Tag Archives: Reck

Perhaps one of the most enduring rings within the Tokyo underground, Friction was formed in 1978 by multi-instrumentalist/composer Reck after he returned from a stay static in NY, where he used seminal No Influx acts like Adam Chance as well as the Contortions and Lydia Lunchtime. During the period of …

The first music group formed by vocalist/guitarist/provocateur Lydia Lunch, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks were the guts of New York’s short-lived no wave motion. Cacophonous, confrontational, and fiercely inaccessible, Teenage Jesus generally performed ten- to 15-minute displays, under no circumstances released a full-length record, and disbanded following a fairly brief …