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Originally Posted by Onani Nic
No-Wave was a term made up for the No New York Compilation as far as I know.
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Actaully the opposite. The term was a reaction to the poppier "new wave" in NYC, such as Blondie obviously, but also Bush Tetras, who now make it onto "No Wave" compilations somehow. The album title came very much as a product of the scene, and a lot of people were mad that so few of the bands made it onto the record.
To answer K-krack's question - No Wave was supposed to be rock music that didn't draw from any of the established rythm and blues tradition. So yeah, the whole idea of "neo-No Wave" is just ridiculous. The original No Wave bands were striving
not to be influenced. You can certainly learn from their experiments and put that to use, but you won't be doing anything along the lines of what they were doing because it's just impossible.
The weirdest group to see on that list is Celebration because 1) they're from Baltimore not NYC and 2) they have a total Stonesy blues vibe going on. I love 'em, and sure they have some
post-punk to their sound. However, I was actually hanging out with them a couple weeks ago, and I'm certain they wouldn't begin to call themselves No Wave, neo or otherwise. They're all about the rock 'n roll tradition, though they have a lead drummer rather than guitarist. They fucking rock up a storm.