“Noise rock” is perhaps the laziest genre descriptor, like, ever. Just like “noise” proper, the term could easily apply to thousands of different sounds. But we must work with the vocabulary we’re given, and attempts to get more specific usually wind up confusing the matter. Robert Christgau used to call it “pigfuck,” which is why I don’t listen to Robert Christgau. For our purposes, when we talk about “noise rock,” we’re thinking of material that embraces the first half of the phrase rather than the latter. I haven’t included a lot of the poppier material that gets labelled as such, … Continue reading Noise rock: A how-to guide for the perplexed