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Noise rock (sometimes noise punk) is a diverse style of experimental rock that spun off from punk rock in the 1980s. Drawing from no wave, minimalism, industrial music, and New York hardcore, artists indulge in extreme levels of distortion through the use of electric guitars, and less frequently, electronic instrumentation, either to provide percussive sounds or to contribute to the overall arrangement. Some groups are tied to song structures, such as Sonic Youth. Although they are not representative of the entire genre, they helped popularize noise rock among alternative rock audiences by incorporating melodies into their droning textures of sound, which set a template that numerous other groups followed.

History

While the music had been around for some time, the term "noise rock" was coined in the 1980s to describe an offshoot of punk groups with an increasingly abrasive approach. An archetypal album is the Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat (1968). Treblezine's Joe Gross credits the "cult classic" with being the first noise rock album, accordingly, "perhaps it’s an obvious starting point, but it’s also the starting point. Period." Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore explained: "Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it."

1980s noise rock bands were significant influences on grunge acts Nirvana and Hole, and as a result had some mainstream currency during the period when grunge was played on the radio. Nirvana's album In Utero is particularly evident in its debts to 1980s noise rock, because it was produced by Big Black frontman (and noise rock icon) Steve Albini.

Starting in the 1990s, noise punk developed mostly as a form of party music, with the band Lightning Bolt serving as key players in the 2000s noise punk scene in Providence, Rhode Island.

In the late 1990s to the mid 2000s the term noisecore was used by the mainstream media to describe hardcore bands that used elements of noise rock (and in rarer cases noise) in their sound. Kevin Stewart-Panko of Terrorizer referred to groups such as Neurosis, Deadguy, Cave In, Today Is the Day, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, Coalesce, Candiria, Botch, and Psyopus as noisecore. Stewart-Panko described the sound of these bands as a "dynamic, violent, discordant, technical, brutal, off-kilter, no rules mixture of hardcore, metal, prog, math rock, grind and jazz."

List of artists

• Big Black
• The Birthday Party
• Boredoms
• The Butthole Surfers
• Daughters
• Death from Above 1979
• Girl Band
• Guerilla Toss
• Health
• Les Rallizes Denudes
• Lightning Bolt (noise punk)
• Thurston Moore
• Lou Reed
• Sonic Youth
• The Stooges
• Swans
• The Velvet Underground
• Whores

References

1. ^ Felix 2010, p. 172.
2. ^ Osborn, Brad (October 2011). "Understanding Through-Composition in Post-Rock, Math-Metal, and other Post-Millennial Rock Genres*". Music Theory Online. 17 (3).
3. ^ Terich, Jeff. "Hold On To Your Genre : Noise Rock". Treblezine.
4. ^ "Noise Rock". AllMusic. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
5. ^ Blush 2016, p. 266.
6. Gross, Joe (April 2007). "Noise Rock Essentials". Spin. 23 (4).
7. ^ Sisario, Ben (December 2, 2004). "The Art of Noise". Spin.
8. Stephen Thomas Erlewine & Greg Prato, Nirvana bio, Allmusic. Access date: August 27, 2008.
9. ^ Georg Cracked, Noise Rock FAQ, April 2002- January 2008. Access date: August 25, 2008.
10. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pretty On the Inside review, Allmusic. Access date: August 27, 2008.
11. Pareles, Jon (1992-06-14). "POP VIEW; Nirvana-bes Awaiting Fame's Call". New York Times. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
12. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, In Utero review, Allmusic. Access date: August 27, 2008.
13. Kevin Stewart-Panko, "The Decade in Noisecore", Terrorizer no. 75, Feb 2000, p. 22-23.
14. Kegan, Yrjänä (2015-03-14). Subgenres of the Beast: A Heavy Metal Guide. Lulu.com. ISBN 9781312984509.
15. "Daughters / The Body / Loma Prieta The Cobalt, Vancouver BC, November 12". Retrieved 2017-03-14.
16. Harrison, Phil (2015-11-02). "Chaos theory: meet Dublin's raucous noise rockers Girl Band". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
17. "Guerilla Toss get remixed by Giant Claw and destroy an audience with Live In Nashville". FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
18. "Noise Rockers Health Release Most Disgusting Video of Year". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
19. "Whores Find Freedom in Noise Rock - Noisey". Noisey. Retrieved 2017-03-13.

Sources

• Blush, Steven (2016). New York Rock: From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-250-08361-6. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Felix, Stanford (2010). The Complete Idiot's Guide Music Dictionary. DK Publishing. ISBN 978-1-101-19809-4. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

• Punk rock genres
• Alternative rock genres
• Noise music
• Words coined in the 1980s