Episode #202 | 10.14.24
The Cramps: Zombies, Teenage Werewolves, and Rock 'N’ Roll Saviors
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In this episode
The Cramps, led by the husband and wife team of Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorshach, had one mission: To save rock ‘n’ roll from the corporate monsters who threatened its destruction. The band blended rockabilly, blues, garage rock and the aesthetic of 1950s B-movies into a wholly unique and singular rock and roll concoction that set them apart from their punk contemporaries. Buy as they began their climb up the music industry’s ladder of success, they encountered hordes of brainless zombies who didn’t understand their music or their mission, swarms of radioactive bootlegging cockroaches, and a coven of blood-sucking vampires hellbent on destroying the only thing the Cramps held sacred: rock ‘n’ roll.
Sources
DNA INFO: NYC Jumper Suicides Soar Above The National Average
Timeline: Tracking the deadly chaos of Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival (Houston Chronicle)
Before the Astroworld Tragedy, Travis Scott’s ‘Raging’ Made Him a Star (NY Times)
At Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival, a Sudden Life-and-Death Struggle (NY Times)
Credits
Hosted by Jake Brennan.
Written by Jake Brennan.
Copy edited by James Sullivan.
Scored and mixed by Matt Beaudoin.
Additional music and score elements by Ryan Spraker.
DISGRACELAND theme song, “Crenshaw Space Boogie,” written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava, and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.
*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak