No Wave - No Wave Afterlife

No Wave Afterlife

In a foreword to the book No Wave, Weasel Walter wrote of the movement's ongoing influence,

I began to express myself musically in a way that felt true to myself, constantly pushing the limits of idiom or genre and always screaming "Fuck You!" loudly in the process. It's how I felt then and I still feel it now. The ideals behind the (anti-) movement known as No Wave were found in many other archetypes before and just as many afterwards, but for a few years around the late 1970s, the concentration of those ideals reached a cohesive, white-hot focus.

In 2004, Scott Crary made a documentary, Kill Your Idols, including such No Wave bands as Suicide, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, DNA, and Glenn Branca, as well bands influenced by No Wave, including Sonic Youth, Swans, Foetus and others.

In 2007–2008, three books on the scene were published: Soul Jazz's New York Noise, Marc Masters' No Wave, and Thurston Moore and Byron Coley's No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980.

In 2010, French filmmaker Céline Danhier made a documentary film on No Wave Cinema and the Cinema of Transgression entitled Blank City, which interviews directors and actors including Jim Jarmusch, Steve Buscemi, Debbie Harry, Fab 5 Freddy, Thurston Moore, Richard Kern, Amos Poe, James Nares, Eric Mitchell, Susan Seidelman, Beth B, Scott B, Charlie Ahearn, and Nick Zedd. The soundtrack includes music by No Wave bands like James Chance and the Contortions, Bush Tetras, Sonic Youth and others.