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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 ...
As the new visual history “No Wave: Post-Punk” shows, no wave was perhaps the strangest and shortest-lived moment in the history of experimental music in New York.
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 ...
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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 ...
Feb 21, 2023 · This festival was an opportunity to produce leaflets that circulated in 1980s New York post-punk networks. On one of them, Thurston Moore announced his intention of leaving the official circuit of the music industry: "Noise Fest is a reaction to false claims made by the majority of rock/disco club owners and the overground music press.
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 ...
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 ...
