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From Sid Viscious and the Clash to Misfits and Metallica, the Ramones paved the way for some of the most notable bands in rock music.

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3 days ago Today, we are very psyched to debut a new video by Joecephus and the George Jonestown Massacre and Neil Fallon of Clutch. It's a Nazareth cover! At least in the states, Scotland's Nazareth are underappreciated rock legends. The band used the electric blues power of Led Zeppelin and the barroom brawl lyrics of AC/DC and cut albums that frikkin' ROCKED. You probably know the tune "Love Hurts" (actually an Everly Brothers cover), but what you may not know is that, for the most part, Nazareth kicked out high energy, hard rocking tunes that influenced many of the early punkers- just as...

[Photos via YouTube] When the ball dropped in New York City’s Times Square at the stroke of midnight Dec. 31, 2009, punk rock had been around 35 years. (Or 33, depending on if you date the subculture from when the Ramones began playing gigs or from the mythic Punk Year Zero of 1977.) It was well into its third decade as the 21st century entered its second. There was now plenty of history from which new bands could draw inspiration—not just punk history. It no longer had to come from the Ramones or the Sex Pistols. In the case of the Jim Jones Revue, it could originate in the 1950s. In t...

The 100 Best Alternative Singles of the 1980s: 80 – 61 Just imagine songs this extreme making the American Top 40, let alone the Top 10… unthinkable. 80. Bob Mould – “See a Little Light” (1989) After the disintegration of Hüsker Dü, Bob Mould retreated to rural Minnesota to plot his first solo album. The highly polished, largely acoustic Workbook was a radical departure from the raw and edgy rock he’d been known for in his prior band. His songwriting talents were maturing and he delivered a strong collection of melodic, introspective acoustic rock. He drafted Pere Ubu rhythm se...