Crashing The Party

05/07/2025

03/20/2025

Crashing The Party hits the airwaves alternating wednesday mornings 9-11AM EST -- total vocal group harmony rhythm n' blues abandon-- coast to coast, town to town, flashing the labels with the able stables and groups that infested our beat-bent heads with the sound of the cities and the gritties and pretties from each of the burghs big and small. Flip your wigs one mo' time again with hosts Marc and Miriam! Now archived along with all our WPKN shows at and strap your wigs on tight for a wild ride! March 19 show is archived at https://wpkn.streamrewind.com/bookmarks/listen/430133

12/24/2024

Whippin' out the Christmas blues n' groups!

12/24/2024

Mambo, Santa, MAMBO!

CHRISTMAS - DOOWOP - VOCAL GROUP HARMONY

11/28/2024

Happy thanksgiving to you turkeys from us and the Robins!

Classic doo-wop from 1950 featuring Johnny Otis.

10/31/2024

REMEMBERING MAD MIKE - 24 YEARS LONG GONE TODAY. Of all the mayhem that ensued from our label, none is closer, still, than the Mad Mike series. It was, without sounding hokey- or witchy, it being Halloween and all - ordained, supernaturally devised, magic, that any of it happened at all, and from it, came some of my closest and most inspirational friendships. Top left is a snapshot of the day I interviewed Mike, his last time on tape. The cassette was lost here for many years and only came out to play because of the power of prayer. Arnie, Larry and Corky were the guys who demanded I find it. They said, if the tape could be found, everything would fall into place, and it did. They are all gone now. 12 years ago today, right after Sandy hit, I was in hipwaders in Red Hook, crying, stumbling in the pool of brackish water, staring down like a child stares at her toes in the deep end of a swimming pool, when a waterlogged volume 1 of the Mad Mike albums came out of the murk, directly into my view. It was chilling, a solemn reminder of the shortness of life and happiness. All remaining stock on these albums was destroyed in Sandy. If any survived, it's by accident that a few were at the home office that day. If you own one, play it today. By chance, like all good things, Ernie the K called yesterday and asked "when ya coming to Pittsburgh?" As soon as possible, I replied. And then I played Wizard of Ah's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYAS9GuSMSI

10/23/2024

Every year about this time, we issue a Norton Star souvenir postcard for the holidays. This year, our star is the late-great Mary Weiss- icon and friend. Every order receives a souvenir card. We'd say "suitable for framing," but it already is. Art by Pat Broderick, hair by Sir Monti Rock III. Story in KIcks. Mary is hugely missed.

10/19/2024

TODAY AT KICKSVILLE - 5PM EASTERN! Diggin' into the vaults of the hard core candy store with our badass hard-drivers, stone cold thrillers, bare bone chillers, the churnin' widetrackers. Booted, belted, and buckled - we are ON! Doo-wop slam, slop and bop, always well-lubed with grease, grit and GRIME— come check out the action traction, complete with playlists and ballyhoo. Crashing comes to you from the Kicksville crew with hosts Marc and Miriam, with our resident genius engineer Matt Clarke making us sound good! CTP plays every Monday and Saturday at 5PM Eastern at Kicksville Radio and ITunes too, plus every episode is archived here at Crashing HQ! We go nuts with vocal group cool to make you drool — dig our entire archive of doowop deliciousness, derangement, and delightfulness (and playlists) at our CTP archive!
All shows at www.crashingtheparty.co