears.

Life’s too short for mediocre music, so get to the Shadow Lounge where we’ll be slingin’ back vintage dance tunes galore while you pour back libations, dance manically and get sweaty with a bunch of your closest, costumed friends.

This month, expect 5 hours of wickedly rare, yet frightfully danceable soul, funk and R&B records including feel-good classics from SHIRLEY ELLIS, THE MIRACLES, JACKIE WILSON, THE 5 ROYALES, YOUNG JESSIE, THE ARTISTICS and so many more.

Prepare for what is sure to be a feast for all your senses – we’ll have Oktoberfest brews, funky projections on the wall, the Brassero Grill taco truck outside the Lounge, and we’ll be handing out a bunch of prizes including gift certificates, t-shirts, and vinyl records:

COSTUME CONTEST! (around 11:30 PM)
Prizes in each category for:

• Best Overall Costume
• Funkiest Costume
• Sexiest Costume
• Best Mashup Costume

Hands down, there is no better time you’ll have for 5 bucks on a Saturday night!

Details:

TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party’s HALLOWE’EN HAPPENING
w/ guest DJ JUDDY (Soulcialism, Vipers, Pandemic)
SATURDAY, October 29
Shadow Lounge (5972 Baum Blvd. E. Liberty)
9 PM-2 AM, Door Price: $5.00 (21+) $8.00 (18+)

Click here to RSVP.

Summertime flew by, but this party doesn’t skip a beat…TITLE TOWN gets down in less than a week at the Shadow Lounge!

Resident’s J. Malls and Gordy bring you a summer send-off dance party featuring 5 hours of nothing but the best handpicked soul, deep funk, disco and rhythm & blues 45s…all mixed up in the comfy confines of East Liberty’s #1 party destination. Get down with good friends and easy good vibes.

Expect feel-good jams, classy cuts and new grooves from Cyril Neville, Pucho & The Latin Soul Brothers, Eddie Bo, The O’Jays, Darrow Fletcher all complemented with a new mix of funky projections on the wall.

On top of it all, we’re gonna be celebrating some birthdays… so tie those dancin’ shoes on tight and boogie your butts down to Title Town.

As always, thanks to everyone for coming out this summer and making this party the place to be every last Saturday night. We always have a blast and look forward to doing it again every month.

Doors at 9, and still only $5 at the door for 21+. We recommend that you get to the Lounge early…because waiting in line is no fun for anyone.

TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party
SATURDAY, September 24th
Shadow Lounge
5972 Baum Blvd. (E. Liberty)
9 PM-2 AM, Door Price: $5.00 (21+) $8.00 (18+)

For two straight years JONATHAN TOUBIN’S Soul Clap and Dance-Off has been voted one of the most consistently bad ass, raddest, sweat-bathed dance parties in New York City and beyond.

On Saturday, August 27th, Title Town Soul & Funk Party welcomes NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN’S JONATHAN TOUBIN to the Shadow Lounge to drop his R&B-heavy-wild party-style mix on your ever lovin’ ears for one our biggest events of the summer!

TOUBIN’s concept is simple – all night dancing to wild 45s of the finest soul, funk, R&B, garage, doo wop, rockabilly, British invasion, girl group, and dance craze recordings you’ve never heard – and of course – exclusively on 45RPM vinyl. Toubin’s parties not only sell beyond capacity in NYC, but he has soul traveled all the way from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine and internationally from Tel Aviv to Mexico City – including monthly residencies in New York, Chicago, LA, San Francisco, Oakland, and PDX.

One of the best-known DJs in the New York, Jonathan has been embarking on a new mission: teaching the underground to dance…and dance together, no less. Earlier in the summer, he launched Land Of 1,000 Dances, a multimedia effort that combined projections of retro dances with his deep collection and live dancers—including Contortions mastermind James Chance, Kid Congo Powers and Anna Copa Cabanna—to help people learn crazes of the past.

“What was sad about The Twist was that people danced together before that,” Toubin says. “These dances are the first ones people danced alone. But on the other hand, they are far less lonely than dances are today.”

The NY Press writes, “Toubin is trying to bring a sense of community back to nightlife, fighting against the alienation that’s seeped into cool culture. And if there’s anyone who can do it, it’s Toubin.”

We do this for long enough,” he says, “these dances are going to become part of the culture again. People will take them to different states and different countries and they will just keep going and going.”

This party will sell out. Early arrival is strongly recommended!

TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party
SATURDAY, August 27th
w/ special guest JONATHAN TOUBIN (NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN’S SOUL CLAP AND DANCE OFF!)
Shadow Lounge
5972 Baum Blvd. (E. Liberty)
9 PM-2 AM, Door Price: $5.00 (21+) $8.00 (18+)