Noise the show

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Noise the show
Radio show from New York (USA)
publication 1981-1982
production WNYU
Contributors
Moderation Tim Sommer, Jack Rabid

Noise the Show was a radio broadcast on the New York radio station WNYU, which had existed since 1949 . The show ran from 1981 to 1982 and was the first show to feature emerging hardcore music. The moderators were Tim Sommer , who worked as a music journalist for the Village Voice and as a freelancer for the British Sounds , and the Even Worse drummer and fanzine maker Jack Rabid. Sommer was responsible for the concept of the show.

The 30-minute show started in June 1981 under the name Oi the Show , but soon changed its name. The show was the first radio show to deal primarily with hardcore; only one program from Maximumrocknroll magazine that ran on the Californian station KPFA since 1979 and played punk music and occasionally selected hardcore pieces was comparable . The bands that gained notoriety in New York thanks to Noise the Show included a. Bad Religion , the Beastie Boys , Heart Attack and Kraut . Even before the first Beastie Boys EP was released, a demo of the band was played on the show, and the recordings (including excerpts from the show) were used for the Beastie Boys compilation album Some Old Bullshit , released in 1994 . Numerous bands from the New York scene gave interviews to the moderators in the studio, such as Heart Attack or the Misfits . In 1982, the popularity of the show led to moderator summer from record label ROIR was asked to pieces for the style- New York Hardcore - Sampler New York Thrash select. With the advent of the second wave of New York Hardcore (with bands like Agnostic Front , the Cro-Mags or Murphy's Law ), both Sommer and Rabid lost interest in music and gave up the radio broadcast.

Tim summer 1989 was host of the MTV telecast Post-Modern MTV and producer of the format MTV News . From 1990 he headed the newsroom at VH1 . He has been with the A&R division of Atlantic Records since 1992 . Jack Rabid upgraded his fanzine The Big Takeover to an internationally renowned music magazine in the late 1980s and appeared in various music documentaries such as B. American Hardcore .

The influence that Noise the Show exerted on the hardcore scene in New York and the whole of the USA results from the technical limitations of the time. In the pre-Internet era, radio shows and fanzines were the only sources of information for subcultures. Recordings of the show on cassette were swapped, and numerous later hardcore musicians claim to have been influenced by Noise the Show , such as Roger Miret from Agnostic Front, Gary Meskil from the Crumbsuckers , Richie Birkenhead from Youth of Today or Jon Biviano from Supertouch who called the show “the pulse of the burgeoning hardcore scene”. Keith Burkhardt of Cause for Alarm said he heard the show weekly with "religious fervor". Audience figures for concerts announced on the show tripled compared to concerts that were only announced in print media such as the Village Voice . Music journalist Steven Blush saw Noise the Show as the “lifeline” of the emerging hardcore movement and showed that the creators received 150 letters from fans every week. The non-fiction author George Hurchalla recognized the show as playing a central role in the formation of the hardcore scene in the USA, as it was the only one alongside the punk show Rodney on the ROQ on KROQ (Los Angeles) and the Maximumrocknroll show on KPFA (Greater San Francisco) was a noteworthy show that played punk and hardcore at the time. The music journalist and Trouser Press founder Ira Robbins saw college radio stations as a decisive multiplier for the careers of bands from the alternative camp and particularly highlighted Noise the Show , which he described as the "weekly hardcore detonation". The music journalist Tony Rettman dedicated an entire chapter to Noise the Show in his hardcore anthology New York Hardcore 1980-1990 . In it, the former agnostic front singer James Kontra speculates that there were numerous hardcore bands in the states of New Jersey , Connecticut and Pennsylvania bordering New York only because they came into contact with the music through Noise the Show .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Do You Know Hardcore: Interview with DJ Spermicide. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Beastiemania.com: Tim Sommer. Retrieved February 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ More Than A Witness: Noise the Show WYNU-FM Radio Tape # 1. Retrieved February 11, 2018 .
  4. ↑ 1000 Yesterdays: Various Artists - Noise The Show # 18, # 19, # 21, # 24 with Tim Sommer, WNYU, 1981. Retrieved February 18, 2018 .
  5. ^ RollingStone.com: Beastie Boys' Mike D on Beats 1 Radio Show. Retrieved February 23, 2018 .
  6. ^ A b c d Tony Rettman: New York Hardcore 1980-1990 . 2nd Edition. Bazillion Points, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-935950-12-7 , pp. 79 .
  7. ↑ a b George Hurchalla: Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1989 . 2nd Edition. PM Press, Oakland 2016, ISBN 978-1-62963-113-4 , pp. 196 .
  8. ↑ IMDB.com: Jack Rabid. Retrieved February 11, 2018 .
  9. ↑ GuillotineZine.com: Roger Miret interview. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Vice.com: The Crumbsuckers Are Back, Whether You Like It or Not. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
  11. ↑ InEffectHardcore.com: Super Touch Doing It Live On WYNU. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Steven Blush: American Hardcore. A tribal history . 2nd Edition. Feral House, Port Townsend 2010, ISBN 978-0-922915-71-2 , pp. 196 .
  13. ↑ RedBullMusicAcademy.com: Left of the Dial: The Evolution of Punk, New Wave and Indie on American Radio. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .