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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]
After playing in a band named Death in Milwaukee, Chance moved to New York City and joined the band Flaming Youth in 1976. With his roommate, the equally noise-friendly Lydia Lunch, he started ...
James Chance, also known as James White (born James Siegfried, April 20, 1953 – June 18, 2024), was an American saxophonist, keyboard player, and singer.. A key figure in no wave, Chance played a combination of improvisational jazz-like music and punk in the New York music scene from the late 1970s on, in such bands as Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James Chance and the Contortions, James ...
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 ...
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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.
In the late 1970s, he helped form the no wave band DNA [4] with Ikue Mori and Robin Crutchfield, although Tim Wright of Pere Ubu soon replaced Crutchfield. [5] In 1978, DNA was featured on the four-band sampler No New York (produced by Brian Eno). [5] In the early 1980s, Lindsay performed on early albums by The Lounge Lizards and The Golden ...
Thus the post-punk band members were very much interested in visual and conceptual art and thus they didn’t have much musical training. Something typical of no wave music bands, in general. [3] They were more interested in making conceptual noise music with a beat, than traditional new wave music. For example, Taro Suzuki played the piano ...