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none of those 00's bands are in any way an extention of no wave. Early 90s chicago Noise Rock/No Wave was definitley the bands directly influenced by No Wave. U.S. Maple, the Luttenbachers, Scissor Girls. Lake of Dracula, and others. Boredoms of course took heavy influence from DNA. Harry Pussy have a Teenage Jesus influence. Back in the 80s I cant help but here No Wave in the Butthole Surfers, Big Black, and Flipper. Hell, Minutemen and the Meat Puppets could probably have been No Wave but they happened to like country. I mean, there's millions of bands who are influenced by No Wave. Fuck, any band interested in the combination of sound and noise and drones with rock n roll, well, that's a band influenced by No Wave. So the point of this rambling? This documentary is misinformed, poorly presented, and demonstrates no knowledge about this music. It could have been improved if they decided to take the focus off New York. Maybe have done an American Hardcore thing, breaking it down Geographically AND Chronologically. Started with Glam Rock (all over), then on to Cleveland Art Rock (Pere Ubu) then New York No Wave, then Sonic Youth/Swans, then how those bands spread art experimentalism into underground rock, then chicago no wave, then providence noise rock, and then Michican Noise/bulb records scene. Well, maybe I will make that dvd some day.
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