Ramones

April 23, 1976. Fifty years ago, four rockers from Queens changed music forever. To commemorate the half-century anniversary of their self-titled debut album, The Ramones are launching a year of celebrations and festivities, including…

If you grew up in the early 1960s, or watched Nick at Nite in the late 1980s, you probably remember this theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5MkCAwupe0 An ear worm if there ever was one, the theme song to Car 54, Where Are…

Kiss played their first show at Coventry in Queens, a little known venue that fostered a budding glam rock and punk scene in the city.

“We started off just wanting to be a bubblegum group,” said Johnny Ramone. “We looked at the Bay City Rollers as our competition. But we were so weird. Singing about ’53rd and 3rd,’ about some guy coming back from Vietnam and becoming a…

On August 16th and 17th, the NYC Ferry in collaboration with Rhino Records launched a series of Ramones-themed ferry rides. These rides came in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Ramones’ CBGB debut show. The Ramones…