London, Ontario: home of the world's longest-running noise band. It may sound strange, but the Nihilist Spasm Band has been going strong for the past 35 years and even if you aren't a fan of noise ...

You might think that after 40 years of playing together, the members of the Nihilist Spasm Band would be pretty good musicians-but you'd be wrong, at least in terms of their technical ability. And ...

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The Nihilist Spasm Band celebrated 50 years of making free-improv noise by making free-improv noise at the Garrison, using everything from a horn blown into a paper cup to a cooking pot with marbles ...

If you can't make it to The Sentient Bean this weekend, it won't be the end of the world, but you may not get another chance to see them play. The Indiana-based End Times Spasm Band brings their wild ...

Iconoclasts who have long since morphed into icons, The Nihilist Spasm Band is back Saturday on the downtown London turf where its fans first felt the noise. Saturday brings the renowned ...

Japanese TV had never seen anything like it. During the final episode of irreverent variety show "Tamori's Music is the World" in March 1996, viewers were introduced to a group of silver-haired ...

Thursday September 17 at The Garrison 1197 Dundas Street West, Wavelength proudly presents one of three 50th Anniversary Concerts for The Nihilist Spasm Band, the "world's first noise band," that ...

Stu Spasm of ’80s/’90s-era Australian noise rockers Lubricated Goat (who had releases on AmRep, Sub Pop and other labels) now has a new band, Art Gray Noizz Quintet. They initially formed to play an ...

Anthony Joseph & the Spasm Band's Bird Head Son occupies a space somewhere between the afrobeat, funk, calypso and jazz. Over the album's 12 tracks, Joseph and his band alternately groove down and ...

Once upon a time–well, the mid-1980s–Bloodspasm was Tucson’s biggest punk-rock band. Fueled by the twin-guitar attack of Mike Gorman and Paul Young, and by the over-the-top antics of XL-sized frontman ...