Subject: The Ramones

• Drenched In Blog: Ike Beats Tina to Death

  December 14, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Weird SXSW Alert: Care Bears on Fire

  February 21, 2008

• Phil Spector Sentenced To 19 Years In Prison

  Phil Spector, preeminent music producer and architect of the famed "Wall of Sound" made popular by such artists as The Ronettes, The Righteous Brothers and John Lennon, was sentenced to 19 years in a California jail this past Friday for his alleged part in the death of ladyfriend Lana Clarkson in early 2003. It's been a long and strange road to jail for Spector. Since his 2003 arrest for the murder, he has fired numerous high-profile defense attorneys, including former O.J. Simpson defender Ro

  June 2, 2009

• Q&A: Little Steven Van Zandt

  April 14, 2008

• Venue Shuffle: Rise Against, Tek9 Cancel; Alkaline Trio, Thrice Moved to House of Blues

  October 27, 2008

• Rock and Roll Dream Team

  Forget the office-football draft, dude. Here's a far cooler way to waste your time and your employer's money.

  August 26, 2004

• Get Lit: The Pitchfork 500

  November 12, 2008

• What's Not To Like About Hanukkah? Lots

  Christmas is approaching, which means it's time for gentiles the country over to condescendingly recognize the existence of one of the least significant Jewish holidays - the frustratingly spelled Hanukkah.While it's certainly nice to wish others well during their respective holidays, Hair Balls believes Hanukkah needs to be kept in perspective - and by perspective, we mean, people need to come to terms with how lame it is compared to Christmas. Lest you think that's a harsh statement, one must

  December 3, 2008

• Album of the Week: Christmas a Go-Go

  One thing about Christmas songs, every single artist to ever pick up a guitar or drumstick seems to have recorded at least one, a company that apparently includes Joe Pesci, Soupy Sales (kids, ask your grandparents) and garage gods the Electric Prunes. Guaranteed, Christmas a Go-Go is the only place you'll hear Bob Seger and his pre-Silver Bullet band the Last Heard do a kick-ass James Brown on the Mitch Ryder-worthy "Sock It to Me Santa." It's a Little Steven production all right. No Springste

  December 11, 2008

• We All Scream for Thora-Zine

  March 17, 1994

• Aftermath: Robert Earl Keen at House of Blues; Dash Rip Rock at the Continental Club; Hayes Carll at Warehouse Live

  Photos: Hayes Carll/ Craig Hlavaty; Dash Rip Rock, Robert Earl Keen/ Chris Gray On their 1996 self-titled debut LP, Hee Haw-loving Nashville ironists BR5-49 cut a song called "Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)." Anyone who has read either the paper or this site in the past few weeks will no doubt know that little Rocks Off has likewise gone hillbilly nuts. He hasn't stopped listening to other kinds of music completely, but lately, to paraphrase someone who was most definitely not a

  December 29, 2008

• Live Shots

  March 31, 1994

• His Generation

  January 4, 1996

• Get Lit: On the Road with the Ramones

  From their 1974 live debut in New York City to their final 1996 show in L.A., eight bruddas in leather have claimed the surname Ramone. But if there were a ninth member of the punk-rock godfathers, he would of course be Monte Ramone. For 2,263 performances in front of crowds ranging from a handful of bored club employees in the Bowery to stadiums packed with tens of thousands singing along in foreign countries, Monte A. Melnick saw it all. He was the Ramones' road manager, procurer, party p

  February 16, 2009

• Young Punks

  June 26, 1997

• Punk Put-On

  December 10, 1998

• Texas Garage Rock

  This weekend's Texas Gone Garage festival turns up the volume

  December 13, 2007

• Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

  You wanted the best — you got the best: Guitar Hero III

  November 15, 2007

• Jay Reatard

  October 25, 2007

• Two Tons Of Steel

  April 23, 2009

• Antelope

  Concert preview

  March 22, 2007

• Slay Bells

  An X-mas mixtape from hell

  December 21, 2006

• Musica Fresca

  The Musica Fresca tour stops Friday, September 22, at Planeta Bar Rio, 6400 Richmond, 832-251-9600.

  September 21, 2006

• For Those About to Rock

  Guitar Hero cranks rhythm-gaming up to 11

  November 24, 2005

• Playbill

  March 3, 2005

• Rogue Bosoms, Bouncing Booties and Pac-Man Raps

  Looking back on the '04

  December 23, 2004

• Anarchy in da USA

  Looking for the true spirit of the Ramones? Try going to an underground hip-hop show.

  December 16, 2004

• Letters

  December 16, 2004

• Gabba Gabba Henh

  The Ramones bopped toward history and an unhappy end

  November 18, 2004

• You Ain't Punk 2004

  Saturday, April 10

  April 8, 2004

• Pop-Punk Penance

  A cool kid seeks heavenly redemption

  February 5, 2004

• Destroy All Monsters of Rock!

  Please come see Shonen Knife's powerful activity!

  October 16, 2003

• The Briefs and Fabulous Disaster, with the Kimonos

  Thursday, February 27

  February 27, 2003

• He Ain't Ever Coming Back

  Joe Strummer, a titan of the Clash

  January 9, 2003

• Glamorous Youth

  November 28, 2002

• Too Hot for Love

  The Donnas out-Crüe the Crüe with a new spin on the old sex-and-excess glam formula

  November 21, 2002

• Golden Gate Garage

  Reliving the seamy underbelly of the 1970s with the young Richmond Sluts

  May 2, 2002

• Motivational Motörhead

  Lemmy: Heavy metal's F-bomb-dropping answer to Anthony Robbins

  April 11, 2002

• Joey Ramone

  Don't Worry About Me (Sanctuary Records)

  March 14, 2002

• Betty Blowtorch

  Saturday, December 15

  December 13, 2001

• Bouncing Souls

  Friday, November 16

  November 15, 2001

• Playbill

  Soul Brains (né Bad Brains)

  June 14, 2001

• Playbill

  The Donnas

  March 1, 2001

• Retro Active

  Two Tones of Steel

  June 22, 2000

• We Still Miss You, Joey Ramone

  Even though he's been gone for almost a decade now, we still love Joey Ramone. We defy anyone to find a more perfect way to spend 30 or so minutes than listening to the band's self-titled 1976 debut. It cures what ails ya. The lead howler of the Ramones, born Jeffrey Hyman, would have been 58 Tuesday had he not succumbed to lymphoma in April 2001. Bandmates Dee Dee and Johnny Ramone followed Joey to the great CBGB's in the sky in 2002 and 2004, respectively. As you can see in this cute video fr

  May 20, 2009

• Bayou Beat: Live Nation Goes All In, ZZ Top Tickets Up for Grabs, Meridian Rocks the Sabbath and More

  Courtesy of Stephen "Rube" Sager Live Nation has outdone itself on its latest "No Service Fee" Wednesday. All day, $29.99 buys a lawn ticket - one lawn ticket, mind you - parking, all those pesky fees, a hot dog and a soda for any participating show at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Once they figure out how to make beer a part of this (stupid TABC), it's really going to go through the roof. Speaking of, Rocks Off still has a four-pack of lawn tickets up for grabs in our ZZ Top/Steven Tyler

  July 8, 2009

• Houston 101: You Knew We Would Have To Do This One -- Liberty Hall

  ​Liberty Hall, by the 1970s, had somewhat survived its time as a church and an American Legion hall to become probably the hippest rock club in the city.Comfortably seedy, the Hall hosted legends like the Velvet Underground, Gram Parsons (with Neil Young and Linda Ronstadt sitting in), the Ramones and even Ted Nugent.But it's most famous of all, around here, for launching Bruce Springsteen in the state. Thirty-five years ago, he played seven shows over four days at the hall, which could seat u

  July 31, 2009

• The Horrors

  September 24, 2009

• Shonen Knife

  November 5, 2009

• Pop Rocks: Dear John...Cusack

  ​You used to be cool, John Cusack.We first noticed it in the 1980s, when "cool" didn't have a lot of meaning. People used the word in connection with Jan Hammer, the Go-Bots, and Kirk Cameron, which should give you an idea how lost we really were. But somehow you dodged the pitfalls of The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire to appear in some of the best and most beloved movies of that era. Yes, there was also Hot Pursuit and Grandview, USA, but Better Off Dead, Eight Men Out, and Say Anything

  November 5, 2009