My favorite Beatle, George’s demo version of “It Don’t Come Easy”. His charming voice makes the lyrics hit home – the understated guitar solo, just perfect. In a nutshell, a perfect calming, inspirational song with a message to it. This song always reminds me that things that are worth it require working for. A small gem from the time when pop stars were not only talented, but thoughtful and intelligent. Not that there aren’t any now, they are just harder to find in the haystack. George to this day is someone who had the most brilliant moments in music. Genuinely amazing as a singer, song writer and guitarist – not every song was one I loved, but when he nailed it, that nail was driven harder and deeper than most’s.

See also: “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, “Here Comes The Sun”, “My Sweet Lord”, “Isn’t It A Pity”, “If Not For You”, “What Is Life”, “I’d Have You Anytime”, and “If I Needed Someone” to name a few.

Enjoy and be inspired …

As the band embarks on a US Tour this September, relocating to New York City and prepares to release their new single and video for the song “Ugly Thing”, we took the opportunity to revamp the band’s website. Today we relaunched http://persephonesbees.com making the site more web 2.0 friendly and lay the groundwork for further updating. In conjunction, we also relaunched Persephone’s Bees’ MySpace page with the new 2.0 profile they offer.

Stay tuned, there’s much more coming soon.

I had a wonderful time working with Edith on her new site. She created all of the collage pieces herself, which gives the site a very personal and charming quality. Edith is an award winning children’s book author, whose work includes “East”, “Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden”, “Hero’s Song” and “Fire Arrow”. Visit her at http://edithpattou.com

Misfits.com ranks in the top 500,000 sites according to killerstartups.com — considering in March 2009, it was estimated that there are 25.21 billion sites out there, that’s pretty darn amazing news to us! Thank you Misfits fans!

Johnny Ramone invented the relentless; down stroke guitar sound that defined not only the groundbreaking sound of the legendary Ramones, but the guitar voice of the punk rock movement in general. Listed in Time Magazine’s “10 greatest electric guitar players” and named #16 in Rolling Stone Magazine’s top 100 guitarists of all-time.

Johnny was the driving force behind the Ramones sometimes referred to as a drill sergeant, bringing order and regiment to the band. This is evident in the speed, accuracy and intensity of their music. Johnny kept the Ramones focused and moving forward, ultimately securing their place in rock history. The Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 18, 2002.

AtomicPopMonkey is extremely honored and thrilled to announce the launch of the brand new Official Johnny Ramone web-site, which was designed and developed by working closely with JRA Chief of Staff, John Cafiero. The new site features illustrations by Shepard Fairey and Sam Fout.

I also designed the postcard / flier for The 6th Annual Johnny Ramone Tribute. This year’s event takes place Sunday July 25, 2010 at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles where Johnny’s memorial statue and Dee Dee’s resting place are. Special guests include Kirk Hammett from Metallica, Surviving founding member and Ramones drummer, Tommy Ramone, and “Rock ‘N’ Roll High School” actresses PJ Soles (Riff Randell) and Dey Young (Kate Rambeau).

Featured this year is a double feature of Roger Corman’s classic “Rock ‘N’ Roll High School” and Johnny’s all time favorite horror movie, James Whale’s 1935 classic “The Bride of Frankenstein”. Net proceeds from the tribute go to aid funding of cancer research.

A small one page micro site for Judd & Maggie launched @ http://choosejuddandmaggie.com

A clean, simple initial launch for singer/songwriter Naomi Greenwald launches @ http://naomigreenwald.com

I’ve been coding and designing like a maniac! We just launched a new site for Tracy Bonham for her new album “Masts of Manhatta”

Exciting news to announce today! The new official Ramones MySpace page went live – laid out and designed by AtomicPopMonkey!

It’s a huge honor to be able to do design work for one of the most iconic founding bands of the original punk rock music scene.

Once again, working with the great people @ Watershed, we designed this site for Planned Parenthood for the 50th Anniversary of the Pill.