The debut album by punk band The Ramones–creatively titled Ramones–has finally gone gold, with over 500,000 copies sold since its release in 1976. The Recording Industry of America certified the album ...

In the 1970s, a band's first album was a very big deal. It was nice to have some singles out there, and some demos floating around; but a band did not properly greet the world with just a single, and ...

Imagine not only starting a revolution, but also creating an extraordinary work of art in the process. Imagine if Lenin could paint like Picasso. Ramones, released 40 years ago this month, is one of ...

Republished from the archives of NorthJersey.com: Under a certain headstone in Lyndhurst's Hillside Cemetery, Jeff Hyman — aka Joey Ramone — lies eternally sedated. Which one? That's easy. The one ...

A few months after Ramones put out their debut album, they played a couple of sets at West Hollywood’s famed outpost the Roxy. An energetic, never-before-released live version of “Blitzkrieg Bop,” ...

It was April 23, 1976, when four misfits from Forest Hills, Queens, hit the streets with a self-titled statement of purpose recorded for $6,400. That album would shape the course of music history, ...

The Ramones’ “Hey! Ho! Let’s go!” is as grand and enduring a rock’ ‘n’ roll battle cry as many of the classic lines from the early anthems of such rock giants as Chuck Berry and the Who. That’s only ...

The year was 1976 and a new genre called punk was about to command the attention of music listeners, due in part to four shaggy looking lads who called themselves the Ramones. Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee ...

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 ...

When students at the School of Visual Arts in New York City rebelled against the lack of classes about comics in the early 1970s, they asked John Holmstrom to take their demands for change to the ...