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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ramones are the most important punk band of all time. They’re also the most influential punk band of all time. The Ramones were not the first punk band. They might not even have been the best ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 influence of the Ramones is actually hard to exaggerate, since they literally jump-started the punk musical insurrection that leapfrogged across the globe. No doubt, others of their ilk across the ...

The Ramones' debut album has been certified Gold in America, 38 years after its initial release. Ramones has now sold 500,000 copies in the US, according to the Recording Industry Association of ...