LURhistory, Episode 08: Kill Your Idols

The documentary begins with a historical overview of the early art punk and no wave movements that originated in New York City in the 1970s. Through photos, archival performance footage and interviews with seminal bands like Suicide, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, DNA, and Theoretical Girls, the inspirations for and ideologies of those movements are discussed as well as their subsequent influence on early 1980s postpunk bands like Sonic Youth, Swans, and Foetus. Live Underground Radio SaintP , LUR, LURhistory