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The evening's performances by Ms. Williams, Ms. Stearns, country singer Laura Cantrell, no-wave guitar mainstay Jody Harris and several others were interspersed with introductions and banter among Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Hill, Mr. Schramm and the assembled performers.

Inviting the City Into Their Clubhouse Bruce Bennett 2011

My favorites are "Fate's A Strong Bitch," a vocal battle royale with NYC no-wave heroine Lydia Lunch both emerge scarred but intact, and "Kill The Killjoy," a melodic, anthemic pop-rocker that's worthy of a soundtrack album or at least a dramatic, plot-driven video.

Tony Sachs: It Ain't Yo Gabba Gabba, But... A Daddy's Favorite Non-Kids' Records of 2011 Tony Sachs 2011

"In the no-wave scene of New York at the time there was very aggressive, degree-zero music that didn't have an idiom, that didn't want to engage with music history," Mr. Swan said.

Resurrecting a Lost Painter's Passion Kimberly Chou 2011

This retrospective of Mr. Kern's brief yet pungent works revels in the gnarly vortex of it all, with on-screen appearances by sidekicks such as David Wojnarowicz , Karen Finley , Lydia Lunch , Sonic Youth and the perfectly named no-wave muse Lung Leg. The occasion is the premiere of Anthology's restoration of "Goodbye 42nd Street," a four-minute tour of the Deuce, circa 1983, that now looks like a postcard from another dimension.

Gardens, Grotesques and Gospels Steve Dollar 2011

Blank City is a documentary about no-wave, cinema of transgression, and the druggy poverty-stricken artistic incubator that was the East Village in the late

Angora Holly Polo: Starz Film Fest Insider's Guide: Blank City Angora Holly Polo 2010

Blank City is a documentary about no-wave, cinema of transgression, and the druggy poverty-stricken artistic incubator that was the East Village in the late '70s and early' 80s.

Angora Holly Polo: Starz Film Fest Insider's Guide: Blank City Angora Holly Polo 2010

Boomboxes and cassettes have figured often into Mr. Kline's experimental works, which over the years have included bursts of no-wave noise rock and classical songs based on utterances by Donald Rumsfeld, as well as an opera that he is currently writing with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch about electrical engineer Nikolai Tesla.

Celebrating the Season in Stereo Andy Battaglia 2010

Rather, building on 2007's belated breakthrough album Let's Stay Friends, their fifth LP bristles with self-assurance, perfectly balancing the primal and the poppy as it veers from soaring, Pixies-like crowd-pleasers ( "Let's Get Out of Here") to no-wave discord ( "Poltergeist").

Les Savy Fav: Root for Ruin 2010

Blank City is a documentary about no-wave, cinema of transgression, and the druggy poverty-stricken artistic incubator that was the East Village in the late '70s and early '80s.

Angora Holly Polo: Starz Film Fest Insider's Guide: Blank City Angora Holly Polo 2010

Blank City is a documentary about no-wave, cinema of transgression, and the druggy poverty-stricken artistic incubator that was the East Village in the late '70s and early' 80s.

Angora Holly Polo: Starz Film Fest Insider's Guide: Blank City Angora Holly Polo 2010