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The Cramps

American rock band
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The Cramps

Summary

The Cramps is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,504 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Cramps's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • The Cramps's genre is punk rock[4].
  • The Cramps's genre is garage punk[5].
  • The Cramps's genre is gothabilly[6].
  • The Cramps's genre is post-punk[7].
  • The Cramps's record label is recorded as I.R.S. Records[8].
  • The Cramps's record label is recorded as Big Beat Records[9].
  • The Cramps's record label is recorded as Illegal Records[10].
  • The Cramps's record label is recorded as Creation Records[11].
  • The Cramps's record label is recorded as Epitaph Records[12].
  • The Cramps's discography is recorded as The Cramps discography[13].
  • The Cramps's Commons category is recorded as The Cramps[14].
  • The Cramps's country of origin is recorded as United States[15].
  • 1976 marks the founding of The Cramps[16].
  • The Cramps's location of formation is recorded as Sacramento[17].
  • The Cramps's official website is recorded as http://www.thecramps.com/[18].
  • The Cramps's topic's main category is recorded as Category:The Cramps[19].
  • The Cramps's topic has template is recorded as Template:The Cramps[20].
  • The Cramps's start of work period is recorded as 1976[21].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[22]

  • Country: US[23]

  • Began / founded: 1976[24]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2009[25]

  • Genre(s): garage punk, garage rock, gothic rock, neo-rockabilly, psychobilly, punk, punk blues, punk rock, surf punk[26]

  • Community tags: garage punk, garage rock, gothic rock, neo-rockabilly, psychobilly, punk, punk blues, punk rock, surf punk[27]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 96c1edac-1011-4cb8-882c-27248de35071[28]

Body

Founding

1976 marks the founding of The Cramps[16]. Its location of formation is recorded as Sacramento[17].

Why It Matters

The Cramps ranks in the top 2% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,504 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Related Entities

Epitaph Records United States

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . rateyourmusic.com. rateyourmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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