Just 2 more days until the 4th Annual No Fun Fest at the Hook in Brooklyn, NY! Why would anyone want to attend a fest touted as No Fun? Well, consider it no fun for the neighbors, and no fun for your mom, but No Fun Fest has some of the most prolific and fine-tuned noise bands that the globe has to offer. Consider this years headliners:

Thurston Moore
Merzbow
Incapacitants
Pain Jerk

Plus the huge list of bands that will play between Thursday the 17th and Sunday the 20th of May:

Hair Police
Yoshimi+Kim gordon
Hive Mind+Damion Romero
Lambsbread
Evil Moisture
Crumbling
Orphan Fairytale
Sissy Spacek
Carlos Giffoni
Raionbashi & Kutzkelina
Anti-Freedom
Mouthus+Axolotl
Grunt
Princess Dragonmon
Charlie Draheim
Keiji Haino
Tom Recchion, Ju Suk Reet Meate and Oblivia
Religious Knives
Slogun
Sickness
Demons
The Rita
Gastric Female Reflex
Burning Star Core+Zaimph
Aaron Dilloway
Enema Syringe
Leslie Keffer+Rodger Stella
Stegm
Hacky Pack Sac Sac
Deathroes
American Band+ AirConditioning

Plus DJs:

Tony Rettman
Mike Simonetti
Jackie Oblivia
Nautical Almanac Sound System
Andy Ortmann,
The Olson Twins
The Harbinger Sound Plastic Punk Explosion
Joachim Nordwall
Lambsbread Sound System

For more information, go to the No Fun Fest website and read about the curators and philosophies behind the festival at Village Voice.
You can also purchase music directly from No Fun Records.

i especially like this quote in the VV article from Michael Bernstein, of Religious Knives who have played the fest every year :

“People are more drawn to noise music because it’s really a reaction against boring bands and weird rock hierarchies,” Bernstein says. “Noise is really a product of political frustration and musical boredom. Kids also come to the scene because it is still pretty small, and they want to be part of something.”

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