This week's Thursday Night Feature will honor the composer and guitarist, Glenn Branca, who died this week at the age of 69. Beginning with his 'no-wave' band Theoretical Girls (and also, briefly, The Static), and then as a solo composer and ensemble leader, Branca combined the drone and duration of minimalist music with the bombast and theatrics of rock and punk. He exerted tremendous influence over the downtown NYC scene during the late 70s-early 80s, and without him (for starters) there would be no Sonic Youth, Branca's most famous acolytes.
(Lee Ranaldo and later Thurston Moore both played on some of Branca's guitar symphonies. if you like SY but don't know Branca, then you'll want to tune in.)
We'll sample some of Branca's signature works and performances and hear from some of the bands who came to embody his aesthetic and proudly wear his influence on their artfully torn sleeves.
Tune in this Thursday, May 17, 2018 from 9pm to midnight or listen to it later on TNF’s archive.
