Bah, who needs color. All the best movies are in black and white anyway, right? You think KISS would’ve painted their faces with any other colors? (wait, what — Ace used silver?) And of course there’s the mother of all desserts, the black and white cookie. Needless to say, there are plenty of reasons why black and white work so well together — in fine art, hard rock…

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…

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…

With the exception of PBS faves like “Austin City Limits” and “Artist’s Den,” there’s virtually no outlet on primetime broadcast television for live music anymore. There’s no “American Bandstand,” no “ABC In Concert” — hell, there isn’t even “TLR” to check out all those kooky tween bands the kids love. If you look hard enough…