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 ...

“I Wanna Live” is one of those album openers that throws off the rest of the album. It’s so good and natural that nothing else seems to matter. But in the end it does, and the hardcore numbers sound ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...