Influential Avant-Garde Composer/Guitar-Army Conductor Glenn Branca Has Died

An appreciation of the late Glenn Branca, the vastly influential avant-garde composer of unparalleled volume and power.by Dave SegalBranca novices should start here. This is rock as a weapon of mass destruction. 99 Records
New York avant-garde composer/conductor and guitarist with No Wave groups the Static and Theoretical Girls Glenn Branca passed away May 13 from throat cancer. He was 69. A major influence on the international noise-rock scene (along with Rhys Chatham, for whom Branca played on