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No wave was an avant-garde music genre and visual art scene that emerged in the late 1970s in Downtown New York City. [4] [5] The term was a pun based on the rejection of commercial new wave music. [6]
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DNA was an American no wave band formed in 1977 by guitarist Arto Lindsay and keyboardist Robin Crutchfield, and later joined by drummer Ikue Mori and bassist Tim Wright.They were associated with the late 1970s New York no wave scene, and were featured on the 1978 compilation No New York.
From the late 1970s into the early '80s, Milwaukee native James Chance startled the New York rock world with his aggressive blend of punk, funk, free jazz and sometimes disco − and, for a time ...
Ut was an American band which originated from New York City's no wave scene, forming in December 1978. The inheritors of the fertile collision between rock, free jazz, and the avant-garde that first manifested itself in the Velvet Underground, Ut soon became a serious force within the New York music scene.
James Chance, the confrontational, controversial saxophonist and singer of the Contortions and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, who helped start the No Wave movement of the late 1970s in New York City ...
Chance wrote a piece for the first issue of East Village Eye, praising disco and denouncing "outdated, cornball 'new/no wave' drivel". [6] [8] Off White includes contributions from Lydia Lunch, Robert Quine, and Vivienne Dick. [9] The band spent most of their budget recording the album's first side and used instrumentals for the second side. [10]
Liquid Liquid is an American no wave and dance-punk group, originally active from 1980 to 1983. They are best known for their track "Cavern," which was covered—without proper permission or attribution—by the Sugar Hill Records house band as the backing track for Melle Mel's old school rap classic "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)."