The Ramones’ weird legend is growing 50 years after it accidentally sparked a punk-rock revolution – even though all of the New York City band’s founding members are long dead. The odd-looking foursome made the unusual pop-culture journey from misfit outsiders with little commercial success to one of a handful of bands with a case … Read more
True to the raw, anarchic spirit of punk-rock, the Ramones played as dirty as those notoriously filthy CBGB bathrooms when they got a spontaneous offer from their first manager at the holy underground in New York’s East Village in 1975. “They wanted to be in my column in the SoHo Weekly News. And I kept … Read more
Relatives of punk legends the Ramones are dueling in lawsuits – in a long-simmering feud that threatens to torpedo a planned Netflix movie starring Pete Davidson as the band’s iconic singer. Guitarist Johnny Ramone’s widow, Linda Cummings-Ramone, sparked the latest round of the bitter brawl in January when she sued singer Joey Ramone’s brother Mitchel … Read more
The widow of Ramones co-founder and guitarist Johnny Ramone claims Joey Ramone’s younger brother is cutting her out of the iconic punk band’s merchandising deals – and threatening to leak “compromising private footage” the iconic frontman had of her, according to a lawsuit. Linda Cummings-Ramone, who dated Joey years before marrying Johnny, contends the brother, Mitchel … Read more
In the mid- to late ’70s, the B-Girls were just one of the many bands that found their punk people at CBGB — the iconic New York rock club that started a music moment five decades ago. In fact, the all-female act made themselves so at home at the East Village institution that they once … Read more