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No wave was an avant-garde music genre and visual art scene which emerged in the late 1970s in Downtown New York City. The term was a pun based on the rejection of commercial new wave music.
- Late 1970s, New York City
Jan 14, 2008 · The Origins of No Wave. By Marc Masters. January 14, 2008. [ * The following is an excerpt from Pitchfork staffer Marc Masters' new book, * No Wave * , published by Black Dog Publishing *...
Mar 10, 2014 · Features I by John Calvert. A Beginner’s Guide to no wave, New York’s middle finger to the world. More often than not, the official history of New York’s late ‘70s scene ends in the scuzzy...
Mar 1, 2024 · The no wave scene of New York’s underground is famously diverse and hard to pin down, largely by design. The darker cousin of the city’s blossoming new wave scene, largely characterised by bright colours, a dilution of the punk spirit, and pop sensibilities.
No Wave. No Wave was a short-lived, avant-garde offshoot of '70s punk, based almost entirely in New York City's Lower East Side from about 1978-1982. Like the post-punk movement that was primarily centered in Britain, no wave drew from the artier side of punk -- but where British post-punk was mostly cold and despairing, no wave was harsh ...
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Jul 6, 2015 · Beginner’s Guide: No Wave. byJeff Terich. July 6, 2015. There’s no question that a lot of people have heard of no wave, but even more than 35 years after the movement’s peak, it’s still a period of music history that’s talked about more than listened to. And it’s not hard to understand why—this isn’t music that’s all that easy to listen to.
