In 1975, Lou Reed released Metal Machine Music, a double LP consisting of only four tracks, one per side, comprised of screeching feedback and echoing guitar loops. While rock critic Lester Bangs ...

Noise music is a difficult phenomenon to describe. It falls outside conventional ideas about music. It has no rules about structure, and no definitive provenance. It has little or no monetary value, ...

It’s a particularly Mills 50 phenomenon – well, an Uncle Lou’s & Grumpy’s phenomenon – that sometimes touring acts of different aesthetic stripes converge on the same show as a kind of DIY supercard.

Japanese noise-rockers Melt-Banana are a lot of things. Some people say they’re crazy, others describe what they do as being in the realm of math-rock and metal. Some think they’re closer to Yoko Ono, ...

NAHA, Okinawa — A Japanese court has awarded about $16.3 million to Okinawans affected by Kadena Air Base aircraft noise, the latest ruling in a long-running series of lawsuits over noise from U.S.