Happy Birthday John Felice!

Celebrating the birthday of John Felice with three rippin' Real Kids performance clips from 1978, '82 and '83. 

Norton celebrates July 4th with Stones tribute singles sale

Buy any three singles from Norton's Stones cover series and get the fourth free – geddit?

PLAY WITH FIRE JULY 4TH BLASTEROO 

All references to "no more hotdogs" and "greasy chicken" aside, we simply had to repurpose this smokin' snapshot of Keith and Brian playin' with fire for the first of our special July 4th declarations of independents, despite the fact that we're all celebrating the 245th anniversary of our split from Britain this weekend. 

And say, 28 years ago, Norton started asking bands that we dug from around the globe to cover fave early tunes from the Rolling Stones catalog. We ended up with 69 tunes by 69 artists spanning 34 seven inch singles, packaged with London-inspired labels and one-sided Londonesque company sleeves, hand screened by our genius artist pal Art Chantry!

This summer, Norton celebrates our 35th anniversary, and we'll be swinging bonus goodies to you all season long, starting today with our Norton Rolling Stones series offer.

So here's your holiday deal - purchase 3 singles and we will add a complimentary FREE fourth seven incher during July only, and while supplies last. As Mr Jones would ask, "Do you have them all?"

Find out which singles in the series are available and order them directly from Norton right here.  

Best wishes for a big. boss, beat-filled barbecue this weekend! – Norton crew

Watch The Real Kids rehearse in a Boston rec room in 1976

Here's John Felice and pals working on "My Baby's Book" they would later record for The Real Kids debut album on Red Star Records. 

Les Lullies, Tommy & The Commies, B-17 @ The Baby G, Saturday

Montpellier malcontents Les Lullies tear up the Baby G tonight Slovenly-style. 

Real Kids early demos unearthed by Tim Warren

Coming soon on Crypt Records: two vinyl albums and a 79 minute CD of both albums chockfulla r&r greatness from John Felice & his various bandmates (Curt Naihersey, Jeff Jensen, Kevin Glasheen in 1974: 8 unissued demos by The KIDS from 1974); and the REAL KIDS (Alpo, Billy Borgioli and Howie in 1976-1978): 4 unissued demos plus 10 ripping live tracks by the REAL KIDS from 1977-1978. LP CR-120 is a gatefold with 32-page 12" x 12" booklet. LP CR-121 is a gatefold with 2-sided inner sleeve. CD version (Crypt-120) is a 204 page monster. Have a look...