[NewMusicEvents] Sat. 5/24 at 21 Grand - No Wave Book Party - Ettrick, DS Panda, DJ Weasel Walter

[Sarah - 21 Grand]

Saturday, May 24 No Wave Book Party + Ettrick + Death Sentence: Panda! 9pm,
$6

21 Grand is a 501(c)3 non-profit multi-disciplinary arts space
 416 25th St. (at Broadway)
Oakland, CA  94612
21grand at 21grand.org
(510) 444-7263 

Book Release Event for No Wave by Marc Masters, with contributions
by Weasel Walter, both live and in person at this event, also featuring
rare video documentation of music performances of the period, and
live music by Death Sentence: Panda! and Ettrick (drums and sax
duo of Jacob Felix Heule and Jay Korber).

About the book:
No Wave, by DC-area music and film writer, Marc Masters, traces the history
of this noisy and uncompromising genre, from its most famous names down to
its many offshoots and sidetracks. Flashing through the New York underground
in the late 1970s, No Wave was the ultimate anti-movement. Its bands
consisted of artists and poets untrained in music, looking to explode rock
and disappear before the smoke cleared. No Wave tells the fascinating
story of this radical, anarchic and hugely infl uential musical movement.
Best known for short songs and even shorter life-spans, No Wave bands
fused disparate styles to fashion abrasive, rhythmic songs that were
completely original and utterly compelling. The primary perpetrators
­ Lydia Lunch¹s howling Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James Chance¹s
skeletal Contortions, the dark-noise groups Mars and DNA ­ all drew on
primitivism, performance art, and the avant-garde. The book also delves
into No Wave cinema, where pioneers like Amos Poe, Eric Mitchell, and
Beth and Scott B. translated the aggression and innovation of No Wave
music to the screen. Musicians often starred in these fi lms, and figures
like Jim Jarmsuch and Steve Buscemi fi rst cut their teeth there.
Illustrated with rare and previously unseen concert photos, record covers,
and other ephemera of the times, and featuring exclusive interviews with key
protagonists from the scene, No Wave is the defi nitive guide to a genre
whose sounds and ideas still vibrate through alternative culture today.