Consequence of Sound — An important reminder that underdogs can change the world. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Mean Jeans will release their first album for Fat Wreck Chords, Tight New Dimension, this Friday (4/22) (pre-order), and a full stream premieres in this post. If you've checked out Mean Jeans before, you pretty much know what to expect here: Ram... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Releases from David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, J Dilla, Lush, METZ, Miracle Legion, Ramones and more. Continue reading… more info

New York Times — Joey Ramone’s brother, Mickey Leigh, revisits Forest Hills, the 1970s backdrop to the Ramones’ formation, and the Queens Museum offers an exhibition on the band. more info

New York Times — Joey Ramone’s brother, Mickey Leigh, revisits Forest Hills, the 1970s backdrop to the Ramones’ formation, and the Queens Museum offers an exhibition on the band. more info

Rolling Stone — Since 2016 marks the 40th anniversary of the Ramones' classic self-titled debut, the existing state of punk is up for review. There's no question that the contemporary landscape in punk music and culture looks remarkably different from 1976, or even ... more info

New York Post — Back in 1972, a young Joey Ramone (then Jeffrey Hyman) sat in his Forest Hills, Queens, bedroom, trying to figure out how to play an acoustic guitar owned by his kid brother, Mitchell. “He was really into Alice Cooper’s ‘I’m 18,’ so I taugh... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Greg Cristman Sleater-Kinney @ Terminal 5 12/13/2015 Sleater-Kinney are capping off a very busy comeback year with five sold-out NYC shows. The biggest two of those happened over the weekend, playing Brooklyn's Kings Theatre on Saturday (12... more info

Stereogum — Sleater-Kinney’s ferocious return No Cities To Love is one of the best albums of the year, and they’ve been supporting it by taking that ferocity on tour. Last night, they performed at Cleveland’s House Of Blues, and as Pitchfork points out, th... more info

Stereogum — Warner Bros. spent $250 million making and marketing the new Peter Pan movie Pan. This is a movie in which a mustachioed and poweder-covered Hugh Jackman, playing Captain Hook, leads his pirates through a spirited rendition of Nirvana’s “Smells L... more info