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Ether  this is an elaborate hoax or a really damn tragic day for rock n roll. Various blogs and websites reporting today that Lux Interior, aka Erick Lee Purkhiser (62) of the legendary The Cramps passed away due to an existing heart condition at 4:30am  in Glendale, CA hospital, more colorfully earlier in the day Lux Wiki reported cause of death to be auto erotic asphyxiation (now changed). Most places site a press release from Girlie Action, The Cramps’ media representatives as a source for this information. Girlie Action and The Cramps official website contain no information about this what so ever and could not be reached for comment, so until we know better we chose to hope, to believe that this is just a publicity stunt, or a prank of some sort. How can Lux so full of energy and life and amazing talent pass away at only 62? What the hell is this? We wait for more news.

Admittedly I have been a bit silent about the past Drop Dead, no full review, not as many photos as there should have been. Honestly this year was daunting. Between crazy logistics and sound problems, there never the less was magic in the air. Festival officially was 5 days beginning with concerts on the beach under the moonlight but people came early and stayed late so it really was more like a week to two week extravaganza. The bands were amazing, and Portugal was a special place to visit. Simply the whole thing was daunting work to put together and run with a tiny crew but an experience of a lifetime never the less.

There has been copious amounts of videos from the festival on youtube some of questionable quality, some pretty damn good. this will give you some idea of inspiration , madness and silliness that went on last October in Portugal, Drop Dead Festival 6. Kicking things off with a funny segment from a major Portuguese TV station featuring an interview with yours truly and bemused 13th moon.

Please follow me behind the Cut to see UK Decay, Kitchen and the Plastic Spoons, Lene Lovich , Cinema Strange, Phantom Vision, †13th MOON†, and Tchiki Boum playing at the festival.

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Drop Dead Magazine has been invited by the worlds oldest Horror magazine Fangoria to do a horror music blog.  We are bloody delighted to bring you the Drop Dead Chronicles , The Cutting Edge. You can find this blog on the Fangoria official website . As our first order of business we have uploaded the full first album by our favorite Spanish horror fiends Los Carniceros Del Norte and did an interview with Thorsten of the Fiendforce Records. Presented for your ghoulish pleasure are 3 songs from the Fiendforce Records. We would love to hear what you think about our Horror Music  blog and what you would like up to cover. Please go to directly to Fangoria and make your comments there. Happy Ghoulidays every one!

Fiendforce MP3
Rezurex - Die De Los Muerto
The Other - Lovers Lane
Blitzkid - Terror In The Haunted House

Great news for art punks and weird wave fiends it has just been announced that the second annual Mutant Transmissions Festival will take place in NYC on April 5th and 6th, 2009.

Last years MTF took place in LA and spotlighted a slew of excellent west coast bands as well as some interlopers. This year mutant Transmissions hits NYC which will give a an opportunity for the east coast weirdos to join in the fun. MT is a DIY event and invites local art and music community to get involved in planning and production. The younger crowd is also not excluded since the festival is traditionally an all ages event and every one is embraced with equal id not all together sane enthusiasm. Watch for the line up and updates on Mutant Transmissions Myspace. To join in the fun email mutanttransmissions at gmail dot com.

English Label Cherry Red  is a bit of a slice of heaven when it comes to Goth, Punk or Psychobilly re-releases and compilations. In resent years among many hard to find material collected and re-released  were  incomparable Dancing Did, fabulous Divine and who is who of Punk and Psychobilly from Adicts to Wasted Youth. Among November releases five albums deserve a special notise. Witness a carer retrospective of Into the Circle, Gothy dream pop. CD features 20 essential tracks that include b-sides and 12′ remixes. Taste Alien Sex Fiend genre hoping, mutated Frankenstein devouring goth, deathrock, punk and techno in equal amounts. This double CD with 14 tracks each, focuses  on b-sides and remixes from ASF 12″ singles. Have you heard, Only meteors are Psychobilly? Well if you want proof here is 5 disc career retrospective. Some essential songs are missing of course but that is to be expected from a band with such a large catalog. Where is Captain Kirk? Spizzenergy got an answer for you. Although they s the first Indy band to chart a number 1 single, their music was hard to find until now. of course we know that you are abscessed with Vincent Price, who isn’t? Here is a final devilish delight a whole, entire cd of Vincent Price voice overs, stories, and radio recordings.

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Into a Circle - Over And Over (demo)
Alien Sex Fiend - Dead And Burried
The Meteors - The Phantom Rider
Spizzenergi - Where’s Captain Kirk

Link:
Cherry Red Records http://www.cherryred.co.uk/

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It’s no secret that we admire the french electro punks Kap Bambino. Imagine our happy surprise when they actually came to play NYC few month ago. The show was crazy packed, singer Caroline Martial was frantic bouncing around the stage, jumping into the audience, and generally going crazy while  keyboardist Orion Bouvier stayed in the background drinking PBR’s and controlling the machinery. Although sound wasn’t the greatest (maybe because we were right upfront?) the energy of the show more then made up for it. Judge for your self, submitted for your approval here are the photos and a video direct from that show. In addition we included a few of our favorite mp3s from their 2007 album  New Breath from Zero Lite Night Vision.

Photo Gallery: Kap Bambino at the Ruff Club, 8/15/08 NYC

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Kap Bambino New Breath from Zero Lite Night Vision (2007)
Kap Bambino Save from Zero Lite Night Vision(2007)

Video: Kap Bambino in NYC August 15, 2008

Links:
Kap Bambino http://www.myspace.com/kapbambino
Ruff Club: http://www.thehotpink.com/

It’s been a little over a month since the finish of the Drop Dead Festival 6.  Looking back now it almost seems impossible that we shared five days of perfect madness and music overdose in Portugal. We came from all over the world and we celebrated like there is no tomorrow. As after the festival blues sets in and I begin to miss the hell out of friends who live way to far for me too visit, here is a bit of a pick me up. Please enjoy a first installment of out Drop Dead Family Album. ! Please send us your photos, videos and experiences from the DDF to dropdeadmagazine at gmail.com!

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13th moon photo  by Pedro Polonio httpclub-silencio.blogspot.com,

Reprint from DDM Issue 1 (Subscribe HERE)

by Kirill Ermichev
St. Psychoburg, Russia
September 30.11.05

It was a dark and rainy October evening of 1998. My doorbell rang and I opened the door. It was my neighbor Max, he brought me an audiotape. “Listen to it,” he said, “you will like it. It’s a kinda crazy rock-n-roll.” After listening for awhile I knew that this “crazy rock-n-roll” I was definitely impressed by the psychobilly songs, and a compilation that changed my life was called “1st Psychoattack Over Europe”… That was the intro. Now for the facts.

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