Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye Unearth and Release Lost Album by The Cramps
Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye are reviving Vengeance Records and issuing 12 restored tracks from the band’s 1977 sessions.
- Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye announced the revival of Vengeance Records to release 'Gravest Gravy', a lost 1977 studio album by The Cramps, arriving August 21.
- Larry Hardy of In The Red Records discovered the lost tapes in 2026, which feature sessions recorded in 1977 with producer Alex Chilton. The reels were found in "pristine condition."
- The 12-track LP features "TV Set", available now with a Jason Willis-directed music video. Rollins called it "one of the purest collections of unrestrained, wild music you'll ever hear."
- Poison Ivy Rorschach formed The Cramps, Inc. with Jimmy Maslon and Larry Hardy to manage the band's catalog and reissue records. The company aims to list official merchandise, replacing bootlegged items in circulation.
- The Cramps formally ended in 2009 following the death of co-founder Lux Interior. Rollins stated this effort is a "combined effort of people whose lives were changed by the music of the Cramps.
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Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins to revive The Cramps’ formerly defunct label
This year’s best piece of punk Madlibs just dropped. Observant fans of surf-goth heroes The Cramps may have already noticed an Instagram account by the name of @thecrampsofficialvengeancerecords. Today, Henry Rollins (Black Flag, Rollins Band) and Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi) announced that they’re teaming up to revive The Cramps’ formerly defunct label, Vengeance Records. Earlier this year, Rollins and MacKaye released a rediscovered 1977…
Henry Rollins, former Black Flag vocalist, and Ian MacKaye, founding figure of Minor Threat, announced the release of Gravest Gravy, an unreleased record by The Cramps recorded in the late 1970s and which remained unpublished until now.The album will be released on August 21st through Vengeance Records, the historic label of [...] See more news on Indie Hoy.
Credit: Stephanie Chernikowski (DR) Poison Ivy, the guitarist and co-founder of Cramps, has partnered with Larry Hardy (owner of the In The Red Records label) and Jimmy Maslon (former producer and director of clips for Cramps) to relaunch the Cramps label, Vengeance Records. For the occasion an unreleased album will be released on August 21st and announced by the unreleased title "TV Set". Gravest Gravy has been produced in October 1977 at Arden…
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