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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Ramones - You Need To See This

Green Day, Rancid and Blink-182 members celebrate the Ramones’ 50th anniversary with a set at a cemetery

Newly formed supergroup Cretin Family featured Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Rancid’s Tim Armstrong, Blink-182’s Travis Barker, and late-era Ramones bassist C.J. Ramone – and blazed through Ramones hits and deep cuts

Guitar World

Joey Ramone smiling! And having fun! At the beach! Roberta Bayley’s best photograph

‘Joey didn’t surf. And he didn’t like this photo. He said, “You made my legs look thin.” Like it was my fault he had skinny legs’

The Guardian - UK

Watch Billy Idol join members of Green Day and Blink-182 in star-studded performance at Ramones 50th anniversary celebration

Billie Joe Armstrong, Travis Barker, Billy Idol, Tim Armstrong and more pay glorious tribute to The Ramones

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The Ramones' debut still defines punk

The band's first album flopped in 1976, but its influence on popular culture remains undeniable

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Blink-182 are starting work on a new album this year

Travis Barker has revealed that Blink‑182 are officially working on their next album, confirming he’ll be back in the studio with the band this year.

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Superstar magician Penn Jillette has a wild secret rock 'n' roll past that no-one ever talks about, and the "bloody scars" to prove it

Friends with the Ramones and Lou Reed, ex-boyfriend of Debbie Harry, and underground rock musician, Penn Jillette is a Las Vegas entertainment legend with a rock 'n' roll past

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“All I was using was one Fender Twin Reverb, which I stole off Bob Marley… I had it turned up to 10 the whole time”: Stolen amps and punk rivalry – inside the making of the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks

Guitarist Steve Jones reflects on the making of the Pistols' incendiary studio album, Johnny Rotten's overdub myths, and why they had to keep Sid Vicious away from the studio

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"I sometimes just want to be the guy eating a hamburger without someone asking: 'Where's your nose chain and your leather trousers?'" Rachel Bolan on the need for speed, his solo debut, Skid Row's new singer, digging punk and Oasis

Skid Row bassist and solo artist Rachel Bolan's debut solo album Gargoyle Of The Garden State is out now

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Linkin Park among music stars set to receive a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2027

Alternative bands Linkin Park, The Smashing Pumpkins and the Ramones will receive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year.

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Linkin Park, the Ramones and The Smashing Pumpkins will receive stars on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame in 2027

Actors Pedro Pascal and Adam Scott will also be immortalised on Hollywood Boulevard next year

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Who Is Getting a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 2027? Pedro Pascal, Keke Palmer Set for Honour, See Full List

Pedro Pascal, Keke Palmer, Idris Elba and Linkin Park are among the entertainment figures selected for the Hollywood Walk of Fame Class of 2027. See the full list.

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"He was seriously wondering if the Ramones would ever make it as big as the Bay City Rollers." How the Ramones made the debut album that only sold 6000 copies but changed the world

Few bands shook the UK music scene like NYC punks the Ramones did in 1976. Fewer still can claim they actually built one. Welcome to a revolution

Louder

"Rather than scratching his chin, saying, “I don’t know if this works yet”, he’ll go 'This could be the beginning of something incredible, let’s keep pushing in that direction': David Byrne discusses treating the studio "like a playground" with Brian Eno

Byrne also spoke about touring with Ramones and taking inspiration from Lou Reed

MusicRadar

‘Ramones had leather jackets when they got spat on. We didn’t!’ David Byrne on touring with Talking Heads and taking advice from Lou Reed

As his American Utopia tour film hits cinemas, the musician answers your questions about his Scottish sense of humour, working with Brian Eno and his desire to direct another film

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New supergroup featuring members of Green Day, Blink-182 and more form for Ramones tribute night

Members of Green Day, Blink-182, Rancid and Ramones are coming together for a Ramones tribute show celebrating the band''s 50th anniversary.

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“The spirit of the Ramones is alive in every backyard punk show, punk club, and festival”: Billie Joe Armstrong teams up with Blink-182 and Rancid members for Ramones-honoring supergroup

The band will play a special charity event celebrating 50 years of the Ramones' debut album

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"They are the blueprint. Punk rock wouldn't be what it is today without them": Star-studded show to mark 50th anniversary of Ramones' debut album announced

Artists including Billie Joe Armstrong, Travis Barker and CJ Ramone will perform at a one-of-a-kind Hollywood show

Louder

"There were more people there than they had ever cumulatively played to in their career at that point." The story behind the Ramones first ever UK show, on Independence Day 1976

It's now 50 years since Ramones brought their blitzkrieg bops to Britain

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“We started talking about Black Sabbath, and Buzz goes, ‘You know they did this thing called drop D.’ We said, ‘What’s that?’” Kim Thayil on how Soundgarden took rock guitar into the superunknown – and the unfinished Chris Cornell tapes

With the Soundgarden guitarist‘s memoir, A Screaming Life, out now, he unpacks the story behind one of the most influential rock bands of the ’90s

The Independent UK

How Americans celebrated the bicentennial — with fireworks, a Freedom Train and Farrah

In 1976, as the United States prepared to celebrate its 200th anniversary, the mood was ambivalent

Guitar World

“People would hate us, bully us, throw stuff at us and threaten to beat us up, but they wouldn’t leave. We thought, ‘Okay, we’ve got something’”: Devo’s Bob Mothersbaugh on accidental hits, audience provocations and the de-evolution of guitar

Devo's uncontrollable urge to make new noise sired a new-wave sound with a puckish punk energy. The ’70s wasn't ready for them. Are we not ready now?

Louder

"The Ramones rescued rock 'n' roll." How Ramones' first album changed the lives of punk rock icons Henry Rollins, Bob Mould, Ian MacKaye and Steve Albini, in their own words

On April 23, 1976 Sire Records released a punk rock record that changed everything

The Independent UK

It bombed in the charts, critics hated it – so how did the Ramones make one of the best debut albums ever?

INTERVIEW: Half a century ago, four New York misfits released a fast, loud, provocative first album that changed music forever. Kevin E G Perry talks to their manager Danny Fields, producer Craig Leon and photographer Roberta Bayley about how a chart bomb became one of the most influential records of…

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #237: Fab 5 Freddy, the street artist at the heart of New York’s creative zenith

A new memoir by Fred Brathwaite offers an insight into the city’s emerging underground scene in the 70s and 80s – and shows us the power of subcultures in difficult times

Louder

Slamdancing with John Belushi, supporting Guns N' Roses, duetting with Bruce Springsteen, and entertaining Elton John: the fabulous adventures of one of America's greatest and most under-rated cult artists

From DIY punk to major label almost-stardom, from supporting Kiss and Green Day to being honoured by (and making friends with) Bruce Springsteen, Jesse Malin's career has been a wild ride

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