No wave

The burgeoning New York scene of the early 1980s as documented by Swiss photographer Catherine Ceresole on black and white film, capturing the early years of groups like Swans, Sonic Youth and the Beastie Boys.

This “fashion calendar” featuring Lydia Lunch, queen of New York’s no wave movement of the late 1970s, was executed by Julia Gorton for a class at Parsons School of Design in 1978. This was the same year that the seminal No New York compilation was released, including key contributions from Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, of which Lunch was the frontperson. Gorton, who today is a professor at Parsons, also designed flyers for Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, such the following: This calendar…

This “fashion calendar” featuring Lydia Lunch, queen of New York’s no wave movement of the late 1970s, was executed by Julia Gorton for a class at Parsons School of Design in 1978. This was the same year that the seminal No New York compilation was released, including key contributions from Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, of which Lunch was the frontperson. Gorton, who today is a professor at Parsons, also designed flyers for Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, such the following: This calendar…

Tracing the nihilist style of the No Wave doyenne

The five-night music festival in May 1978 at the legendary gallery and performance venue Artists Space, at 105 Hudson Street

Producer, collaborator, hard-to-use synth champion, ambient maestro, app developer and chancer Brian Eno is certainly a pioneer, but of what? Well, how about everything?

Poster for early industrial music show with Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle

“Brilliant Dilletantes” -- a new exhibition and photobook -- time travels back to a country on the brink of an avant-garde awakening.

I love looking at photos from the past, so today I wanted to share with you these spot on photos of 80’s Death-rockers/Goths from 80’s goth tumblr.