No Wave
No Wave was an artistic movement centered around New York's Lower East Side in the early 1980s. The neighborhood, long a hive of artistic activity, became home to countless punk rock bands and radical artists, and soon began producing its own unique brand of music. The New York sound was decidedly harsh, angry, and often noisy for the sake of noise itself. The quintessential early No Wave bands were Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Glenn Branca, DNA, and Lydia Lunch. Artists like Sonic Youth, The Residents, Diamanda Galas, and The Birthday Party carried No Wave into the mid '80s and beyond. No Wave's reverberations can still be felt in the spastic and abrasive dissonance of punk's more provocative artists.
