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No Wave Marc Masters
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Editor
Rob Young
ISB N13: 978 ISBN13: 978 1 906155 02 5 Paperback 192 pages 220 b/w and colour ills 27 × 22 cm Pub date: September 2007
£19.95
The radical, anarchic and hugely influential musical movement of No Wave swept through the underground clubs of New York in the late 1970s. This book tells its fascinating story story.. l
Influenced by the experimental approach of previous New York groups such as The Velvet Underground, No Wave bands drew on disparate styles such as funk, jazz, blues, and punk rock, fashioning abrasive, rhythmic songs that were completely original and utterly compelling. l
Like Rough Trade and Warp, No Wave is a vivid, compelling document of an exciting and incredibly significant period in modern music. l
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and The Wire contributor, Marc Masters engagingly chronicles this NME and
extremely fertile time and the book is visually stunning, filled with archive images and previously unseen photographs and artefacts. l
No Wave features exclusive interviews with key players including James
Chance, Arto Lindsay and Lydia Lunch. The book also explores explores No Wave Wave cinema and art, an exciting innovative underground scene where figures such as Jim Jarmusch and Steve Buscemi first made their mark. l
The movement has caught the public eye again, and this book charts No Wave Wave's 's continued influence on a diverse range of performers including Sonic Youth, Youth, Nirvana, Liars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, !!! and Black Dice. l
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Flashing through the New York underground in the late 1970s, No Wave was noisy, uncompromising and hugely influential. Its bands consisted of artists and poets untrained in music, with short, rhythmic, aggressive songs and even shorter life-spans, looking to explode rock and disappear before the smoke cleared. This book is an absorbing exploration of this movement, tracing its history from its most famous names down to its many offshoots. Influenced by iconic New York bands such as The Velvet Underground and Television, No Wave's prime perpetrators also drew on primitivism, performance art, and the avantgarde. From early pioneers like Suicide, DNA, Mars, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and Glenn Branca, to forgotten treasures like Red Transistor and Bush Tetras, No Wave charts all the cracks and crevices of this fertile period. The book also delves into No Wave cinema, a vibrant underground scene where figures like Jim Jarmusch, Steve Buscemi and Nick Zedd first cut their teeth. Illustrated with rare and previously unseen concert photos, record c overs and posters and filled with quotes from those who were there, the book profiles the scene's key protagonists and features exclusive interviews with James Chance (The Contortions), Arto Lindsay (DNA), and Lydia Lunch's last ever interview on No Wave. The book also considers No Wave's continued influence on a diverse range of performers including Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Liars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, !!! and Black Dice. Engagingly written by Marc Masters, No Wave is the definitive guide to a genre whose sounds and ideas still vibrate through alternative culture today. Marc Masters is a freelance music journalist and contributor to NME and The Wire. Rob Young is the acting reviews editor of The Wire, and the author of Rough Trade and Warp in Black Dog Publishing's Labels Unlimited series.
Also available: Rough Trade 978 1 904772 47 7 and Warp 978 1 904772 32 3
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