Glenn Branca is awesome.

Maybe this isn't a typical Chippies post, but Glenn Branca is one awesome composer/performer - he was doing lots of very cool [what's-now-referred-to-as] noise-rock "symphonies" 30 years before it become known as a hipster music genre. He was part of [what's-now-referred-to-as] the "no-wave" movement in NYC in the late '70s and early '80s.

Check these out too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Branca
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_wave