Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (L-R) Dee Dee, Tommy, Joey, and Johnny Ramone in 1976. (Credit: Roberta Bayley/Redferns) Like superheroes, Jeffrey Hyman, John ...

The low-budget debut initially struggled commercially before becoming punk rock’s defining masterpiece.

Despite a tiny budget and an initial failure to chart, one album helped define the punk genre forevermore.

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 ...

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 ...

Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the Ramones' self-titled debut album, and the milestone will be celebrated throughout the year. One of those celebrations is the July 4 world ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even before he helped launch the Ramones' career, Danny Fields was a major player in the early punk scene. The Queens native, who had worked publicity for the Doors, was the one who recommended that ...

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 ...

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 ...