Punk rockers Starcrawler formed in 2015 in Los Angeles, California and quickly formed a sound and attitude that placed them somewhere between the punk/hard rock of fellow L.A. natives The Runaways and the shock tactics of legendary metal influences Black Sabbath.

The seeds of the band were sown at Grand Arts High School when Arrow de Wilde met Henri Cash and he asked her to join the fledgling music project he’d started with Austin Smith. As the daughter of musician Aaron Sperske (Beachwood Sparks, Ariel Pink) and photographer Autumn de Wilde, along with her experience as a model for Teen Vogue and a spot in a Lena Dunham directed Bleachers video, her popular culture credentials were already established. Taking up lead vocal duties, she along with Cash (guitar) and Smith (drums), swiftly recorded the first Starcrawler single, “Ants.” Tim Franco was enlisted on bass shortly thereafter, and the single was picked up by Elton John for his Beats 1 radio show.

Cash and de Wilde became the band’s primary songwriters, and they gigged extensively across L.A. with psych-rock revivalists the Lemon Twigs. Strawcrawler rapidly built a reputation for their wildly campy and theatrical performances. De Wilde made prolific use of fake blood on stage, no doubt a nod to her hero Ozzy Osbourne, and often donned a hospital gown or a straitjacket for shows.

At an in-store set at Amoeba Music, the band introduced to Beck’s ten-year-old daughter, Tuesday Hansen, who would later appear in the cover art for Starcrawler’s debut record in a blood-stained dress.

They spent 2017 touring hard, appearing at the Foo Fighter' Cal Jam in San Bernardino, Echo Park rising in L.A, and the Joshua Tree Happening Desert Daze. Their live performances caught the eyes and ears of Ryan Adams, who went on to record the band’s first album to analog tape of his own Pax-Am Studio. Their self-titled debut long-player was released by the independent label Rough Trade in January of 2018.