Emerged in New York City during the late 1970s; took the ethos of Punk Rock but discarded melody and catchiness, including instead extreme noise, distortion, feedback, angular rhythms, stream-of-consciousness lyrics, and more.
Genre
Vermilion Sands 
No Wave
a sub-genre of: Post-Punk • Experimental Rock
see also: 
All Music • britannica.com • 
Discogs • everynoise.com • 
Freebase • 
Music Brainz • 
Rate Your Music • 
WikiData • 
Wikipedia
All Music • britannica.com • Discogs • everynoise.com • Freebase • Music Brainz • Rate Your Music • WikiData • Wikipedia