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No Wave's Interests
Music
Mars, DNA, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Lydia Lunch, James Chance and the Contortions, James White and the Blacks, Dark Day, Beirut Slump, John Gavanti, 8-Eyed Spy, No New York, Theoretical Girls, Gynecologists, Ut, Glenn Branca, Jeffrey Lohn, Rhys Chatham, Red Transistor, Suicide, Information, Blinding Headache, Mofungo, Sonic Youth, Swans, ESG, Konk, Liquid Liquid, The Static, Y Pants, John Gavanti, Material, Lizzie Mercier Descloux, Bush Tetras, Lounge Lizards, Massacre, Live Skull, Ike Yard, Futants, Golden Palominos, Don King, imPLOG, more to come!
Movies
everything by Amos Poe, Eric Mitchell, James Nares, Beth and Scott B., Vivienne Dick, Charlie Ahern, more to come!
About me: This is the myspace site for NO WAVE, a new book from BLACK DOG PUBLISHING written by Marc Masters and edited by Rob Young, with a foreword by Weasel Walter.
Flashing through the New York underground in the late 1970s, No Wave was the ultimate anti-movement. Its bands consisted of artists and poets untrained in music, looking to explode rock and disappear before the smoke cleared. NO WAVE tells the fascinating story of this radical, anarchic and hugely influential musical movement.
Best known for short songs and even shorter life-spans, No Wave bands fused disparate styles to fashion abrasive, rhythmic songs that were completely original and utterly compelling. The primary perpetrators – Lydia Lunch’s howling Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James Chance’s skeletal Contortions, the dark-noise groups Mars and DNA – all drew on primitivism, performance art, and the avant-garde.
NO WAVE - the book - traces the history of this noisy and uncompromising genre, from its most famous names down to its many offshoots and sidetracks. From early pioneers like Suicide and Richard Hell, to forgotten treasures like Red Transistor and Bush Tetras, and descendents like ESG and Sonic Youth, No Wave charts all the cracks and crevices of a surprisingly diverse movement.
The book also delves into No Wave cinema, where pioneers like Amos Poe, Eric Mitchell, and Beth and Scott B. translated the aggression and innovation of No Wave music to the screen. Musicians often starred in these films, and figures like Jim Jarmsuch and Steve Buscemi first cut their teeth in this vibrant scene.
Illustrated with rare and previously unseen concert photos, record covers, and other ephemera of the times, and featuring exclusive interviews with key protagonists from the scene, NO WAVE is the definitive guide to a genre whose sounds and ideas still vibrate through alternative culture today.
James Chance and the Contortions
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
DNA
Suicide
Who I'd like to meet: Marc Masters is currently a contributing writer for The Wire, Pitchfork, The Baltimore City Paper, The New York Sun, Paper Thin Walls and Jazz Times. He has also contributed to The Village Voice, The Bob, Sound Collector, and Opprobrium, as well as writing liner notes for several rock and jazz albums. And he gabs periodically about noise on his Noiseweek weblog.
Rob Young is an editor-at-large for The Wire, and the author of Rough Trade and Warp in Black Dog Publishing's Labels Unlimited series.
Weasel Walter is a writer, producer, composer, and musician who has played with countless groups for the past two decades, most notably his own band the Flying Luttenbachers. He has also presented a lecture on No Wave, featuring rare live videos from his hard-earned collection, in venues throughout the United States, and currently maintains a web archive of No Wave photos and information.
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