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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Since their early days as NYC?s premier experimental noisemakers, Sonic Youth has epitomized what might be called mainstream avant-garde. They?ve always had a solid place in the public consciousness, ...