Norton Records

08/06/2025

Formed in 1963, South Shields, England. Disbanded 1966.Members:Tony Hill (guitar)J. Vincent Edwards (lead vocals, drums)Bob Calder (bass), Ron (guitar)Harry ...

08/06/2025

Dig we must

Formed in 1963, South Shields, England. Disbanded 1966.Members:Tony Hill (guitar)J. Vincent Edwards (lead vocals, drums)Bob Calder (bass), Ron (guitar)Harry ...

22/05/2025

ALERT YON WAX THUGS! Hey kids, the annual Holiday Sale has secretly already begun, a quick notice here to FB pals- as of this morning a few titles that were out of stock - Wailers At The Castle, Alex Chilton double LP, Sonics Sun Ra, etc - are back in stock in teenie tiny quantities. We just unpacked another big-box of recods from the Ohio move and were surprised to find a stash of wax! Dig in. We also applied our 50% discount pretty much across the board so hop to it. www.nortonrecords.com

04/05/2025

Henry Rollins digs Norton.. and Kicksville! He begins a series of Norton clips tonite! 9 PM Cali time, and archived right away. Thanks HR!

RADIO BROADCAST #839 05–03–25 Fanatic! I hope you had a great week and had a chance to listen to a lot of music. You might remember the cool band Empire from the last century. The two main members of the outfit were Derwood Andrews and Mark Laff. If those names are at all familiar, it’s

05/03/2025

Dion guests on Crashing The Party right now www.wpkn.org - now baby!

Now Playing (Click for Entire Playlist) CLICK FOR PRIOR PLAYLISTS WPKN 89.5 FM Community Radio Our Mission, at WPKN independent community radio station, is to strengthen and enrich our community through programming that is provocative, innovative, and free from commercial influence. Programming that...

23/02/2025

DESTINATION ANYWHERE! No horsin' around- join Crashing The Party's Marc Miller , live in-person and all on his lonesome 4PM-6:30 PM, on Monday Feb 23 at WPKN 89.5FM (and streaming worldwide at www.wpkn.org), on his Destination Anywhere show, celebrating Black History Month with sensational selections from his personal trove of rarities, oddities, and rock-solid stompers! Giddy-up, sound hounds- and prepare thyselves!

18/12/2024

CRASHING THE PARTY AT WPKN 89.5 FM Wed. morning 9-11 AM Eastern is now archived at https://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/423399 Giddy-up as hosts Marc and Miriam ride alternating shotgun at the hard core candy store- all original vocal group rhythm an' blues zitties and pretties for you - our last show of this old year - next blast debuts on January 1!

31/10/2024

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

31/10/2024

HALLOWEEN MAD DADDY ENCORE! MAD SATURDAY! Join us at Kicksville tonite 8 pm EST with author Mike Olszewsk for a Mad Halloweeen- lotsa mad blabber about the Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers and tunes to folllow. And getcha bonus Mad Daddy purple wax 45 with any order over $45 buck thru Nov. 1 only! We have only a few (less than 25) remain- get it at the Norton site. By the way, in case you forgot, all 45s of all genres are $13 for the holidaze! Bwahh! www.kicksvilleradio.com

23/10/2024

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.