Ramones
Pull a thread
Cheetah Chrome, the Dead Boys, and the Word Joey Ramone Put In at CBGB in 1976
Cheetah Chrome died on September 13 at 71. The obituary is short. The better story is a basement room on the Bowery, and the favor from a friend that got a band from Cleveland onto its stage fifty years ago this fall.
What the band said, and what they did not
The news came from the Dead Boys’ own Instagram account on Sunday, September 13. Cheetah Chrome, born Eugene Richard O’Connor, guitarist and co-founder of the band, was dead at 71. No cause was given, and I am not going to guess at one. The statement called him “a true original, an architect of the punk rock movement,” as Consequence reported.
Three Sisters, One Pocket: What The Warning's Fifth Album Says About Rock's Family Bands
“Kerosene” put a Monterrey trio at No. 1 on Mainstream Rock Airplay — the first Mexican band and the first all-women band to do it in the chart’s 45 years. The interesting part isn’t the milestone. It’s what a shared childhood actually does to a rhythm section, and why the answer isn’t what anyone assumes.
The album, quickly, because it’s the excuse and not the story
The Warning released Everything’s Falling on 28 August 2026 — album five, twelve tracks, 39:04, out on Lava/Republic and produced by Anton DeLost. Three singles led it out: “Kerosene” in March, “Ego” in May, “Ritual” in June. It landed on ten Billboard charts, including No. 2 Top Rock Albums and No. 4 Top Hard Rock Albums.
Ramones at 50: The Hollywood Forever Tribute Lineup Is Their Influence Tree
On 30 August 2026, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tim Armstrong, Travis Barker, CJ Ramone and Billy Idol played Ramones songs in a Los Angeles cemetery. Read the lineup as a diagram and you get fifty years of punk on one stage.
The set list was fine. The lineup was the story.
Every outlet covered the show. Rolling Stone counted 19 songs. Blabbermouth ran the video. Billboard gave the band its name: Cretin Family, a one-night-only group made of Tim Armstrong of Rancid, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Travis Barker of Blink-182 and CJ Ramone, playing together for the first time.