A Brief History of No Wave

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0:00 Intro
0:27 No wave characteristics
1:01 The background of No Wave
3:35 The Early Precursors of No Wave
5:01 "No New York" Compilation
6:48 Lydia Lunch, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
8:46 DNA, Arto Lindsay
10:00 James Chance and The Contortions
11:12 Theoretical Girls, Glenn Branca
12:45 Sonic Youth
14:01 Swans
14:48 Other No wave Bands
16:18 The Influence of No wave
17:09 End

No wave is a music genre, named for the transient avant-garde music and visual art scene from which it emerged in the late 1970s in downtown New York City. No wave embraced noise, atonality, nihilism, and confrontation.

Acts related: Patti Smith, The Ramones, Television, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Talking Heads, Blondie, La Monte Young, Steve Reich, Captain Beefheart, Yoko One and Plastic One band, Can, Faust, Suicide, Alan Vega, Glenn Branca, Brian Eno, No New York Compilation, James Chance and The Contortions, Teenage Jesus and the jerks, Mars, DNA, Lydia Lunch, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave, Arto Lindsay, Ambitious Lovers, The Golden Palominos, Robert Christgau, Theoretical Girls, Glenn Branca, The Ascension, Lee Ronaldo, Sonic Youth, Swans, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Confusion is Sex, filth, The Gynecologists, Ut, Bush Tetras, 8 Eyed Spy, The Lounge Lizards and John Zorn, John Lurie, Stranger than Paradise, Jim Jarmusch, New York Noise: Dance Music From the New York Underground 1978-1982

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References:
No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York 1976-1980 by Byron Coley and Thurston Moore
https://pitchfork.com/features/articl...
https://www.factmag.com/2014/03/10/a-...
https://bigother.com/2010/10/06/looki...

Sonic Youth China resource:    • Sonic Youth in China  

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