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“He tore the whole thing to shreds and was very unkind, harsh and cruel … It was very upsetting to have someone you admire being so nasty about your work”: Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull’s War Child, and 1974

Their seventh studio album was the result of a failed attempt to make a movie – but the band leader believes many more significant things happened in the world of music that year

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"There was no food allowed backstage, only drugs and booze": Clem Burke's stories of Debbie Harry, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop and more

He was a Ramone, been treated like royalty when touring withNancy Sinatra, got hot dogs from Jerry Nolan and played with Pete Townshend: He's Blondie drummer and more Clem Burke

Louder

I wanna be top-rated: Ramones’ 20 greatest songs – ranked!

Fifty years on from their first gig at New York’s CBGB, we rate the best work by the punk pioneers – even the hidden 1980s gems. Let’s go!

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‘The drugs were so new, they weren’t illegal yet’: the debauched rise of New York’s wildest bar

It was a seedy hotbed of sex, drugs, edgy music and A-list celebrities where Lou Reed and Andy Warhol partied alongside Blondie and Bowie. How did Max’s Kansas City fall apart?

The Guardian - UK

“It’s loud, it’s obnoxious, it’s brainless, and It’s definitely not music for wimps.” When The Pogues' Shane MacGowan reviewed singles by Deep Purple, The Smiths, Robert Fripp, Dire Straits, Nico and more

Shane MacGowan didn't hold back when asked to review the music of his peers

Louder

‘Then a woman with a bullwhip walked into the lift’: my 17 years painting the demimonde of New York’s Chelsea hotel

Hull’s David Remfry was ‘artist in residence’ at the legendary hotel, portraying dominatrixes, drag acts and rock stars – including an annoyingly twitchy Dee Dee Ramone in a room smelling of glue. He relives a ‘magic time’

The Guardian - UK

10 brilliant, bizarre and utterly WTF Lemmy collaborations

From Slash and Dave Grohl to glamour models and 80s girl groups, Lemmy worked with ’em all

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"I always think this is the closest anyone has ever come to making the perfect record": The story of The Undertones' punk classic Teenage Kicks

Guitarist and songwriter John O’Neill on how a young band from Derry created a classic: "I can’t believe someone didn’t come up with it before me"

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Shellac frontman and legendary alt. rock engineer Steve Albini dead at 61

Shellac vocalist/guitarist Steve Albini, who engineered classic albums by Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Pixies and more, has died at his Chicago recording studio

Metal Hammer

“When we were trying out drummers none of them worked out because their drumming just didn’t click in with Johnny’s guitar style”: Tommy Ramone on why Johnny Ramone's playing forced him to switch from managing to drumming

Johnny Ramone’s strumming technique contributed to the lightning-in-a-bottle sound of the band’s debut album

Guitar World

“John Paul Jones is one of the only musicians I’ve been around where I was starstruck. I asked him some stupid questions about Achilles Last Stand… but he was very kind!” Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament names 11 bassists who shaped his sound

From Dee Dee Ramone to Eric Avery, fretless to 12-string bassists, Jeff Ament believes all his influences can all be heard on the latest Pearl Jam album Dark Matter

Guitar World

"Minor Threat were like The Beatles. I saw Ian MacKaye write Straight Edge on his mother's piano": Henry Rollins on Black Flag, Minor Threat, The Stooges, Green Day, Beyoncé and the meaning of punk

Former SOA, Black Flag, Rollins Band frontman Henry Rollins knows a thing or three about punk rock, so pay attention please

Metal Hammer

Does anyone else remember that time Metallica played a secret show as a Ramones cover band?

In 2002, Metallica (plus fill-in bassist Bob Rock) took the stage at a San Francisco dive bar and played songs by one of punk’s most prestigious bands

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OPINION - The Roundhouse is the jewel in Camden's crown — and this is why we should support it more

As long as I’ve been in London, the Roundhouse has been part of my life. It is as symptomatic of the city as the Post Office Tower, Buck House, the Millennium Wheel or the 100 Club. Not only is it architecturally idiosyncratic (it was declared a National Heritage site in…

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"What a revelation! In-your-face, bare-boned, all Ramones, all the time, balls-to-the-wall": How Dee Dee Ramone's private teenage escape inspired a punk classic

After moving to New York to escape an abusive father, pre-Dee Dee Ramone Doug Colvin wrote a song about the coastal escape he frequented

The Guardian - UK

The Jesus and Mary Chain: ‘Despite our reputation, we’re gentle – tea and toast guys’

40 years into their career and with a new album out soon, Jim and William Reid answer your questions on sibling rivalry, singing with Shane MacGowan and famous fan Sofia Coppola

Louder

“I wanted us to be the punk Monkees, the mainstream Ramones or Mötley Crüe with sneakers”: the story of Candy, the cult 80s LA glam rockers who produced a future Guns N’ Roses superstar

With their debut album, Whatever Happened To Fun?, LA power-pop outfit Candy should have been huge

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“Gene looked like a transvestite, Paul looked like some whore and Ace looked like Shirley Maclaine”: the outrageous story of Kiss’s first 12 months

Kiss’s farewell tour is fast approaching its end – but this is how it all started, way back in 1973

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Every cover song by Metallica, ranked from worst to best

We’ve listed the 40 covers that metal’s biggest band recorded in the studio and released to the public in reverse-order of excellence

The Guardian - UK

Fleetwood Mac decided to go their own ways. How do bands know when to quit, and shouldn’t more do so?

After the death of Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks has called time. There is an art to timing it right – just look at the Beatles, says music writer Michael Hann

The Independent UK

Seymour Stein: Mogul who discovered some of music’s greats

Stein was a powerhouse executive who brought names such as Madonna and Talking Heads into global stardom

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"New York in the '80s was lawless and f**ked-up": How heroin, hardcore and a headless corpse inspired Unsane's insane early adventures in Gotham

Unsane vocalist/guitarist Chris Spencer revisits the NYC noise rock band's formative years ahead of their upcoming Early Cuts European tour

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Overkill's Bobby 'Blitz' Ellsworth: My life in 10 songs

The 10 songs that defined Bobby 'Blitz' Ellsworth's career, from helping define East Coast thrash with Overkill to surviving grunge and still going strong 40+ years on

The Guardian - UK

Seymour Stein obituary

Music executive and co-founder of Sire Records who launched the careers of Madonna, Talking Heads and the Ramones

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Appreciation: Seymour Stein, dead at 80, discovered the Ramones, Madonna, many more: ‘I never believed in press for myself’

SAN DIEGO — Seymour Stein was never a household name to most music fans before his Sunday death from cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 80. But he certainly was to the Ramones, the Talking Heads, Madonna, Ice-T, Depeche Mode and the dozens of other artists Stein signed…

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