no wave
The One-Man Oral History of New York Rock
Jim Sclavunos—of Teenage Jesus and The Jerks, Sonic Youth, and the goddamn Bad Seeds—weighs in on everything from CBGBs to Kanye West.
Lydia Lunch Never Liked the Music Industry and That's Not Changing Now
Involved in the new digital short 'Venus Flytrap,' which she calls the "female Mighty Boosh," the no-wave pioneer is sick of a homogeneous landscape
Glenn Branca's Really Experimental Music: Why the Composer Is Still Punk After All These Years
If art music and rock music sat at either end of a scale, Glenn Branca would be standing on the fulcrum, smashing each side with as many guitars as possible.
Life on Mars: The Surviving Members of the Earliest No Wave Band Talk Muggings, Warhol, and 1977
Mark Cunningham and Connie Burg look back the pivotal 'No New York' era of experimental rock.
James Chance: Still Incorrigible After All These Years
James Chance understands show business even if show business has never understood James Chance.
Kim Gordon Is a Badass Feminist Rock Goddess
The former Sonic Youth cofounder, frontwoman, and bassist on her bestselling new memoir, Girl in a Band, writing songs about Karen Carpenter and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and LL Cool J's surprising favorite rock band.
New Fries Don't Believe In Torontopia
Two of the members of Toronto's No Wave-inspired band talk about not being musical, and being influenced by an old SNL performance.
Arto Lindsay: The Sensual Art of No Wave
Some of Lindsay’s best music comes straight from the gut—and the groin.
Jimi Kritzler Doesn’t Believe in Romanticising Australian Underground Music
Fed up with reading band interviews that regurgitated press releases, Jimi Kritzler spent four years interviewing over fifty underground Australian bands.
Live Skull, Dead Body
Seeing as all of their songs on Spotify have a little "less than 1000 plays" symbol next to them, chances are you haven’t listened to much Live Skull. They were the best of the New York no-wave psychos, and they've aged better than Hungarian dessert...
We Talked to Lydia Lunch and She Didn't Seem to Like Us Very Much
An interview with the iconoclast that can out-fight, out-fuck, out-perform, outlast most of you fuckin’ namby-pamby motherfuckers reading this right now.