As a final sendoff to CBGB founder Hilly Kristal, who passed away on Tuesday, we wanted to post a couple of Rolling Stone dispatches from the first bloom of New York punk: Charles M. Young’s early profile of the Ramones from 1976, and a review of a blistering Patti Smith live stand at CBs from 1977 by Mark Von Lehmden. (Click here for photos of the Ramones, Smith and more onstage at Kristal’s club.)

• “The Ramones Are Punks and Will Beat You Up” (August 12, 1976)
• “Patti Smith: Love and Anarchy in NYC” (July 28, 1977)