Music - Aug. 29, 2007
A punk legend is gone; Hilly Kristal dead at 75
Kristal, who died in Manhattan on Tuesday of complications from lung cancer at age 75, launched CBGB's in 1973 and in doing so helped spark the New York punk scene that centered around his club until its recent closing.
Tags: Hilly Kristal, Talking Heads, Ramones, Sonic Youth, Blondie, CBGB's, Bad Brains, Beastie Boys

Music - Feb. 9, 2007
A Q&A with Rhys Chatham
Rhys Chatham is one of those mythological figures in music, perhaps best known for combining minimalist music with heavy metal.
Tags: Rhys Chatham, Guitar Trio, Table of the Elements, Turner Ballroom, keith brammer, ramones, die kreuzen

Music - Nov. 18, 2004
"End of the Century" captures the Ramones' roots
"End of the Century," a musical documentary, takes viewers back to 1974 when four friends with a love for The Stooges and sniffing glue were putting together a band. That band was called The Ramones.
Tags: End of the Century, Ramones, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Michael Gramaglia, Jim Fields, Blitzkrieg Bop, Blondie, Seymour Stein, Sire, Joey Ramone, New York Dolls, Clash, Sex Pistols, Pretenders, Johnny Rotten, Friday Night Freak Show, WMSE

Music - Feb. 5, 2003
Modern Machines keep punk spirit alive
Two Badger State bands -- Milwaukee's Modern Machines and Green Bay's Fragments -- recently teamed up for a split CD on San Francisco's New Disorder Records. To find out more about the punk scene here, we hurled some questions at Modern Machines guitarist and lead singer Nato Disgusting.
Tags: punk, Fragments, Nato, Disorder, Ramones

Music - Nov. 27, 2001
The night Springsteen almost bombed in Milwaukee...
The best gig ever... Those are usually the first words in a long argument between devoted music fans. Our intrepid correspondent Eric Beaumont gets the lowdown on some of Cream City's most (in)famous gigs of the 20th Century from Milwaukeeans who were there. Here's part two.
Tags: The best gig ever..., Springsteen, Ramones, Burning Spear, Summerfest, Run DMC