The Cramps' Lux Interior Dead at 60

The Daily Swarm reports that Lux Interior died this morning, with official confirmation from the band's PR agency. The official cause is an existing heart condition.

Lux Interior, born Erick Lee Purkhiser, was the front man of the Cramps, who burst out of the NYC punk scene in the mid-70s and remained active until the present day.

The Cramps' cauldron of warped rock-a-billy, garage punk, and B-movie horror kitsch--slapped with the handle "psychobilly"--earned them devoted fans, and curious onlookers, worldwide. They released eleven albums, swarming with punk classics like "Garbage Man," "Human Fly," "Some New Kind Of Kick," and "Can Your Pussy Do The Dog," some of which were covered and recorded by the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, Halo of Flies, and Social Distortion. Cramps' live performances were legendary, rubberized, compound-gender hoedowns, with a slithering Lux counterbalanced by the sequined tremolo grind of fellow founder Poison Ivy. 

Rest In Pieces, Lux.

--Patrick