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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 ...
"No wave" refers to a short-lived punk offshoot (arguably, a type of post-punk) that emerged out of New York City in the late '70s, with close connections to the obviously hugely-influential avant-garde music and arts scenes in the city at that time. Musically, as the wikipedia link will tell you, it's less about a consistent sound across different artists in the movement than a philosophical ...
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 ...
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Jun 1, 2018 · The Clash: (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais [7-inch] No Wave, at least in name, was a reaction against the new wave scene springing up across New York in the late 1970’s. Stylistically, it fell somewhere between The Monks’ 1966 garage/proto punk masterpiece Black Monk Time, Miles Davis’ Dark Magus, and any of the more unconventional ...
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 ...
Mar 10, 2014 · 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 confines of CBGBs, and the ...
The term “no wave” was a pun based on the rejection of commercial new wave music. Reacting against punk rock’s recycling of rock and roll clichés, no wave musicians instead experimented with noise, dissonance and atonality in addition to non-rock genres like free jazz and disco while often reflecting an abrasive, confrontational, and ...
