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Noise rock fuses rock to noise, usually with recognizable "rock" instrumentation, but with greater use of distortion and electronic effects, varying degrees of atonality, improvisation, and white noise. One notable band of this genre is Sonic Youth, who took inspiration from the no wave composers Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham. [7]
- The Velvet Underground – “Sister Ray” (1968) The old saw about the Velvet Underground’s debut was that everyone who bought a copy started a band. It’s cliché for a reason — its influence extends well beyond sales figures.
- The Stooges – “L.A. Blues” (1970) The Stooges spent much of their brief career provoking audiences and listeners, creating an outrageous spectacle that frequently ended violently.
- The Residents – “Satisfaction” (1976) More than simply noise in the sense of feedback or dissonance, the Residents’ entire existence was noise. The Bay Area-based performance-art troupe and avant-rock group created an entire identity based around upsetting standards and norms, performing something that sounded vaguely like pop music while hiding their faces behind giant eyeball helmets.
- Half Japanese – “No Direct Line From My Brain To My Heart” (1980) Half Japanese’s Jad Fair said in documentary The Band That Would Be King that all you really need to play guitar is a cord to plug it in.
Sonemic Selects: Noise Rock. Noise rock albums, including Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Deerhoof, and Boris rated highly by the Rate Your Music / Sonemic community with member reviews.
Jun 7, 2021 · Noise rock is an umbrella term given to rock music produced by a diverse array of bands that draws on different genres—experimental and avant-garde compositions, punk rock, and industrial music—to create a sound driven by distortion, extreme volume, and atonality.
Apr 6, 2021 · 15 bands who are crucial to the history of noise music. Tim Stegall. |. April 6, 2021. [Photos via Spotify] When it initially blasted into the world from New York’s Lower East Side almost...
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Noise rock is a genre that encompasses a wide range of bands and artists that favour dissonance, wild feedback, and extreme distortion in the context of Rock...
Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a noise-oriented style of experimental rock that spun off from punk rock in the 1980s. Drawing on movements such as minimalism, industrial music, and New York hardcore, artists indulge in extreme levels of distortion through the use of electric gui…
