At the start of their career, The Beatles were little more than teen pop sensations. Their music was catchy and distinctive enough to earn them unprecedented fame, but they lacked anything that ...

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 ...

Arthur Russell is a bit of an underground favorite among avant-garde and mutant disco fans. He was an incredible talent, one that we lost way too soon in 1992 at the age of 40. But his music lives on, ...

Emerging in the late 1940s and early 1950s amid a postwar cultural ferment, avant‑garde jazz carved out a distinct identity by daringly shattering conventional jazz dogma. While bebop and hard bop had ...

War and revolution often spur in artists visions of radical change. That's what happened in early 20th-century Europe when the Great War and Russian Revolution uprooted life for millions. From the ...

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 ...

A new book by Morgan Falconer argues that artists working today should take inspiration from Futurism, Dada and other art movements that sought to reinvent the field. By Orlando Whitfield Orlando ...