As pioneers of the punk rock movement, the Ramones helped establish the genre in the United States and the United Kingdom, reviving rock music from the popular styles and bringing it back to basics.
Three of the band members are dead, and the original crew hasn’t been seen together since an event at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square on July 20, 1999. Nevertheless, the Ramones are the focal ...
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 ...
Before you knew it a Ramones song came and went as fast as Dee Dee Ramone’s famous 1-2-3-4 countdown signal. Known for their simple style, with less simplistic lyrics, The Ramones captured multiple ...
A glue-sniffing former hustler turned punk icon turned rapper turned artist turned author who wrote some of the band’s most iconic tunes–the autobiographical “53rd & 3rd” and “Chinese Rocks” (later ...
Ramones‘ fourth album Road to Ruin turns 40 today. It was their fourth stone-cold classic in a row, following their unfuckwithable first three albums, but it was also the beginning of a new chapter ...
The Rolling Stones and the Ramones are very different bands, however, the Ramones’ discography wouldn’t be the same without The Rolling Stones. After all, the Ramones came up with one of their most ...
The box set, which is limited to just 2,000 copies, is available exclusively at Rhino.com and Warner Music Group stores internationally. “These Atmos mixes present the Ramones’ recordings with the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Outside of an affinity for leather, it would seem that the Ramones and Depeche Mode have little in common. The latter are English synth fetishists who write dark songs about BDSM and molesting Jesus, ...