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63-599: No wave was an avant-garde music genre and visual art scene that emerged in the late 1970s in Downtown New York City . The term was a pun based on the rejection of commercial new wave music . Reacting against punk rock 's recycling of rock and roll clichés, no wave musicians instead experimented with noise , dissonance , and atonality , as well as non- rock genres like free jazz , funk , and disco . The scene often reflected an abrasive , confrontational, and nihilistic world view. The movement

126-477: A foreword by Weasel Walter ), and Thurston Moore and Byron Coley 's Harry N. Abrams No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976–1980 (for which Lydia Lunch wrote the Introduction). Coleen Fitzgibbon and Alan W. Moore created a short film in 1978 (finished in 2009) of a New York City no wave concert to benefit Colab titled X Magazine Benefit , documenting performances by DNA, James Chance and

189-488: A landmark drew an explanation: CBGB was founded in 1973 at 315 Bowery, in a former nineteenth-century saloon on the first floor of the Palace Lodging House. The legendary music venue fostered new genres of American music, including punk and art rock , that defined the culture of downtown Manhattan in the 1970s, and that still resonate today. In this role as cultural incubator, CBGB served the same function as

252-692: A large role in the no wave scene, as visual artists often were playing in bands, or making videos and films, while making visual art for exhibition. An early influence on this aspect of the scene was Alan Vega (aka Alan Suicide) whose electronic junk sculpture predated his role in the music group Suicide, which he formed with fellow musician Martin Rev in 1970. They released Suicide , their first album, in 1977. Important exhibitions of no wave visual art were Barbara Ess 's Just Another Asshole show and subsequent compilation projects and Colab 's organization of The Real Estate Show , The Times Square Show , and

315-559: A negative and nihilistic world view that reflected the desolation of late 1970s Downtown New York and how they viewed the larger society. In a 2020 essay, Lydia Lunch stated there were many problems in the years that led into the 1970s, and that calling 1967 the Summer of Love was a bold-faced lie. The term "no wave" might have been inspired by the French New Wave pioneer Claude Chabrol , with his remark "There are no waves, only

378-403: A number of years, asserted by BRC's executive director Muzzy Rosenblatt. Ruling the debt false and that BRC had never properly billed the rent increases, the judge indicated that CBGB ought to be declared a landmark, but noted that Rosenblatt did not need to renew the lease, soon expiring. Rosenblatt vowed to appeal. Expecting Rosenblatt's resistance to lease negotiation, Kristal agreed that

441-482: A private memorial service in the nearby YMCA . Soon, there was a public memorial, contributed to by CBGB onetime staff and by others. Kristal's ex-wife Karen Kristal and his daughter, Lisa Kristal Burgman, battled legally over the purported $ 3 million CBGB estate, and settled in June 2009 with Burgman receiving most of the money left after payment of creditors and estate taxes. In 2011, a group of unknown investors bought

504-738: A project called Advanced TV, later renamed GoNightclubbing . Ivers' and Armstrong's films are available at the New York University Fales Library. CBGB's two rules were that a band must move its own equipment and play mostly original songs, although regular bands often played one or two covers in set. CBGB's growing reputation drew more and more acts from outside New York City. In 1978, new wave songwriter Elvis Costello would open shows for The Voidoids , while The Police played at CBGB for their first American gigs. Meanwhile, CBGB became famed for Misfits , Television , Patti Smith Group , Mink DeVille , Dead Boys ,

567-468: A sense of community was a hallmark of No Wave Cinema. Avant-garde filmmakers like Andy Warhol , Pier Paolo Pasolini , Jean-Pierre Melville , Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Jack Smith were notable influences, as was French Nouvelle Vague cinema, Italian neorealism , early 1970s intimate low budget European films, such as Bernardo Bertolucci ’s 1972 film Last Tango in Paris , and a general interest in

630-586: A store in CBGB's former space, 315 Bowery, but to tastefully trail CBGB's legacy rock and roll stickers on the walls, and much of the graffiti at the toilets was preserved, as were some playbills , found behind a wall, from shows at the club's 10th anniversary in 1983. The store opened in April 2008. In 2008, a SoHo art gallery dedicated to music photography, the Morrison Hotel, opened a second location in

693-488: A tendency to emphasize musical texture over melody—typical of La Monte Young 's early downtown music . In the early 1980s , Downtown Manhattan 's no wave scene transitioned from its abrasive origins into a more dance -oriented sound, with compilations such as ZE Records 's Mutant Disco (1981) highlighting a playful sensibility borne out of the city's clash of hip hop , disco and punk styles, as well as dub reggae and world music influences. No wave music presented

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756-410: A type of experimental music characterized by the rejection of tonality. A commonly cited example of avant-garde music is John Cage 's 4'33" (1952), a piece which instructs the performer(s) not to play their instrument(s) during its entire duration. The piece has been described as "not a musical 'work' in the normal sense, only an occasion for a Zen-like meditation". Although some modernist music

819-452: A way that felt true to myself, constantly pushing the limits of idiom or genre and always screaming "Fuck You!" loudly in the process. It's how I felt then and I still feel it now. The ideals behind the (anti-) movement known as No Wave were found in many other archetypes before and just as many afterwards, but for a few years around the late 1970s, the concentration of those ideals reached a cohesive, white-hot focus. In 2004, Scott Crary made

882-557: Is also avant-garde, a distinction can be made between the two categories. According to scholar Larry Sitsky , because the purpose of avant-garde music is necessarily political, social, and cultural critique, so that it challenges social and artistic values by provoking or goading audiences, composers such as Igor Stravinsky , Richard Strauss , Arnold Schoenberg , Anton Webern , George Antheil , and Claude Debussy may reasonably be considered to have been avant-gardists in their early works (which were understood as provocative, whether or not

945-523: Is one of the most popular examples of avant-garde music inspired pieces in popular music records. The song is the penultimate track to their 1968 album The Beatles (aka The White Album). Contemporary/classical music Popular/traditional music CBGB CBGB was a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal in the East Village in Manhattan , New York City. The club

1008-600: The Island of Negative Utopia show at The Kitchen . No wave art found an ongoing home on the Lower East Side with the establishment of ABC No Rio Gallery in 1980, and a no wave punk aesthetic was a dominant strand in the art galleries of the East Village (from 1982 to 1986). In a foreword to the book No Wave , Weasel Walter wrote of the movement's ongoing influence: I began to express myself musically in

1071-604: The freely improvised noise of songs such as "Destroy The Nations" and "Dog Face Man". The band plastered the word "NO" on much of its equipment and handmade instruments and recorded a film between 1965 and 1966 titled "NO Movie". Member Bill Exley would sometimes wear a monkey mask on stage to conceal his identity. They've been cited as an influence by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth . Captain Beefheart's polarizing brand of avant-rock music has been cited as laying "the groundwork for post-punk , new wave , and no wave, allowing

1134-644: The iHeartRadio platform in 2010, and CBGB music festivals began in 2012. In 2013, CBGB's onetime building, 315 Bowery, was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of The Bowery Historic District (not a New York City Historic District). CBGB was founded on December 10, 1973, on the site of Kristal's earlier bar, Hilly's on the Bowery , which he ran from 1969 to 1972. Initially, Kristal focused on his more profitable East Village nightspot, Hilly's, which Kristal closed amid complaints from

1197-503: The "CBGB Record Canteen", a record shop and café. In the late 1980s, "CBGB Record Canteen" was converted into an art gallery and second performance space, "CB's 313 Gallery". CB's Gallery was played by music artists of milder sounds, such as acoustic rock , folk , jazz , or experimental music , such as Dadadah , Kristeen Young , Medeski Martin & Wood and Toshi Reagon , while CBGB continued to showcase mainly hardcore punk , post punk , metal , and alternative rock . 313 Gallery

1260-479: The American movement in punk rock . A pioneer in the genre, Ramones played their first shows at CBGB. In 1973, while the future CBGB was still Hilly's, two locals, Bill Page and Rusty McKenna, convinced Kristal to let them book concerts. In February 1974, Hilly booked local band Squeeze to a residency, playing Tuesdays and Wednesdays, the club's change from country and bluegrass to original rock bands. Squeeze

1323-734: The Avenues is considered the climatic apogee of low-budget production values of no wave filmmaking as the film’s dialogue track was dubbed over the 35mm film in editing. For many years the scene was centered around the Mudd Club and Colab 's New Cinema Screening Room on St. Marks Place in the East Village. No Wave Cinema actors included Patti Astor , Steve Buscemi , Cookie Mueller , Debbie Harry , John Lurie , Eric Mitchell , Rockets Redglare , Vincent Gallo , Duncan Hannah , Anya Phillips , Rene Ricard , Arto Lindsay , Tom Wright , Richard Hell , and Lydia Lunch . Visual artists played

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1386-673: The Bouncing Souls , and such newer acts opened during the last week, which included multi-night stands by Bad Brains and the Dictators and an acoustic set by Blondie. The final show, broadcast live on Sirius Satellite Radio on October 15, was played by Patti Smith, helped on some songs by Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers . Television 's Richard Lloyd , too, played in a few, including " Marquee Moon ". Nearly-finished, Smith and band playing " Gloria " alternated

1449-580: The Contortions as well as collaborate with Lydia Lunch of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks in 8 Eyed Spy . In 1978, a punk subculture -influenced noise series was held at New York's Artists Space . No wave musicians such as the Contortions , Teenage Jesus and the Jerks , Mars , DNA , Theoretical Girls and Rhys Chatham began experimenting with noise, dissonance and atonality in addition to non-rock styles. The former four groups were included on

1512-671: The Contortions, and Boris Policeband . Shot in black and white and edited on video, the film captured the gritty look and sound of the music scene during that era. In 2013, it was exhibited at Salon 94 , an art gallery in New York City. In 2023, the No Wave movement received institutional recognition at the Centre Pompidou with a Nicolas Ballet curated exhibition entitled Who You Staring At: Culture visuelle de la scène no wave des années 1970 et 1980 ( Visual culture of

1575-1001: The Dictators , the Fleshtones , the Voidoids , the Cramps , the B-52's , Blondie , Joan Jett & the Blackhearts , the Shirts , and Talking Heads . Yet in the 1980s, hardcore punk 's New York underground was CBGB's mainstay. Named "thrash day" in a documentary on hardcore, Sunday at CBGB was matinée day, which became an institution, played from afternoon until evening by hardcore bands such as Reagan Youth , Bad Brains , Beastie Boys , Agnostic Front , Murphy's Law , Cro-Mags , Leeway , Warzone , Gorilla Biscuits , Sick of It All , Misfits , Sheer Terror , Stillborn and Youth of Today . In 1990, violence inside and outside of

1638-605: The Fall , Sonic Youth, Lydia Lunch , Mofungo , Ilona Granet , pre-rap Beastie Boys , 3 Teens Kill 4 , Elliott Sharp as Carbon, Swans, the Ordinaires , and Arto Lindsay as Toy Killers. On May 10, the San Francisco noise-punk band Flipper closed the series out with a live concert at Studio 54 . This event also included performances by Zev and Eric Bogosian and a video presentation by Tony Oursler . Speed Trials

1701-663: The Rednecks , Jayne County , and the Magic Tramps—soon played at CBGB. On April 14, 1974, the audience of Television 's third gig were Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye , whose Patti Smith Group debuted at CBGB on February 14, 1975. Other early performers included the Dina Regine Band. Dennis Lepri was lead guitarist as well as the Stillettoes which included Deborah Harry on vocals. The newly formed band Angel and

1764-662: The Snake, later renamed Blondie , as well as Ramones arrived in August 1974. Mink DeVille , Talking Heads , The Shirts , The Heartbreakers , The Fleshtones , and other bands soon followed. In April 1977, The Damned played the club, marking the first time a British punk band had ever played in America. During 1975 and 1976, Metropolis Video recorded some shows on film. Beginning in 1977, Metropolis Video filmmaker Pat Ivers and partner Emily Armstrong continued to record shows in

1827-411: The art world influence of Andy Warhol's Factory , this seminal band provided a comprehensive model for No Wave." Yoko Ono , a Japanese multimedia Fluxus artist married to John Lennon of The Beatles released an album called Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band in 1970. This record was later assessed as a precursor to punk , post-punk , new wave and no wave – "It's a record dense with ideas and sonics;

1890-482: The bar's neighbors. After Hilly's closure, Kristal focused on the Bowery club. Its full name of CBGB & OMFUG stands for " Country , Bluegrass , Blues , and Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandizers". Although a gourmandizer is usually a ravenous eater of food, what Kristal meant was "a voracious eater of (…) music". Kristal's intended theme of country, bluegrass, and blues music along with poetry readings yielded to

1953-485: The case. Kristal and the BRC reached an agreement whereby CBGB would leave by October 31, 2006. On October 15, 2006, the club closed with a performance by Patti Smith , who took the stage at 9:30 p.m. and played for 3 1/2 hours until slightly after 1 a.m. on October 16, 2006, closing with her song "Elegie" followed by reading a list of punk rock musicians and advocates who had died in recent years. CBGB Radio launched on

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2016-743: The chorus with echoes of " Blitzkrieg Bop " by the Ramones — Hey! Ho! Let's go! . During "Elegie", her final encore, Smith named musicians and other music figures who had died since playing at CBGB. On October 15, 2006, upon Patti Smith's last show at CBGB, the storied bar and club closed. After closing, the old CBGB venue remained open as CBGB Fashions —retail store, wholesale department, and an online store—until October 31, 2006. CBGB Fashions moved to 19–23 St. Mark's Place on November 1, and closed nearly two years later in summer 2008. Hilly Kristal died from complications of lung cancer on August 28, 2007. In early October, Kristal's family and friends hosted

2079-758: The compilation No New York , often considered the quintessential testament to the scene. The no wave-affiliated label ZE Records was founded in 1978, and would also produce acclaimed and influential compilations in subsequent years. In 1978, Rhys Chatham curated a concert at The Kitchen with two electric guitar noise music bands that involved Glenn Branca ( Theoretical Girls and Daily Life, performed by Branca, Barbara Ess , Paul McMahon, and Christine Hahn) and another two electric-guitar noise music bands that involved Chatham himself ( The Gynecologists and Tone Death, performed by Robert Appleton, Nina Canal, Chatham, and Peter Gordon ). Tone Death performed Chatham's 1977 composition for electric guitars Guitar Trio , that

2142-445: The composers intended them that way), but Sitsky does not consider the label appropriate for their later music. For example, modernists of the post–World War II period, such as Milton Babbitt , Luciano Berio , Elliott Carter , György Ligeti , and Witold Lutosławski , never conceived their music for the purpose of goading an audience and cannot, therefore, be classified as avant-garde. Composers such as John Cage and Harry Partch , on

2205-570: The contrary, remained avant-gardists throughout their creative careers. A prominent feature of avant-garde music is to break through various rules and regulations of traditional culture, in order to transcend established creative principles and appreciation habits. Avant-garde music pursues novelty in musical form and style, insisting that art is above everything else; thus, it creates a transcendental and mysterious sound world. Hint, metaphor, symbol, association, imagery, synesthesia and perception are widely used in avant-garde music techniques to excavate

2268-424: The documentary Kill Your Idols , including such no wave bands as Suicide, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, DNA and Glenn Branca as well as bands influenced by no wave, including Sonic Youth, Swans, Foetus and others. In 2007–2008, three books on the scene were published: Stuart Baker's (editor) Soul Jazz Records New York Noise (with photographs by Paula Court), Marc Masters' Black Dog Publishing No Wave (with

2331-675: The forays into noise music abrasive territory. For example, Noise Fest was an influential festival of no wave noise music performances curated by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth at the New York City art space White Columns in June 1981. Sonic Youth made their first live appearances at this show. It inspired Speed Trials, the noise rock five-night concert series held May 4–8, 1983, that was organized by Live Skull members in May 1983, also at White Columns (then located at 91 Horatio Street). Among an art installation created by David Wojnarowicz and Joseph Nechvatal , Speed Trials included performances by

2394-902: The history of film noir . Handheld Super 8 film cameras were initially the means to shoot the films often in the street, in downtown nightclubs, in cars, or apartments using available light. The first No Wave film was Ivan Kral and Amos Poes 1976 film The Blank Generation that explored the No Wave music scene in CBGB's with the Ramones , Talking Heads , Blondie and Patti Smith , among several others. No Wave filmmakers included Amos Poe , Eric Mitchell , Scott B and Beth B , Jim Jarmusch , Jamie Nares , Coleen Fitzgibbon , Diego Cortez , Charlie Ahearn , Tom DiCillo , Lizzie Borden , Susan Seidelman , Vincent Gallo , Charlie Ahearn , Adele Bertei , David Wojnarowicz , Vivienne Dick , Kiki Smith , Michael McClard, Andrea Callard and Seth Tillett. Eric Mitchell’s 1985 film The Way It Is or Eurydice in

2457-592: The idea of a compilation album, No New York , with himself as a producer. By the early 1980s, artists such as Liquid Liquid , the B-52's , Cristina , Arthur Russell , James White and the Blacks and Lizzy Mercier Descloux developed a dance-oriented style described by Lucy Sante as "anything at all + disco bottom". Other no-wave groups such as Swans , Suicide , Glenn Branca , the Lounge Lizards , Bush Tetras and Sonic Youth instead continued exploring

2520-537: The likes of Brian Eno and David Bowie to pick up from where Beefheart had left off". The Godz were a New York City-based psychedelic noise band connected to ESP-Disk . John Dougan opined in AllMusic : " the three squalling bits of avant-garde noise/junk they recorded from 1966-1968. Sounding like a prototype for Half Japanese or the Shaggs .." Cromagnon were a 1960s New York City band whose sole album Orgasm

2583-440: The mystery of human heart and the flow of consciousness, so that many seemingly unrelated but essentially very important events interweave into multi-level structures and forms. Popular music , by definition, is designed for mass appeal . The 1960s saw a wave of avant-garde experimentation in jazz , represented by artists such as Ornette Coleman , Sun Ra , Albert Ayler , Archie Shepp , John Coltrane and Miles Davis . In

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2646-419: The no wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s ). Musical performances and three recorded conversations with No Wave artists were included as part of the exhibition. Avant-garde music Avant-garde music may be distinguished from experimental music by the way it adopts an extreme position within a certain tradition, whereas experimental music lies outside tradition. In a historical sense, some musicologists use

2709-558: The ocean". There are different theories about how the term was coined. Some suggest Lydia Lunch coined the term in an interview with Roy Trakin in New York Rocker . Others suggest it was coined by Chris Nelson (of Mofungo and The Scene Is Now ) in New York Rocker . Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth claimed to have seen the term spray-painted on CBGB 's Second Avenue Theater at 66 Second Avenue before seeing it in

2772-430: The onetime CBGB Gallery at 313 Bowery, but the Morrison Hotel gallery closed in 2011. The space was then occupied by a surf -oriented Patagonia store until late 2021. Called the "Extra Place", the alley behind the building became a pedestrian mall. Dead Boys ' Cheetah Chrome rued, "All of Manhattan has lost its soul to money lords", yet reflected, "If that alley could talk, it's seen it all". CBGB's nomination as

2835-513: The personal and the political". Suicide was a New York City band that was formed in 1970 by Alan Vega and Martin Rev . It has been cited by Pitchfork's Marc Masters as having "the biggest influence on no-wave". Nihilist Spasm Band was an early noise music / noise rock band from the 1960s. Its debut record, No Record, released in 1968, has been described as being a '60s precursor to no wave, with its nihilistic worldview and complete disregard for any sort of musical structure, as evinced by

2898-559: The press. There is a well-known origin story of punk rock - thus no wave - that traces it back to the influence of three American bands: MC5 , The Stooges , and The Velvet Underground , a 1960s New York City band seen as early contributors to the New York City-based no wave movement. As described by Pitchfork's Marc Masters: "Mixing the noisy rock leanings of Lou Reed , the minimalist drones of John Cale (via his work with avant-garde pioneer LaMonte Young ), and

2961-447: The remaining CBGB assets, including the associated intellectual property and original interior. The location is now occupied by John Varvatos fashions. In December 2015, various news outlets reported on a rebranded CBGB "reopening" at Newark International Airport as CBGB L.A.B. (Lounge and Bar) by New York chef Harold Moore, which had opened as of the end of December 2015. By late 2007, fashion designer John Varvatos planned to open

3024-448: The rent ought to rise, but not to the $ 55,000 monthly that Kristal believed the BRC to want. A nonprofit corporation housing homeless above CBGB mostly through donations and government funding, the BRC had only one commercial tenant and raised its monthly rent to $ 35,000. Kristal and the BRC reached an agreement whereby CBGB would leave by September 30, 2006. Planning to move CBGB to Las Vegas , Kristal explained, "We're going to take

3087-427: The rock music of the 1970s, the "art" descriptor was generally understood to mean "aggressively avant-garde" or "pretentiously progressive". Post-punk artists from the late 1970s rejected traditional rock sensibilities in favor of an avant-garde aesthetic. In 1988 the writer Greg Tate described hip hop music as "the only avant-garde around, still delivering the shock of the new." The Beatles song Revolution 9

3150-408: The scene pursued an abrasive reductionism which "undermined the power and mystique of a rock vanguard by depriving it of a tradition to react against". Anderson claimed that the no wave scene represented "New York's last stylistically cohesive avant-rock movement". There were, however, some elements common to most no-wave music, such as abrasive atonal sounds; repetitive, driving rhythms ; and

3213-515: The show featured DNA and the Contortions on Friday, followed by Mars and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks on Saturday. English musician and producer Brian Eno , who had originally come to New York to produce the second Talking Heads album More Songs About Buildings and Food , was in the audience. Impressed by what he saw and heard, and advised by Diego Cortez to do so, Eno was convinced that this movement should be documented and proposed

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3276-421: The term "avant-garde music" for the radical compositions that succeeded the death of Anton Webern in 1945, but others disagree. For example, Ryan Minor writes that this period began with the work of Richard Wagner , whereas Edward Lowinsky cites Josquin des Prez . The term may also be used to refer to any post-1945 tendency of modernist music not definable as experimental music, though sometimes including

3339-637: The theatres and concert halls of the Bowery's storied past. The former club, now occupied by a retail business, remains a pilgrimage site for legions of music fans. CBGB's second awning, the one in place when the club closed in 2006, was moved into the lobby of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. The CBGB Festival produced large free concerts in Times Square and Central Park on July 7, 2012. They also showcased hundreds of bands in venues across

3402-484: The urinals. I'll take whatever I can. The movers said, 'You ought to take everything, and auction off what you don't want on eBay.' Why not? Somebody will". Many punk rock bands played at CBGB when they found it was going to close in hopes that their support could keep it from closing. Rocks off, a promoter in New York, organized CBGB's final weeks of shows to book "many of the artists who made CB's famous". Avail ,

3465-470: The venue prompted Kristal to suspend hardcore bookings, although CBGB brought hardcore back at times. CBGB's last several years had no formal bans by genre. In 2005, atop its normally-paid monthly rent of $ 19,000, CBGB was sued for some $ 90,000 in rent allegedly owed to its landlord, Bowery Residents' Committee (BRC). Refusing to pay until a judge ruled the debt legitimate, Kristal claimed that he had never been notified of scaled rent increases, accruing over

3528-417: Was also the host location for Alchemy, a weekly Goth night showcasing goth, industrial , dark rock, and darkwave bands. On the other side, CBGB was operating a small cafe and bar in the mid-1990s, which served classic New York pizza, among other items. Around 2000, CBGB entered a protracted dispute over allegedly unpaid rent amounts until the landlord, Bowery Residents' Committee, sued in 2005 and lost

3591-403: Was characterized by a rejection of the recycling of traditional rock aesthetics, such as blues rock styles and Chuck Berry guitar riffs in punk and new wave music . No wave groups drew on and explored such disparate stylistic forms as minimalism , conceptual art , funk , jazz , blues , punk rock , and avant garde noise music . According to Village Voice writer Steve Anderson,

3654-564: Was cited by AllMusic 's Alex Henderson as foreshadowing no-wave. Jack Ruby were a New York City band that formed in 1973, they were an early influence on Sonic Youth and Thurston Moore , and are seen as early pioneers of the aesthetic, philosophy, and sound of no wave. Additionally, members included Randy Cohen on drums and synthesizer as well as Boris Policeband who played viola through an FM transmitter and strapped police walkie-talkies around his waist. Subsequently, bassist George Scott III would join no wave group James Chance and

3717-767: Was followed by the short-lived after-hours audio art Speed Club that was established by Nechvatal and Bradley Eros at ABC No Rio that summer. No Wave Cinema was an underground low-budget film scene in Tribeca and the East Village from the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. Rooted in the gritty, rebellious ethos of the Lower East Side’s no wave post-punk art scene, No Wave Cinema was marked by its DIY approach, low budgets, and an unpolished aesthetic that rejected mainstream filmmaking conventions. Musicians, visual artists, and filmmakers converged, regularly working across multiple mediums. This interdisciplinary collaboration and

3780-624: Was inspired by La Monte Young 's minimalist masterpiece Trio for Strings and Chatham's exposure to The Ramones at CBGB via Peter Gordon. This proto-No Wave concert was followed a few weeks later when Artists Space served as a site of concrete inception for the No Wave music movement, hosting a five night underground No Wave music festival, organized by artists Michael Zwack and Robert Longo , that featured 10 local bands; including Rhys Chatham 's The Gynecologists , Communists, Glenn Branca 's Theoretical Girls , Terminal, Rhys Chatham 's Tone Death. and Branca's Daily Life. The final two days of

3843-627: Was led by guitarist Mark Suall, later with CBGB's quasi house band the Revelons, which included Fred Smith of Television and JD Daugherty of the Patti Smith Group. Although these bands did not play punk rock , they helped lay its foundation. The August 1973 collapse of the Mercer Arts Center left unsigned bands little option in New York City to play original music. Mercer refugees—including Suicide , The Fast , Ruby and

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3906-577: Was previously a biker bar and before that was a dive bar . The letters CBGB were for Country , Bluegrass , Blues , Kristal's original vision for the club. But CBGB soon emerged as a famed and iconic venue for punk rock and new wave bands, including Ramones , Dead Boys , Television , Patti Smith Group , Blondie , Madonna and Talking Heads . Other bands affiliated with CBGB included Agnostic Front , Murphy's Law , U.S. Chaos , Cro-Mags , Warzone , Gorilla Biscuits , Sick of It All , and Youth of Today . One storefront beside CBGB became

3969-421: Was short-lived but highly influential in the music world. The 1978 compilation No New York is often considered the quintessential testament to the scene's musical aesthetic. Aside from the music genre, the no wave movement also had a significant influence in independent film ( no wave cinema ), fashion, and visual art. No wave is not a clearly definable musical genre with consistent features, but it generally

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