Our Love Lingers On

BILLY MILLER

Rest In Peace

Thank you for your unbridled love of music and a good story (and man did you have the best stories!); your generosity and your big heart; thank you for all that you did for Dead Flowers Productions. We will truly miss talking with you about rock'n'roll and our beloved Mets. All of our love goes out to your sweetheart Miriam Linna, and everyone that you touched through your music, label, and words.

Pictured left to right: Lee Greenfeld (Dead Flowers), Billy Miller (Norton Records/

A-Bones), and Todd-O-Phonic Todd (Telstar Records/WFMU). Photo by Miriam Linna

Love To Love

MIRIAM & NOBODY'S BABIES

THE MOTO-GATORS

Miriam Linna began her music career as the first drummer for the Cramps in 1976 New York. The Sudbury, Ontario, native went on to pound the skins for the Zantees and frat-rock luminaries the A-Bones. Linna is perhaps best known for co-founding the legendary Kicks magazine and Norton Records, both with her husband Billy Miller.

In 2014, Linna teamed up with producer Sam Elwitt to release her first solo album, the wall-of-sound tour de force Nobody's Baby (Norton), which was lauded as the best album of 2014 and reached #1 on the influential WFMU. Linna hit the ground running in 2015 with the smash single "The Hand Don't Fit The Glove," with a new album Down Today to be released on October 2nd.

Miriam Linna backing band (Nobody's Babies) is led by Sam Elwitt, with Bruce Bennett, Justina Davies, Matt Fiveash and David Lindsay.

Wednesday, September 23rd at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Photograph by Jacob Blickenstaff

Take Me For A Little While

MIRIAM & NOBODY'S BABIES

SUZETTE SUNDAE & THE LOVELIFES

Miriam. That’s right, just one name, like Cher or Madonna. Or Winger, for that matter. Nobody’s Baby is Miriam’s first solo album, and it’s a gem. If you’re expecting the same high-intensity, raucous'n'roll you find with The A-Bones, you won’t get it on Nobody’s Baby. Instead, this album reminds of two previous records, classy efforts both, in the Norton Records catalog: Dangerous Game, the 2007 "comeback" album by Mary Weiss, lead singer of The Shangri-Las, and All Or Nothing by La La Brooks, who used to sing with The Crystals. Like those older albums, Nobody’s Baby is a contemporary take on the classic early- to mid-'60s girl-group sound — an adult update on the teen yearning and, yes, angst of that golden period.

Thursday, July 30th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Photography by Roberta Bayley