Joey Ramone loved them so much he ended up managing them. You'll love them too.

Along with Daniel Rey, he produced their latest album and he even appears on it.

Buy it now while you still can.

Check out their website for much more details along with mp3's and tour dates.

OKAY, COMPETITION TIME

Joey loved the Independents so much he became their manager.

Tell me, what band do you love enough to do that to ?

It could be your favourite band that's already out there making hit singles, or an old band from history who split up before you were born, or it could be your local guitar heroes in the corner of the practice rooms or anything in between, just let your imagination run riot and send me a few lines saying why you love a band so much you would want to get involved with them in any capacity you could.

The top prize is the internationally acclaimed CD, "The Independents - back from the grave".

My advice is buy the cd from the website above because it is fucking great, so if you do win the competition you can impress your mates by saying "here take my copy, I won another copy last week from 'HandsAcrossYourFace' " BUT I also have a stack of other T-shirts, cd's and stickers to give away, so there is plenty prizes, enter your best and you'll likely win something.

I want you to persuade me to listen to a band other than the Ramones.

What band do you love ?

Send your entries to

AND if you are passionate about more than one band, don't worry, enter this competition as many times as you want, I may even give a prize for most passionate entries, as well as most passionate entry (do you follow ?).

Good Luck !