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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

I've held a shine to The Ramones ever since I watched Rock 'N Roll High School as an impressionable 15-year-old with yellow bangs, always associating them with a sort of teenage rebellion.

The Ramones are still rockin’ — but now it’s the museum scene. Forty years after the April 23, 1976 release of “Ramones” — the debut solo album from what would become America’s most beloved punk rock ...

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 ...