Episode #202 | 10.14.24

The Cramps: Zombies, Teenage Werewolves, and Rock 'N’ Roll Saviors

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In this episode

The Cramps, led by the husband and wife team of Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorshach, had one mission: To save rock ‘n’ roll from the corporate monsters who threatened its destruction. The band blended rockabilly, blues, garage rock and the aesthetic of 1950s B-movies into a wholly unique and singular rock and roll concoction that set them apart from their punk contemporaries. Buy as they began their climb up the music industry’s ladder of success, they encountered hordes of brainless zombies who didn’t understand their music or their mission, swarms of radioactive bootlegging cockroaches, and a coven of blood-sucking vampires hellbent on destroying the only thing the Cramps held sacred: rock ‘n’ roll.