The Cramps
Musical trash compacters The Cramps always pursued the course defined in one of their late-period song titles: “Wilder Wilder Faster Faster.” Taking the precepts of the original rockabilly madmen as road signs, the New York-bred band careened along a literal highway to hell, energetically and entertainingly piledriving a backhoe through the towering garbage heap of American popular culture.
Vocalist Lux Interior and guitarist Poison Ivy Rorschach, the couple who guided The Cramps for more than three decades, presented a kind of manifesto in their liner notes — which also served as an invaluable source of information about the... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Garage Rock, Garage Punk, Punk, Psychobilly
- City Of Origin:
- New York City, ,New York United States
- Formed Date:
- 1976
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