The Bush Tetras were a rock band from New York City. They were very popular in the New York club scene in the early 1980s, but never had much national success. Their music, sometimes classified under Rare Beats , combined dance rhythms and dissonant rock-guitar riffs.

Lead guitarist Pat Place and vocalist Cynthia Sley produced the most distinctive aspects of the Tetras sound. Place's guitar lines were rhythmic and distortion-filled. (She had originally been a member of the No Wave band The Contortions .) Sley's vocals were half-spoken, half-sung. In songs like "Too Many Creeps" and "Can't Be Funky," she repeated simple phrases over and over again, creating a hypnotic monotony similar to Place's guitar rhythms.