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So I am completely obsessed with no-wave. A while back, I started getting into some Factory Records goodness (A Certain Ratio, Durutti Column, etc) and my friend from East Hill CD told me about James Chance and the Contortions At first, I thought James’ sax playing was too chaotic and abrasive, but thanks to the just recently purchased Live in New York album, it really sold me on how innovative they were back in the 80’s. It also made me crave James’ singing. It’s toxic! And to think…

“No Wave was a short-lived but influential offshoot of punk rock centered in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The term No Wave was partly a satiric wordplay rejecting the commercial elements of the then-popular New Wave genre, and also a declaration of the music’s experimental nature: No Wave music belonged to no fixed style or genre.”

Now, this has lead me onto many other wonderful artists such as: Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Lydia Lunch, Mars, and thanks to a guy at Vinyl Fever, DNA, which I’m not fully into yet. Teenage Jesus & the Jerks are quite amazing.

Labels: history, music

// posted by Wes Rogers @ 14:00 0 Comments Links to this post