APRIL NORTON SUPER SMASHES!

EAST COAST vs WEST COAST vs THE SOUTH! click image for Sonics Artist Page! click image for Event Facebook info! click image for Event Facebook page! click image for A-Bones Artist Page!   • EAST COAST • APRIL 13 • EAST COAST •  DIG DEEPER PRESENTS THE SONICS ! NORTON BENEFIT blast-- WITH DJS MR. ROBINSON + DJ HONKY PLUS DIG DEEPER FAVES  RYE COALITION!   Dig Deeper has gone the extra mega mile for the Norton cause-- they are bringing in Norton godheads/Dig Deeper top faves The Sonics the blast the night away to kingdom come - all ticket sales will be donated to Norton to help cope with hurricane-related losses. Says Dig Deeper, "When we say "all ticket sales" we mean everything. When we started Dig Deeper, we intended to go beyond soul and put on a few garage shows over time. In reality, the only band we really wanted to work with was the Sonics. We know countless friends who moaned when they missed getting tickets the last two times the Sonics came to NYC. Do not be in that tragic crowd this time, and know that your ticket sales will go straight to Norton. You Can't Drown the Loud Sound!" Dig Deeper DJs Mr. Robinson and DJ Honky spin all original garage and soul 45s for the dancefloor -- get to the show plenty early to see Dig Deeper  top  faves Rye Coalition at the 20th anniversary of their creation! This is an all-nighter from the word GO! Facebook Event Page! Buy yer Tickets and Read More Here!!  • WEST COAST • APRIL 13 • WEST COAST •  INTOXICA RADIO & REAL BOSS HOSS PRESENT THE ULTIMATE WEST COAST BATTLE OF THE BANDS NORTON BENEFIT BLAST TO END ALL BLASTS! Howie and Jorge, having completed studies at J&H Productions, have put together the wildest show on earth-- and now they've actually gone overboard and have added The Premiers of "Farmer John" fame to the bill!!! Dig the atomic lineup-- UNTAMED YOUTH (first LA show in 15 years!), THEE MIDNITERS (all garage rock & roll set!), PHANTOM SURFERS (with special guests!),  KIM FOWLEY ("The Lord "Of Garbage!), luscious DONNA LOREN (SHINDIG thrush plus gal star of loads of 60's beach party flicks!, DEKE DICKERSON'S ALL STAR FRAT BAND (and we do mean ALL star!), HAUNTED GEORGE AS HASIL ADKINS (!!),  REVEREND BEAT-MAN (direct from Switzerland!) THE GO NUTS (frantic, baby!), MARK & THE ESCORTS (orig 60s EAST LA garage icons!), THE LOONS (killer West Coast garage legends!),THE SLOTHS (original LA 1966 BFTG garage punk gods!), THE SOUTH BAY SURFERS (heart, be still!!),  THEE CORMANS (no waaaay!), THEE TEE PEES (for real?), THE SHAG RATS (w/special guests THE "FARMER JOHN" PREMIERS!), TOM "SPONGEBOB" KENNY (holy moly!) Plus MORE SOOPRIZES! (What more can you ask for???????)  DJs Howie Pyro, Sectmaniac, Freakstik13, Beerwolf & mo' spinnin' wild rock y roll til somebody pullz da plugz! $15 presale/$18 at the door (if there are any!) Get your presale tix at www.theecho.com Check out the Facebook Event Page! Buy your TICKETS HERE! THE SOUTH • • APRIL 11 + 12 • • THE SOUTH  APRIL 12 • NASHVILLE • BROOKLYN BREWERY PRESENTS "YOU CAN'T DOWN THE LOUD SOUND: A BENEFIT FOR NORTON RECORDS" IN TENNESSEE - HEAD-TO-HEAD DOUBLE HEADER AS BROOKLYN MEETS NASHVILLE! What happens when BROOKLYN BREWERY pairs two Brooklyn bands with two Nashville bands in one night of dance floor mayhem?  Yes, Daddy Wants A Cold Beer as the Free Beer For Life crew THE A-BONES come to Tennessee with DADDY LONG-LEGS (the wildest new act on Norton, just back from massive Spain tour) ,  to stomp it out at a Norton Records Benefit all-niter with Nashville faves THE ETTES and THE WEEKEND BABES! Look out! Says the Brooklyn Bowl folks: "YOU CAN’T DROWN THE LOUD SOUND! is a benefit for Brooklyn’s own Norton Records who suffered catastrophic damages due to Superstorm Sandy flooding of their warehouse in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. As part of The Mash, Brooklyn Brewery is bringing Norton bands The A-Bones (with Ira Kaplan from Yo La Tengo and original sax player Lars Espensen) and Daddy Long Legs to Nashville to pair up with seasoned Nashville garage rockers The Ettes and newcomers Weekend Babes!" Thank you Brooklyn Brewery, and thank-you NASHVILLE! More local action TBA! $10 Advance Tickets (available at Grimey’s, The Groove, Parlour and Juke Salon) $15 At the door Facebook Event page! The Brooklyn MAshville homepage! The Mercy Lounge Website! APRIL 11 • A-BONES ATTACK ATLANTA!  THE GAYE BLADES AND CHARLIE PICKETT  SAY "BRING IT ON!" Thursday night cage match antics are sure to abound as the Noise From The North heads south to rumble with those rough tough creampuffs THE GAYE BLADES and that legendary rock n' stomper CHARLIE PICKETT! Don't miss the action at the fabulous EARL, home of the best cole slaw around! Thursday April, 11th! 8:30pm • $10 The A-Bones • Charlie Pickett • The Gaye Blades Says local compere Artie Mondello: "Ultra-legendary New York racket squad The A-Bones are making a sooper-rare Southern sojourn to The Earl, along with The legendary Charlie Pickett and super-special guest Norton Records recording artists the Gaye Blades! In my estimation, this will be a momentous occassion in the anals of music history" Buy Tickets Here! Facebook Event Page! The Earl Website

SPRING BREAK BASHES! FOUR NORTON BENEFITS  THIS WEEKEND

 FRI MAR 22 BROOKLYN NY 
FRI MAR 22 CHAPEL HILL NC 

SAT MAR 23  PORTLAND ME

SAT MAR 23 BURBANK CA

 NORTON VINTAGE T-SHIRT EBAY AUCTION

ORIGINAL 1970'S + MORE! IGGY • RAMONES • GROOVIES • DICTATORS •

 

DESERT ISLAND BOOKS PRESENTS 

• KICKS #1 (1979) •

Available for the first time

since 1979- 

what started the Norton ball rollin'!

One hundred forty-five days since 

Sandy.. and counting! 

Join us this weekend at one (or all!) of three cities hosting Norton benefits!Giant thank you to all the benefits artists and promoters past, present and future, and everyone who has participated in saving Norton!

BELL HOUSE BROOKLYN NY (Fri 3/22) Reigning Sound, the Swinging Neckbreakers, the Piggies-- all boss combos with Norton wax that went through the deluge- pounding the sound. Billy and Miriam from Norton with blast seven inchers between sets. Stacks of "Sandy" Norton 45s's will be available for $2 apiece. Also available will be t-shirts, recent LP releases, and the first copies of KICKS #1 since 1979- major thanks to Brooklyn's fabulous DESERT ISLAND BOOKS which spearheaded, engineered, executed, and paid for, this limited fundraiser reprint of the first issue of the fanzine that started the ball rolling for Norton seven years later (Norton hatched in 1986). Git your commemorative reprint of KICKS #1 only at Desert Island Books, at the Friday Bell House hop, or on-line at kicksbooks.com starting Tuesday March 26. Thank you Gabe - your bookstore is the ultimate source for books, comics, fanzines and paper mayhem in general! "Led by former Oblivian Greg Cartwright, Reigning Sound offer a perfect recipe of Memphis rock'n'roll stew, even if the members now reside in North Carolina and Brooklyn. "Time Bomb High School" is one of our favorite albums of this century and we are eagerly awaiting their new release on the Merge label in the hopes that they will eclipse that classic! Reigning Sound's brilliant combination of raucous pounders and tender ballads can't be beat. New Jersey's Swingin' Neckbreakers put the power in power trio. From their classic "Live For Buzz" album through the most recent "Pop Of The Tops", they have never stopped kicking rock'n'roll ass. With John Jorgensen back behind the drums, they have been performing a lot of old favorites that haven't been heard in years. Tom Jorgensen is a hellacious rock'n'roll shouter and perhaps the only Caucasian who could pull off screaming Bunker Hill's "The Girl Can't Dance". Jeff Jefferson's searing guitar rounds out the line-up. Get ready to sweat and dance! TICKETS!

CHAPEL HILL NC MAR 22 LOCAL 506 The Infidels, Phatlynx (featuring Cousin Crispy from S.C.O.T.S.), New Town Drunks and Blood Red River are in overdrive with the Chapel Hill action faction-- Jack Whitebread and Sleazefest genius Dave Robertson at the helm of this fricasee. Thanks, gents for your southern flair!!!

PORTLAND MAINE - BAYSIDE BOWL (Sat 3/23)  At the luxe lanes of the Bayside Bowl Portland's tastemakers Lenny Smith and Nancy Chalmers join forces with a mess of boss combos-- the Cowgirls of the Damned, the Gamma Goochies, Kim Warnick of the Fastbacks, Kurt Baker, Wimpy Rutherford and the Medallions, Bart Joy, Gwynne Williams, Dave Wolf Conley and the fabulous Matt Little of the insane WMPG, Norton's fave station (alongside WFMU OF COURSE) -- meet and greet the elite, romp  and stomp , and then bowl your brains off!! Art work on this poster by legendary Portland denizen Mort Todd! 

BURBANK, CA - VIVA CANTINA (Sat 3/23) WILD RECORDS presents -- WILD bands -- the only event where all the WILD combos are playing in one location in the USA this year-- how exclusive can you get- be on tap at this landmark event- all proceeds benefit Norton's reprint/repress initiative-- how big hearted can a record label get? Thank you Reb, and all of the superb, real-deal artists that hail from the West Coast version of the hub of civilization- we love you guys and gals the most! RAVE ON!!!

NORTON FUNDRAISER VINTAGE T-SHIRT EBAY AUCTION! The first batch of real-deal vintage t-shirts are up for grabs- auction ends this Sunday 3/24-- includes our original 1970's punk rock Iggy, Ramones, Dictators, Flamin' Groovies and even PUNK mag t-shirts! All worn, some a little stained by White Castle thirty years ago, etc. No really, all are lovingly washed and folded, but may show wear. Check 'em out-- about 40 are up now with another solid batch doing up tomorrow, maybe-- we'll be putting up our own collection of 1920's-1960's crime magazines and solid vintage girly mags like WINK, TITTER, etc. in days to come. 

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