Jazz bassist Donald Rafael Garrett helped birth the AACM and appeared on some of Coltrane’s wildest albums, but he’s barely ...

The music even dips into the visionary psychedelic rock of Jimi Hendrix at his best. The force and energy of a GoStar performance sustains levels of excitement you won't find at most avant-garde ...

Designed to be ignored’ – uncover the surprisingly fascinating origins of background music in this video essay on Erik Satie ...

This week, Native Instruments has announced Claire: Avant, a new "avant-garde" instrument also featuring the sounds of the F308, but with a more experimental spin. Designed to be "as expressive as ...

Kate Bush might just be the last great British avant-garde artist. In 1980 she revealed the albums by other experimental entertainers that she liked the best ...

Eastman, a radical post-minimalist composer at the forefront of the avant-garde musical aesthetics of the 1970s, wrote the work as a tribute to a former lover and chronicle of their failed ...

“All the wealth that nurtures it seems only to increase its aura of power and mystique, and hence its distance from us,” Mr. Falconer writes in “How to Be Avant-Garde,” a group biography ...