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This has been a bad couple months for fans and friends of rock n' roll. We've lost a wealth of truly amazing people and this news just hammers a spike through our collective heart. I don't know what to say other than that Lux with be missed and that I encourage all of you to blast your Cramps LPs at full volume until it wakes up the dead. Here's the dirt: Lux Interior, lead singer of The Cramps, passed away this morning due to an existing heart condition at Glendale Memorial Hospital [...]

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Cramps frontman Lux Interior passed away yesterday morning in Glendale, Calif., from complications stemming from an existing heart condition. Interior, real name Erick Lee Purkhiser, founded the Cramps with his wife Poison Ivy (née Kristy Wallace) in 1973, and they quickly became fixtures of New York's emerging punk scene after playing their first CBGB show in 1976; their deft combination of surf-rock melodies, rockabilly swagger, and horror-film iconography was hugely influential on a lot of bands that came in their wake. Lux Interior and Poison Ivy were the only two constant members of the band, which stopped touring [...]

He's been written off by the internet before, but this time, sadly, it's for real: Lux Interior has died . Born Erick Lee Purkhiser, popular legend has him meeting his wife and longtime collaborator Kirsty Wallace when she was hitchhiking. The pair bonded over mutual loves of art and music, and in 1973 formed The Cramps. Purkhiser's stage name came from a car advert - raising the possibility that he might have wound up being called Cup Holders. First moving to Akron, the tyre-and-new-wave foundry of Ohio, and then, in 1975, to New York, the [...]

Lux Interior, the awesomely ghoulish frontman for sleazed-up New York rockabilly OGs the Cramps , died today in Glendale, California, as the Daily Swarm reports and an official statement confirms. Interior, born Eric Lee Purkhiser, formed the Cramps with his wife, Kristy "Poison Ivy" Wallace, in 1976. Although the band played CBGB a lot and was a part of the whole NYC birth-of-punk thing, but they didn't really fit in with pummelers like the Ramones and the Dictators or art-school types like Television and Blondie. Their [...]