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Sons and Daughters of No New York: DNA

Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, October 1980

THE MOST exciting aspect of the No New York album was the clean break it made, once and for all, with '60s rock. While the first wave of new music that came from New York — Patti Smith, Television, Blondie, Ramones, Mink De Ville — tried to update history, the No New York bands usurped the past and spit it back out in a new configuration. Of these four original groups — the Contortions, Teenage Jesus, Mars and D.N.A. — only the latter has not wavered from its original purpose.

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