In August 2026, after resurrecting Vengeance Records label, Poison Ivy, along with Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye , released Gravest Gravy , a collection of songs recorded by the band with Alex Chilton in 1977.
On February 4, 2009, Lux Interior died at the Glendale Memorial Hospital after suffering an aortic dissection which, contrary to initial reports about a pre-existing condition, was “sudden, shocking and unexpected”.
The Cramps played their final shows in Europe in the summer of 2006 and their last live show was on November 4, 2006, at the Marquee Theater in Tempe, Arizona .
In 2002, the Cramps released their final album, Fiends of Dope Island , on their own label, Vengeance Records. That same year, Lux Interior did a voiceover for the lead singer character of the band The Bird Brains on the animated TV show SpongeBob SquarePants singing ‘Underwater Sun.’ The song…
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On January 10, 2001, Bryan Gregory died at Anaheim Memorial Medical Center of complications following a heart attack . He was 49.
In 1995 the Cramps appeared on the TV-series Beverly Hills, 90210 in the Halloween episode “Gypsies, Cramps and Fleas”. They played two songs in the episode: “Mean Machine” and “Strange Love”. Lux Interior started the song by saying “Hey boys and ghouls, are you ready to raise the dead?”.
In 1994, the Cramps made their national US television debut on Late Night with Conan O’Brien performing “Ultra Twist”.
Candy del Mar and Knox left the band in 1991. The Cramps hit the Top 40 in the UK for the first and only time with “Bikini Girls with Machine Guns”; Ivy posed as such both on the cover of the single and in the promotional video for the song.…
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It was not until 1986 that the Cramps found a suitable permanent bass player: Candy del Mar (of Satan’s Cheerleaders), who made her recorded debut on the raw live album RockinnReelininAucklandNewZealandxxx . This was followed by the studio album Stay Sick! in 1990, which spent one week at No. 62…
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In 1985 the Cramps recorded a one-off track for the horror movie The Return of the Living Dead called “Surfin’ Dead”, on which Ivy played bass as well as guitar. With the release of 1986’s A Date With Elvis , the Cramps permanently added a bass guitar to the mix,…
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