Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. This Sunday night, Linda Ramone and friends, including Vincent Gallo, who curated ...
It was the late 1970s, and Roger Corman, the king of cheap schlocky B-movies, wanted to churn out a film about teenagers that tapped into the popular music of the time. The initial thought was disco, ...
In the late 1970s, Roger Corman was looking to produce a high school-themed movie. Knowing that one of his young directing proteges had a bent for music, the head of New World Pictures had an idea. As ...
It’s one of the greatest love triangles in all of rock ‘n’ roll. As a teenager, the Queens-born Linda Daniele, now known as Linda Ramone, met the Ramones at New York nightclub CBGB; a few years later ...
The 1979 comedy Rock 'n' Roll High School—about a rebellious student fighting the power with the help of punk icons the Ramones—has become a cult classic. Utah Tech University professor Stephen ...
The Ramones played the Rainbow Theater in London on December 31, 1977. The show became It's Alive, which was released in April 1979.
Rock groups are notoriously like dysfunctional families, but even when you factor in Tolstoy’s famous remark that “every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” the story of the Ramones stands out.
This article originally appeared in the August 1986 issue of SPIN. It was one of those humid summer days in 1979 when the air on the Bowery was filled with the foul odor of week-old garbage. A ...
Do you remember the Ramones? Team Springsteen does. Bruce Springsteen's social media accounts on Wednesday, Dec 6, posted a tribute to the Springsteen hit “Hungry Heart,” which hit No. 5 on this day ...
“Four Chords and a Gun,” the new show from Toronto now at the Broadway Playhouse, is an odd duck. Of course, so were The Ramones. Here was an American punk rock band with influence that eclipsed its ...
Ramones rocker Marky Ramone was a surprise guest at a party at Santos Party House on Tuesday. The shindig followed a screening of Sundance doc “The Wolfpack” — which follows a family of New York ...
"Well, I don't care about history," sang Joey Ramone — but we do care about the history of this cult classic, as recounted by Allan Arkush. In the late 1970s, Roger Corman was looking to produce a ...