Post-punk pioneers of late '70s No Wave movement, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, will be performing at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on October 3rd. The band was founded by Lydia Lunch and James Chance and though short-lived, was one of the most influential underground bands to come out of New York City at the time. Their live shows lasted ten minutes and consisted of thirty-second songs that aimed to destroy what Lunch referred to as the "traditionalism" of punk rock music. Their music was dark, nihilistic and emitted in short, violent blasts of what Rolling Stone referred to as "utterly unendurable" music, while tastemaker critics like Lester Bangs held Lydia and company up as pure genius and a complete deconstruction of the safe cruise control punk and new wave had settled into.Tickets for the show are $20 and can be purchased through their website.
