New Song(s) of the Day #38: A playlist stream by Arto Lindsay

The Brazil-bred New York City no wave pioneer was commissioned to make a playlist (a thing now, I guess) by the Dia Arts Foundation. He did. It's beautiful.

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Arto Lindsay crashed onto the New York City scene in the late ‘70s with the band DNA, torchbearers of the confrontational, wonderfully-abrasive NYC post-punk scene dubbed no wave — a subgenre made canonical by the 1978 Brian Eno-produced compilation LP No New York.

DNA lasted five years, going out in style with a run of shows at CBGBs, the last of which ended with an awesomely caustic cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” (click below). Dude could do serious damage with a guitar.