Bush Tetras | |
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| Origin | New York City |
| Genres | Post-punk, no wave, dance-punk, avant-funk |
| Years active | 1979–1983, 1995–1998, 2005–present |
| Labels | 99 Records, Fetish Records, Stiff Records, ROIR, Thirsty Ear, Tim/Kerr Records, Polygram Records |
| Members | Pat Place Cynthia Sley Steve Shelley Rocky O'Riordan |
| Past members | Jimmy Joe Uliana Adele Bertei Laura Kennedy Bob Albertson Don Christensen Julia Murphy Cindy Rickmond Dee Pop (Dimitri Papadopoulos) Val Opielski RB Korbet |
Bush Tetras are an American post-punk No Wave band from New York City, formed in 1979. They are best known for the 1980 song "Too Many Creeps", which exemplified the band's sound of "jagged rhythms, slicing guitars, and sniping vocals".[1] Although they did not achieve mainstream success, the Bush Tetras were influential and popular in the Manhattan club scene and college radio in the early 1980s.[1] New York's post-punk revival of the 2000s was accompanied by a resurgence of interest in the genre, with the Tetras' influence heard in many of that scene's bands.[2]