Time Out Magazine has catalogued her as one of the most influential performing artists of New Cork City. Lydia Lunch gave birth to an original artistic vision. A Sweet Sixteen "primal screamer" and a guerrilla guitar for the seminal No Wave Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, she's edited around 60 recordings, including some with Hubert Selby Jr., Nick Cave, Sonic Youth and Omar Rodríguez López from The Mars Volta.