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Ten Killer Rock 'n' Roll Photographs

On Oct. 22, you can purchase the new book Who Shot Rock & Roll, which compiles iconic music photographs from 1955 to the present. On Oct. 30, if you're in the New York area, you can see some of these images in an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum that runs through Jan. 31, 2010. And right this very moment, you can see 10 of our favorites from the collection, complete with notes from the book's editor Gail Buckland, written exclusively for Paste....  read more

Thurston Moore, Jemina Pearl do Ramones for Gossip Girl

During a video interview with Rolling Stone, Sonic Youth guitarist/vocalist Thurston Moore announced that he is collaborating with Be Your Own Pet's Jemina Moore for a cover of the Ramones tune "Sheena is a Punk Rocker." And who, pray tell, has commissioned the song for usage on their soap opera? That's a secret I'll never tell. You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl....  read more

Ramones drummer files $900k royalties suit

It turns out that, mortality-wise, the Ramones were the exact inverse of Spinal Tap: in punk rock's first family, only the drummers survive. Now, just over three years after the last principal Ramone (Johnny) left this world, one of the band's many kit-bashers is out to get paid like a rock star. Richard Reinhardt, once rechristened as Richie Ramone, filed a lawsuit last Friday claiming that he never signed off on digital distribution for the six songs that he wrote for the band. Named as defendants in the suit: Wal-Mart, Apple, RealNetworks, the band's management and (this seems pretty low)...  read more

Ramones come Alive on new DVD

Thanks to the Ramones understanding that brevity is the soul of punk, live footage from 33 of their shows over 22 years fits on roughly four hours of Digital Versatile Disc. Slightly longer than a special edition Lord of the Rings movie and twice as epic, It's Alive: 1974-1996 hits shelves October 2 and features Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee and whoever's in the gang at the time singing "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" three times, "Blitzkrieg Bop" four times and "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue" five freaking times. Besides that, there really isn't much repetition amongst the 119 songs,...  read more