The Ramones -- fresh out of Forest Hills, Queens -- became the poster punks of CBGB after making their debut 50 years ago on Aug 16, 1974. True to the raw, anarchic spirit of punk-rock, the Ramones ...

Half a century ago, the famed New York venue run by a former marine and folk singer was ground zero for the punk and new wave scenes. Now the bands who played there are being celebrated on a 101-track ...

"Some kind of mythological energy still exists," said Debbie Harry of CBGB, where her band Blondie had its big breakout in the '70s. Stephanie Chernikowski/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images In the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s been nearly two decades since the shuttering of beloved New York punk bar CBGB & OMFUG. But this fall the club known for its ...

In honor of the anniversary, NYC Ferry has partnered with Rhino Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and New York Punk to offer three Ramones-themed rides to Rockaway Beach on Friday, August 16, and ...

Hilly Kristal, whose dank New York Bowery rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands such as Blondie, the Ramones and the Talking Heads, has died ...

Joey Ramone is dead. There was a nice obit in the Times that ran for two days straight, another one in Newsday, and the Voice ran a Lenny Kaye memorial, but I wonder how folks outside of New York are ...

In 1992, Leigh was arrested for selling a small amount of hash and for conspiring to sell more. The charges, he said, were trumped up in an attempt to flip him to potentially arrest some bigger ...

NEW YORK Hilly Kristal had no idea what he was unleashing when he welcomed a rash of unknown bands onstage in his dank Bowery dive: Television, the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, the Patti Smith ...

True to the raw, anarchic spirit of punk-rock, the Ramones played as dirty as those notoriously filthy CBGB bathrooms when they got a spontaneous offer from their first manager at the holy underground ...