The Beatles changed a lot over the course of their career. One song sparked their transformation into the avant-garde scene.

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

It’s always impressive to see a group who’ve been together for decades continue to evolve. Case in point: Chicago avant-garde psych-metal band Yakuza, who’ve been going strong since 1999. Their 2000 ...

This month's playlist features songs from a Russian avant-garde band, Australian hip-hop artists and 19-year-old twins from Chicago. Each month, NPR Music asks our friends at public radio stations ...

Hardy Fox, a driving force behind the Residents, an avant-garde band that playfully subverted the conventions of rock music for decades while insisting on anonymity, which the group maintained by ...

Ever wondered what avant-garde rock or metal would sound like if someone slapped a bassoon into the mix? No? Just me? Weird. Anywho, that’s exactly what BRIAN! is – an avant-garde band from Ithaca, ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

John Cage, an icon of the contemporary avant-garde, occupies an odd status in the music world. A seminal figure in the history of post-World War II music, Cage, who died in 1992, stood at the ...

German avant-garde band Einsturzende Neubauten celebrates two decades together with this absorbing documentary charting their career highs and lows. Best known for their experimental sound and ...

Alex Ross Perry is no stranger to music documentaries, fictionalized or otherwise. The indie darling auteur has had the inverse career of the average director, who usually gets their foot in the ...