Ever since they rose from the dark streets of New York’s Bowery via Queens, the Ramones have been worshiped by punks and pop fans alike. And rightly so. The faux brothers — make that bruddahs — invented a completely new sound, blending outsider angst with bubblegum pop, for a hybrid style that’s still popular today. Though it took a decade for bands to begin aping the Ramones directly, the style the quartet invented went on to become a full-fledged punk rock sub-genre: Ramones-core. Here’s a look at some of its best proponents:

Chixdiggit!
Started as simply a made up band name sold on T-shirts, the Canadian quartet eventually became a real band, signing to SubPop for their debut, and later to Fat Wreck Chords imprint Honest Dons for a couple more.
Chixdiggit! – “Geocities Kitty”

The Huntingtons
Embracing their Ramones-core roots, this Baltimore trio recorded “File Under Ramones” in 1999, an album of 20 Ramones covers (and Motorhead’s “R.A.M.O.N.E.S.”). They also recorded with Mass Giorgini, the biggest producer of Ramones-core acts, having worked with over half the bands on this list.
The Huntingtons – “I Wanna Be a Ramone”

The Lillingtons
Combining sci-fi lyrics with three-chord pop-punk, this Wyoming trio released records on Ben Weasel’s Panic Button label before disbanding in 2001.
The Lillingtons – “Black Hole in My Mind”

The Methadones
The band recently announced their breakup after 10 years together, but they leave behind one soon-to-be-released record alongside an infectious pop-punk catalog.
The Methadones – “Solitude”

Mr. T Experience
MTX were always the wittiest of their Ramones-core peers, which explains why the band’s driving force Dr. Frank was able to segue into authoring young adult novels after the band split up.
Mr. T Experience – “Sackcloth and Ashes”

The Queers
Led by Joe Queer, this New Hampshire band has stopped and started repeatedly since forming in 1992, but the band had a memorable output of records in the ’90s on Lookout!
The Queers – “Ursula Finally Has Tits”

Riverdales
This Ramones-core supergroup — featuring Ben Weasel of Screeching Weasel and Dan Vapid of The Queers — had their debut album produced by Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, who also brought the band along as the opening act for their “Insomniac” tour.
Riverdales – “Don’t Let Them Beat My Baby”

Screeching Weasel
After attending a 1986 Ramones show, Ben Foster and John Pierson renamed themselves Ben Weasel and John Jughead and started a band. The result was Screeching Weasel, the first prominent proponent of the Ramones-core style, and a band that would eventually influence a generation of pop-punk kids led by Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day.
Screeching Weasel – “I Want to Be a Homosexual”

Teenage Bottlerocket
When brothers Ray and Brandon Carlisle found their band breaking up, they called up their old from Kody Templeman from The Lillingtons and never looked back. The band released a pair of records on Red Scare before signing to Fat Wreck Chords in 2009. Each of their albums has the same cover, only with different colors but the same skull logo with bottlerockets as crossbones.
Teenage Bottlerocket – “Skate or Die”

Teen Idols
Not to be confused with D.C. hardcore band Teen Idles, this group of Teens hailed from Nashville and played a leather jacket brand of Ramones-core, highlighted by the female vocal harmonies of bass player Heather Tabor.
Teen Idols – “Pucker Up”

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The second solo outing from Sundowner, the side project from Chris McCaughan of Chicago punk outfit The Lawrence Arms, suffers from SPS — Side Project Syndrome™ — which is to say the material just isn’t as compelling, nor the sound of the band as well defined as material from his primary group. Sundowner’s first outing, 2007’s “Four One Five Two,” didn’t sound a whole lot different, but the songs were stronger and the arrangements were more dense, which gave the record some cohesion. But “Waves” comes crashing down. The album’s sparser arrangements don’t hold things together, and many of the songs sound like demos for Lawrence Arms songs — and would probably be better like that since far less nuance is required. In fact, just try to hear “Jewel of the Midwest” without hearing it as a punk rock song going going full bore, guitars blaring and double-time snare pounding. McCaughan does write nice lyrics, however, and as the title alludes, many of the songs reference the sea. This provides a few sunken treasures here, but for the most part, “We Chase the Waves” just sort of washes up on shore.

Sundowner – “Whales and Sharks”

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Here’s NOFX playing “Franco Un-American” on Conan, complete with Limo in a belly shirt:

What is that giant CD-type thing Letterman is holding up while he introduces X?:

Jay Leno introduces Against Me! on the “Tonight Show” by calling them one of the best punk bands ever. Funny, Jay always seemed like more of a Pennywise kind of guy:

A bunch of Irish dudes play on a Jewish dude’s show. It’s the Dropkick Murphys on Kimmel:

From New Jersey to NYC, the Gaslight Anthem playing live on Letterman:

What’s the deal with the Jai alai match going on behind Bad Religion during their song on Conan? This features Mr. Brett before he left and returned and before the band had like eight guitar players:

Green Day plays “Basket Case” on Letterman when they were just young whipper-snappers:

On Jimmy Kimmel’s show, Flogging Molly get perhaps the best pit ever on late night TV:

It would be more awesome to see The Sex Pistols on Merv Griffin in 1976, but we’ll take David Letterman in 1996 instead:

The Ramones — or at least half of them — play “Pet Cemetary” on Letterman in 1989 with Paul Shaffer and Letterman’s house band. Kudos to the spelling brainiac who put the titles on this sucker.

The British Buzzcocks play on the Scottish Craig Ferguson’s show in 2006:

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Bracket – “Talk Show”

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The guitar and rock & roll go hand in hand — or least hand on fretboard. Even before Link Wray poked holes in the speakers of his amp to create distortion, guitars have been the foundation on which rock & rock was built. B.B King named his guitar Lucille, a name more familiar to his legion of admirers than the names of either of his wives — or even his bandmates. As well, most hardcore rock fans could tell you a few different guitar models. The Fender Strat and Gibson Les Paul are household names in the rock world. How many country fans do you think could name a single brand of fiddle? In tribute to rock’s greatest instrument, here’s a playlist of songs dedicated to the almighty guitar.

The Beatles – “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
After several unispired attempts at a guitar solo, George Harrison, who penned the tune, convinced Eric Clapton to provide the song’s missing link, which he reluctantly did.

Loudon Wainwright III – “Red Guitar”
It’s not easy to tell a good story in less than two minutes, but Loudon Wainwright does just that on this pop gem from his 1972 album “III,” about a guitar he smashes, burns and eventually replaces.

Chely Wright – “Emma Jean’s Guitar”
Like a lot of modern country, the song is overly polished and overly romantic, but that doesn’t change the appeal of wanting to get your hands on a 1950 Gibson.

Mark Knopfler – “Monteleone”
A song about a guitar maker…. whose guitars start at $10,000.

Magnetic Fields – “Acoustic Guitar”
Side three of the iconic indie opus “69 Love Songs” boasts this tune which Claudia Ronson sings to her acoustic guitar. And bonus points for name dropping Gwar, Steve Earle and Charo in the same tune.

Ten Years After – “Once There Was a Time”
From the British blues-rock band’s 1971 album called “A Space and Time,” this guitar song was the first track on the album’s second side, which would become the best-selling record of their career.

John Hiatt – “Perfectly Good Guitar”
Though the perfectly good title track from Hiatt’s eleventh album focuses on guitar smashers, you can’t help but think the dude’s a little high strung over one of rock & roll’s greatest excesses, even if it has become cliche. It’s hard to argue that the power of Paul Simonon’s bass smashing on the “London Calling” cover didn’t convey as powerful a message as their music.

Frank Zappa – “My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama”
It’s not surprising that the guitar work in a song with this title is supremely awesome, particularly since it references Hendrix’ “Foxy Lady.”

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Saint Joey

Allen E. Brown is a pimp. No, seriously — he sells bitches on the street. He also has one of the most amazing hairstyles we’ve ever seen.

See Mark Ryden paint Abraham Lincoln in 4 minutes:

That’s one million million by the way.

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Punk rock guitar players don’t get much acclaim for their playing. And frankly, most don’t deserve it. But punk rock was never about virtuosity anyway, which makes Stephen Egerton, long-time guitarist of The Descendents and All, such an anomaly. He’s a pop-punk guitarist with great chops, ably holding down his band’s guitar duties all by his lonesome. His latest project is “The Seven Degrees of Stephen Egerton,” a solo project which finds the bald-headed guitarist collaborating with a number of different singers — one per the album’s 17 tracks — some you probably know and others you don’t.

Between his multiple bands (he also has 40Engine, Slorder and Crowley/Egerton), the 45-year-old Egerton somehow found the time to write a slew of new songs. And aside from the collaboration on vocals, “Seven Degrees” is truly a solo project. Not only did the Egerton play every instrument on the album, but he also recorded each of them himself, a skill he’s developed over the last 15 years producing records for bands like MxPx, The Ataris and Less Than Jake.

As for what the record sounds like, it basically sounds like an All record, only with different singers, though Chad Price, who’s performed vocal duties in that group since 1993, does lend his voice to a song, as does former All vocalist Scott Reynolds. When the record works best, the songs sound like a blend of All and the band the collaborator plays in, as is the case with “Our Last Song” featuring Dan Andriano of Alkaline Trio, “Print on Paper” featuring Chris DeMakes of Less Than Jake and “Sunny Disposition” featuring Scott Reynolds, formerly of All. At it’s worst, “Seven Degrees” sounds like leftovers from a recent All record, which isn’t the worst thing in the world — and which is the exception here and not the rule. Other vocalists featured on the record include Milo Aukerman of the Descendents, Jon Snodgrass of Drag the River, Mike Herrerra of MxPx and Joey Cape of Lagwagon. Here are a couple of tracks:

Stephen Egerton – “Our Last Song” (feat. Dan Andriano)
Stephen Egerton – “Print on Paper” (feat. Chris DeMakes)

And here’s Egerton talking about the genesis of the project:

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Dick tattoos, ya gotta love ‘em! Any macho muchacho can tattoo their man meat, but it takes a special kind of individual to tattoo a dick on themselves. Wanna have some fun at your local pool this summer? Strip down to your Speedo to reveal that flying cock on your thigh and revel in the reactions. Want to impress your future in-laws? Show them that throbbing beef thermometer you have permanently inked across your back. And remember, it’s not the size of your penis tattoo that matters, it’s who did the work.

You’re so veiny, I bet you think this tattoo’s about you.

Check out these winged wangs.

Just because you didn’t intentionally tattoo a tally-whacker on yourself doesn’t mean you didn’t.

Here are a couple of chicks with dicks.

If 4chan were a tattoo, it’d probably look like this.

Cool, a circumsized banana!

These are so adorable they might actually be ok.

Ah yes, the old beef baloney butterfly. A classic.

Try as you might to hide a wiener inside your fantasy tattoo, we can still pick it out.

With a tattoo like that, your penis is pretty much guaranteed to never catch any vagina.

At the very least, these three are creative. On the left is Scott Stapp of Creed… and a cockrophone. That’s a shamcock in the middle, flanked on the end by a delicious looking cockcake.

These fall into the weird weenies category.

We’re guessing the dude on the left has made a lot of money betting people he’s got a cock that hangs past his knee. The dude on the right, however, may have simply lost a bet.

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Alexa Meade’s art might make your head hurt. But that’s kind of the point. You’ll cock your head, squint your eyes and move just a little closer to figure out exactly what’s real and what isn’t in her paintings. What she does is paint people. Or rather, paints on people. In a painstaking process using her own recipe of nontoxic paints, Meade does the reverse of bringing a painting to life, opting instead to bring life into her art, either photographing her subjects once they’re painted or installing them in a piece where viewers can examine them in person, perhaps not exactly sure what’s real and what isn’t until they zone in on the eyes or hair and figure out what’s happening. Here’s a look at some of the artist’s unique work and process.

This is Meade, herself the canvas, as she prepares for a self-portrait.

Meade painted her younger sister for this installation.

And here’s what the final work looked like.

After painting this dude, Meade followed him onto the subway.

The view from behind.

With the subjects’ eyes closed, it’s harder to tell the canvases are actually human.

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DLR + The Beastie Boys + Sean Penn + 80s = 4 kinds of awesome

Chuck Dukowski of Black Flag and SST Records is having a hardcore garage sale on eBay.

If these two could cobble together one more friend they could totally score a value meal.

Scientists in Japan have developed a new kind of deodorant.

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, a band whose name is a pot reference, explains the beauty of the gravity bong to Bill Maher.

Proof you shouldn’t fuck with a cop killer.

We like the other suit better.

Malcolm in the Middle has a punk band. You’ll be shocked to know they aren’t rad.

“Fucking magnets, how do they work?” ICP has a song we like. Go figure.

It actually took us a minute to figure out what was going on here.

More awesome: drumkit or shirt?

Oh, like you wouldn’t hit it.

Guy Fiero is just awesome.

But so is motherfuckin’ Jean Claude Grande Am.

Muslim punk!

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