About The Cronkers

The Cronkers are Jeff Simmermon (drums) and Eric Browne (guitars and vocals). They met in 1982 while in kindergarten in Norfolk, Virginia's public school system.

After college, they lived together in a dingy Band-Aid-colored row house in Richmond, Virginia from 2000 - 2003, where they found a drum kit in an alley and formed a band called The Stop-Motion Skeletons. After a 21-year break studded with various middle-aged life crises, they started playing together again as The Cronkers.

Jeff lives in Brooklyn, NY and Eric is in Washington, D.C.

Their music draws from 1970s dub, The Cramps, Hamilton Bohannon, and the Egyptian Lover. Their songs are characterized by heavy rhythm, stripped-down arrangements, and a raw, live feel.

The Cronkers' debut single “Modern Reflection” is out now, with a live show on May 30.

Outside of music, their influences run through sci-fi and horror, grindhouse films, voodoo, the occult, public school in Virginia, and decades of shared history. The songs lean on groove, repetition, improvisation, and whatever is at hand, with a taste for grit, humor, innuendo, and the kind of details you find buried in the trash.