Glenn Branca RIP

The influential avant-garde composer and guitarist Glenn Branca has died age 69, according to a Facebook post from his collaborator Reg Bloor, who states the cause as throat cancer.

Branca, who played a key role in the nascent no wave scene in New York City in the ’70s and ’80s, was said in the post to have “lived a full life with no regrets” and that there will be no public memorial as per the guitarist’s wishes.