Halloween will be coming a bit early when the Nekromantix orchestrate a dead man's party of psychobilly music Friday night at the Borderline in Thousand Oaks. No tricks or treats — just rock and ...

Many fans of psychobilly music can argue all day long about the origins of the genre or what constitutes a band as psychobilly. We would like to stray a bit from that conversation and simply give you ...

MONUMENT • Performing guitar is nothing new to Monument’s Tom Mallon, but playing with the band PsychoBilly seems to continuously have audiences on their feet. Mallon is no stranger to guitar ...

Left to Right: Kid “Congo” Powers, Lux Interior, Poison Ivy and Nick Knox. On first glance, you’d think The Cramps were characters taken straight from a Tim Burton movie. But, the psychobilly rockers, ...

This is part of a series of reviews on weekly events at local bars. Having lived in the Valley my whole life, I only recently realized that tons of bars offer weekly events featuring bands that are ...

I was turned away from what should have been my first gig, thanks to a diligent bouncer adept at identifying underage girls beneath their layers of Constance Carroll make-up. It was The Housemartins ...

Today, rock ‘n’ roll heroes from the 1950s couldn’t be more harmless or universally accepted. Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, even Elvis have been reduced to goofy Halloween costumes and grinning ...

Last month, Chilkoot Charlie’s Ice Bar was a sea of perfectly quaffed pompadours, colorful tattoos and well-worn Doc Martens as the Rumble Cats Vintage Motor Club played host to a night of psychobilly ...

When punk and rockabilly had a baby, the little bugger wasn’t pretty. Called psychobilly, the greasy mutant lovechild and its birth were both figuratively incestuous and totally inevitable. According ...