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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. [4] [5] The term was a pun based on the rejection of commercial new wave music. [6] Reacting against punk rock 's recycling of rock and roll clichés, no wave musicians instead experimented with noise, dissonance, and atonality ...
- Late 1970s, New York City
Swans are an American experimental rock band formed in 1982 by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira.One of the few acts to emerge from the New York City-based no wave scene and stay intact into the next decade, Swans have become recognized for an ever-changing sound, exploring genres such as noise rock, post-punk, industrial and post-rock.
- 1982–1997, 2010–present
- New York City, U.S.
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The December 2017–January 2018 North American cold wave was an extreme weather event in North America in which record low temperatures gripped much of the Central, Eastern United States, and parts of Central and Eastern Canada. Starting in late December as a result of the southward shift of the polar vortex, extremely cold conditions froze ...
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Mar 1, 2024 · No wave could incorporate everything from the avant-garde compositions of Glenn Branca to the disco and funk imbued on the recordings of Lizzy Mercier Descloux.This diversity within the scene is something of a double-edged sword: on the one hand, you are bound to find at least something that tickles your fancy, but on the other, getting into the genre can be a difficult task.
Jan 14, 2008 · In the late 1970s, a loose collective of New York bands created a radical reaction to New Wave and Punk that came to be known as No Wave. Led by Mars, DNA, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, the ...
Musicology: The History of No Wave. The music created was supposed to be a break in many ways from punk’s origins in 1950s rock ’n’ roll, while still maintaining the spirit of punk. If anything, the music of bands such as Suicide, Mars and Teenage Jesus & The Jerks can be seen as a purposeful deconstruction of rock ’n’ roll, reducing ...
Feb 6, 2023 · With its harsh, rhythm-based sounds and nihilistic lyrics, no wave was a fresh and innovative scene among avant-garde artists and noise musicians. Visceral, raw, liberating, no wave is considered New York’s last cohesive, experimental, avant-rock movement. Born in the low-rent district of Manhattan’s lower East Side in 1978, no wave lasted ...
