It's No-Wave Week!
"No Wave was a short-lived movement in NYC in the late 70's which took the ethics of punk but discarded melody and catchiness and replaced them with such features as extreme noise, distortion, feedback, angular rhythms, stream-of-conciousness lyrics, psychotic vocals, minimalism, abnormal tunings, dissonance and other unusual factors. The original movement essentially lasted from 1976-1979 and featured bands like
Teenage Jesus & the Jerks,
Mars,
DNA and
James Chance & The Contortions. The most well-known document of the era is the
Brian Eno-produced
No New York compilation."