Dee Dee Ramone

Started back in 1996, the Dutch pop-punkers The Apers are definitely one of the world's best poppunk bands of today. People who loves the Ramones, Undertones and Screeching Weasel will be happy to find out The Apers used those same good ol' three chords and still managed to come with a totally refreshing sound to show you real Rock & Roll is ready to survive another century.

While punk music has been well represented in documentaries about individual bands (The Filth and the Fury, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten and probably even a few that weren’t directed by Julien Temple), attempts to provide a documentary overview of the genre often end up as scatter-shot messes, with the documentarian mistaking punk’s exuberance as an excuse to substitute a well-told tale for a breathless look at a dozen bands that do battle under the punk flag: Look: the Ramones / Sex Pistols / Clash / X / Germs / Green Day! A tip o’ the cap, then to Christoph Dreher, whose House of the Rising Punk, originally released in 1998 for German television and only now finding a home on DVD, expertly avoids falling into the above-mentioned trap, and stands as one of the stronger depictions of the CBGB’s/NYC punk scene.

The 3rd full-length by these poppunk titans from Tirol, Austria. Twelve brandnew super poppy, catchy songs for all you Banana Brains out there. Ramones hangin out with the Queers in some Austrian basement, watching 70s cartoons together!