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.

It’s been 40 years since the Ramones released their legendary self-titled debut. With it, they kicked the doors right off the hinge to grab their seat at the table as a must hear punk rock act with a ...

While the Ramones staked out New York's East Village as their rock 'n' roll province in the '70s, the great punk band X anchored Los Angeles with their raucous blasts of misfit fury. At SXSW this past ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

While Led Zeppelin came to represent everything that was excessive about rock, it didn’t start that way. On Zeppelin’s first album, the band showcased one tight, almost radio-friendly track in “Good ...