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10 of the best Halloween tracks to test your hi-fi system

We've put together some of our favourite Halloween-themed tracks that are perfect for putting your kit through its paces

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“By the time I realized I was in, I was a deserter from the Marine Corps. Johnny was was like, ‘Do your time. When you get out, you’ve got a job’”: CJ Ramone landed the gig of a lifetime with the Ramones, but his audition got him sent to naval prison

Replacing Dee Dee was no easy task, but CJ helped energize the band’s last stand by relearning how to play and using his predecessor’s rig – and he has no regrets about how it ended

Guitar World

How Philly anarcho-punks blended music, noise and social justice in the 1990s and 2000s

While New York City is commonly considered the birthplace of American punk rock, just 100 miles south of the famous CBGB club where the Ramones and other early punk bands got their start is Philadelphia, which has had its own vibrant punk rock scene since at least 1974 – and…

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Fuze review – twisty London-set heist thriller should have stolen some personality

Scottish director David Mackenzie recruits Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James for a caper heavy on double-crossing but light on style

The Guardian - US

“There are two types of bands. One is s**t. The other is The Hives”: 45 minutes with the world’s greatest band, The Hives

Our reviewer tries and fails to take notes every minute of a gig by The Hives at The Outernet, London

Louder

“I realized I might pass the audition, and then they sent the cops over, came and picked me up, and took me to jail”: How C. J. Ramone landed the role of Ramones bassist while he was in jail

Christopher Joseph Ward, a.k.a C. J. Ramone, on how he deserted the Marine Corps to live out his rock ‘n’ roll dreams

Guitar World

Debate: what's the greatest punk album ever?

Ramones? Fun House? The Crack? Dookie? The Shape Of Punk To Come? Randy the Band? We want to know your pick for punk's finest hour

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“We went to Waffle House and I saw a sugar packet. Those songs went from being the third Bob Mould solo album to being by a band called Sugar”: Bob Mould on Hüsker Dü's rise and fall, and what changed when he swapped his Ibanez Rocket Roll for a Strat

In a rare interview, the Hüsker Dü and Sugar mastermind walks us through his entire career, right on up to his brand-new “give the people what they want” record, Here We Go Crazy

Guitar World

“Interviewers were telling me that I started the whole glam rock, hair metal scene. I said, ‘What? Don’t blame me for that!’” Drugs, guitars, triumph and tragedy – the inside story of Hanoi Rocks

40 years ago – after moving to London to invent the movement that would inspire a million L.A. bands – Finnish upstarts Hanoi Rocks self-destructed. This is their story

Guitar World

Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp return to action with maniacal Ramones cover

The frolicsome pair's cover of I Wanna Be Sedated is exactly as lively as you'd expect

Louder

Finn Wolfhard Shares What Music Shaped Him—and What's on His Playlist Now

With his album 'Happy Birthday' out now, the actor/musician opens up about his musical preferences for the 'Marie Claire' series "Listen Up."

Marie Claire

‘A knife crime waiting to happen’: how Yoshitomo Nara became Japan’s most expensive artist

The veteran punk painter’s twisted cherubs are a far cry from the tasteful, beautiful Japanese art that usually appears in western galleries. The retrospective about to open in the UK should be electrifying

The Guardian - UK

"They are bigger than the Ramones. Their influence is greater, their reach is greater, and certainly their success is greater." Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan on the punk band he believes has eclipsed the Ramones

Billy Corgan shares his respect and admiration for some old friends

Louder

“This gentleman was someone we looked up to before the Ramones." Watch Pearl Jam rock Nashville with one of the biggest rock stars of the '70s

Pearl Jam invite one of their favourite British rock stars to share their stage in Nashville

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Harnessing chaos and charm, Pere Ubu’s David Thomas rewrote rock’n’roll

The bandleader, who has died aged 71, created a vast body of work that influenced everyone from Ramones to REM, thanks to his absurdist energy

Guitar World

“I was really broke. The only way I could get to New York to try out for Talking Heads was to take a family who were moving there in the band van”: Jerry Harrison on making Talking Heads’ 1977 debut and rejecting blues-rock to shape the CBGB guitar sound

Granting a rare interview to promote Talking Heads’ newly reissued debut album, the new wave pioneer holds forth on everything from the thrills of the CBGB scene to the perils of mimicking your heroes

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"At first the tension was unbelievable. Johnny was really cold, Dee Dee was OK but Joey was a sweetheart": The story of the Ramones' recording of Baby I Love You

Legendary keys player Barry Goldberg on the sessions that spawned the band's biggest UK hit

Evening Standard

Blondie, The Ramones, and the greatest CBGB bands

Blondie drummer Clem Burke died at the weekend aged 70. In tribute here is a look at the scene that forged around the legendary New York venue, CBGB

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Clem Burke obituary

Drummer with Blondie who provided the backbone of their string of hit singles and live performances

The Guardian - UK

Clem Burke, Blondie’s drummer and ‘heartbeat’, dies aged 70

Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, founding members of the new wave hitmakers, pay tribute to their late bandmate

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"Ramones perfectly represent and encapsulate the essence of the underground." Napalm Death, Thurston Moore, Wayne Kramer, Ihsahn and members of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rammstein, Gogol Bordello and more to appear on two forthcoming Ramones tribute albums

Underground heroes pay tribute to Da Bruddahs, NYC's much-missed punk rock pioneers

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“The story of a misfit kid who grew up to be a punk rock hero”: Joey Ramone to be the subject of a new children’s book

Book will “speak to young folks navigating the complexities of growing up”

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Napalm Death have recorded a cover of a Ramones song with a guest appearance from Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore – and we cannot wait to hear it

Napalm Death, Voivod, Ihsahn, Mondo Generator and more will cover The Ramones for a pair of upcoming tribute albums

MusicRadar

“They were trashy. They seemed genuine”: New York Dolls singer David Johansen dead at 75

The Dolls’ debut album inspired many bands - from the Sex Pistols to Guns N’ Roses

Guitar World

“Ray Manzarek hated the sound of distorted guitar chords. He didn’t think they belonged in music”: X’s Under the Big Black Sun is a stone-cold L.A. punk classic, produced by a legendary figure who “didn’t really like punk rock” – here's how it was made

In X guitarist Billy Zoom's mind, the band could have been Eddie Cochran meets the Ramones, but they ended up being much more. A renaissance man with a love of Gretsch, Zoom takes us back to revisit the band's seminal 1982 album

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