Twenty years ago today, we lost Joey Ramone. Here’s what happened.
In the late 90s, I was working on a book on alt-rock. As we got closer to the publication date,
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Random music news for Monday, February 15, 2021
This is a great article on how social media and public outrage have come together–and it’s not good. Once you’re
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Ongoing History of New Music Daily: The day The Ramones rejected a song gift from Bruce Springsteen.
True for false: Bruce Springsteen once wrote a song for the Ramones. That’s absolutely true. When the Ramones played Springsteen’s
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Random music news for Monday, January 4, 2021
End of the holidays, back to work. Now we just need to focus on getting through January, February, and March.
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Random music news for Friday, December 18, 2020
One week until Christmas. Feeling it yet? Maybe some music news for December 18, 2020, will help. Imagine a Spotify
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If you’re going to be celebrating New Year’s, enlist the Ramones
As reader Tom says “This should be mandatory.”
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Here’s an all-star punk cover of The Ramones’ “Bonzo Goes to Bitburg”
The Ramones weren’t a political band at all–with this exception of this anti-Ronald Reagan song which somehow managed to get
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Random music news for Monday, July 20, 2020
I’ve had the same three twenty-dollar bills in my wallet for six weeks. I have no loose change in the
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Random music news for Friday, June 26, 2020
https://globalnews.ca/news/7102112/black-neutron-star-ligo-hole/The sun is setting on Uranus! (Sorry. Juvenile of me. But you can see a Uranus sunset here.) Okay, let
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Here are more “quanrantunes” from Blue Oyster Cult and Mike Portnoy
Like everyone else, musicians are finding ways to occupy themselves during this time of lockdown. Blue Oyster Cult performed this
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A who says you can’t be a monk and a Ramones fan, too?
Not this guy. (Via Tom)
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