No Wave can be described as "art school punk rock". It's the product of a community of sonic/visual artists who all lived in the East Village in the early to mid-1970s. (Except for Australian-born Clint Ruin of all the Foetus bands.) The big names were The Contortions, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Suicide, Sonic Youth, Eight-legged Spy. Some throw Talking Heads into this genre. I completely disagree unless you want to call them a watered down facsimile for pop presentation. A major distinction between No Wave bands (who played at the Kitchen) and "punk" bands (who played mainly at CBGB's) is in lyrical content. Trying to musickally and verbally recreate the last intense minutes of Sharon Tate's life compared to The Ramones talking about how great sniffing glue is. Sonic Youth and Lydia Lunch are still around influencing a new school of musicians like Liars and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The bravado and intensity of the original movement seems to have fizzled by 1988. Some may argue.