The Ramones sounded like everybody and nobody else. When their self-titled debut album was released, the punk music scene wasn't what it would become a year later, and the band's ancestral forefathers ...
The Ramones’ weird legend is growing 50 years after they accidentally sparked a punk-rock revolution – even though all of the New York City band’s founding members are long dead. The odd-looking ...
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 ...
Inspired by his mother, who works as a staff nurse at New York Presbyterian/Queens hospital, Boris Pelekh organized the project. “It was roughly around late March 2020 when her hospital became a ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) --A new exhibit is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Ramones' debut album. "Hey! Ho! Let's Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk" is opening at the Queens Museum is Flushing ...
In the life-is-cruel sweepstakes, the current winners have to be the Ramones. For what seemed like forever, the band championed rock’s most primitive urges and pleasures, and it got them precisely ...
Last year, Alex Edkins, leader of the great Toronto noise-rock power-trio METZ, launched his solo side project Weird Nightmare. With Weird Nightmare, Edkins makes catchy, guitar-driven power-pop ...
In 1974, the New York City music scene was shocked into consciousness by the violently new sound of a band from Queens: The Ramones. Playing in a seedy Bowery bar to a small group of fellow struggling ...
Tommy Ramone, the last surviving original member of iconic New York punk band the Ramones, has died at age 65. The announcement was made early Saturday through the band's official Twitter account.