Beat avant-garde was neither a movement, nor a style or a musical genre. It lasted for five, maybe six years – ranging from around 1968 to 1974. Xawery Stańczyk explores this small island in the ...

The Frequency Festival's seven concerts include Chicago or U.S. debuts by Zosha Warpeha, Angharad Davies, and Pat Thomas & ...

Zorn has long been a central figure in New York’s “Downtown” music scene, a community of avant-garde musicians and artistic experimentalists centralized in Manhattan. His work is constantly ...

Cutouts surely can’t have anywhere near that impact. But it is thrilling nonetheless: a plunge into the more avant-garde side of the duo’s songwriting, their angular art-rock given a muscular ...

Avant-garde pianist and composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, who studied with John Cage and went on to lead Japan’s advances in experimental modern music, has died. He was 89. Ichiyanagi, who was married ...

The Stone, led by artistic director John Zorn, serves as a home and community for experimental and avant-garde artists at the College of Performing Arts’ Glassbox Theater. A composer, arranger, ...