#ThePeacocks released the Album "And now What" two weeks ago.

Besides tracks in their well-known powerful #punkabilly style, there are some classical #rocknroll numbers with serious hit potential.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG2-QJyhMJU

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Lastly, I also want to suggest people check out a video essay about the Cramps by A Grrrl's Two Sound Cents. It really highlights what was amazing about this band, how absolutely brilliant and hypnotizing Poison Ivy's guitar virtuosity is, and the abosolute unrestrained play of Lux Interior on stage.

https://youtu.be/suI93b1KNJc?si=6OqTXME9vTkBdmxx

I think it's interesting the way their journey maps onto so many queer people's stories. Lux was from Ohio but escaped to California for college where he met his brilliant and beautiful wife and bandmate, Ivy. They brought their musical circus to New York in the late 70s and were a core part of the emerging punk scene, blowing open the possibilities of what punk could be. They later settled in West Hollywood, where Lux started wearing heels and breaking gender.

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The Cramps infamously also decided to build on Johnny Cash's recording of performances at prisons by playing the Napa Valley Mental Hospital in 1978. Mental Hospitals were still pretty rough back then, but this is clearly a welcome bit of fun and liveliness for the patients, as they dance and even join onstage, and Lux and Ivy seem to be having a blast with them all. I think things like this endeared them to outsiders, weirdos, and folks living with mental illnesses like myself.

https://youtu.be/-JnkW2JhHJc?si=gpWo6PAWAshnCyyx

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Thing is, Lux and Ivy were brilliant and unapologetically transgressive, while also deeply loving art. One of my favorite examples of this is one of the only songs I know about a Dada/Cubist painting. "Naked Girl Falling Down the Stairs" is about encountering Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude_Descending_a_Staircase,_No._2) in a museum. The music video also highlights once more Lux's amazing ability to perform in stiletto heels and a latex jumpsuit:

https://youtu.be/E5mH38AhOHI?si=WcVwIs5sUhNy8qXB

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To truly understand the magic that these two brought into the world, you gotta watch them live. Have you ever wondered what the acoustics of a man singing while fellating a microphone sound like? Well, you will find out as Lux gyrates and lurches in uncanny and animalistic fashion across the stage with leather pants so low you can see his pubic hair while performing "I Was a Teenage Werewolf"

https://youtu.be/HrbTkNwbUz8?si=wALqYS_QpNE0PFpm

You can also get a taste for their kinky queerness in "Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon," as Lux performs in leather thong and high heels. CW: music video starts with a scene depicting a bloody demonic birth of a grown man

https://youtu.be/Zt4lf6aR15Y?si=jb_v-seb765u6J0-

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