3 Teens Kill 4

In 1980, Brian Butterick, Jesse Hultberg and David Wojnarowicz worked as busboys at New York City's Danceteria on West 37th street, before the club was closed down for not having a liquor license.

Julie Hair joined the band for their third show, adding her rhythm machine and making 3 Teens Kill 4 a stripped-down, four-person ensemble.

The band's signature style of found-sounds played on hand-held tape recorders, toy instruments, spoken word and multi-vocals, in a pop music context took shape.

As the band's only released album was getting started, the inclusion of Doug Bressler expanded the instrumentation to actual guitars as well as toys and Casio keyboards.

They continued recording and performing for the next three years, sharing the stage with a long list of artists from this era, including DNA, James Chance, Bush Tetras, Soundgarden, Wall of Voodoo, Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth, ESG, Certain General, The Del-Byzanteens, Suicide, and Madonna.

In 2011, a multi-media show of music, dance, film, slides and live art called "In Peace & War: 3 Teens Kill 4" had three nights at New York's Howl Festival.

In 2018, the re-released album No Motive was included as a sound installation at the Whitney Museum's retrospective for David Wojnarowicz called History Keeps Me Awake At Night.