The Ramones and CBGB. Has there ever been a better match of artist and venue? Okay, the Beatles had the Cavern Club and James Brown had the Apollo Theater. But both of those equally legendary musical ...
Gabba Gabba hold on! A years-long battle over the legal rights to the legacy of punk rock pioneers The Ramones has finally ...
Though their glory days appeared to have concluded along with the '70s, the Ramones continued to churn out album after album with almost religious dependability throughout the '80s. It culminated in ...
Today’s post is for celebrating the legacy of The Ramones, a band that managed to change the face of music in some small way by staying true to their vision. This all started when I read with great ...
At the heart of the CBGBs scene, Johnny Ramone viewed only one band as competition for the punk crown of the Ramones, but he ...
Like superheroes, Jeffrey Hyman, John Cummings, Douglas Colvin, and Thomas Erdelyi put on black leather jackets in 1974 and assumed their new rocker personas: Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, and Tommy Ramone.
Clint Howard is opening up in a big way about his time performing alongside the Ramones as a young Hollywood star. The "Jungle Book" voice actor, 62, told Fox News that the punk rock group "embodied ...
Ramones, to say the least, were the definition of a hard-luck band. For 22 years, the pioneering punk outfit survived near-constant infighting, drug and alcohol addiction, paltry record sales, and ...
When asked about the Ramones in the documentary Punk: Attitude, Mick Jones of The Clash said, “It was just like really short songs, really hard attack, no-nonsense.” Jeff Hyman, John Cummings, Doug ...
It was the summer of ’75, when a garbage strike left tons of stinking trash piled high on flat-broke Gotham’s sweltering streets. Five-dollar hookers and fur-coat-clad pimps strutted around the Lower ...
Tommy Ramone was the band’s rock of strength, the pulse at the heart of the "Blitzkrieg Bop." By Roy Trakin In many respects, punk rock was born out of the streets of American cities like New York and ...