Welcome to Norton Records... where the loud sound abounds!
The Norton label is headquartered in New York City. Together with our Kicks Books publishing company, our mission is to discover, uncover, and recover great unlauded music -- hillbilly, rhythm & blues, instrumental, garage, doowop, and soul music-- all which dwell under our blazing banner of rock & roll. With a new issue of Kicks mag in the works, as well as new pulp from Kicks Books, we have launched a full time 24/7/365 in-house radio station called Kicksville Radio.
Radio maniacs Marc Miller and Miriam Linna, together with the best engineer in the business, mister Matt Clarke, blast vocal group rhythm n' blues in scorching two hour swaths with Crashing The Party, a show that celebrates the unsung heroes of doowop. CTP can be heard on Luxuria Music, The Hound, Kicksville Radio, and beginning on Wednesday Sept. 18, on terrestrial radio! That's right, alternating Wednesdays 9AM-11AM EDT, at the 10,000 watt Beast from the East, WPKN Bridgeport 89.5. Check out our latest excursions at the Crashing The party website!
We are now unleashing a weekly newsflash to hep you to the news about Crashing the Party, Kicksville Radio, Norton Records, Kicks Books, Kicks magazine, and sundry rockin' rollin' antics that revolve here at 45 RPM.
Thanks for the support everyone!
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Founders Miriam Linna and the late Billy Miller started out with their fan magazine KICKS in 1979, which excavated and revealed the stories of untold musical heroes and unknown records. The magazine grew into the Norton Records label, which issued its first vinyl album in 1986. The label exploded, and Kicks Magazine grew into Kicks Books, issuing photography, fiction, and non fiction by and about individuals in the world of rock & roll. Norton and Kicks are home to the creative output of Hasil Adkins, Grys-Grys, Daddy Long Legs, Bloodshot Bill, the Pretty Things, the Flamin' Groovies, the Alarm Clocks, the Sonics, the Wailers, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Dale Hawkins, Ron Haydock, the Rockin' R's, Esquerita, Andre Williams, Jack Starr, the Flat Duo Jets, the Untamed Youth, the Phantom Surfers, King Uszniewicz, the Hentchmen, Wade Curtiss, Jackie & the Cedrics, the Church Keys, The Dictators and many other essential music makers.
Norton Records was named after the character Ed Norton in the old TV show The Honeymooners. We started our business on a kitchen table in a Brooklyn loft forty-five years ago. That's a great number and our favorite rotational speed!
Hundreds of records later, the Norton crew continues to forge ahead (or maybe backwards), bringing to light the brilliant, unlauded noisemakers who will always be celebrated here at Norton headquarters.