Book Release Event for No Wave by Marc Masters, with contributions by Weasel Walter, both live and in person at this event, also featuring rare video documentation of music performances of the period, and live music by Death Sentence: Panda! and Ettrick (drums and sax duo of Jacob Felix Heule and Jay Korber). No Wave, by DC-area music and film writer, Marc Masters, traces the history of this noisy and uncompromising genre, from its most famous names down to its many offshoots and sidetracks. Flashing through the New York underground in the late 1970s, No Wave was the ultimate anti-movement. Its bands consisted of artists and poets untrained in music, looking to explode rock and disappear before the smoke cleared . No Wave tells the fascinating story of this radical, anarchic and hugely influential musical movement. Best known for short songs and even shorter life-spans, No Wave bands fused disparate styles to fashion abrasive, rhythmic songs that were completely original and utterly compelling. The primary perpetrators Lydia Lunchs howling Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James Chances skeletal Contortions, the dark-noise groups Mars and DNA all drew on primitivism, performance art, and the avant-garde.