I never like to credit one band with starting an entire genre, and if I credited the Ramones with doing so, I wouldn’t even be right. The term may not have existed at the time, but bands like The ...
Like a lot of aging punks, Allan Tannenbaum is a bit of a curmudgeon these days. The famed nightlife photographer and longtime New Yorker spent much of the 1970s documenting the city's music scenes ...
Tommy Ramone, a co-founder of the seminal punk band the Ramones and the last surviving member of the original group, has died, a business associate said Saturday. Dave Frey, who works for Ramones ...
It’s one of the greatest love triangles in all of rock ‘n’ roll. As a teenager, the Queens-born Linda Daniele, now known as Linda Ramone, met the Ramones at New York nightclub CBGB; a few years later ...
Along with Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” and Paul McCartney’s “Yesterday,” this is one of the most covered songs of all time, so ubiquitous, with more than 30,000 versions over the decades, that ...
Tommy Ramone, a co-founder of the seminal punk band the Ramones and the last surviving member of the original group, has died, a business associate said Saturday. Dave Frey, who works for Ramones ...
The Ramones were, among other things, the harbingers of punk rock in America and beyond. Throughout their career, they played more than 2,000 live shows. A few short years after their final gig in L.A ...
Joey Ramone, the tall and gangly front man for the punk rock progenitors the Ramones who sang of shock treatments, sniffing glue and surfing, died Sunday at the age of 49. He had been hospitalized in ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “It was never available in the United States or Latin America,” Fields says about the ...
If punk godfathers the Ramones didn't invent punk, they sure as hell invented catchy punk. And even if you're sick of their classic tunes after 30 years, the Pinheads make the music sound like it ...
The estate of late Ramones frontman Joey Ramone has sold his music publishing for $10 million. Rolling Stone reports that the deal is part of a much larger $2 billion partnership between independent ...
Better Than: Going to a show in California. Just before Small Black took the stage at the sold-out Bowery Ballroom tonight, Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino was Tweeting (what else?) about how she ...