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The Misfits tickets are now available and can be bought or sold online at StubHub.com. You hear stories. You read about them in magazines. A fashion article, perhaps, where a writer interviews someone on the street and asks them about their clothes. What’s that cool design on your shirt, someone is asked. That skull imprint? It’s from a label I like called "Misfits." (Similar stories have been written about teens hanging around The Ramones museum in Germany, baffled. But why is there a museum for it? they ask the curator. We just thought that logo was an H+M design.) It’s been more than 20 years since The Misfits first started touring, bringing their amazing live performances to the touring circuit. Once bizarre cult figures, the youth of today recognize them mostly as purveyors of T-shirt fashion. But the fact that The Misfits tickets still sell well is proof that not everyone has forgotten this cult band, or their particular brand of music: Late-night cable monster movies, gritty, barroom punk and pure adrenaline. The band’s history is mired in lineup changes and drama, but there are some essential truths that can’t be disputed and keep their story simple. They were formed in 1977 in Lodi, New Jersey by horror movie enthusiasts Glenn Danzig and Jerry Caiafa. They wrote songs filled with gore, with titles like "Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight?" There were references to Night of the Living Dead, Ed Wood, and Vincent Price. Their songs were fast and furious, just like The Ramones, with albums barely clocking over the half-hour mark in some cases. But their sinister whirlwind ride was one that few fans of the emerging punk genre could turn down. Being underground cult figures can work against you, particularly when your albums are hard to get a hold of. Most of the band’s music was preserved in compilations that came out after their original lineup dissolved. The band was reunited in the mid-‘90s by Jerry Caiafa, but without Danzig, who had gone on to work on metal projects like Samhain and the much revered (in the metal world) Danzig. But the opportunity to see the band live isn’t something that should be turned down easily by any fan of punk, horror, or ghoulish cult bands. Written by Andrew Good and sponsored by StubHub.com. StubHub sells sports tickets, concert tickets, theater tickets and more to just about any event in the world. Don’t miss The Misfits at The Misfits tickets.
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