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 ...

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 ...

This series -- "You've Never Heard..." -- started when Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton found out that I had never listened to Beck's Odelay. They were shocked until they realized that I was a toddler when ...

The Ramones recently released a deluxe reissue of their 1978 fourth album Road to Ruin, and to promote it, they’ve dug up a previously unreleased video of album cut “She’s the One.” The stripped-down ...

In the liner notes to the 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Rocket To Russia, esteemed rock critic Jaan Uhelszki describes 1977 as the “quintessential year for punk rock” and this, the second Ramones ...

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 thirty-fifth LA Weekly playlist, reviewing the musicians that we’ve been writing about all week, is live now. There’s rock from Motorhead, Ramones and Bite Me Bambi, electronic music from Moby and ...

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 ...

Years ago, during one of my first conversations with Henry Rollins, he gave me props for playing Craig Leon's "Donkeys Bearing Cups." At that time I was still fairly unaware of Leon's legacy as his ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

Joining us from Four Chords and a Gun and the man that plays Dee Dee Ramone is musician-actor Paolo Santalucia. Their musical band is an excellent black comedy about the infamous punk band the Ramones ...