No wave
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No wave was an avant-garde music and visual art scene that emerged in the late 1970s in Downtown New York City. The term was coined as a rejection of commercial new wave music. No wave musicians took
Glenn Branca performing in New York in the early 1980s
Sonic Youth
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Sonic Youth was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1981. Founding members Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo remained together for the entire history of the band, while drummer S
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…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 theater at 66 Second Avenue before seeing it in the press. Although not from New York, Captain…
Sonic Youth in a publicity photo issued by SST to promote their fourth album, Sister (1987). Left to right: Shelley, Ranaldo, Moore, Gordon.
Sonic Youth performing in Copenhagen in 2000
Jim O'Rourke performing with Sonic Youth in 2004. O'Rourke was an official fifth member of the band from 1999 to 2005.
Sonic 1991