Volume Four of Another Tuneless Racket looks at the development of punk and new wave scenes in the eastern USA during the late ‘70s. Here you’ll encounter hundreds of small bands, many of whom never got a whiff of record company interest, made only a self-released single or two, and played only in their town, but even so, made their small contribution to a music revolution. Their stories are terrific! The Ramones and the Pistols had both shown that you didn’t need to study music theory to make exciting rock’n’roll. Now technical prowess was passe. What mattered was: what did you have inside you? Songs were back; could you make a hook from three chords? Could you write an interesting lyric? Could you play with fire, emotion and excitement? Were you willing to GO AND DO IT? If so, you were in. This volume includes: From New York City: Wayne County, Cherry Vanilla, Mink DeVille, The Planets, The Heat, Robert Gordon, Tuff Darts, The Shirts, Just Water, Harry Toledo, The Necessaries, Come On, Snatch, Judy Nylon, Patti Paladin, The Cramps, The Zantees, The Rousers, The Brats, The Demons, The Senders, The Victims, The Testors, Helen Wheels Band, The 2 Timers, No Wave, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Lydia Lunch, James White, The Contortions, Mars, No New York, DNA, The Raybeats, Bush Tetras, The Poppees, Sorrows, The Boyfriends, The Fast, Marbles, The Miamis, Milk’n’Cookies, Mumps, Roger C. Reale, The Yankees, The Erasers, Susan Springfield, The Feelies, The Fleshtones, The Revelons, Comateens, The Bloodless Pharaohs, The Student Teachers, The Furors, The Mad, The Misfits, Model Citizens, The Dots, Nervus Rex, Dirty Looks, The Speedies, The Sneakers, The H-Bombs, Chris Stamey, The dB’s, The Jim Carroll Band, The Rattlers, The Laughing Dogs From Boston Willie Alexander, Reddy Teddy, Mickey Clean and the Mezz, The Cars, Count Viglione, Fox Pass, Marc Thor, The Sidewinders, The Paley Brothers, Nervous Eaters, The Fools, DMZ, Lyres, La Peste, The Bonjour Aviators, Third Rail, The Atlantics, Tracks, Thrills, Mr. Curt and Pastiche, Thundertrain, Susan, Sass, The Marshalls, The Dawgs, The Mechanics, Human Sexual Response, The Rentals, The Girls, The Maps, Ground Zero, Bound and Gagged, Lou Miami and the Kozmetix, Rick Harte and Ace Of Hearts Records, The Infliktors, The Neighborhoods, Baby’s Arm, Classic Ruins, The Space Negroes, The Moving Parts, The Molls, Mission of Burma, Unnatural Axe, The Lazers, The Loners, The Peytons, Boy’s Life, Phobia, The Vinny Band, The Commandos From the Mid-Atlantic The Slickee Boys, Afrika Korps, The Razz, The Rage, Tommy Keene, Nightman, The Nurses, D. Ceats, Bad Brains, Dirty Work, Half Japanese, Chumps, Urban Verbs, Tiny Desk Unit, White Boy, Jeffrey Dahl, Insect Surfers, The Shirkers, The Penetrators, Killer Bees, Ebenezer and the Bludgeons, Trixy and the Testones, The Dark Side, Single Bullet Theory, Beex, L’Amour, From Upstate New York The Jumpers, The Vores, The Good, The Enemies, Third Floor Strangers, The Tourists, Aunt Helen, The Toys, Lip Service, The Cobras, Electro-Man, Pauline and the Perils, Davy and the Crocketts, The Paper Faces, New Math, Distorted Levels, The Times, The Penetrators, The Flashcubes, The Ohms From Ohio Mirrors, Styrenes, The Electric Eels, X_X, Devo, Tin Huey, The Waitresses, Chi-Pig, The Wild Giraffes, The Action, Hammer Damage, Human Switchboard, Lucky Pierre, The Pagans, The Backdoor Men, The Lepers, The Kneecappers, Teacher’s Pet, The Clocks, Unit 5, Bernie and The Invisibles, Mike Rep and the Quotas, The Customs From Detroit The Vampires, Cinecyde and Gary Reichel, The Ramrods, The Sillies, The Mutants, Destroy All Monsters, Sonic’s Rendezvous Band, The Algebra Mothers, The Traitors, The 27, The Pigs and the Rushlow/King Combo, Coldcock, R.U.R., Flirt, The Cubes, Nikki and the Corvettes, The Ivories, The Romantics, The Reruns, The Cult Heroes, The Zooks …and many more