Five years ago, rock 'n' roll lost a true underground legend: Erick Lee Purkhiser, aka Lux Interior, aka the Mad Daddy, the Voodoo Idol, the Garbage Man in the Goo Goo Muck. For 33 (and a third?) ...

Erick Lee Purkhiser, better known as Lux Interior, a founding member of the garage / punk band The Cramps, died early Wednesday morning in Glendale, Calif. According to his publicist, Purkhiser died ...

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Ohio horror-punk legend Lux Interior, the lead singer and co-founder of The Cramps, is enjoying a posthumous surge in popularity. The band’s 1981 song “Goo Goo Muck” has gone viral thanks to its ...

LOS ANGELES — Lux Interior, the singer, songwriter and founding member of the pioneering New York City horror-punk band The Cramps, died early Wednesday. He was 62. Interior, whose real name was Erick ...

Lux Interior, the frontman and founding member of The Cramps has died at the age of 62. Born Erick Lee Purkhiser, Interior formed the garage-punk band with his wife Kristy Wallace, who took the stage ...

Cramps singer Lux Interior died February 4 in California, succumbing to an infection that followed treatment for a heart condition. Born Erick Purkhiser in Stow in 1946, and known to his friends as ...

This week saw the passing of Erick Purkhiser, aka Lux Interior, frontman and founding member of The Cramps. Lux started the Cramps in 1973 with his future wife, Poison Ivy, and the band was a fixture ...

The Cramps’ biggest album was 1980’s Songs the Lord Taught Us, which, despite its underground popularity, proved that the Lord hadn’t taught them much at all. But what the band lacked in musical skill ...

Everyone always talks about the death of rock 'n' roll, but in retrospect, the Cramps were the only artists doing anything to resurrect it. Filth. Sleaze. Shock. Flesh. Fetish. These were the ...