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UNITED STATES - JANUARY 01: Photo of RAMONES; The Ramones are pictured for their first album cover (Photo by Roberta Bayley/Redferns)

Ramones ad campaign to lure tourists back to Rockaways

A radio ad campaign is invoking famed Queens punk rock band the Ramones to entice beachgoers back out to the [...]

During our conversation with Burnel, he asked with fondness, “Do you know, remember or have you heard of The Rat? Is it still going?
Because that is the very first place we ever played the first time we played America.” We had to break it to him gently that the fabled Kenmore Square
venue that was officially called The Rathskellar closed a few years before the new millennium. The Stranglers play High Line Ballroom in NYC on June 3, at Brighton Music Hall in Allston, Mass. on June 4 and Union Transfer in Philly on June 5.

They’re ‘Giants’ at home, but the Stranglers deserve more US love

Punk rock icons the Stranglers return to the States for the first time in almost 20 years.