We’re going to fall out about this, obviously. But here we go. Let’s just start with the idea that a riff is a short, repeated musical figure that can be melodic or rhythmic. We’ve allowed for a bit ...

Indeed, the Ramones — all of whose original members have passed away, but live on in Rock & Roll Hall of Fame immortality— led a punk revolution that started at CBGB 50 years ago.

In high school, Tommy played guitar in a group called Tangerine Puppets that also included Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone on bass and trained as a recording engineer and assisted on various New ...

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews End of the Century, a new documentary film about the Ramones. All members except the drummer have passed away; Johnny Ramone, the lead guitarist, died Sept. 15, 2004.

Former Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone is NOT dying of prostate cancer, according to his wife Lydia. A number of websites reported yesterday that Johnny's cancer - which he's had for some years - had ...

Guitarist Johnny Ramone, born John Cummings, died of prostate cancer in 2004. Singer Joey Ramone, born Jeff Hyman, died of lymphoma in 2001.

“Even the Ramones. Like, you don’t think of them as like stenciling their own guitar cases. But there was a time and a place where they were doing just everything themselves.

The Ramones kicked off the punk rock movement in New York in the 1970s with their fast beat, short songs and loud guitar riffs immediately recognizable from such songs as "Blitzkrieg Bop," "Sheena ...

Johnny Ramone, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal punk band “The Ramones” that influenced a generation of rockers, has died. He was 55. Ramone, who had been fighting a five-year ...