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New Norton wax is upon us-- a slathering of grease for the loud and the lovelorn-- these seven inch slabs pave the blacktop for twelve inch action coming in June!Check out the website - lots of hot new wax from Norton and other attitudinal labels plus loads of previously-out Norton titles are now BACK IN PRINT!Plus new stuff from Kicks Books.. soon to celebrate five years in biz-- four of them above water!
182 TICO AND THE TRIUMPHS – HERE COMES THE GARBAGE MAN/THE BIGGEST LIE I EVER TOLD Two unissued 1962 sides from the Jerry Landis (Paul Simon) New York City group!
183 MIRIAM – MY LOVE HAS GONE/THERE GOES MY BABE Miriam steps out from behind the A-Bones drum kit for her first solo outing-- two songs from the upcoming NOBODY'S BABY album. Produced by Sam Elwitt. Of course!
9667 BARRENCE WHITFIELD AND THE SAVAGES – ONE MORE TRY/STOMPIN’ RIFF RAFFS – WHAT A SHAME Northeast meets Far East as the Savages channel Frankie Lee Sims while the Riff Raffs clobber their side with a nod to Don and Dewey!
184 DONDEE AND THE GLADES – THAT’S WHY I CRIED/I HAD A DREAM A true early sixties sad sack anthem – as the cover claims, “For Losers Only.” Nothing about this record is right.
185 JOHNNY BURNETTE – YOU GOTTA GET READY/ FANTABU-LOUS Early rock n’ roll demos! Johnny and Dorsey tear it up with a full band on the rockin’ You Gotta Get Ready from Norton’s CRAZY DATE LP while the frantic flip makes its first appearance on wax!
SUN RA -PROPHETIKA (45-1901) CENTENNIAL SOUVENIR (KICKS BOOKS) Two never heard and top rank Sun Ra vocal sing-song doomsday recitations, one with fabulous instrumentation. This small-hole 45 RPM record commemorates the Sun Ra Centennial 2014 and celebrates the publication of the first book of a three "hip-pocket paperback" trilogy called PROPHETIKA--apocalyptic end-time warnings to heed from Kicks Books! Each sleeve is stamped and numbered.
PROPHETIKA by Sun Ra (KB9) Foreword by Charles Plymell. Introduction by Phast Phreddie Patterson. The first of three books that will comprise the PROPHETIKA trilogy, a lost trove of unpublished end-times poetry and prose-- hard-edged predictions and prognostications to mankind from the doomsday pen of visionary genius Sun Ra! From Kicks Boks, who previously bought you Sun Ra's THIS PLANET IS DOOMED (KB2) - also available!
SWEET EBONY by Royston Ellis! (KBB1) Britain's original beat author, the inspiration for the Beatles' Paperback Writer, resurfaced last year with Kicks Books' GONE MAN SQUARED, after going MIA for five decades. Now, he's back in action, taking the publishing world by storm with SWEET EBONY, the first of TWELVE titles for Kicks Books- with a new book due each month for the next twelve months! SWEET EBONY charts new genre-warping terrain as four free-thinking women from California travel to Kenya on a safari in search of the "F' word- fulfillment of their wildest desires. Ellis writes with shrewd insight into four disparate personalities coping with the clash of cultures at the end of the 1970's. Come along for a wild ride with the man the Beatles called "Paperback Writer", who Jimmy Page backed as a young stringbuster, and who Time Out declared one of London's all-time Top Teenage Rebels! Kicks Books Blue-- for those who wish turn up the heat! KBB series is a thick, larger format book.
KICKS BOOKS PRESENTS NEW "HIP POCKET PAPERBACK" PROPHETIKA: LOST WRITINGS OF SUN RA (VOL. 1) IS HERE!
In this centennial of Sun Ra's birth, Kicks Books delivers a new collection of lost parables and polemics. PROPHETIKA will be the tenth title from Brooklyn's unsinkable KICKS BOOKS COMPANY, which went underwater in Hurricane Sandy. All of its titles, which include works by Andre Williams, Nick Tosches, Harlan Ellison, Royston Ellis, Kim Fowley and Charles Plymell, are back in print! |
• KICKS BOOKS • THE OWL HAS LANDED • |
THE OWL has indeed landed... our new mascot arrives via our first-ever Kicks Books book bag, just in time for our big bash on April 25 at THE POETRY PROJECT at historic ST MARKS CHURCH IN-THE-BOWERY.. celebrating the publication of PROPHETIKA, an apocalyptic array of unpublished Sun Ra poems and polemics, timed to preview during the Grand Cardinal Cross and to coincide with with this month's solar eclipse.. all heralding Sun Ra's birth centennial... articulating the goods at the book launch will be beat poet king
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CHARLES PLYMELL of BENZEDRINE HIGHWAY fame, Sun Ra disciple/ rhythm & blues legend BARRENCE WHITFIELD, bi-coastal author / DJ/ saxophone stylist PHAST PHREDDIE, Detroit's destructo-guitar god MICK COLLINS of the GORIES and the DIRT BOMBS (who will leave his axe at home and go for an all-out oratory instead)... and "space" theremin- wielding Mike Edison who will make and break the mood as required, and pontificate at will...
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... and perfume will be available at the reading which will be followed by an all-niter at Jonathan Toubin's SHAKIN ALL OVER UNDER SIDEWAYS DOWN stomp at Home Sweet Home, 131 Chrystie Street... join the pilgrimage over to Home Sweet Home, as Charles, Phreddie, Mick, Mike, Barrence and the Kicks krew spin outta site outer space dance floor
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rompers and stompers in the basement while the Saturn Room upstairs will provide a heavenly haven for snugglers and stargazers... CHARLES PLYMELL's birthday arrives at midnite, so causes for celebration shall multiply... THE ROYSTON ELLIS monthly series is off to the races with our format-busting SWEET EBONY in the new KICKS Big Book BLUE series.. you heard right.. a book a month for a year... watch for May publication RUSH AT THE END by Royston Ellis.. from Kicks Big Books LAVENDER BLUE.. genre busting, gender bending ... hard-edged and harder bitten... that's Ellis in a nutshell... and yes, limited fragrances are concocted for each book in the series...pick up some scents for mothers day and start your fragrance collection while you can... the ink is dry
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on our agreement to publish WHEN PIMPS WERE KING as a he/she duo, a year in the life of a pimp... circa 1970... true story diary style combo... half pimp... half prostie... the pair is due for Kicks Books Blue series this summer... all roads now lead to our year end Kicks Books 5th anniversary... which will ignite with the anticipated publication of I FOUGHT THE LAW, the authorized biography of Bobby Fuller by Miriam Linna and Bobby's brother Randy Fuller. Fuller's musical legacy comes to the printed page with four wheels burning... details follow on all counts... STAY YE TUNED.. and see you at St. Marks Church and Home Sweet Home on April 25!
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• SUN RA PROPHETIKA EVENT BALLYOO • |
What: SUN RA CENTENNIAL! Kicks Books and The Poetry Project present the PROPHETIKA book launch with all nite dance to follow at Home Sweet Home hosted by Jonathan Toubin and Shakin All Over Under Sideways Down!
When: Friday April 25 Where: St Marks Church on the Bowery, 131 E. 10th Street NYC and after-prance is at 131 Chrystie Street NYC Time: Doors 10 PM, event begins 10:20 sharp What: Rants, raves and readings from Charles Plymell, Mick Collins, Phast Phreddie, Barrence Whitfield, and Mike Edison with occasional noise from the space theremin and the Phast sax. First availability of books and perfume. Followed by: All night celebration with Sun Ra superfan Jonathan Toubin and crew at Home Sweet Home!
Join luminaries Barrence Whitfield, Phast Phreddie Boogaloo Omnibus, Mike Edison, Mick Collins, and CHARLES PLYMELL as they read the secret screeds-- long lost unseen pronouncements of doom and rancor from the Sun one. Hear, heed, read and then join the Jonathan Toubin brigade all nite Sun Ra dance-o-thon at Home Sweet Home ... from 131 E. 10th Street to 131 Chrystie Street... let the interconstellational Cardinal Grand Cross mayhem BEGIN!
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• KICKS BOOKS • IN PRINT & ON KINDLE • |
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