The post James Chance, No Wave Pioneer and Founder of The Contortions, Dead at 71 appeared first on Consequence. James Chance, a pioneer of New York’s No Wave scene, has died. He was 71 years old.

James Chance, the confrontational, controversial saxophonist and singer of the Contortions and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, who helped start the No Wave movement of the late 1970s in New York City, ...