Noise rock
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| Noise rock | |
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| Stylistic origins: | punk rock, industrial, alternative rock |
| Cultural origins: | (-) |
| Typical instruments: | guitar, bass, drums, electronics |
| Mainstream popularity: | (-) |
Noise rock is a broadly defined musical genre that developed in the 1980s as an experimental outgrowth of punk rock. Fusing punk rock's attitude with the atonal noise and unconventional song structures of early industrial and noise music, the noise rock introduced a new kind of avant-garde music to the alternative rock landscape. The style is sometimes referred to as "noisecore", though this term can also refer to a variety of fast, distorted hardcore techno music and grindcore.
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[edit] History
Some influences on the early breed of noise rockers were the stark rock and roll of The Velvet Underground (most notably their White Light/White Heat album), the bluster of the Stooges, the chaotic free jazz and freak-rock released on the ESP Disk label, the no wave movement of the late 1970s, and Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. Later, Sonic Youth, for instance, propelled the No Wave aesthetic into the new direction of noise rock.
Later, the sound became associated with Japanese artists such as Boredoms and Melt-Banana, who incorporated the influences from Japanese noise music even further, and occasionally adopted completely chaotic structures creating extremely short, fast "songs" which were marked by blasts of rhythm, screaming, and extremely overloaded guitars.
At around the same time, bands such as Gore Beyond Necropsy and Anal Cunt were developing a similar style which is also often referred to as "noisecore" or "noisegrind". In many cases, although the backgrounds of the bands are different, the "art" influenced noise rock bands and grindcore bands have often collaborated on new music.
[edit] Bands
[edit] Labels
- Amphetamine Reptile Records
- Bulb Records
- Ecstatic Peace
- Gold Standard Labs
- Hanson Records
- Homestead Records
- In The Red Records
- Ipecac Recordings
- Load Records
- Lovepump United
- Narnack Records
- Ozono Kids Records
- Reptilian Records
- Silent Explosion
- Skin Graft Records
- SYR
- Three One G
- Touch and Go Records
- Troubleman Unlimited
- w.m.o/r
[edit] See also
| Punk rock |
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| 2 Tone - Anarcho-punk - Anti-folk - Art punk - Celtic punk - Christian punk - Cowpunk - Crust punk - Dance-punk - Deathcountry - Death pop - Deathrock - Electro rock - Emo - Folk punk - Gaelic punk - Garage punk - Glam punk - Gothabilly - Hardcore punk - Post-hardcore - Horror punk - Jazz punk - Mod revival - Nazi punk - New Wave - No Wave - Noise rock - Oi! - Pop punk - Post-punk - Psychobilly - Punk blues - Punk Pathetique - Queercore - Reggae rock - Riot Grrrl - Scum punk - Ska punk - Skate punk - Streetpunk - Synthpunk - Taqwacore |
| Other topics |
| Protopunk - DIY ethic - First wave punk musicians - Second wave punk musicians - Punk subculture - Punk movies - Punk fashion - Punk ideology - Punk visual art - Punk dance - Punk literature - Punk zine - Rock Against Communism - Straight edge |
[edit] External links
- About.com Profile of the Noise Rock Genre – another, slightly different, definition and history of Noise Rock.
