Video: Cramps at Napa Mental Hospital

Tonight's show at Echoplex is simultaneously the best show of 1980/81 and also 2010/11 so far: the Middle Class, Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds, Grant Hart (of Husker Du!) and the Urinals! We asked people to send us YouTubes of appropriately ripping vintage punk and did they ever ... especially with the Screamers videos! (Never thought there would be a day when the Screamers are the majority option.) So here are the winners! If you didn't win, you can get tix here or just go. Or more correctly: GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! FIRST [...]

... Very Short And There's No Tiiiiiiiiimmmmmmme, For Fussing And Fighting My Friends. I dunno, some old band sang that a while back. Hey now, thanks for all of the advice on how to deal with Mr. Asshole former boss. And the answer was... D - I ignored the lunch request and responded to his query about football (the 'merican version). I am sure he figured the implied message. I could not have sat across from him without strangling him, so what would be the [...]

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With the sad news today that Lux Interior, founding member and lead singer of The Cramps is with us no longer, we thought it only right to pay tribute to the punk pioneer with one of the band's most infamous performances. Here they are at the Napa State Mental Hospital in 1978.