The Cramps

Remembrance Rock 

If He Was From Venus: Alex Chilton at 75

December 28, 2025December 28, 2025 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 75th birthday, A Man Called Destruction, Alex Chilton, Big Star, Memphis, Tennessee, The Box Tops, The Cramps, The Replacements

Celebrating the life of a Memphis rock icon

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Punk Rockabilly 

Early Cramps Classics Back On Wax

October 31, 2025October 31, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1980, 1981, 1984, Bad Music for Bad People, I.R.S. Records, Lux Interior, Poison Ivy, Psychedelic Jungle, Songs The Lord Taught Us, The Cramps

Three seminal LPs back in stores now

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Garage Rock Rock 

Kid Congo: Always Looking for a New Kind of Kick 

May 1, 2024May 1, 2024 Brad Cohan 0 Comments 2024, In The Red Records, Kid Congo, Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, Kid Congo Powers, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, That Delicious Vice, The Cramps, The Gun Club

The legendary guitarist for The Cramps, The Gun Club and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds dishes about his latest record

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Industrial Post-Punk Punk Remembrance 

Brighter Than A Thousand Suns: Geordie Walker 1958 – 2023

November 28, 2023November 28, 2023 Tim Sommer 1 Comment Catherine Christer Hennix, Come As You Are, Don Powell, Geordie Walker, Jaz Coleman, Killing Joke, Martin Atkins, New Order, Nick Knox, Nirvana, Paul Ferguson, RIP, Slade, The Cramps, The Damned, Tommy Ramone, Youth

Remembering the innovative, influential Killing Joke guitarist

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New Wave Punk 

WATCH: Rochester Punks New Math Return

May 19, 2023May 20, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2023, Blondie, Die Trying & Other Hot Sounds (1979-1983), New Math, New York, Propeller Sound Recordings, Rochester, The Cramps, The Damned, The Only Ones, The Ramones, Upstate NY

The band shares video from forthcoming comp Die Trying & Other Hot Sounds (1979 – 1983)

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Garage Rock Punk Rock Rockabilly 

Still The Queen: The Cramps’ Poison Ivy Turns 70

February 20, 2023February 21, 2023 Jim Sullivan 18 Comments Boston, Lux Interior, New York City, Poison Ivy, Punk, Rockabilly, The Cramps, The Rat

Celebrating the career of punk guitar icon

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Country and/or Western Remembrance Rock 

Remembering Pig: A Piano Player Without Equal

February 7, 2022February 7, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Alan Jackson, Bob Dylan, Charlie Rich, Dolly Parton, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, J.J. Cale, John Hartford, Kenny Rogers, Loretta Lynn, Mark Knopfler, Merle Haggard, Neil Young, RIP, Sturgill Simpson, The Cramps, Ween

Session superstar Hargus Robbins passes away at age 84

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Video 

2021: The Year In Music Videos

December 31, 2021December 31, 2021 Jason Gross 0 Comments Charlotte Adigéry, Combo Chimbita, Gerald V. Casale, Gjon Mili, Iggy Pop, Kim Gordon, Maynard James Keenan, Music videos, Nellie McKay, OutKast, Phoebe Bridgers, The Cramps

From TikTok to YouTube to SNL, the evolution was indeed televised

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Punk Remembrance Rockabilly 

Aloha From Hell: Lux Interior Turns 75

October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 Jim Sullivan 2 Comments 75th birthday, Alex Chilton, Flamejob, Lux Interior, Poison Ivy, RIP, Smell of Female, Songs The Lord Taught Us, Stay Sick!, The Cramps

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on his years in conversation with the dearly departed Cramps frontman

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Music Journalism 

Famous Quotes Vol. XXI: July 2021

July 5, 2021July 5, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Famous Quotes, Huey Lewis, Joan Jett, Lux Interior, Mike Scott, Poison Ivy, Robyn Hitchcock, The Cramps, The Waterboys, William Butler Yeats

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the latest installment of his inquisitive column

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New Wave Pop 

Chris Frantz at 70

May 8, 2021March 24, 2022 Jim Sullivan 3 Comments 70th Birthday, Blondie, Chris Frantz, David Byrne, Genius of Love, Son of Sam, Talking Heads, Television, The Cramps, The Dead Boys, The Ramones, Tina Weymouth, Tom Tom Club

Jim Sullivan catches up with the groundbreaking drummer for Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club on his 70th trip around the sun

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Glam New Wave Pop 

Sparks and the Steady Drip, Drip, Drip of Success Pt. I

May 14, 2020May 22, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 2020, A Steady Drip Drip Drip, BMG, Franz Ferdinand, Ron Mael, Russell Mael, Sparks, The Cramps

As they release their 24th LP, Ron Mael speaks exclusively with the Rock & Roll Globe about how he and brother Russell are keeping from going COVID crazy

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Alternative Rock Music Journalism 

Pop Top 40: Modern Rock Tracks for the Week Ending March 24, 1990

April 1, 2020April 1, 2020 T.A. Inskeep 2 Comments Adam Ant, Cowboy Junkies, Depeche Mode, Electronic, Michael Penn, Midnight Oil, Oingo Boingo, Peter Murphy, Pop, Robert Palmer, Sinead O'Connor, Social Distortion, The Beloved, The Blue Nile, The Church, The Cramps, The Creatures, The Smithereens

This is as peak “Poppy Bush Interzone” as it gets

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Punk Rockabilly Roots 

Touch Me, I’m Sick: The Cramps’ Stay Sick! at 30

February 26, 2020February 27, 2020 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1990, A Date With Elvis, Enigma Records, Lux Interior, Nick Knox, Poison Ivy, Stay Sick!, The Cramps

Basing themselves in L.A., 1990 saw the band usher in the last decade of the 20th century with a renewed vigor and purpose

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Hard Rock Hardcore Heavy Metal Records 

Bad Music For Bad People: A Listicle Not for the Always Woke, Ever Timid or Politically Correct

June 6, 2019December 10, 2023 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment Alice Cooper, Anti-Nowhere League, Body Count, Charles Manson, Dead Boys, Fear, Ice-T, Lou Reed, Rolling Stones, Slayer, Sparks, Starz, The Beatles, The Cramps, The Only Ones, The Rotters, Tiger Lillies

The title is copped from the name of a great 1984 Cramps compilation album, and that’s kind of what this story is about

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