In 1977, The Cramps were on the lookout for a new drummer. With guitarist Poison Ivy wrkingv as an in-demand dominatrix, the task of interviewing prospective candidates - not that the band were ...

This essay is one in a series celebrating deserving artists or albums not included on NPR Music's list of 150 Greatest Albums By Women. Despite the pioneering work of women guitarists such as Beverly ...

Ohio horror-punk legend Lux Interior, the lead singer and co-founder of The Cramps, is enjoying a posthumous surge in popularity. The band’s 1981 song “Goo Goo Muck” has gone viral thanks to its ...

Nick Knox, the furrow-browed drummer for the great punk band the Cramps, died Friday at 60. The musician played with the band on its first four classic albums, driving the so-called psychobilly outfit ...

The theme of the night was women in rock and dispelling the stigma that women aren't as talented as men and can't succeed in the world of rock. If The Cramps and the Gore Gore Girls had anything to ...

A colorful salon chair is waiting just for you in a new look into the surreal world of The Cramps: A Period Piece. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of both Fantastic Fest and Collider, we're ...

While surf-punk bands like Agent Orange had punks hitting the beach in the ’80s, psychobilly outfit The Cramps brought a darker, sexier side to surf music, as singer Lux Interior flexed his vocal ...

A new documentary short takes a behind-the-scenes look at the Cramps and the Mutants’ infamous performance at a psychiatric hospital in 1978. Directed by Mike Plante and Jason Willis and produced by ...

Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre, series, or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated ...

If it's possible for a band whose lead singer dresses in PVC and invites the audience to spank his butt to be considered elder statesmen, then Lux Interior and the Cramps are elder statesmen. Interior ...