Teenage Jesus and The Jerks

Teenage Jesus & the Jerks was an influential New York city No Wave band fronted by Lydia Lunch and James Chance, who later left the band after some conf

Teenage Jesus & the Jerks was an influential New York city No Wave band fronted by Lydia Lunch and James Chance, who later left the band after some conflict about their direction. Known for playing 10 minute sets of thirty second songs, they nevertheless managed to express so fully and perfectly the alienation and angst of their audience that their renown very quickly grew to match and even surpass that of older No Wave bands, such as DNA or Mars. Lunch and Chance went on separately to continued 'success' in the New York underground music scene.