Altsounds — *SHONEN KNIFE / OSAKA RAMONES* ****OSAKA RAMONES make their European live debut ...* * *********OSAKA RAMONES EUROPEAN DEBUT!* The only show in Europe this year by Shonen Knife side project OSAKA RAMONES takes place at The Windmill, Brixton on Thursd... more info

Guardian Music — These Danish punks are in thrall to the spirit of 76, but we'd be lying if we said they take the music anywhere newHometown: Copenhagen.The lineup: Elias Rønnenfelt, Jakob Tvilling Pless, Johan Surrballe Wieth and Dan Kjaer Nielsen.The background: I... more info

ContactMusic — Green Day have been crowned the kings of punk in a new Rolling Stone online poll. The California trio beat out The Clash, The Ramones and the Sex Pistols to land atop the fans' countdown of the best punk acts ever. The Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, The.... more info

Stereogum — When we posted the Vivian Girls’ “Take It As It Comes,” I called it “a girl-group pep talk featuring Grease-style spoken word.” This chatty Travis Peterson-directed plays around with that aesthetic, albeit with Cure and Ramones posters in t... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Japanese pop punkers Shonen Knife are celebrating their 30th Anniversary this year with Osaka Ramones: A Tribute to the Ramones. The album features covers of 13 Ramones classics including "Pinhead," "Beat on the Brat," "Psychotherapy," and others, an... more info

A Deeper Shade of Soul — I first experienced the healing power of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on August 14, 1985. I was fourteen, had just gotten home from sleep away camp a few days earlier, and had a couple of weeks of summer vacation left before school started... more info

Perez Hilton — Last night, PerezHilton.com had the pleasure of seeing Darren Criss’ solo show in New York City. There was a sold-out crowd at Irving Plaza, a venue that has hosted the likes of Talking Heads and the Ramones, and every single concert-goer had exact... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Alan Moore talks to the New Statesman about writing his second novel. “It is a very big book -- but it's very readable," he assures me when I call to ask how it's going. "Apart from the Lucia Joyce chapter,... more info

Guardian Music — July 1976: Number 9 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicSniffin' Glue wasn't the first fanzine – Punk (which famously coined the genre's moniker) started self-publishing in New York six months earlier – but its primiti... more info

Guardian Music — 4 July 1976: Number 10 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicOn Independence Day 1976, the Roundhouse in London hosted the veteran San Francisco band Flamin' Groovies. All the young punks came out that night, but not to see ... more info