noise rock can be kind of a vague description but I guess they all can

but as far as bands who were influenced by sonic youth:

Unwound
Live Skull

happy go licky

Rusted Shut

dellilah!
i keed
but not really
maybe the live shows....
if you can find their album somehow
israeli noise band
leitterscpheich ( a liter of cum) are one of the better noise bands around that i have heard...

I figured if I was going to write a long list like that, I might as well self-promote a bit.

I hate that they kept the Hella name for There's no 666... because it's NOT Hella, man. It's a rock band.
But Hella are not at all like Lightning Bolt, that is one comparison that is ALWAYS therown around, but makes no sense (aside from wild drumming, but the music itself is not at all similar... plus, LB's drumming is, a lot of the time, pretty steady banging and clanging 1/1 beats (if you knwo what I mean))

The Ruins
USAISAMONSTER
lake a dracula
cough
mindflayer
and for Hella, I would call them really complex math rock.

Well, i think that there are great songs on all the SY records, but Dinosaur jr. I haven't heard that much of yet. I like the noise on songs like Catholic Block, but also like Hoarfrost...
So, I guess that I just like anything that compares to SY or Dino jr.

Harry Pussy (Maybe a bit much to handle)
Slugfuckers (Australia band that most would call "post-punk" I guess but are more noisey and extreme)
Old Skull (8 year old trying to play hardcore punk)
Flipper (I never really thought they fit the hardcore punk scene, when someone played them to me I remember describing them as noise rock)

good job at listing bands I already listed, SHERIFF! :)

this thread reminded me of a band I haven't listened to in a good 5 years.. the fuckemos!

Live Skull were contemporaries of Sonic Youth. I'm sure Sonic Youth would say they were just as influenced by Live Skull as vice versa. Same story with Swans. They all played together a lot in the post-no wave scene and toured together when they first got out of New York.

Since the guy was asking for new bands, and mostly, except from Adam, got old classic bands I'd say Liars would be around the top of the list (Unwound is fair too of course) of who he should check out.

Also (and I'm probably repeating other people, not making a comprehensive list, just who I like that fits the genre):

Black Dice (but early if you're looking for noise rock, their later stuff is great, but it's experimental music much more than noise rock)
Boredoms (also mutated into just plain experimental band, but the early stuff set the noise rock standard)
The Curtains
Cop Shoot Cop
Deerhoof (older mostly, they're probably more "noise pop" than rock)
The Flying Luttenbachers (experimental metal crossover)
Grindwall (awesome Italian band I found on My Space. reccomended!)
Hairy Pussy
Halo of Flies
Helmet (first couple of albums)
Karp (they get called "hardcore" a lot for some reason, and are the direct children of the Melvins)
Lightning Bolt
Melt Banana
Melvins (yes they mine the metal/grunge tip, but I still think they are primarily a noise rock band, and while not new, they 'aint dead either!)
Minus (kind of prog rock crossover)
Noggin (guitar/electric violin combo, not exactly rock, but not exactly not)
Painkiller (John Zorn, Bill Laswell, and Mick Harris the drummer from Napalm Death!)
Pink and Brown
Ruins
Skullflower (borders on just plain "noise" and even ambient, but great)
Surgery (waay Sonic Youth influenced)
Unsane

I like most Ikue stuff I've heard, but she does seem to benefit best with somebody interesting to play off. Specializing in drum machines is going to make that inevitable though. I thought the SYR with Kim and DJ Olive was the lowpoint of the series. It's o.k. in the middle of a series that's mostly brilliant. They shouldn't have put it out as SYR.


Well, grunge is definitely a term we'd all be better off to have eradicated from the human consciousness. Obviously the Melvins don't belong in any way in the same genre with Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains, yet they certainly have more connection to Mudhoney and Nirvana than just friendships and common members. Arguably "grunge" was originally a fusing of Sabbath style metal with Sonic Youth/Wipers style noise rock, and the Melvins were the original fusers.


Skullflower is like that sometimes for sure. Boredom is one reaction to pure noise stuff that is not unjustified or even unwanted necessarily. Then when you hit it just right, it can make perfect sense. I like their newest stuff best as it's oddly somewhat pretty. Though the very same stuff I'm describing that way brought a old, bald, seriously freaked out, security guard down to the basement when I was doing my radio show one morning to make sure I was actually playing music that was making that "racket". He said, "I thought at first it was Jimi Hendrix doing the Star Spangled Banner, but then it never gets going!" So I will always love them for that moment.

Thanks for the replies. There's a lot to check out.

The Stooges - Funhouse
Velvets - White Light/White Heat
Black Flag - Damaged

90% of the music talked about here owes a massive debt to those three albums.

Don't be so sure

Why has no one mentioned the glory of Swans? (careful, Filth might scare the pants off of you). I'd recommend Flipper, Swans (early albums), early Butthole Surfers, Birthday Party.

I'd Kiss Its Dirty Face.

the first two yes, damaged? i duno man, just because theyre loud and awesome doesnt mean they have anything to do with noise...

well, greg ginn's guitar is very dissonant.

Everytime I see this thread title I see it as 'rec me some NickelBack'
and I laugh.