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Noise rock
Stylistic origins:	punk rock, industrial, alternative rock, Noise Music, Psychedelic Rock, Acid Rock
Cultural origins:	(No wave)
Typical instruments:	Guitar, Bass, Drums, Electronics
Mainstream popularity:	None, but large underground following.

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.

Contents 1 History 2 Time line of notable noise rock performers 3 Other Bands not listed in the time line 3.1 1970s 3.2 1980s 3.3 1990s 3.4 2000s 4 Labels 5 See also 6 External links

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, San Francisco's Fifty Foot Hose, most expressive examples of krautrock (such bands as Faust), the chaotic free jazz and freak-rock released on the ESP Disk label, and Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.

The 1980s saw a large amount of noise rock bands to emerge from different scenes in America, notably The Jesus Lizard and Big Black (Chicago), Butthole Surfers and Scratch Acid (Texas), Sonic Youth and The Swans (New York), among many others, including The Cows (Minneapolis), Flipper (San Francisco) and Dinosaur Jr (Massachusetts). Also of note during this era (particularly the early 1980s) is the emergence of No Wave from New York City, a backlash against the New Wave trend of the time.

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.

This time line shows some of the most notable noise rock artists.

The following is a list of notable noise rock bands.

Chrome The Electric Eels

The Cows Happy Flowers Scratch Acid Boredoms The Flaming Lips (early album, esp. In A Priest Driven Ambulance)

Arab on Radar Coachwhips Cop Shoot Cop Daisy Chainsaw

Deerhoof Ex Models Lightning Bolt Melt-Banana

Mercury Rev (early albums) The Notwist (early albums) Skullflower

18th Dye Absolute Null Punkt Acid Mothers Temple Ad Astra Per Aspera AIDS Wolf Airiel An Albatross ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Angeldust Animal Collective A Place to Bury Strangers Avec-A Bailter Space Bastro Billy Bao Black Dice Black Eyes Black Pus Boris Chef Menteur Nels Cline Cosmic Psychos The Curtains Dazzling Killmen

Destroy All Monsters Aaron Dilloway Dino Frenzy Ed Hall Fat Day Femme Fatale The Flying Luttenbachers Galen Goliath Bird Eater Gorch Fock Green Magnet School Grey Daturas Guitar Wolf Harry Pussy Hair Police Halo of Flies Hella Heroine Sheiks Ho-Ag The Hospitals Ifihadahifi Indian Jewelry Japanther Josetxo Grieta KEN mode

Kid commando Kittens Landed The Locust Made Out of Babies The Mae Shi Magic Dirt Magik Markers Marlene Kuntz The Martini Henry Rifles Mattin Medicine Mika Miko Mindflayer Mínus Neptune (band) Nautical Almanac No Doctors Nose Amputation Part Chimp Parts & Labor Pink and Brown Plexi Pre Prurient

The Psyke Project Psychostick Rosemary Malign Replicator Ruins Scarling. DJ Scotch Egg Gary Smith Steev Mike Technology vs. Horse Tera Melos Tiny Hawks Today is the Day Unsane Urlaub In Polen US Maple Valina Vile Imbeciles XBXRX Xinlisupreme Xiu Xiu Young Widows Zeni Geva

The following is a list of record labels that specialize in noise rock.

Amphetamine Reptile Records Bulb Records Ecstatic Peace! Gold Standard Laboratories Hanson Records

Homestead Records In the Red Records Ipecac Recordings Load Records Jon Pinon Narnack Records

Silent Explosion Skin Graft Records SYR Three One G Touch and Go Records

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• About.com Profile of the Noise Rock Genre – another, slightly different, definition and history of Noise Rock.